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By Carl Tobias
11/09/12 4:37 PM
U.S. District Judge James Ware recently retired after 22 years of service. This means that the Northern District of California now has four vacancies in 14 judgeships. The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts has designated all four as emergencies because of the district’s heavy caseloads.
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Jeremy Rabkin, law professor at the George Mason School of Law, warned the audience that he had no inside information on Supreme Court Justice-to-be Elena Kagan. With those words, nearly palpable disappointment settled over the room. No dirt on Kagan?
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Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan began her Senate confirmation hearings yesterday. Unless the nominee utterly self-destructs, there is every indication she will be be confirmed as the next Justice on the United States Supreme Court.
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In the nearly 160,000 pages of recently released documents that relate to Elena Kagan, precious little appears about Paula Jones -- even though Kagan was intimately involved in President Clinton’s sexual harassment lawsuit in her capacity in the White House Counsel’s office. Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) today had something to say about that.
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"The Bush administration used the criminal justice system to convict more than 300 individuals on terrorism-related charges," writes Attorney General Eric Holder in a new letter to Republican critics in Congress. The letter is part of the Obama administration's aggressive defense of its decision to grant full American constitutional rights to al Qaeda soldier Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the accused Christmas Day bomber. That defense boils down to one sentence: Bush did it, too.
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