Recent Updates
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White House Letter Rejecting Subpoenas
Legal News Feed 06/28/2007[##_1L|1150417516.jpg|width="110" height="128" alt=""|_##]President Bush, moving toward a constitutional showdown with Congress, asserted executive privilege Thursday and rejected lawmakers' demands for documents that could shed light on the firings ...
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Supreme Court Eases Campaign Finance Restrictions
Legal News Feed 06/26/2007[##_1L|1294018921.jpg|width="131" height="91" alt=""|_##]Free speech rights take precedence over government restrictions on political advertising, the Supreme Court ruled Monday in a decision that opens the door for greater influence by interest grou...
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Bush Remarks on Stem Cell Research
Legal News Feed 06/21/2007[##_1L|1325931641.jpg|width="110" height="128" alt=""|_##]Text of President Bush's remarks on stem cell research Wednesday, as transcribed by CQ Transcriptions.America is a nation that leads the world in science and technology. Our innovative spirit ...
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Congress Subpoenas Miers and Former Bush Aide
Legal News Feed 06/13/2007[##_1L|1128411815.jpg|width="137" height="110" alt=""|_##]Two former White House officials were subpoenaed today as Congressional Democrats intensified pressure on the Bush administration over the dismissals of eight United States attorneys. Key Evid...
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William Jefferson's Legal Bills Could Top $2 MIL
Legal News Feed 06/12/2007Attorneys say U-S Representative William Jefferson is facing legal bills that could reach two million dollars to fight complex public corruption charges that include bribery, racketeering and money laundering.As of yesterday, the New Orleans Democrat...
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US Republicans block Gonzales no confidence vote
Legal News Feed 06/11/2007[##_1L|1100288640.jpg|width="130" height="93" alt=""|_##]Republicans blocked the Senate's no-confidence vote on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Monday, rejecting a symbolic Democratic effort to prod him from office despite blistering criticism from...
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White House disagrees with Gitmo trial ruling
Legal News Feed 06/05/2007[##_1L|1238731727.jpg|width="150" height="100" alt=""|_##]The White House on Tuesday said it disagreed with rulings by U.S. military judges to drop all war crimes charges against two Guantanamo prisoners facing trial, and that the Defense Department ...
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Congresswomen Rallying Against High Court Ruling
Legal News Feed 06/01/2007[##_1L|1113295168.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]Democratic congresswomen moved quickly this week in an attempt to counter a Supreme Court ruling on equal pay. On Tuesday, the court said an employee could not bring a pay discrimination case ...
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Actor/Politician Fred Thompson May Run for President
Legal News Feed 05/31/2007[##_1L|1216845435.jpg|width="110" height="133" alt=""|_##]Thompson's entry will have an immediate impact on the battle for the GOP nomination, adding a fourth candidate to the field's top tier, which includes former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani...
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Congress votes to raise minimum wage
Legal News Feed 05/25/2007[##_1L|1334176476.jpg|width="140" height="135" alt=""|_##]The US Congress passed the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2007 Thursday, raising the federal minimum wage for the first time in almost a decade. The provision was introduced as an amendment to the I...
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Bush appointments may dominate court
Legal News Feed 05/20/2007[##_1L|1340600753.gif|width="135" height="114" alt=""|_##]In the years since President Bush took office, he has picked three of the seven U.S. District Court judges in Colorado and The Pueblo Chieftain has learned he will have the chance to pick two ...
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CA Gov.proposes new death penalty protocol
Legal News Feed 05/17/2007California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger submitted a capital punishment proposal Tuesday in an effort to persuade US District Judge Jeremy Fogel to lift a moratorium on executions in the state. The proposal includes the construction of a new execution c...