Harriet Miers, Supreme Court Nominee, Needs to go back to Law School
"That's a terrible answer. There is no proportional representation requirement under the equal protection clause," said New York University law professor Burt Neuborne, a voting rights expert. "If a first-year law student wrote that and submitted it in class, I would send it back and say it was unacceptable."
Miers' Answer Raises Questions - Los Angeles Times
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Saturday, October 22, 2005
Cheney 'cabal' hijacked foreign policy
In a scathing attack on the record of President George W. Bush, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff to Mr Powell until last January, said: “What I saw was a cabal between the vice-president of the United States, Richard Cheney, and the secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld, on critical issues that made decisions that the bureaucracy did not know were being made.
FT.com / World / US - Cheney 'cabal' hijacked foreign policy
posted by Jimbo Trout @ Wednesday, October 19, 2005