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What I Have Learned from the Senate Judiciary Hearings
ecthompsonmd July 1, 2010

I never knew that Thurgood Marshall was an activist judge. Foolishly, I thought he was somebody to be admired and even emulated. It is clear that in 1954, when he argued Brown versus the Board of Education he did not share the mainstream view that separate could be equal. It took Senator Jeff Sessions (Republican — Alabama) to point out the craziness that was Thurgood Marshall. Dana Milbank noted: Sen. Jeff Sessions (Ala.), the ranking Republican on the panel, branded Marshall a “well-known activist.” Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said Marshall’s legal view “does not comport with the proper role of a judge

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What's Going On: Evening News Round-up
ecthompsonmd July 30, 2008

The House Judiciary Committee voted in favor of charging Karl Rove with contempt of Congress. A brief filed by the Bush administration with the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court asked the court to keep any challenges to the wiretapping law passed earlier this year secret. New documents reveal that the state of Georgia actually knew about the “patch” that Deibold placed after the election. Cathy Cox, Georgia Secretary of State, inquired about the patch. This patch was selectively applied to certain computers just before the 2002 election in Georgia. President Bush signs the Housing Relief Bill. Unfortunately, after further review, I’m not

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Judiciary Committee discusses Domestic Spying
ecthompsonmd June 15, 2006

Today Senator Arlen Specter, chairman of the Senate Judiciary committee, will propose a measure that will grant amnesty and will legalize the activities that the Bush administration already says is legal.  If the process is legal, as the Bush administration claims, then why should the committee grant amnesty to anyone? NY Times has an op-ed: “On Monday, the Bush administration told a judge in Detroit that the president’s warrantless domestic spying is legal and constitutional, but refused to say why. The judge should just take his word for it, the lawyer said, because merely talking about it would endanger America. Today,

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