America and the Courts
On Tuesday September 5, Washington Post Supreme Court reporter Charles Lane talked about the campaign finance case McCon…
Senator Mark Dayton on "the first war under the new doctrine of preemption, a claimed right to attack another country because they might bec… read more
Senator Mark Dayton on "the first war under the new doctrine of preemption, a claimed right to attack another country because they might become a future threat": "Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1798: 'In questions of power then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the constitution:'" close
On Tuesday September 5, Washington Post Supreme Court reporter Charles Lane talked about the campaign finance case McCon…
Senate Democrats talked about their plans for the thirty-hour Senate debate on several federal judicial nominations. The…
Some Senators were shown being sworn in by Vice President Gore. The mock swearing-in ceremony was held for family pictur…
Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-South Dakota), Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-New Mexico), ranking member of the Senate …