The ruling could overturn a California law that sought to prohibit the sale of meat for human consumption from animals unable to walk, and mandated under its penal code that any “downer” livestock be immediately euthanized.
Reps. Chip Cravaack, Michele Bachmann and John Kline lent their names to a brief filed with the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday arguing that the Supreme Court should rule the Affordable Care Act (ACA) unconstitutional.
Sen. Al Franken took the opportunity during the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan to subtly criticize Republican statements asserting that Thurgood Marshall — the court’s first African American justice and a lawyer instrumental in getting…
Sen. Amy Klobuchar took to the Senate floor to decry the double standard that critics have applied to Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan. Members of the media in recent weeks have criticized Kagan’s wardrobe, her softball batting stance and…
Could Sen. Amy Klobuchar be on a short list of potential Supreme Court justices? That was the chatter on Meet the Press Face the Nation Sunday morning. The talking heads…
Anti-abortion group Minnesota Citizens Concerned for Life called on Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken to reverse their Senate Judiciary Committee votes to approve Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor on Tuesday. In a letter to the senators, MCCL said…
Norm Coleman isn’t the only obstacle to Democrats wielding 60 votes in the U.S. Senate. Edward Kennedy’s battle with brain cancer and Robert Byrd’s staph infection have effectively whittled an otherwise filibuster-proof majority down to 57 — for now.
On Fox News this afternoon, Gov. Tim Pawlenty suggested to Neil Cavuto that he wouldn’t be thrilled to sign an election certificate for Al Franken should the Minnesota Supreme Court rule…
The latest in the spat over Minnesota’s U.S. Senate seat: Al Franken is due to file his reply to Norm Coleman’s election-contest appeal at the state Supreme Court today. Senate GOP leaders raised money at a Washington, D.C., steakhouse for…
Similar responses by two national political figures to very different but apparently tough questions were in the news Thursday. Elizabeth Edwards’ response (“that’s … complicated“) to Oprah Winfrey’s question about whether she still loves her philandering husband John seems…
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