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Supreme Court moves towards ruling on ‘downer’ livestock

By Lynda Waddington | 11.16.11 | 6:59 am

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.

Cravaack, Bachmann, Kline join religious right in pressuring Supremes to nix Obamacare

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By Andy Birkey | 10.28.11 | 11:55 am

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.

Franken defends Thurgood Marshall from GOP criticism

By Andy Birkey | 07.02.10 | 2:06 pm

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…

Klobuchar criticizes Supreme Court double standard

By Andy Birkey | 05.28.10 | 11:44 am

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…

Klobuchar for Supreme Court?

By Andy Birkey | 04.05.10 | 8:30 am

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 calls on Franken, Klobuchar to reverse Sotomayor vote

By Andy Birkey | 07.29.09 | 9:42 am

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…

Keeping Dems from 60 votes in Senate: cancer, staph infection, Coleman

By Chris Steller | 06.09.09 | 6:45 am

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.

T-Paw: It’s ‘my duty’ to sign Franken certificate if state court says so

By Paul Schmelzer | 06.03.09 | 4:55 pm

picture-10On 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…

Senate spat: Franken brief due today, GOP raises recount funds for Coleman

By Chris Steller | 05.11.09 | 10:46 am

coleman-frog-frankenThe 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…

For Edwards, marriage ‘complicated’; for Pawlenty, election certificate ‘involved’

By Chris Steller | 05.07.09 | 11:56 pm

edwards-pawlentySimilar 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…