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Entries from October 2005

Schumer: Judge Alito ‘Hopelessly Overqualified’

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(2005-10-31) — Federal Appeals Court Judge Samuel A. Alito Jr., President George Bush’s most recent Supreme Court nominee, is “hopelessly overqualified” for the nation’s highest court, according to Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY.

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Tags: Law · U.S. News

Cheney Sends Joe Wilson to Find CIA Leaker

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(2005-10-30) — In the wake of a special prosecutor’s failure to discover who leaked the CIA identity of Valerie Wilson, Vice President Dick Cheney today announced he would send former ambassador Joe Wilson on a fact-finding mission to resolve unanswered questions about the case.

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Tags: Law · U.S. News

Bush: Effort to Discredit Wilson ‘Superfluous’

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(2005-10-29) — President Bush today refused to comment directly on the five-count grand jury indictment that led to the resignation of Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby as the vice president’s chief of staff yesterday. However, he said he was concerned about the suggestion that “anyone in my administration wasted valuable time trying to discredit former ambassador Joe Wilson.”

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Tags: U.S. News

Libby Case a ‘Slam Dunk’, But Leaker on the Loose

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(2005-10-28) — Unnamed sources close to Patrick Fitzgerald today said the special prosecutor believes the five-count grand jury indictment against vice presidential Chief of Staff I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby is “a slam dunk.”

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Tags: Law · Politics · U.S. News

Dems Urge Bush to Pick Reid’s 2nd Court Choice

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(2005-10-27) — In the wake of Harriet Miers’ aborted Supreme Court nomination, Democrats have urged President George Bush to replace her with Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid’s second choice for the high court.

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Tags: Law · Politics

Miers Withdraws to ‘Spend More Time with Humans’

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(2005-10-27) — Harriet Miers today withdrew her name from consideration as a Supreme Court Justice so she could “spend more time with family and friends, and just humans in general.”

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Tags: Law

UN Debates Meaning of ‘Wipe’ Israel from Map

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(2005-10-27) — The United Nations Security Council today took up discussion on what Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might have meant when he called for Israel to be “wiped out from the map”.

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Tags: Global News