Vitter dodges D.C.’s ‘hottest seat’
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., with wife Wendy, at a July 16, 2007 news conference. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File) by James Oliphant The case against the alleged "D.C. Madam" went to...
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Does child rape merit death?
by James Oliphant The state of Louisiana says Patrick Kennedy raped his stepdaughter. The question now is whether he should die for it. The answer has consequences for the nation's...
War over judges threatened
by James Oliphant Officials come and go. Policies are adopted and abandoned. Speeches are made and discarded. But federal judges. They last forever. That's why Republicans in the Senate are...
No to cameras, yes to ’60 Minutes’
by James Oliphant Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has been showing a higher profile than normal lately. Earlier this week, he was up in Rhode Island speaking at a law...
Clintonite: Wright won’t go away
by James Oliphant Writing in The Wall Street Journal Wednesday, Lanny Davis, a former lawyer for President Clinton and a long-time Hillary Clinton supporter, says that Barack Obama owes America...
Election watchdog neutered
by James Oliphant The nation's election watchdog sits paralyzed—unable to meet, give advice, fashion new rules or open investigations, even as the most intense presidential campaign in recent memory rages...
Scalia: ‘I couldn’t get 60 votes’
by James Oliphant Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia gave a talk at Roger Williams College of Law Monday in Bristol, RI. He used the occasion to complain about the modern...
Campaign tab so far: $1.7 billion (!)
by James Oliphant Yes, that probably does deserve an exclamation point. According to tallies by the Campaign Finance Institute, the Center for Responsive Politics and the watchdog group Democracy 21,...
Dems: Time to shift terror efforts
by James Oliphant Senate Democrats today sent a letter to President Bush, accusing him of taking his "eye off the ball" with respect to global counter-terrorism efforts. Sen. Harry Reid,...
Pa. truckers rage at high gas prices
by James Oliphant HARRISBURG, Pa.--The economy isn't the only thing that is intent on slowing down. More than 50 protesters, most of them truck drivers, gathered at a truck stop...