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  United States. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The United States has a broad range of climates, varying from the tropical rain-forest of Hawaii and the tropical savanna of S Florida (where the Everglades are found) to the subarctic and tundra climates of Alaska.
The Congress of the United States, the legislative branch, is bicameral and consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives.
Adverse decisions on several of the measures by the U.S. Supreme Court tended to slow the pace of reform and caused Roosevelt to attempt unsuccessfully to revise the court.
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 Myers v. United States
United States, 100 U.S. On the other hand, to the individual in the public service, and to the maintenance of its morale, the existence of a power in Congress to impose upon the Senate the duty to share in the responsibility for a removal is of paramount importance.
State courts have uniformly held that, in the absence of express provision in their constitution to the contrary, legislative restrictions upon the power of removal by the governor, or other appointing power, are valid as applied to persons holding statutory offices.
United States, 103 U.S. 227, 237, this provision was interpreted as not denying "the power of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, to displace them by the appointment of others in their places." The Act of June 4, 1920, c.
www.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0272_0052_ZD1.html   (14996 words)

  
 Supreme Court of the United States, defeated ... - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 CQ Press In Context : Future of the Supreme Court
And because the Senate adheres to the custom of senatorial courtesy—it is reluctant to confirm a nominee who is repugnant to a senator of the nominee's home state—presidents do well to assure themselves in advance that their nominees will not be objectionable to the pertinent senators.
A second Nixon nominee, Clement F. Haynsworth Jr., although well qualified judicially, was rejected in part because he appeared insensitive to ethical improprieties and participated in cases where his financial interest might have involved him in conflicts of interest.
One nominee was denied the position of chief justice because the Senate could not decide what his political views were.
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 Robert Byrd - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As of 2006, he is the longest-serving current member of the U.S. Congress, having served in the United States House of Representatives from January 3, 1953, until he entered the Senate on January 3, 1959.
Byrd announced on September 27, 2005 at the State House in Charleston that he is running for an unprecedented ninth term in 2006.
State marriage laws should not be undermined by the federal government.
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 Democratic Party (United States)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In an international context, the views of the Democratic party are often considered liberal, as liberalism generally has a different meaning outside the United States from its meaning in the U.S. The Democratic Party's political views have roots in the United States progressive movement and in the ideas of intellectuals such as John Dewey.
Bryan, with a base in the Southern United States and the Great Plains, was strong enough to get the nomination in the elections of 1900, again losing to McKinley, and 1908, losing to William Howard Taft.
Roosevelt was defeated by an alliance of Republicans and conservative Democrats, who formed a new Conservative coalition that managed to block nearly all liberal legislation and dominate Congress for the remainder of FDR's presidency.
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 Pack the Supreme Court (With nominees in the mold of Scalia and Thomas)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Supreme Court justices were not to be appointed from within, like a self-sustaining board of directors.
Purged of plumage and pomposity, the active-liberty canon of interpretation is an echo of the discredited Democrat welfare-regulatory state agenda masquerading as constitutional dogma.
However, a Supreme Court appointment was not thought sufficiently momentous in the life of the nation to demand an extraordinary political consensus.
www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/1332956/posts   (3859 words)

  
 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
A) The State Democratic Party has bylaws ensuring the loyalty of those participating in party affairs: "All members, officers, and subdivisions of the State Party, and those seeking to participate in Party Affairs, are subject to this Charter and the State Party Bylaws.
That this Court retain jurisdiction of this case until a voting plan is in place that complies with the requirements of the Voting Rights Act, as amended.
That this Court award Plaintiffs their costs and attorneys fees pursuant to U.S.C. That this Court grant Plaintiffs any further relief which may be necessary and proper.
www.law.ucla.edu /volokh/mckinney.htm   (2159 words)

  
 Judicial Philosophy and Appointments to the United States Supreme Court
The court is clearly on the path to homosexual marriage as a constitutional right.
What the Court needs today is a panel of judges who will again set aside their personal opinions, and rule according to the written law in question.
Supreme Court opinions consistent with such a reading, or inconsistent but so deeply entrenched as to have now become essential (absent an amendment) due to stare decisis, should be given the greatest precedential value.
judicialphilosophy.blogspot.com   (10458 words)

  
 United States: History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Internationally and domestically, the United States government was the subject of condemnation from some quarters for aspects of its conduct of the “war on terror” in the second half of 2005.
A Swiss investigator for the Council of Europe indicated (Dec., 2005) that reports that European nations and the United States had been involved in the abduction and extrajudicial transfer of individuals to other nations were credible, and he accused (Jan., 2006) the nations of “outsourcing” torture.
The administration justified it by asserting that the president's powers to defend the United States under the Constitution were not subject to Congressional legislation and that the legislation authorizing the president to respond to the Sept., 2001, terror attacks implicitly also authorized the wiretapping.
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 The RCP Blog
Chief Justice Roberts has said that he struggles for unanimity or near unanimity on the court, yet in many key decisions at the end of this term the court was fractured, with as many as six separate opinions on key cases such as Texas redistricting, Vermont's campaign-finance limits and Hamdan v.
Notwithstanding this plain directive, the Court today concludes that, on what it calls the statute's most natural reading, every "court, justice, or judge" before whom such a habeas application was pending on December 30 has jurisdiction to hear, consider, and render judgment on it.
The Supreme Court's decision concerning military commissions at Guantanamo Bay is a major rebuke to an Administration that has too often disregarded the rule of law.
www.realclearpolitics.com /blog/supreme_court   (8577 words)

  
 Ballot Access News
The decision was based largely on the 1989 U.S. Supreme Court decision Eu v San Francisco County Central Committee, which struck down California laws that made it illegal for parties to endorse or oppose candidates in their own primaries.
The candidate-plaintiff is appealing to the Virginia Supreme Court.
It imposes filing fees on candidates nominated by convention (currently, new parties always nominate by convention, and their nominees need not pay a filing fee; the original intent of filing fees was to help pay for the administrative cost of primaries, so it didn’t make sense to impose fees on candidates nominated by convention).
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 Amazon.de:  The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States: English Books   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
There are several appendixes, including a useful chart of Supreme Court justices and their years of service, a chronology of the justices' succession, and a list of "Trivia and Traditions of the Court." The volume concludes with case-name and topical indexes.
Succeeding in their appointed task "to humanize the high court," the editors have assembled an excellent cast of contributors--scholars and legal professionals--who have covered virtually every aspect of the Court's work and its all-important, often controversial role in American law and politics.
One also learns that there is a basketball court in the gymnasium of the Supreme Court, but that basketball is prohibited while the court is in session, as the dribbling balls can be heard in the court chamber.
www.amazon.de /exec/obidos/ASIN/0195176618   (1295 words)

  
 American Renaissance January 2001
In an analysis written the day after the election, United Press International correspondent Steve Sailer examined Hispanic voting trends in the four major regions of the United States where Hispanics are concentrated: California, Texas, New York, and Florida.
Even in the only state where he did win a bare majority of Hispanics, his victory was mainly due to a combination of unique traditional Republican loyalties among Cuban voters coupled with ethnic solidarity with the Gonzalez boy and anger at the Clinton administration.
The United Nations estimates that at the end of 2000 36.1 million people carry the AIDS virus, and 5.3 million of them were infected during the year.
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 The Democratic Party   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
You can learn more about what's happening in your state (and every other state) as we put organizers on the ground and fulfill the chairman's commitment to fight for every vote, in every race, for every level of office: http://www.democrats.org/local
Putting hundreds of trained organizers on the ground now in every state is a huge new commitment for our party -- it requires a group of committed Democrats making sustained monthly donations to work.
The Democratic Reunion: This summer the Democratic Party will be hosting Democratic Reunions in every state across the country where volunteers will be gathering together to commit to contact 100 voters from their community by Election Day 2006.
democrats.org /a/national/civil_rights/.../supreme_court   (435 words)

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