U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Missouri, is recommending Judge Ronnie White to the Obama administration for the U.S. District judgeship vacated by Judge Jean Hamilton.

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Former U.S. President Bill Clinton predicted that Barack Obama would prevail in his bid to win passage of his health-care initiative and that some Republican senators likely would support the legislation. Clinton, the last president to attempt a broad overhaul ...

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08-2524 United States of America, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Susan H. McDougal, Defendant-Appellant Appeal From: U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas Submitted: Jan. 15, 2009 Filed: March 20, 2009 Before: Judges Murphy, Smith and Limbaugh(FN1) Opinion By: Judge Murphy ...

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Susan McDougal will not get access to court documents related to her civil contempt case for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating Whitewater in the 1990s. On Monday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said McDougal doesn’t ...

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U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who survived colon cancer in 1999, had surgery Thursday for "apparently early stage" pancreatic cancer, the court said. Ginsburg, 75, was operated on at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City. She will probably stay in the hospital seven to 10 days, the court said, citing the attending surgeon, Murray Brennan. Ginsburg was appointed in 1993 by President Bill Clinton, becoming the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court.

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The Senate Judiciary Committee, after a one-week delay, approved Eric Holder’s nomination by President Barack Obama to be U.S. attorney general and set the stage for confirmation by the full Senate. Holder, 58, would be the first black person to ...

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There they stood, a breathing Mount Rushmore, or perhaps just the ghosts of Inaugurals past, present and to come. The three-person former presidents’ club came to the Oval Office at the invitation of its soon-to-be-member, President George W. Bush, and ...

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Peter W. Rodman, who died last August at the age of 64, could have descended straight from Niccolo Machiavelli. And I have a feeling he would regard that observation as a compliment. In “Presidential Command,” his theme is the chief ...

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There have been other shocking press conferences, the kind that make you call home and say, “Turn on the TV, quick.” There was former New Jersey Gov. Jim McGreevey coming out of nowhere to declare, “I am a gay American.” ...

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Extension granted in Blagojevich case Chicago U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald was granted a 90-day extension to obtain an indictment against Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whom he has accused of corruption in a criminal complaint. U.S. District Judge James Holderman in ...

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