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President Barack Obama has accelerated his search for his next Supreme Court nominee, meeting in the Oval Office with one of the candidates, federal judge Sidney Thomas of Montana, a person familiar with the conversation says. Obama' s meet ing wi t h Thomas on Thursday was his first known formal interview for the upcoming vacancy on the court. He is holding conversations with other candidates, and it is not clear whether he has already had other personal meetings with contenders. Vice President Joe Biden interviewed Thomas...
President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court this morning, declaring the former Harvard Law School dean "one of the nation's foremost legal minds." She would be the court's youngest justice and give it three female members for the first time. The nomination to replace liberal retiring Justice John Paul Stevens set the stage for a bruising confirmation battle, t h o u g h m a t h e m a t i c a l l y Democrats should be able to prevail in the end. At 50, Kagan, is relatively young for the... Full story
Security officials flagged the name of the airline bombing suspect for extra screening after he was already in the air, U.S. officials said today, as President Barack Obama got ready to outline government missteps in the nearcatastrophe and order fixes. The White House was to make public a declassified account of how a suspected terrorist slipped through post-Sept. 11 security to board the plane with an explosive. Obama's national security adviser said that people who read the report will feel a "certain shock" about all the...
Security officials flagged the name of the airline bombing suspect for extra screening after he was already in the air, U.S. officials said today, as President Barack Obama got ready to outline government missteps in the nearcatastrophe and order fixes. The White House was to make public a declassified account of how a suspected terrorist slipped through post-Sept. 11 security to board the plane with an explosive. Obama's national security adviser said that people who read the report will feel a "certain shock" about all the... Full story
