The Supreme Court’s conservative majority gave anti-abortion forces a major victory when they decided to ban a controversial abortion procedure. In doing this they have set the stage for further restrictions on this issue. For the first time since the court established a woman’s right to an abortion in 1973, the justices upheld a nationwide ban on a specific abortion method, labeled partial-birth abortion.
There are many politicians who have skeletons in their closets. When it comes to the presidential candidate, Rudy Giuliani, there are more then we can count. The former Republican mayor of New York City won widespread praise for the way he handled the Sept. 11 attacks, and it is largely that collective memory that accounts for his current popularity in polls and makes him the early front-runner for his party’s nomination.
FedEx shipments, staff salaries, flights from Washington, D.C., to Des Moines to Las Vegas and back again eventually it all adds up. A presidential campaign is a peculiar, short-lived kind of start-up business, and like other firms it has overhead: the costs of being in business. The $26 million that Sen. Hillary Clinton’s campaign raised in the first three months of the year isn’t guaranteed to win her the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, but it will pay for lots of FedEx deliveries.
Annette Ziegler’s easy win in yesterday’s Wisconsin Supreme Court (WSC) election only means the court’s previous balance between liberal and conservative has held. But people are thinking that this won’t last for much longer. With conservative Ziegler now replacing retiring conservative justice Jon P. Wilcox, liberals on the WSC are still a 4-3 majority. But liberal Justice Louis B. Butler Jr. now faces a bruising fight to hold his seat in an election next year that could overturn the court’s majority.