If you are not related to the media or in politics, the troubles currently visiting Attorney-General may seem a bit incomprehensible. So what are the troubles facing the attorney-general ? He is facing questioning over the firing of some US attorneys. These are political appointments and they serve at the President’s discretion, so firing them [...]
The controversy over the firing of the US attorneys by the Bush justice department has been played at various levels and through the media over the past few months. Congress has been attempting to get White House aides and Justice Department personnel to depose in front of them for months now. When Attorney General Gonzales [...]
The Democrats have long chafed at President Bush’s strategy on Iraq. For a long time, the Democrats were in a minority, and what they said or what they wanted did not make much difference in politics. But as the war lingered on, with no seemingly achievable solution, and people started getting frustrated with the continuing [...]
The stand-off between the President and Congress over the firings of the 9 US attorneys is getting murkier, but not unpredictable. Ever since the issue surfaced, and lead to some strong statement from Congress, one knew that it would move this way. Congress would seek to question more White House aides, and at one point, [...]
Till a few months back, President Bush did not face much issue from the Republican side of Congress about the game plan / strategy in Iraq, and opposition from the Democratic side was always dismissed as being a political game. Similarly, opposition from the peace camp has always been dismissed as coming from peaceniks, not [...]
In the past, the US Supreme Court has always had some amount of splits between the justices, and rare were the decisions that were given by a unanimous verdict. However, with Justice Sandra Day O’Connor normally playing the swinging vote, the previous Supreme Courts have tended to be on the liberal side, must to the [...]
