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On Miers, the White House takes the right to church
Tim Grieve
Stories about the nominee's faith -- and her antiabortion views -- are suddenly everywhere.
A conservative senator on Miers: “Trust, but verify”
Tim Grieve
Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback says the president's assurances about the nominee's "heart" aren't enough to satisfy him.
Letters
Salon Staff
"Bennett's statements were crude. But the left doesn't help itself when it twists meaning to suit its own ends." Readers have their say about Cecelie Berry's response to William Bennett.
Bush: “I picked the best person I could find”
Tim Grieve
Echoing his father's comments about Clarence Thomas, the president says that his Supreme Court nominee is "plenty bright" and the most qualified person for the job.
Miers: On the “extreme end of the anti-choice movement”?
Tim Grieve
The woman who ran Miers' City Council campaign says her views on abortion are probably in line with Bush's.
God, home and country
Salon Staff
TTers weigh in this week on Christianity, the Founding Fathers, a place called home.
How they voted on Roberts
Tim Grieve
Democrats split evenly on Bush's nominee. Here's the breakdown.
What really caused Katrina?
Tim Grieve
Al-Qaida says it's God's revenge for homosexuality. Louis Farrakhan says it's punishment for Iraq -- and that the government intentionally made it worse.
With Roberts a lock, who comes next?
Tim Grieve
Bush is talking about the value of diversity. Would a female John Roberts count?
“Make levees, not war”
Jeff Horwitz
Rita and infighting among organizers threatened to make the day a washout, but Saturday's massive antiwar protest took Washington by storm.
Get his robes ready
Michael Scherer
Conservatives gloat, senators posture and NPR's Nina Totenberg lobbies to protect her vacation plans as John Roberts' nomination sails through.
John Roberts’ favorite pastime
Michael Scherer
Day two of the Senate hearings: The baseball metaphors flew, and the nominee for chief justice dodged nearly every question thrown his way.
The know-nothings
Andrew O'Hehir
Pro-business Republicans and the religious right have joined in a frighteningly successful campaign to undermine the findings of science.
Roberts’ rules of order
Michael Scherer
The first day of John Roberts' confirmation hearings played as expected, with senators posturing, Judge Roberts saying nothing, and a pro-life activist dressed as Betsy Ross setting off a metal detector.
Roberts’ assurances on abortion: Less than they seem?
T.g.
The nominee says Roe v. Wade is settled law, but that doesn't mean he'd protect a woman's right to choose.
Courting disaster
J.J. Helland
Legal scholar Cass Sunstein explains the dangers of "fundamentalist" judges on the Supreme Court, why conservatives should fear right-wing radicals as much as liberals, and what went wrong with Roe v. Wade.
Hostages to fear
Bill Moyers
The bullies using Sept. 11 to threaten America's religious and moral freedom must be opposed with a stubbornness to match their own.
Supreme Court watch: The president jokes, the right panics
T.g.
Associate Justice Alberto Gonzales? The right likes the idea of a minority justice, just not this one.
Antiabortion group celebrates Katrina’s work
T.g.
The group, which claimed that the hurricane was God's punishment for abortion, says that there are no abortion clinics operating in New Orleans today.
After Roberts
Michael Scherer
As liberal groups continue trying to derail Bush's judicial nominee, they now must worry: Who's next?
Rehnquist’s replacement: John G. Roberts?
T.g.
Bush is said to be considering Roberts as well as Alberto Gonzales and a short list of others.
The right on Hurricane Katrina
T.g.
What does it mean to be pro-family when so many families are hurting?
The whole truth
Andrew O'Hehir
Red and blue staters fight over religion, moral values and the culture. But philosopher Simon Blackburn sees something deeper -- a war over the very nature of truth.
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