Judge Rejects Bush’s View on Wiretaps
A federal judge said that the wiretapping law established by Congress was the “exclusive” means for the president to eavesdrop on Americans, ruling out presidential authority to override that law.
A federal judge said that the wiretapping law established by Congress was the “exclusive” means for the president to eavesdrop on Americans, ruling out presidential authority to override that law.
Barack Obama and John McCain are at odds over a California ballot initiative that would amend the state’s Constitution to ban same-sex marriage.
Under increasing public pressure, the federal government lifted a freeze on new solar projects, barely a month after it was put into effect.
Schmidt ran Schwarzenegger’s reelection campaign and was a top aide in Bush’s 2004 campaign. See also: Schmidt brings structure
Conservative evangelical leaders met privately this week to discuss putting aside their misgivings about John McCain and coalescing around the Republican’s presidential bid while urging him to consider social conservative favorite Mike Huckabee as a running mate….
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will pledge $400 million in aid to Kosovo next week at a donors conference expected to raise more than $1 billion for the newly independent state, a senior U.S. official said on Wednesday.
WASHINGTON (AP) — An independent arm of the Republican National Committee plans to spend $3 million on an ad campaign contrasting GOP presidential candidate John McCain to Democrat Barack Obama on energy security….
Group taps GOP media consultant to run an independent expenditure campaign set up to target Barack Obama.
CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) — John McCain denied a Republican colleague’s claim that he roughed up an associate of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega on a diplomatic mission in 1987, saying the allegation was “simply not true.”…
In Colombia, McCain denies Thad Cochran’s claim. See also: Cochran not helping the cause