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WASHINGTON -- Cruising toward confirmation, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan completed grueling Senate questioning Wednesday, unscathed by Republican challenges on abortion, gays in the military and gun rights while sidestepping partisan debate about...

by Michael Muskal Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee on Friday again called for an independent investigation into the White House actions in trying to protect incumbent senators facing tough Democratic primaries. In a letter to Atty. Gen....

CIA Director Leon Panetta will be the headliner guest on ABC's “This Week” this weekend. The program starts at 11 a.m. Sunday on WFTV-Ch. 9. Jake Tapper is the guest moderator. The panel will be George Will, author Robin Wright, David Sanger...

Also ample senators: John Cornyn, Carl Levin, Dianne Feinstein, Lindsey Graham, John McCain, Robert Menendez, Pat Leahy....

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Note: you can follow continuously updated coverage of the Kagan hearings here. by Mike Memoli In pointed questioning, the Senate Judiciary Committee's leading Republican accused Elena Kagan of treating the U.S. military in a "second-class" way during...

Here's a sampling of the blogs that have riffed on the Times' editorials and Op-Eds lately: Persevere: Leith Community Portal pointed its readers to John Bolton's July 1 op-ed, "We must crush the Taliban and Al Qaeda in a 'long war' in Afghanistan."...

Alabama's Jeff Sessions urged his Senate colleagues to oppose Elena Kagan's nomination to the Supreme Court by President Obama....

By BEN EVANS Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Leading Republicans are joining a push to reconsider the constitutional amendment that grants automatic citizenship to people born in the United States. Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell...

Judge Sonia Sotomayor, poised to become the first Latino member of the U.S. Supreme Court, won the support of the Senate Judiciary Committee today in a lopsided vote cast largely along party lines for President Barack Obama's first nominee for the nation'...

Sonia Sotomayor completed an unlikely and historic journey today, one that began with her birth in a Bronx, New York, housing project 55 years ago and culminated in her confirmation as the Supreme Court's 111th justice. When she is sworn into office,...

by Mark Silva Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation for the U.S. Supreme Court is "virtually filibuster-proof,'' one Democratic senator said today, but lawmakers should not be forced into any deadline for her confirmation, a Republican leader said. And...