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Mukasey: ‘the last, best hope’…oh my!
As Raj Purohit and Scott Paul have noted, we are strongly opposed to Judge Mukasey's nomination to be our country's next Attorney...
Reject Mukasey
My colleague Howard Salter and I had a funny conversation a couple of weeks ago that evolved into this blog post of...
We are opposing Mukasey
We have been following the AG nomination process closely and decided yesterday that we needed to oppose Mukasey - here is our...
Foreign Relations Committee Overwhelmingly Approves Law of the Sea; Coleman Flips and Flops
I just got back from the Senate Foreign Relations Committee business meeting on the Law of the Sea. The final vote was...
Inhofe: Retrofitting Unilateralism
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee votes tomorrow on the Law of the Sea. The Committee is likely to approve the treaty, as...
Correction – Biden Got it Right
I'd like to make a correction on my post this morning "Using U.N. Day to Sink the Law of the Sea". In...
Democracy, West Africa, and the U.N.
The National Democratic Institute hosted a terrific (and huge, and really long) lunch yesterday honoring the Fifty Fifty Group in Sierra Leone...
Using U.N. Day to Sink the Law of the Sea
Yesterday, Republican Senate leadership celebrated October 24th, United Nations Day, by engaging in one of their favorite sports, base pandering. At the...
Refugee Crisis: A First-hand Account
I was reading this important post from Riverbend blog on the Iraqi refugee crisis - 1.5 million Iraqis are refugees in Syria...
U.N. Day and President Bush…Feel the Love
Today, October 24, is United Nations Day. This day should remind all of us of our nation's important relationship with the only...
What Would Reagan Do?
Conservatives are asking What Would Reagan Do on the Law of the Sea. Personally, I don't care all that much and would...