Last week the Supreme Court heard arguments over whether police violated the Fourth Amendment protection against unreasonable search and seizure by tracking suspected drug dealer Antoine Jones 24 hours a day for four weeks in 2004, collecting data even after their search warrant expired. Jones’ lawyer argued the government should have to get a warrant [...]
The New York Times reported today that Gingrich was uncharacteristically downbeat in Iowa on Tuesday, despite his surging poll numbers. Perhaps this, first reported by Bloomberg, is the reason why:
Gingrich didn’t lobby for Freddie Mac, but he was paid $1.6 million over eight years, Bloomberg reports, and not for being a crisis-predicting historian. Unlike the other beneficiaries of primary boomlets so far, Gingrich polls as well as Romney in a general election. The Republican nominating game of musical chairs in one chart.
As Capitol Hill enters a critical 48-hour stretch, the sense on the Hill is that momentum is gaining, however incrementally, for a supercommittee deal on deficit reduction. Negotiations kicked up a level as House Speaker John Boehner met with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Tuesday morning. But whatever deal Reid and Boehner may strike, it [...]
-Democratic strategist Paul Begala on Newt Gingrich, who has surged toward the top of the Republican presidential primary field in recent polls. Begala, a veteran of the Clinton White House who sparred regularly with the former House Speaker during the 1990s, said history suggests that Gingrich’s “bombast” will wear on GOP voters.
It’s been almost two weeks since the Michigan State Senate passed an anti-bullying bill with language that essentially protected religiously-motivated bullies or others with a “sincerely held…moral conviction.” Now they’ve had a change of heart.
Rick Perry is no incrementalist. In a bid to reignite his sputtering campaign, the Texas governor has adopted the mantra that while his Republican rivals would paper over Washington’s problems, Perry would arrive toting a wrecking ball. “I do not believe Washington needs a new coat of paint. I think the whole place needs to [...]
Rick Santorum, Jon Huntsman and perhaps even the surging Newt Gingrich might not have a shot at winning Virginia’s Republican presidential primary. As worried GOP officials in the state explain, that’s partly because there’s a chance some Republican presidential candidates might not even appear on the ballot. Virginia’s primary, which takes place on March 6–Super [...]
Mayor Michael Bloomberg left no question about his reasons for ordering a surprise overnight raid on Zuccotti Park to clear protesters after weeks of occupation. “The park was becoming a place where people came not to protest, but rather to break laws, and in some cases, to harm others,” Bloomberg said in a statement. In [...]
Absolutely fascinating, and slightly hilarious, new poll today from Iowa–conducted by J. Ann Selzer, who knows that state better than anyone (she polls for the Des Moines Register, but did this one for Bloomberg): Cain 20 Paul 19 Romney 18 Gingrich 17 And 60% say they may change their vote between now and the caucusing. [...]
