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  • WSJ: Kennedy on Roberts - The Supreme Court nominee is a threat to Medicare. /sarcasm

    07/25/2005 5:54:44 AM PDT · by OESY · 26 replies · 1,296+ views
    Wall Street Journal ^ | July 25, 2005 | Editorial
    In his two years on the appeals bench, Supreme Court nominee John Roberts has authored about 40 opinions, but it's a one-and-a-half page dissent that has Ted Kennedy fulminating. The Senator from Massachusetts is outraged about a Commerce Clause case called Rancho Viejo v. Norton, which, in the Kennedy legal interpretation, threatens "Social Security, Medicare, the minimum wage" and the environment. Is that all? In Rancho Viejo, a real-estate company challenged the Interior Department's application of the Endangered Species Act to halt a project that might disturb an endangered species known as the arroyo Southwestern toad, whose picture we publish...
  • Mayoral candidates scrap coin toss to end election tie (Texas)

    05/18/2005 1:26:42 PM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 5 replies · 209+ views
    The Brownsville Herald ^ | May 18, 2005 | LAURA B. MARTINEZ
    New vote scheduled for June 11 RANCHO VIEJO, — Rancho Viejo mayoral candidates decided to scrap a risky game of chance to decide the tied May 7 election, opting to take a new vote instead. Incumbent Ray Downs and challenger Craig Flood could have participated in a coin toss to decide who would be the town’s next mayor. “That (coin toss would) disenfranchise the voters that did turn out,” Flood, 62, said. The mayoral election ended with Downs and Flood receiving 213 votes each. Officials said the tie is “a first” in the town’s history. A recount held Monday did...