Strom Thurmond

Supreme Court appears timid about expanding same-sex marriage

2013-03-27 05:00:00

This week, the United States Supreme Court is delving into arguments about same-sex marriage and doing so with apparent reluctance and unease. Today, the justices will consider the federal Defense of Marriage Act that denies federal benefits to same-sex...

Prop. 8: Justice Kagan cuts to the injustice of gay marriage ban

2013-03-26 13:18:00

Gotta hand it to Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. Tuesday morning she interrupted Charles J. Cooper, the attorney representing the anti-gay marriage side in the court’s hearing on California’s Proposition 8. She cut through the legal...

Essie Mae Washington-Williams dies at 87; black daughter of segregationist Strom Thurmond

2013-02-04 20:47:00

A week before Christmas in 2003, a retired Los Angeles schoolteacher stood before a phalanx of news cameras and 250 reporters in a South Carolina ballroom and declared, "I am Essie Mae Washington-Williams, and at last I am completely free." After more...

Senate approves limits on the filibuster rule to speed debate

2013-01-24 18:05:00

WASHINGTON – The Senate approved rules changes Thursday that will limit the use of the filibuster as a weapon in the partisan obstruction that has ground action in the chamber to a near standstill. The deal, between Senate Majority Leader Harry...

Filibuster agreement expected for vote late Thursday

2013-01-24 16:13:00

WASHINGTON -- Senate leaders reached a tentative agreement Thursday for rules changes that would limit the use of the filibuster as a weapon in the partisan obstruction that has ground action in the chamber to a near standstill. � The deal, between Senate...

Modest filibuster changes taking shape in Senate

2013-01-24 10:17:00

WASHINGTON — Hopes dimmed Thursday for vast rules changes in the Senate to limit the filibuster as a weapon in the partisan obstruction that has ground action in the chamber to a near standstill. Senators, mostly liberal Democrats, had sought to...

Senate filibuster in need of reform

2012-11-25 00:00:00

The principle of the filibuster is a sound one: Any member of the U.S. Senate may speak for any length of time, so a senator who is fiercely determined to oppose a bill may command the podium and stop other business in order to make a point of grave...

John Phillips: Hey, Arnold Schwarzenegger, did you cheat on the people of California too?

2011-06-03 16:36:39

The voices behind Joe Wilson

2009-09-12 00:00:00

When Republican congressman Joe Wilson of South Carolina heckled President Obama during his address to a joint session of Congress this week, it was no surprise that the subject was immigration. It's also no surprise that while the House Republican...

'Courage and Consequence' by Karl Rove

2010-03-09 00:00:00

Karl Rove is a true believer, as the subtitle to his memoir suggests, in a fighting faith. Much that vexes our current politics flows from the fact that he is an exemplar rather than a singular case. "Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in...

Ticket Replay: Mark Sanford, now Joe Wilson: What's in the water in South Carolina?

2009-12-24 16:34:38

Nevada Sen. Harry Reid was impressed by 'light-skinned' Obama's lack of 'Negro dialect'

2010-01-09 16:34:30

In 2003 the retired L.A. schoolteacher unburdened herself of a secret: She, a black woman, was the daughter of Sen. Strom Thurmond, the legendary South Carolina politician who had built a career as a champion of segregation. She was 87.

2013-02-09 09:48:00

Mary Ann Fischer shakes hands with the late Senator Strom Thurmond of South Carolina at the 1965 Aberdeen Chamber of Commerce banquet.

2012-12-10 00:00:00

U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) (2nd L) greets campaign workers after casting her vote on November 2, 2010 in Girdwood, Alaska . Murkowski is defending her Senate seat as a write-in candidate in a three-way midterm race with Republican Joe Miller and Democrat Scott McAdams. If Murkowski wins, she

2010-11-02 13:49:44