- Making News: President Thanks Card, Names Bolten New Chief of Staff
For the first time since January, 2001, President Bush has a new Chief of Staff. Andrew Card has resigned. He'll be replaced by another White House veteran, Joshua Bolten, Director of the Office of Management and Budget. David Sanger, White House correspondent for the New York Times, considers how the change in personnel will affect policy and behind-the-scenes relationships within the Bush Administration. - Reporter's Notebook: Justice Scalia's Controversial Remarks on Detainees
The Supreme Court today took up the case of Salim Ahmed Hamdan, who President Bush wants to try as a terrorist before a military tribunal. The former chauffeur to Osama bin Laden wants to be heard in federal court. A group of retired generals and admirals have asked Justice Antonin Scalia to recuse himself because of comments he made in Switzerland, dismissing the idea that military combatants have rights in civil courts. Barbara Olshansky is legal director at the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York.
President Bush thanks Andy Card, announces Bolten as new Chief-of-Staff
Sanger's article on Bush turning to inner circle for chief-of-staff
ABC News/Washington Post (2004) poll on religion and politics
Phillip Longman's article, "The Liberal Baby Bust"
Jim Wallis' God's Politics: Why the Right Gets it Wrong and the Left Doesn't Get It
Hamdan v Rumsfeld, US Court of Appeals on
Hamdan v Rumsfeld, Center for Constitutional Rights on
Center for Constitutional Rights calls for Justice Scalia to recuse himself