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March 24, 2008 | National Law Journal

Overturning Roe v. Wade and further erosion of our civil liberties are two reasons the U.S. Supreme Court should be central to the presidential election. There is a third. With a string of decisions siding with Big Business, the Supreme Court has declared open season on your wallet. Roe is (barely) still standing. You can always stay off that wiretapped phone. But don't sit by while your heart valve explodes, your home loan balloons and Wall Street steals you blind.

By Al Meyerhoff / Special to The National Law Journal

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April 15, 2009 | Daily Report Online

Used-car salesmen, lawyers and journalists can relax; they've been replaced as America's favorite villains by corporate executives, or at least investment bankers. Hailed only a short while ago as masters of the universe and princes of perpetual profits, they now are reviled. Consider: Americans, no surprise, overwhelmingly oppose the huge bonuses that are paid to employees by Wall Street companies, according to polls.

By Al Hunt

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October 10, 2008 | National Law Journal

The economy is hanging by a $700 billion thread as global markets plunge. Yet the bailout bill did not address any of the root causes of this potential catastrophe. Nothing in the bailout bill will deter another such meltdown. There has been no shortage of proposed reforms elsewhere. Make sure taxpayers get full return; authorize bankruptcy judges to provide foreclosure relief; create new jobs. But Congress chose instead to cut taxes while borrowing $700 billion from the Chinese and the Saudis. Go figure.

By Al Meyerhoff / Special to The National Law Journal

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January 12, 2007 | National Law Journal

Memories of Enron are fresh, and voter anger palpable. So this effort should be DOA in the new Congress, right? Maybe not.

By Bill Lerach & Al Meyerhoff/Special to The National Law Journal

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December 01, 2008 | Daily Report Online

SAN'A, Yemen AP _ Osama bin Laden's former driver returned home to Yemen Wednesday to serve out his remaining prison sentence after the U.S. released him from Guantanamo Bay, American and Yemeni officials said.Salim Hamdan was transferred to Yemeni custody and taken to a state security prison after he arrived at a military base at San'a International Airport Wednesday night, a Yemeni security official said.

By AHMED AL-HAJ

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November 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

Our politicians continue to give each other high fives and deservedly praise firefighters for finally extinguishing the California fires. But the firestorms shattered the lives of thousands and were the foreseeable result of failed public policies at local, state and national levels. Unlike other threats that resonate with the public, concerns about the environment are still too often dismissed. If there is a lesson to take from this tragedy, it is that we still do too little to prevent such calamities.

By Al Meyerhoff / Special to The National Law Journal

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August 06, 2010 | Daily Report Online

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia AP - Some Saudis were trying to sell their BlackBerrys ahead of a ban on the smart phone's messenger service in the kingdom - but with few willing to buy, they're having to slash prices.The Saudi telecoms regulatory agency announced earlier this week the service would be halted Friday.

By ABDULLAH AL-SHIHRI

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June 30, 2008 | National Law Journal

The next round in the culture wars is scheduled for this fall in California. Voters will decide on a measure to ban — actually reban — same-sex marriage. Yet the actual "decider" may be the U.S. Supreme Court. Should the ballot measure pass, it will immediately be under a federal constitutional cloud. As Justice Robert Jackson wrote, "Fundamental rights may not be submitted to a vote, they depend on no elections." If the measure passes, it should be struck down. But Californians should vote it down instead.

By Al Meyerhoff / Special to The National Law Journal

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April 28, 2008 | National Law Journal

It's time for Senate Democrats to turn off the flood of GOP judicial nominees, particularly in what could be the waning days of Republican control of the White House, writes Al Meyerhoff. If the Republicans hold the presidency, this conservative shift of the courts regrettably will continue. But if they don't, it can be reversed, starting now.

By Al Meyerhoff

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May 08, 2006 | National Law Journal

Establishment of a greatly expanded guest worker program has garnered less attention. Guest workers. It is such a benign, almost gentle term. Here's another way to look at it. There has been sharp criticism over the loss of American jobs to the "maquiladoras"-low-paying sweatshops-in Mexico and beyond. The proposed "guest worker" program will simply bring the maquiladora here.

By Al Meyerhoff/Special to The National Law Journal

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