Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former managing director of the International Monetary Fund, was indicted by a grand jury in the sexual assault of a housekeeper in his New York hotel. The New York Times reported that Strauss-Kahn retained Benjamin Brafman of New York and William Taylor of Washington as counsel.
Republican senators voted for the first successful filibuster of one of President Obama’s judicial nominees. Goodwin Liu would have served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. Fifty-two senators voted to end debate on Liu’s nomination, short of the 60 votes that he needed. GOP senators cited Liu’s legal ideology and his 2006 testimony against the confirmation of Justice Samuel Alito Jr.
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