Topic: Douglas Kmiec

Douglas Kmiec

Mahalo - 459 days ago
Republican lawyer Douglas Kmiec has endorsed <a href=" Kmiec was U.S. Assistant Attorney General and chief of the Office of Legal Counsel for both Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush . More recently, Doug Kmiec had been involved with former ...

US ambassador to Malta crashes car; passenger dies

AP News - 536 days ago
Authorities: 1 dead, 2 hurt after car driven by US ambassador to Malta crashes in CaliforniaAuthorities say a car driven by the U.S. ambassador to Malta crashed in Southern California, killing a nun and injuring a 94-year-old pastor.The California Highway ...

Doug Kmiec on a Court Packed with Catholics

Wall Street Journal Health Blog - 993 days ago
Conservatives and liberals alike - not to mention the media - have paid much attention in the last 36 hours to how Judge Sotomayor's childhood struggles and Puerto Rican roots shaped her legal life. For thoughts on this - from someone who is both ...

Empathy and the Supreme Court

America Magazine - 1014 days ago
In case you haven't noticed it yet, we've just posted a Web-only article by Pepperdine law professor Douglas W. Kmiec on the search for a new Supreme Court Justice. In "The Case for Empathy," Kmiec addresses the conservative idealogues who ...

US ambassador to Vatican could be thorny pick

AP News - 1034 days ago
Catholic clashes with Obama raise stakes on impending pick for US ambassador to VaticanSince the United States and the Vatican established full diplomatic ties in 1984, little attention has been paid to the process and politics of selecting a U.S. ambassador ...

This Time the Religious Right is Right

Crosswalk - 1328 days ago
For Obama, faith is not simply political garb, something a focus group told him he ought to try. " That's a quote from "The Faith of Barack Obama," published by Thomas Nelson, the world's largest Christian publisher, scheduled to be released ...

Calif. Gay Marriage Ruling to Unleash Litigation

Crosswalk - 1366 days ago
The California Supreme Court's 4-3 decision last Thursday to create homosexual marriage was " "One of the principal effects of the California decision will be to create large numbers of same-sex marriages that will not only reside in California, but will migrate ...