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<item><title><![CDATA[ Court considers case on judicial ethics ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002254.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/10/AR2008101002254.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:21:46 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court justices regularly confront cases involving companies they own shares in or that employ a family member. The decision is easy _ the justices have a conflict of interest that forces them to play no role in the case. ]]></description><dc:creator>MARK SHERMAN</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[considers]]></category><category><![CDATA[case]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[judicial]]></category><category><![CDATA[ethics]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Palin pre-empts state report, clears self in probe ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100900380.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/09/AR2008100900380.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 01:56:06 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ANCHORAGE, Alaska -- Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing. ]]></description><dc:creator>MATT APUZZO</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[pre-empts]]></category><category><![CDATA[state]]></category><category><![CDATA[report,]]></category><category><![CDATA[clears]]></category><category><![CDATA[self]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[probe]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ NOAA, Court Focus On Marine Mammals ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100801992.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100801992.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The government yesterday issued a long-delayed regulation imposing speed limits on East Coast ship traffic that threatens the critically endangered North Atlantic right whale, while barely a mile away the Supreme Court wrestled with a dispute between the Navy and environmentalists over the impact of... ]]></description><dc:creator>Jerry Markon and Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[NOAA,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Focus]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mammals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration]]></category><category><![CDATA[Natural Resources Defense Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Conrad Lautenbacher]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Keith Hennessey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Randall Reeves]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Union for Conservation of Nature]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Korea]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Court wrestles with case on Navy sonar, whales ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100800374.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100800374.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 17:21:35 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court appeared divided Wednesday over how to resolve a long-running dispute over whether environmental laws may be used to limit the Navy's use of sonar to protect whales.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023814373" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023814373" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>MARK SHERMAN</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[wrestles]]></category><category><![CDATA[with]]></category><category><![CDATA[case]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Navy]]></category><category><![CDATA[sonar,]]></category><category><![CDATA[whales]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Wis. judicial panel: Punish new judge for false ad ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100800594.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/08/AR2008100800594.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:51:27 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MADISON, Wis. -- State regulators say a Willie Horton-style campaign ad that suggested the first black member of the Wisconsin Supreme Court freed a child molester played so loose with the truth that the court's newest member should be disciplined for it. ]]></description><dc:creator>RYAN J. FOLEY</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Wis.]]></category><category><![CDATA[judicial]]></category><category><![CDATA[panel:]]></category><category><![CDATA[Punish]]></category><category><![CDATA[new]]></category><category><![CDATA[judge]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[false]]></category><category><![CDATA[ad]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ High court dispute over who gets retirement money ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100702261.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/07/AR2008100702261.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:37:42 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- If William Kennedy had updated all his financial paperwork in accordance with his divorce decree, chances are his daughter would not have been at the Supreme Court on Tuesday fighting for the $402,000 she thinks should be hers. ]]></description><dc:creator>MARK SHERMAN</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[court]]></category><category><![CDATA[dispute]]></category><category><![CDATA[over]]></category><category><![CDATA[who]]></category><category><![CDATA[gets]]></category><category><![CDATA[retirement]]></category><category><![CDATA[money]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The No-Confidence Man ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/10/07/BL2008100701355.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/10/07/BL2008100701355.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:33:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It's hard for a president to restore confidence in the economy when America has lost confidence in the president. ]]></description><dc:creator>Dan Froomkin</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[No-Confidence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Man]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Suit on Tobacco Ads Sparks Feisty Debate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602934.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100602934.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court waded yesterday into a complicated legal debate over whether tobacco companies can be sued in state courts for deceptive advertising of "light" cigarettes, a dispute that has divided government regulators and the business community.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023816642" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023816642" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Jerry Markon</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Suit]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tobacco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ads]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sparks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Feisty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Altria Group Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philip Morris International Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Federal Trade Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linda J. Conti]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robin S. Conrad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerson H. Smoger]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ High court could block 'light' cigarettes lawsuit ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100600224.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/06/AR2008100600224.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:47:07 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court picked up Monday where it left off last term, signaling support for efforts to block lawsuits against tobacco companies over deceptive marketing of "light" cigarettes. ]]></description><dc:creator>MARK SHERMAN</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[court]]></category><category><![CDATA[could]]></category><category><![CDATA[block]]></category><category><![CDATA['light']]></category><category><![CDATA[cigarettes]]></category><category><![CDATA[lawsuit]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Supreme Court's Direction Hinges on Who Wins '08 Race ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100502175.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100502175.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ There were not many conspicuous tributes to the legacy of President Bush at last month's Republican National Convention, but there was at least one. ]]></description><dc:creator>Robert Barnes</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Supreme]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Direction]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hinges]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Who]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wins]]></category><category><![CDATA['08]]></category><category><![CDATA[Race]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cass Sunstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McGinnis]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Dellinger]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Miguel Estrada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wendy Long]]></category><category><![CDATA[College of William & Mary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Institute of Bill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northwestern University]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Justices attend Red Mass before new term ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100500995.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/05/AR2008100500995.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 14:16:24 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The law is a guide to an orderly society, an American cardinal said an a church service Sunday that included five Supreme Court justices ahead of the start of their new term. ]]></description><dc:creator>NATASHA T. METZLER</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Justices]]></category><category><![CDATA[attend]]></category><category><![CDATA[Red]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mass]]></category><category><![CDATA[before]]></category><category><![CDATA[new]]></category><category><![CDATA[term]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Major Supreme Court cases for the new term ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/04/AR2008100400865.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/04/AR2008100400865.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:20:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ -- Highlights of some high-profile cases that the Supreme Court will take up in its term that begins Monday:<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023818980" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023818980" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Major]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[cases]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[new]]></category><category><![CDATA[term]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ High court term begins quietly in campaign season ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/04/AR2008100400859.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/04/AR2008100400859.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 04 Oct 2008 10:15:01 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court is doing its best to stay out of the spotlight in the final days of the presidential campaign and while the other two branches of government struggle to deal with turmoil in the financial markets. ]]></description><dc:creator>MARK SHERMAN</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[court]]></category><category><![CDATA[term]]></category><category><![CDATA[begins]]></category><category><![CDATA[quietly]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category><category><![CDATA[season]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Slate: A Gaffe a Minute? ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/10/01/DI2008100102659.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/10/01/DI2008100102659.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 15:30:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Slate XX Factor bloggers columnist Dahlia Lithwick and Emily Bazelon outline each candidates' keys to victory in tonight's vice presidential debate and discuss other Election 2008 issues. ]]></description><dc:creator>Dahlia Lithwick and Emily Bazelon</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Slate:]]></category><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gaffe]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Minute?]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Real Life Politics ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/09/29/DI2008092901847.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/09/29/DI2008092901847.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 14:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  ]]></description><dc:creator>Ruth Marcus</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Real]]></category><category><![CDATA[Life]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Court Won't Reconsider Ban on Execution for Child Rape ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100101114.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100101114.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court yesterday declined to revisit its June decision that imposing the death penalty on child-rapists is unconstitutional, although two justices said they would have reopened the case and two others sharply criticized the majority.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023824096" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023824096" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Robert Barnes</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Won't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reconsider]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ban]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Execution]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Child]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rape]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick O. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dwight Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Russia's last czar declared victim of repression ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100100335.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100100335.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:52:59 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ MOSCOW -- The last czar and his family were victims of political repression, Russia's Supreme Court ruled Wednesday, formally restoring the Romanov name and furthering a Kremlin effort to encourage patriotism by celebrating the country's czarist past. ]]></description><dc:creator>LYNN BERRY</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Russia's]]></category><category><![CDATA[last]]></category><category><![CDATA[czar]]></category><category><![CDATA[declared]]></category><category><![CDATA[victim]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[repression]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ High court rebuffs Louisiana in child rape case ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100100922.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100100922.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:20:24 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- The Supreme Court declined Wednesday to revisit its recent decision outlawing executions for people convicted of raping children. ]]></description><dc:creator>MARK SHERMAN</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[court]]></category><category><![CDATA[rebuffs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[child]]></category><category><![CDATA[rape]]></category><category><![CDATA[case]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Court won't revisit child rape execution case ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100101221.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/10/01/AR2008100101221.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:07:08 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court rejected on Wednesday a request by Louisiana and the Bush administration to revisit its recent ruling that outlawed the death penalty for those convicted of raping a child. ]]></description><dc:creator>James Vicini</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[won't]]></category><category><![CDATA[revisit]]></category><category><![CDATA[child]]></category><category><![CDATA[rape]]></category><category><![CDATA[execution]]></category><category><![CDATA[case]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Today on the presidential campaign trail ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092900090.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092900090.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 02:14:24 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ -- IN THE HEADLINES McCain says race for presidency comes down to 'country first or Obama first' ... Obama says McCain-backed deregulation helped create economic mess ... Palin says her comment about Pakistan was in response to a 'gotcha' question from a voter<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023825827" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023825827" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>The Associated Press</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Today]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[presidential]]></category><category><![CDATA[campaign]]></category><category><![CDATA[trail]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ State, federal courts uphold early voting in Ohio ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092900415.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/29/AR2008092900415.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 18:07:06 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ COLUMBUS, Ohio -- State and federal courts cleared the way Monday for a weeklong period in which new voters can register and cast an absentee ballot on the same day in Ohio, a defeat for Republicans who challenged it. ]]></description><dc:creator>STEPHEN MAJORS</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[State,]]></category><category><![CDATA[federal]]></category><category><![CDATA[courts]]></category><category><![CDATA[uphold]]></category><category><![CDATA[early]]></category><category><![CDATA[voting]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Outlook: In Roe's Reversal, a Trap ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/09/26/DI2008092602714.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/09/26/DI2008092602714.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Feminist author Linda Hirshman, author of "Get to Work: A Manifesto for Women of the World," will be online Monday, Sept. 29, noon ET to discuss her Outlook article about the restrictions states may place on abortions and women seeking them if Roe v. Wade is overturned. ]]></description><dc:creator>Linda Hirshman</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Outlook:]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Roe's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reversal,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trap]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Conservative judges fault Scalia opinion on guns ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092701220.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/27/AR2008092701220.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 09:39:55 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is no stranger to criticism. He gives as good as he gets. ]]></description><dc:creator>MARK SHERMAN</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Conservative]]></category><category><![CDATA[judges]]></category><category><![CDATA[fault]]></category><category><![CDATA[Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[opinion]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[guns]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ After Va.'s Losses In Court, a Flurry Of Finger-Pointing ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903712.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903712.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Supreme Court's rejection of an anti-spam law is the state's latest high-profile legal defeat, a string of losses that some lawyers see as coincidental but others say reflects the General Assembly's willingness to pass aggressive measures that are more likely to face a constitutional...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023829723" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023829723" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Jerry Markon</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[After]]></category><category><![CDATA[Va.'s]]></category><category><![CDATA[Losses]]></category><category><![CDATA[In]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court,]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Flurry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finger-Pointing]]></category><category><![CDATA[David B. Albo]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry W. Kilgore]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gordon Hickey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob McDonnell (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charlottesville]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremy Jaynes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert O'Neil]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Broaddus]]></category><category><![CDATA[William C. Mims]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anita Kumar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia General Assembly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Limit on Gun Law Passes; Senate Vote Unlikely ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091701314.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/17/AR2008091701314.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly yesterday to legalize semiautomatic rifles in the District and repeal its gun registration laws, but the bill's future appeared in doubt as a prominent senator announced she would try to block it. ]]></description><dc:creator>Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Limit]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[Passes;]]></category><category><![CDATA[Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vote]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unlikely]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eleanor Holmes Norton]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Rifle Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Perino]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Manley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kay Bailey Hutchison]]></category><category><![CDATA[Travis Childers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vincent Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wayne Gilchrest]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ U.S. House, D.C. Council Wrestle Over Gun Control ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091602223.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/16/AR2008091602223.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The struggle to regulate guns in the District in light of a historic U.S. Supreme Court ruling sparked competing legislative efforts yesterday as members of Congress debated taking control of the issue and the D.C. Council implored them to leave it in local hands. ]]></description><dc:creator>Paul Duggan and Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[U.S.]]></category><category><![CDATA[House,]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wrestle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Control]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carol Schwartz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pete Sessions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vincent Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Rifle Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eleanor Holmes Norton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jose Serrano]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Weil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary M. Cheh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Travis Childers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ D.C. Legislation Would Remove More Gun Limits ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091203642.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091203642.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ D.C. officials, coping with a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that threw out the city's handgun ban, have drafted legislation that would do away with several remaining firearms restrictions, including safe-storage requirements and a provision that bars ownership of semiautomatic pistols. ]]></description><dc:creator>Paul Duggan and Mary Beth Sheridan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Legislation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Would]]></category><category><![CDATA[Remove]]></category><category><![CDATA[More]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Limits]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Reid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Helmke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter J. Nickles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian McNicoll]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris W. Cox]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Dingell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marion Barry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Mendelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter E. Washington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Committee on Public Safety]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Rifle Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. House of Representatives]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unlike Congress]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Va. Ban On Spam Is Ruled Unlawful ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091201211.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091201211.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Virginia Supreme Court yesterday ruled that the state's anti-spam law, designed to prevent the sending of masses of unwanted e-mail, violates the First Amendment right to freedom of speech.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023834030" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023834030" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Tom Jackman</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ban]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruled]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unlawful]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremy Jaynes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Praed]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loudoun County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Thompson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gettysburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas M. Wolf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[AOL LLC]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob McDonnell (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexander Hamilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[G. Steven Agee]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Madison]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Jay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kate Dean]]></category><category><![CDATA[Raleigh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rodney A. Smolla]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Express Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Internet Law Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Spamhaus Project Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Internet Service Providers Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Verizon Communications Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington and Lee University School of Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Potomac Confidential ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/09/04/DI2008090402403.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/09/04/DI2008090402403.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Potomac Confidential fills the midday lull with discussion by Metro columnist Marc Fisher who looks at the latest news with a rigorous slicing and dicing of the issues that define who we are and where we live. ]]></description><dc:creator>Marc Fisher</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Potomac]]></category><category><![CDATA[Confidential]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Court Seeks Briefs on Rehearing Capital Case ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090802646.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/08/AR2008090802646.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court yesterday ordered briefs on the question of whether it should reconsider its June decision that it is unconstitutional to impose the death penalty on those who rape children. ]]></description><dc:creator>Robert Barnes</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seeks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Briefs]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rehearing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capital]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[Louisiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick O. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dwight Sullivan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gregory G. Garre]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Bhutto's Widower Elected Pakistani President ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/06/AR2008090600354.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/06/AR2008090600354.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 6 -- Pakistan's lawmakers on Saturday elected Asif Ali Zardari, widower of slain former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, to take over the country's presidency amid political and economic turmoil and fears of a strengthening Taliban insurgency. ]]></description><dc:creator>Candace Rondeaux</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Bhutto's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Widower]]></category><category><![CDATA[Elected]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistani]]></category><category><![CDATA[President]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asif Ali Zardari]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pervez Musharraf]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benazir Bhutto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Islamabad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zahid Mushtaq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan Peoples Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gordon Johndroe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nawaz Sharif]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peshawar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shaiq Hussain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yousaf Raza]]></category><category><![CDATA[Taliban Movement of Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House National Security Council]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Pakistan's Zardari, Once on the Sidelines, Eyes Presidency ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403445.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403445.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Sept. 4 -- Two decades ago, Asif Ali Zardari was virtually unknown in the high-flying political circles in which his new wife, Benazir Bhutto, traveled.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023837355" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023837355" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Candace Rondeaux</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Pakistan's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zardari,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Once]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sidelines,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eyes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Presidency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asif Ali Zardari]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pervez Musharraf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nawaz Sharif]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benazir Bhutto]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui]]></category><category><![CDATA[Military Intelligence Bureau]]></category><category><![CDATA[Farah Ispahani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Financial Times Ltd.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamid Gul]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ijaz Shah]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lally Weymouth]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mushahid Hussain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Newsweek Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan Peoples Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rawalpindi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Switzerland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Talat Masood]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[United Kingdom]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yousaf Raza Gilani]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Northern Underexposure ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083101618.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/31/AR2008083101618.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Gustav isn't the only storm threatening to overshadow the convention this week.   ]]></description><dc:creator>E. J. Dionne Jr.</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Northern]]></category><category><![CDATA[Underexposure]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harriet Miers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Buchanan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican National Convention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandra Day O'Connor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Pawlenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ November Ballots Include Abortion Issues ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/29/AR2008082903142.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/29/AR2008082903142.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A ballot initiative on abortion in South Dakota this November could lead to a series of court challenges and ultimately to the Supreme Court overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion nationwide, antiabortion activists say. ]]></description><dc:creator>Holly Watt</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[November]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ballots]]></category><category><![CDATA[Include]]></category><category><![CDATA[Abortion]]></category><category><![CDATA[Issues]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[South Dakota]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Planned Parenthood Federation of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grace Dulaney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris Cassidy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harold J. Cassidy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crystal Clinkenbeard]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathy Kneer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leslee Unruh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sarah Palin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[NARAL Pro-Choice America Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[VoteYesForLife.com]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Sniper Judge Takes Seat on Virginia Supreme Court ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082700037.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/27/AR2008082700037.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 28 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The judge who presided over one of the Washington area sniper trials will now be making decisions that affect people throughout Northern Virginia. ]]></description><dc:creator>Jerry Markon</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Sniper]]></category><category><![CDATA[Judge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Takes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seat]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[F. Millette Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northern Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[David B. Albo]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Allen Muhammad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Wayne Bobbitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alexandria]]></category><category><![CDATA[Carl Tobias]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fairfax County]]></category><category><![CDATA[LeRoy (Minnesota)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barbara Milano Keenan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gordon Hickey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lorena Bobbitt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia General Assembly]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Dulles International Airport]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Governing Coalition Collapses in Pakistan ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082500173.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/25/AR2008082500173.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 25 -- Pakistan's ruling coalition broke apart Monday amid a political battle over the presidency, paralyzing the U.S.-backed government at a time when Taliban insurgents here and in neighboring Afghanistan appear to be gaining ground.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023839695" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023839695" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Candace Rondeaux</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Governing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Coalition]]></category><category><![CDATA[Collapses]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nawaz Sharif]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asif Ali Zardari]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pervez Musharraf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benazir Bhutto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mushahid Hussain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geneva]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan Peoples Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistani Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel Zappelli]]></category><category><![CDATA[Islamabad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Saverio Lembo]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistani Senate's Committee on Foreign Relations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Switzerland]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Armed Forces]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Musharraf Exits, but Uncertainty Remains ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/18/AR2008081800418.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/18/AR2008081800418.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ ISLAMABAD, Pakistan, Aug. 18 -- Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf's resignation Monday signaled the beginning of a new round of political uncertainty as the country's civilian government tries to reshape the legacy of nearly nine years of military rule. ]]></description><dc:creator>Candace Rondeaux</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Musharraf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exits,]]></category><category><![CDATA[but]]></category><category><![CDATA[Uncertainty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Remains]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pervez Musharraf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan Peoples Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asif Ali Zardari]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benazir Bhutto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Muhammadmian Soomro]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Islamabad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ahmed Rashid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nawaz Sharif]]></category><category><![CDATA[India]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid]]></category><category><![CDATA[Faryal Talpur]]></category><category><![CDATA[Farzana Raja]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fehmida Mirza]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Karachi]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Delhi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shazia Hassan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan Military Academy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan's Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Persian Gulf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Shaiq Hussein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court Bar Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dubai]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jammu and Kashmir]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Key Constituency Is at Play At Candidates' Faith Forum ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/16/AR2008081602322.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/16/AR2008081602322.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ LAKE FOREST, Calif., Aug. 16 -- Barack Obama and John McCain made their first joint appearance of the general election Saturday night, breaking away from the debates over national security and the economy that have dominated the campaign in recent weeks to court evangelical voters at an Orange... ]]></description><dc:creator>Shailagh Murray and Perry Bacon Jr.</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Key]]></category><category><![CDATA[Constituency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Play]]></category><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[Candidates']]></category><category><![CDATA[Faith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Forum]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Warren]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jesus Christ]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Perkins]]></category><category><![CDATA[Orange County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cleveland]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Petraeus]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeremiah Wright]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jerry Falwell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joel Hunter]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Meg Whitman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Huckabee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitt Romney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pat Robertson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sam Brownback]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sam Nunn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Coburn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tom Ridge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic National Committee]]></category><category><![CDATA[eBay Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Family Research Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iraq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Trinity United Church of Christ]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vietnam]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arkansas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oklahoma]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ D.C. Is Sued Again Over Handgun Rules ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/28/AR2008072801357.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/28/AR2008072801357.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The man who successfully challenged the D.C. handgun ban before the U.S. Supreme Court filed a second federal lawsuit yesterday, alleging that the District's new gun-registration system is burdensome and continues to unlawfully outlaw most semiautomatic pistols. ]]></description><dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber and Paul Duggan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sued]]></category><category><![CDATA[Again]]></category><category><![CDATA[Over]]></category><category><![CDATA[Handgun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick A. Heller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Nickles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Mendelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amy McVey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen P. Halbrook]]></category><category><![CDATA[Absalom F. Jordan Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard M. Urbina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Committee on Public Safety]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Lawsuit Claims Gun Rules Violate Supreme Court Ruling ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/28/AR2008072801157.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/28/AR2008072801157.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jul 2008 12:37:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The man who successfully challenged the D.C. handgun ban before the Supreme Court filed a new federal lawsuit this morning, alleging that the District's new gun regulations are unlawful and burdensome.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023841728" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023841728" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Del Quentin Wilber</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Lawsuit]]></category><category><![CDATA[Claims]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules]]></category><category><![CDATA[Violate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruling]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Warner vs. Gilmore and a Pocketful of Blogs ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202638.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/22/AR2008072202638.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ This week's Notebook is a compilation of items from The Washington Post's "Virginia Politics" blog. To get your fix of Virginia politics throughout the week, check out http://blog.washingtonpost.com/virginiapolitics or http://washingtonpost.com/vablog . ]]></description><dc:creator>Tim Craig</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[vs.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[and]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pocketful]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blogs]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brian J. Moran]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mike Hodge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Craig]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anita Kumar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey M. Frederick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Gilmore]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Linwood Norman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richmond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Democratic Caucus]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blair Underwood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob Lewis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob McDonnell (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Webb]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jody W. Wagner]]></category><category><![CDATA[John H. Chichester Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julian Bond]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kristen Mack]]></category><category><![CDATA[L. Douglas Wilder]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lionell Spruill Sr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nikki Giovanni]]></category><category><![CDATA[R. Creigh Deeds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russell County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Beach]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Howell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Republican Party of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Marine Corps]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Secret Service]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Some Legal Activists Have Hearts Set on 'True Liberal' ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/19/AR2008071901825.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/19/AR2008071901825.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ It could be seen as the sincerest form of flattery: Ask some activists on the left the kind of Supreme Court justice they would like to see a President Obama appoint, and the name you hear most is the same justice they most often denounce. ]]></description><dc:creator>Robert Barnes and Kevin Merida</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Some]]></category><category><![CDATA[Legal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Activists]]></category><category><![CDATA[Have]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hearts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Set]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA['True]]></category><category><![CDATA[Liberal']]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hillary Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lani Guinier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Doug Kendall]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geoffrey Stone]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bill Clinton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cass Sunstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Christopher L. Eisgruber]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dawn Johnsen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deval Patrick]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dwight D. Eisenhower]]></category><category><![CDATA[Earl Warren]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard H. Baker Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Andrew Miller]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Podesta]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alice Crites]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Constitution Society]]></category><category><![CDATA[Center for American Progress]]></category><category><![CDATA[Constitutional Accountability Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna Lebling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mount Olympus]]></category><category><![CDATA[Princeton University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Gun Registrations Off To Slow Start in D.C. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071700621.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/17/AR2008071700621.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Thirty-two years after banning most D.C. residents from possessing handguns, the District government opened its doors yesterday to applicants seeking permission to own revolvers, bowing to a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that declared the city's tough firearms restrictions unconstitutional. ]]></description><dc:creator>Paul Duggan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Registrations]]></category><category><![CDATA[Off]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slow]]></category><category><![CDATA[Start]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dane von Breichenruchardt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick A. Heller]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cathy Lanier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jon Shelton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sindya N. Bhanoo]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ D.C. Tries to Finesse Gun Ruling ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602491.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602491.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Mayor Adrian Fenty and his feisty attorney general, Peter Nickles, stood on the steps of the Wilson Building this week ostensibly to announce how the District will comply with the Supreme Court's rejection of Washington's ban on handguns. But really, they were delivering very much the opposite me...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023844107" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023844107" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Marc Fisher</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tries]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finesse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Nickles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wilson Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cathy Lanier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ EPA Seeks Comment on Emissions Rules, Then Discredits Effort ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071101703.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/11/AR2008071101703.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration yesterday unveiled but immediately disparaged a proposal to seek public comment on whether the government should regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act, declaring at the outset that the proposed approach would be unworkable. ]]></description><dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seeks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Comment]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emissions]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rules,]]></category><category><![CDATA[Then]]></category><category><![CDATA[Discredits]]></category><category><![CDATA[Effort]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dana Perino]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Walke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan E. Dudley]]></category><category><![CDATA[William L. Kovacs]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Warner]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Lieberman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Natural Resources Defense Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Office of Management and Budget]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ EPA Won't Act on Emissions This Year ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071003087.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071003087.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Bush administration has decided not to take any new steps to regulate greenhouse gas emissions before the president leaves office, despite pressure from the Supreme Court and broad accord among senior federal officials that new regulation is appropriate now. ]]></description><dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin and R. Jeffrey Smith</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Won't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Act]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emissions]]></category><category><![CDATA[This]]></category><category><![CDATA[Year]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Cheney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ed Markey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jason Burnett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey A. Rosen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Susan Dudley]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Economic Council]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Shradar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tony Fratto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Career EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cato Institute]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council on Environmental Quality]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ford Motor Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Julie Tate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Madonna Lebling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Microsoft PowerPoint]]></category><category><![CDATA[Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Washington Post Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Office of Management and Budget]]></category><category><![CDATA[White House Council on Environmental Quality]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Massachusetts]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Pakistani Lawyer At Helm of Change ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002661.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/10/AR2008071002661.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Leading a motorcade marathon from Islamabad to Lahore in May last year, lawyer Aitzaz Ahsan threaded his way gingerly through throngs of impassioned Pakistanis lining the road in the 110-degree heat. At the climax of his campaign to get the country's suspended Supreme Court chief justice reinstated,... ]]></description><dc:creator>Nora Boustany</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Pakistani]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lawyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[At]]></category><category><![CDATA[Helm]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Change]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pervez Musharraf]]></category><category><![CDATA[Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Islamabad]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kerry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Biden]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lahore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amartya Sen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Asif Ali Zardari]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benazir Bhutto]]></category><category><![CDATA[Garry Kasparov]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Tierney]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mahatma Gandhi]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mario Vargas Llosa]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nawaz Sharif]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nita Lowey]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russell Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zaffar Iqbal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Zia ul-Haq]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amnesty International]]></category><category><![CDATA[Association of Physicians]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[Foreign Policy Magazine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mitsubishi Pajero]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistani Armed Forces]]></category><category><![CDATA[North America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ McCain Courts Public Opinion ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/07/01/BL2008070101641.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/07/01/BL2008070101641.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 15:11:20 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Sen. John McCain took up the cause of conservative judges this morning, announcing at a meeting of the National Sherriff's Association that if elected, he would appoint justices who mirror the views of Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts and Justice Antonin Scalia. His attention to the issue...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023845861" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023845861" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Behind the Numbers</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Courts]]></category><category><![CDATA[Public]]></category><category><![CDATA[Opinion]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Killer Ideas For Selling Guns in D.C. ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802907.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802907.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Now that District residents can legally keep handguns, prospective gun dealers will need creative ways to target them. Based on my survey of gun shops nationwide, I suggest they start with a catchy name. ]]></description><dc:creator>Courtland Milloy</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Killer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ideas]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Selling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grenada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Wisconsin]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bloomington]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bristol (Pennsylvania)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Crispus Attucks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gold N Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guns N Stuff]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hamilton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indianapolis]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inglewood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kailua]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nat Turner]]></category><category><![CDATA[New London]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oak Lawn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gun Reserve]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hawaii]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Free This Detainee ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802463.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/08/AR2008070802463.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Meet Huzaifa Parhat, a man without a country, a Guantanamo detainee without recourse. ]]></description><dc:creator>Ruth Marcus</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Free]]></category><category><![CDATA[This]]></category><category><![CDATA[Detainee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Qaeda]]></category><category><![CDATA[China]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lewis Carroll]]></category><category><![CDATA[East Turkestan Islamic Movement]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Taliban]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Sentelle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sabin Willett]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Griffith]]></category><category><![CDATA[Afghanistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pakistan]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Department of State]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ EPA Enforcement Is Faulted ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702418.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702418.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ An official administration guidance document on wetlands policy is undermining enforcement of the Clean Water Act, said a March 4 memo written by the Environmental Protection Agency's chief enforcement officer. ]]></description><dc:creator>Juliet Eilperin</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[EPA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Enforcement]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Faulted]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Environmental Protection Agency]]></category><category><![CDATA[Granta Y. Nakayama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Benjamin Grumbles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Eric Schaeffer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Henry Waxman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jim Oberstar]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jonathan Shradar]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert B. Propst]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen L. Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greenpeace International]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Army Corps of Engineers]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Court Nominee Accused of Plagiarism Won't Withdraw ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702342.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/07/AR2008070702342.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ A nominee for a federal judgeship who has been accused of plagiarism said yesterday that he will not withdraw his nomination because he fully disclosed the controversy to both White House officials and the FBI during interviews for the job.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023848553" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023848553" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Carrie Johnson and Del Quentin Wilber</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nominee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Accused]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Plagiarism]]></category><category><![CDATA[Won't]]></category><category><![CDATA[Withdraw]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael O'Neill]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arlen Specter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Daniel D. Polsby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Bureau of Investigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[David B. Sentelle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Emily Lawrimore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Erica Chabot]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fred Fielding]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Bar Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brigham Young University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Mason University]]></category><category><![CDATA[The New York Times Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Sentencing Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yale Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Decider on the High Court ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402090.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/04/AR2008070402090.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The most dramatic stories in any field of competitive endeavor are those that recount events that almost never happened. It's the scoreless ballgames that end with a walk-off homer in the bottom of the ninth that linger in the psyches of winners and losers -- not the 9-3 walkovers. ]]></description><dc:creator>David S. Broder</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Decider]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Douglas Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Bork]]></category><category><![CDATA[The White House]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Edwin Meese]]></category><category><![CDATA[George H.W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gerald Ford]]></category><category><![CDATA[Howard Baker]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lee Epstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lewis F. Powell]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sacramento]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandra Day O'Connor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category><category><![CDATA[Florida]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Hampshire]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Altering the Economics of Civil Litigation ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303239.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303239.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ No doubt they were throwing back double vodkas at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce last week following the Supreme Court's decision to cut the punitive damages in the Exxon Valdez oil spill to a week's worth of Exxon Mobil's profits. ]]></description><dc:creator>Steven Pearlstein</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Altering]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category><category><![CDATA[of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Civil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Litigation]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exxon Valdez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Melvyn Weiss]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Scruggs]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Chamber of Commerce]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Lerach]]></category><category><![CDATA[Airbus SAS]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Association for Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Association of Trial Lawyers of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Boeing Company]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exxon Shipping Co.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Institute for Legal Reform]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Chamber Litigation Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Northrop Grumman Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven Pearlstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Government Accountability Office]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ D.C. Council, School Leaders Differ on Funds ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070101950.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/01/AR2008070101950.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ D.C. Council members balked at pressure from school officials to reprogram $83 million for building repairs that the officials say are needed before classes resume on Aug. 25. Instead, the council authorized less than half of that amount, with Council Chairman Vincent C. Gray saying that a hearin... ]]></description><dc:creator>Nikita Stewart</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council,]]></category><category><![CDATA[School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Leaders]]></category><category><![CDATA[Differ]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Funds]]></category><category><![CDATA[Phil Mendelson]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mary M. Cheh]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Nickles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vincent Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Major League Baseball]]></category><category><![CDATA[National League (Baseball)]]></category><category><![CDATA[NL East Division]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington Nationals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Council of the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harry Thomas Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[John A. Wilson Building]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nationals Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Delaware]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Court vs. Voters ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001900.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063001900.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Is control of the Supreme Court the last best hope for the conservative movement?<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023851041" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023851041" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>E. J. Dionne Jr.</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[vs.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Voters]]></category><category><![CDATA[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adolf Hitler]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey Rosen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Alsop]]></category><category><![CDATA[Turner Catledge]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Republic Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Post-Russert Era ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063000222.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/30/AR2008063000222.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 09:26:11 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Scratch the surface of all those glittering tributes for Tim Russert and you might find an undercoating of journalistic insecurity. ]]></description><dc:creator>Howard Kurtz</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Post-Russert]]></category><category><![CDATA[Era]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Death Penalty Puzzle ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901476.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901476.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ How the Supreme Court misread our research on the effects of capital punishment. ]]></description><dc:creator>Cass R. Sunstein and Justin Wolfers</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Death]]></category><category><![CDATA[Penalty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Puzzle]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cass Sunstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Vermeule]]></category><category><![CDATA[Justin Wolfers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Donohue]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Felix Frankfurter]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Canada]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard Law School]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Obama's Dodge on Handguns ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901478.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/29/AR2008062901478.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ How the Supreme Court's reversal of D.C.'s gun ban complicates Obama's campaign. ]]></description><dc:creator>Robert D. Novak</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Obama's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dodge]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Handguns]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Rifle Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Al Gore]]></category><category><![CDATA[Pennsylvania]]></category><category><![CDATA[West Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Milwaukee]]></category><category><![CDATA[Philadelphia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Dellinger]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Public Radio Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[The Associated Press]]></category><category><![CDATA[Creators Syndicate Inc.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ohio]]></category><category><![CDATA[Silicon Valley]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ A Win by McCain Could Push a Split Court to Right ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/28/AR2008062802078.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/28/AR2008062802078.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ For much of its term, the Supreme Court muted last year's noisy dissents, warmed to Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.'s vision of narrow, incremental decisions and continued a slow but hardly steady move to the right.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023854734" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023854734" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Robert Barnes</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[A]]></category><category><![CDATA[Win]]></category><category><![CDATA[by]]></category><category><![CDATA[McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Could]]></category><category><![CDATA[Push]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Split]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Right]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sandra Day O'Connor]]></category><category><![CDATA[William H. Rehnquist]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles J. Cooper]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey L. Fisher]]></category><category><![CDATA[R. Ted Cruz]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ronald Reagan]]></category><category><![CDATA[Steven R. Shapiro]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Civil Liberties Union]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Colombia's President Seeks Referendum on Disputed '06 Reelection ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062700345.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/27/AR2008062700345.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Colombia's Supreme Court on Thursday questioned the legitimacy of President Álvaro Uribe's reelection in 2006, prompting Uribe to call on Congress to enable a new presidential election that could ultimately extend his stay in office. ]]></description><dc:creator>Juan Forero</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Colombia's]]></category><category><![CDATA[President]]></category><category><![CDATA[Seeks]]></category><category><![CDATA[Referendum]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Disputed]]></category><category><![CDATA['06]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reelection]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alvaro Uribe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mario Uribe]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colombia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Yidis Medina]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alberto Fujimori]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bogota]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Schneider]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Shifter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Colombia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Belgium]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inter-American Dialogue]]></category><category><![CDATA[International Crisis Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peru]]></category><category><![CDATA[Polo Democratic Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Excerpts From the Opinions ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603963.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603963.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Writing for the majority "The handgun ban amounts to a prohibition of an entire class of 'arms' that is overwhelmingly chosen by American society for that lawful purpose. The prohibition extends, moreover, to the home, where the need for defense of self, family, and property is most acute. Under any... ]]></description><dc:creator>Post</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Excerpts]]></category><category><![CDATA[From]]></category><category><![CDATA[the]]></category><category><![CDATA[Opinions]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Historic Decision Renews Old Debate ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062604247.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062604247.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With yesterday's decision, the Supreme Court pushed the gun issue back to the forefront of the nation's agenda, opening a new chapter in what has been one of the most contentious and divisive debates in American politics for the past four decades. ]]></description><dc:creator>Dan Balz and Keith B. Richburg</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Historic]]></category><category><![CDATA[Decision]]></category><category><![CDATA[Renews]]></category><category><![CDATA[Old]]></category><category><![CDATA[Debate]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Rifle Association]]></category><category><![CDATA[Michael Bloomberg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alex Castellanos]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chris W. Cox]]></category><category><![CDATA[David Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dianne Feinstein]]></category><category><![CDATA[District Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Geoffrey Garin]]></category><category><![CDATA[George Moscone]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Feinblatt]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mark Mellman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Martin Luther King Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Neil Newhouse]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nicholas Johnson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Helmke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard Daley]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert F. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[San Francisco]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbia University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Columbine High School]]></category><category><![CDATA[Fordham University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Republican Party]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Colorado]]></category><category><![CDATA[Nevada]]></category><category><![CDATA[New Mexico]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The Supremes Make a Mean 'To Duel' List ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062604129.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062604129.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Justice Antonin Scalia was the first to pull out the dueling words:<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023857933" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023857933" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Monica Hesse</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supremes]]></category><category><![CDATA[Make]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mean]]></category><category><![CDATA['To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Duel']]></category><category><![CDATA[List]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bladensburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Charles Lucas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Decatur]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Barron]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[District Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen G. Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Thomas Hart Benton]]></category><category><![CDATA[Burger King Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maryland]]></category><category><![CDATA[Missouri]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ D.C. Government Faces a New Reality ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603988.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603988.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Thirty-two years after enacting the nation's toughest restrictions on firearms ownership, the D.C. government suddenly faces a new reality, forced by the U.S. Supreme Court to draft regulations that will permit city residents to keep weapons, including handguns, readily available in their homes. ]]></description><dc:creator>Paul Duggan and David Nakamura</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Government]]></category><category><![CDATA[Faces]]></category><category><![CDATA[a]]></category><category><![CDATA[New]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reality]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Adrian Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cathy Lanier]]></category><category><![CDATA[Vincent Gray]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick A. Heller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Georgetown]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gillian St. Lawrence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Marion Barry]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Helmke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Peter Nickles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Capitol Hill]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ The D.C. Handgun Ruling ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603655.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603655.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Conservative justices have again furthered the agenda of the political right. ]]></description><dc:creator>E. J. Dionne Jr.</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[The]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Handgun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruling]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Helmke]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen G. Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guantanamo Bay]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ McCain's Day Of Repudiation ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603651.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062603651.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court helped Obama and hurt McCain yesterday. ]]></description><dc:creator>George F. Will</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[McCain's]]></category><category><![CDATA[Day]]></category><category><![CDATA[Of]]></category><category><![CDATA[Repudiation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arctic National Wildlife Refuge]]></category><category><![CDATA[Grand Canyon National Park]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ High Court Deals Blow To Campaign Finance Law ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062601414.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062601414.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court dealt another blow yesterday to the landmark 2002 campaign finance law crafted by Sens. John McCain and Russell Feingold, declaring unconstitutional a provision that eased fundraising restrictions for political candidates running against wealthy opponents who were bankrolling their...<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023904289" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023904289" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Matthew Mosk and Robert Barnes</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Deals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Blow]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Law]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jack Davis]]></category><category><![CDATA[James Bopp Jr.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Paul Clement]]></category><category><![CDATA[Federal Election Commission]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[Valeo Group]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rick Hasen]]></category><category><![CDATA[Russ Feingold]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanley Brand]]></category><category><![CDATA[Loyola Marymount University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Indiana]]></category><category><![CDATA[Maine]]></category><category><![CDATA[North Carolina]]></category><category><![CDATA[New York]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Justices Reject D.C. Ban On Handgun Ownership ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062600615.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062600615.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court struck down the District of Columbia's ban on handgun possession yesterday and decided for the first time in the nation's history that the Second Amendment guarantees an individual's right to own a gun for self-defense. ]]></description><dc:creator>Robert Barnes</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Justices]]></category><category><![CDATA[Reject]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ban]]></category><category><![CDATA[On]]></category><category><![CDATA[Handgun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ownership]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen G. Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick Heller]]></category><category><![CDATA[George W. Bush]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Barack Obama]]></category><category><![CDATA[Chicago]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[David H. Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[District Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Felix Frankfurter]]></category><category><![CDATA[John McCain]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Levy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Harvard University]]></category><category><![CDATA[Arizona]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Supreme Court Rejects Controversial Campaign Finance Provision ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/06/26/BL2008062602759.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/06/26/BL2008062602759.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 17:11:03 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Debbie Wilgoren and Robert Barnes report online: The Supreme Court today narrowly overturned a controversial provision of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance legislation, ruling that it is unconstitutional to allow candidates to accept larger-than-normal contributions if their opponents use their... ]]></description><dc:creator>The Trail</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Supreme]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rejects]]></category><category><![CDATA[Controversial]]></category><category><![CDATA[Campaign]]></category><category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category><category><![CDATA[Provision]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Fenty Expresses Dismay at Ruling on Guns ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062601779.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/26/AR2008062601779.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:42:58 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ D.C. Mayor Adrian M. Fenty expressed disappointment today with the Supreme Court's decision striking down the city's gun law, warning that, "More handguns will lead to more handgun violence." ]]></description><dc:creator>David Nakamura and Paul Duggan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Fenty]]></category><category><![CDATA[Expresses]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dismay]]></category><category><![CDATA[at]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruling]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[Guns]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Supreme Court Decision on D.C. Handgun Ban ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/06/25/DI2008062500794.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/06/25/DI2008062500794.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ University of Texas law professor Sanford Levinson discusses the the Supreme Court's decision in the case of District of Columbia v. Heller.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023908029" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023908029" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Sanford Levinson</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Supreme]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Decision]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Handgun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ban]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Candidates React: D.C. Gun Ban Struck Down ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/06/26/BL2008062601650.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/06/26/BL2008062601650.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:41:05 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Gun rights activists Ariel Sarousi (2nd L) Craig Burgers and Steve Bierfeld (R) of Arlington, Va., react to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on the District of Columbia's gun ban, June 26, 2008 in Washington, D.C. (Getty Images) Updated 12:18 p.m. In reaction to the Supreme Court's decision to... ]]></description><dc:creator>The Trail</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Candidates]]></category><category><![CDATA[React:]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Struck]]></category><category><![CDATA[Down]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Potomac Confidential ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/06/20/DI2008062001987.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/06/20/DI2008062001987.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Potomac Confidential fills the midday lull with discussion by Metro columnist Marc Fisher who looks at the latest news with a rigorous slicing and dicing of the issues that define who we are and where we live. ]]></description><dc:creator>Marc Fisher</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Potomac]]></category><category><![CDATA[Confidential]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Post Politics Hour ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/06/21/DI2008062101393.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/06/21/DI2008062101393.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Washington Post national political reporter Alec MacGillis discusses the latest buzz in Washington and The Post's coverage of political news. ]]></description><dc:creator>Alec MacGillis</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Post]]></category><category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category><category><![CDATA[Hour]]></category><category><![CDATA[]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Va. Inmate Executed For Killing Store Clerk ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062501754.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062501754.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Convicted killer Robert Stacy Yarbrough was put to death last night for nearly beheading a convenience store clerk in 1997. He was the 100th inmate executed in Virginia since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated capital punishment in 1976.<br clear="all"><a href="http://ad.doubleclick.net/jump/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023913626" target="_blank"><img src="http://ad.doubleclick.net/ad/wpni.rss/nation/special/1;pos=ad9;tile=9;ad=rss;sz=479x40;ord=411023913626" border="0" vspace="5"></a> ]]></description><dc:creator>Jerry Markon</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Va.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Inmate]]></category><category><![CDATA[Executed]]></category><category><![CDATA[For]]></category><category><![CDATA[Killing]]></category><category><![CDATA[Store]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clerk]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robert Stacy Yarbrough]]></category><category><![CDATA[Cyril Hugh Hamby]]></category><category><![CDATA[Tim Kaine]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Larry Traylor]]></category><category><![CDATA[Percy L. Walton]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Mecklenburg County]]></category><category><![CDATA[Bob McDonnell (Politician)]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kevin Green]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amnesty International USA]]></category><category><![CDATA[Greensville Correctional Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Supreme Court of Virginia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. District Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[United States]]></category><category><![CDATA[Virginia Department of Corrections]]></category><category><![CDATA[Texas]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Right to Face Accusers Is Affirmed in Unusual Case ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062502614.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062502614.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ The Supreme Court yesterday threw out the conviction of a man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend because the defendant could not challenge an incriminating account she gave the police weeks before her death. ]]></description><dc:creator>Carrie Johnson</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Right]]></category><category><![CDATA[to]]></category><category><![CDATA[Face]]></category><category><![CDATA[Accusers]]></category><category><![CDATA[Is]]></category><category><![CDATA[Affirmed]]></category><category><![CDATA[in]]></category><category><![CDATA[Unusual]]></category><category><![CDATA[Case]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dwayne Giles]]></category><category><![CDATA[Brenda Avie]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Richard D. Friedman]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen G. Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[David H. Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[California Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[Family Violence Prevention Fund]]></category><category><![CDATA[University of Michigan]]></category><category><![CDATA[California]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ Justices Slash Damages for Exxon Oil Spill ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062500663.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062500663.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ Nearly two decades of legal battles over the Exxon Valdez oil spill came to an end yesterday when the Supreme Court slashed the punitive damages imposed against Exxon Mobil from $2.5 billion to $500 million. ]]></description><dc:creator>Robert Barnes</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[Justices]]></category><category><![CDATA[Slash]]></category><category><![CDATA[Damages]]></category><category><![CDATA[for]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exxon]]></category><category><![CDATA[Oil]]></category><category><![CDATA[Spill]]></category><category><![CDATA[David H. Souter]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exxon Mobil Corporation]]></category><category><![CDATA[Alaska]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Paul Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Joseph Hazelwood]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruth Bader Ginsburg]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ted Stevens]]></category><category><![CDATA[Walter Dellinger]]></category><category><![CDATA[Exxon Valdez]]></category><category><![CDATA[Prince William Sound]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CDATA[Amar Sarwal]]></category><category><![CDATA[Anthony M. Kennedy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Antonin Scalia]]></category><category><![CDATA[Clarence Thomas]]></category><category><![CDATA[Don Young]]></category><category><![CDATA[Jeffrey L. Fisher]]></category><category><![CDATA[John Roberts (Chief Justice)]]></category><category><![CDATA[Kathleen Flynn Peterson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Lisa Murkowski]]></category><category><![CDATA[Patrick Leahy]]></category><category><![CDATA[Rex Tillerson]]></category><category><![CDATA[Robin Conrad]]></category><category><![CDATA[Samuel Alito]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stephen G. Breyer]]></category><category><![CDATA[Valdez]]></category><category><![CDATA[William Branigin]]></category><category><![CDATA[American Association for Justice]]></category><category><![CDATA[Association of Trial Lawyers of America]]></category><category><![CDATA[National Chamber Litigation Center]]></category><category><![CDATA[Stanford University]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary]]></category><category><![CDATA[North America]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category></item>
<item><title><![CDATA[ High Court To Announce Ruling on D.C. Gun Ban ]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062502712.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/25/AR2008062502712.html?nav=rss_nation/special/1</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ With its term coming to an end, the U.S. Supreme Court this morning is expected to issue its ruling on the District's handgun-ownership ban in a case that could result in a landmark interpretation of the Second Amendment. ]]></description><dc:creator>Paul Duggan</dc:creator><category><![CDATA[High]]></category><category><![CDATA[Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[To]]></category><category><![CDATA[Announce]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ruling]]></category><category><![CDATA[on]]></category><category><![CDATA[D.C.]]></category><category><![CDATA[Gun]]></category><category><![CDATA[Ban]]></category><category><![CDATA[Dick A. Heller]]></category><category><![CDATA[Washington, DC]]></category><category><![CDATA[District Columbia]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court]]></category><category><![CDATA[U.S. Court of Appeals]]></category><category><![CD