From his house, a wooden outline marks the spot where harris was found. Ricky harris took us there. Harris police told us to mark the area, so we did. Off camera harris grandson said his grandfather died in a spot that he loved the farm where he had spent so much of his life. He grew up in evergreen, the son of a sharecropper. When his father died, he took up the farming himself as a way to support the remaining family. Juanita milstead sister he stayed there and worked the farm so my mother would have a place to live until the siblings were all grown. Evergreen is where he spent the rest of his life. When he wasnt on the farm, he was serving at a nearby church thats damaged but Still Standing following the tornado. Milstead he was a good christian man. That was the main thing. He loved his lord. And he loved evergreen, a community that mourns him with a makeshift cross in the spot where his home once stood. Milstead this was home and no other place would be home on this earth. Harris
Learn from his understanding of the constitution and will senators learn from this testimony that there are proper and improper inquiries of judicial nominees . We are about to find out quite quickly. Toeady, the senate is ready take up the Harriet Miers nomination in just a few weeks. Already, some senators on both sides of the oil are ill are eager to determine her personal views. I would be satisfied to learn a wise approach to our democracy. I want to thank you for having me be with you today. Let the judges i have spoken sure ii have i am will be followed by many scholars more distinguished than somef and while i am sure of you have disagreed with what i have to say and im sure i will hear these in a few minutes, i do know to my many years of service as a senator. Thank you so much. Great to be with you. [applause] the next two speeches in our Supreme Court special include minority leader harry reid defending the use of the filibuster and saying the senator the senate has no oblig
Differently than the preceding ones. President , the pressure and tension on the existing process which exploded during the thomas nomination fight make a restoration of what came before judge thomas nomination, even it was desirable, a practical impossibility. That we face my immediate question, can our Supreme Court nomination and confirmation process so rectified discord and bitterness be repaired and it president ial Election Year . Mr. President , history teaches us that this is extremely unlikely. Bitter our nations most and heated confirmation fights have come in president ial Election Years. A confirmation fight over roger tommys tawnys confirmation in 1836, the senate refusal to confirm for nominations for president tyler in 1844, the single vote projections of rejection nominees badger and black by lameduck president s fillmore in the canon in the mid19th century. Approval ofow justices lamarr and fuller in 1888. These are just some examples of these fights in the 19th centur
CHARLESTON Companies owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and managed by his son are being taken to court by the U.S. Department of Justice over unpaid c
CHARLESTON Companies owned by West Virginia Gov. Jim Justice and managed by his son are being taken to court by the U.S. Department of Justice over unpaid civil penalties and overdue mine reclamation fees. According to a press release Wednesday morning, the Justice Department is filing a civil case against James C. Justice III, […]