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				<title>Increasing justices', federal judges' pay a tough sell</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/increasing_justices_federal_judg/</link>
				<description>If there is one thing Supreme Court justices -- and perhaps every federal judge -- will agree on, it is that they are not being paid enough.

The subject of judicial salaries has been a lonely cause for years among the 875 or so members of the U.S. benc</description>
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				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-07-07 00:15:19</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/07/06/judges.pay/index.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [7]</rating>
													<credibility>80</credibility>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Gonzales raps 'activist' judges - U.S. Security</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/gonzales_raps_activist_judges_-_/</link>
				<description>Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says federal judges are unqualified to make rulings affecting national security policy, ramping up his criticism of how they handle terrorism cases.</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-01-17 16:20:51</pubDate>
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					<name>MSNBC</name>
					<link>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16668110/</link>
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								<credibility>95</credibility>
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					<rating>Important [8]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Low pay threatens judiciary, Roberts warns</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/low_pay_threatens_judiciary_robe/</link>
				<description>Pay for federal judges is so inadequate that it threatens to undermine the judiciary's independence, Chief Justice John Roberts says in a year-end report critical of Congress.</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-01-02 01:00:56</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/01/01/judges.pay.ap/index.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Interesting [5]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Poll: Americans don't want politicians constraining judges</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/poll_americans_dont_want_politic/</link>
				<description>Despite politicians' complaints about judges having too much power, two-thirds of Americans do not believe elected officials should have more control over federal judges, according to a new CNN poll released Saturday.</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2006-10-29 00:06:46</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/10/27/activist.judges/index.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [3]</rating>
													<credibility>90</credibility>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Chirac faces legal probe on scams</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/chirac_faces_legal_probe_on_scam/</link>
				<description>Former French President Jacques Chirac's lawyer said Saturday that he is in contact with judges investigating corruption cases dating back to Chirac's 1977-1995 tenure as Paris mayor, including a party financing scandal.

Chirac, 74, faces a slew of pot</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-06-23 09:25:14</pubDate>
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					<name>CNN</name>
					<link>http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/23/chirac.probe.ap/index.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Immigration Judges Often Picked Based On GOP Ties</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/immigration_judges_often_pic1/</link>
				<description>The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, despite laws that preclude such considerations, according to an anal</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-06-11 10:51:08</pubDate>
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				<source>
					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/10/AR2007061001229.html?nav=rss_politics</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
													<credibility>100</credibility>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Immigration Judges Often Picked Based On GOP Ties</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/immigration_judges_often_picked_/</link>
				<description>The Bush administration increasingly emphasized partisan political ties over expertise in recent years in selecting the judges who decide the fate of hundreds of thousands of immigrants, despite laws that preclude such considerations, according to an anal</description>
				<type>news</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-06-11 08:08:37</pubDate>
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					<name>Washington Post</name>
					<link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/10/AR2007061001229.html</link>
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								<credibility>94</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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				<title>Earl Ofari Hutchinson: Congress Should Listen to The Judges on Mandatory Sentencing</title>
				<link>http://www.newsique.com/politics/earl_ofari_hutchinson_congress_s/</link>
				<description>Even federal judges, many of them Reagan and Bush appointees, agree that it's time to scrap the minimum mandatory sentencing law for drug abusers.

Every effort to scrap or modify the blatantly unfair minimum mandatory sentencing law for illicit drug ab</description>
				<type>opinion</type>
				<category>politics</category>
				<pubDate>2007-03-28 23:15:45</pubDate>
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					<name>Alter Net</name>
					<link>http://www.alternet.org/columnists/story/49866/</link>
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								<credibility>86</credibility>
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					<rating>Under Rated [1]</rating>
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					<username>neoform</username>
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