Fox News Poll: States Should Have Right To Make Immigration Laws

By Dana Blanton

 - FOXNews.com

Amid the ongoing controversy over Arizona's new immigration law, voters by a 2-to-1 margin think individual states should have the right to make their own immigration laws. And a majority of voters would like their own state to follow Arizona's lead.

Amid the ongoing controversy over Arizona's new immigration law, voters by a 2-to-1 margin think individual states should have the right to make their own immigration laws. And a majority of voters would like their own state to follow Arizona's lead.

A Fox News poll finds 65 percent of American voters think states should have right to make their own immigration laws and protect their borders "if they believe the federal government has failed to act," while 32 percent disagree. Moreover, a 52 percent majority favors their own state passing a bill similar to Arizona’s new immigration law. 

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Wall St. reform vote fails again in Senate

By Kevin Drawbaugh and Andy Sullivan

updated 7:21 p.m. CT, Wed., May 19, 2010

WASHINGTON - In a setback for the Obama administration, Senate Democrats failed to muster enough votes on Wednesday to end debate on the biggest overhaul of financial regulation since the 1930s, delaying a vote on passage. 

But analysts still expect the legislation eventually to pass. More debate on amendments was likely, with banks on alert for changes that could threaten their profits. Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid scheduled another vote for 2:30 p.m. EDT Thursday. 

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Karzai Like a Fox

Michael Hirsh

Hamid Karzai, who is on his umpteenth visit to Washington, is a royal pain who has made no secret of his growing anti-Americanism, to the point of threatening to join the Taliban. President Karzai may also be, for that reason, the most critical asset Barack Obama now has in Afghanistan—and the main ticket home for thousands of American troops there.

Despite attempts to smear him as crazy or unstable or drug-addled—by controversial ex-diplomat Peter Galbraith, among others—most senior U.S. and British officials who have worked closely with Karzai say he is acting as normally as anyone could expect from someone who is regularly accused of being an American stooge by the Islamist insurgents in his country. Not to mention someone who has heard his sanity and reliability regularly questioned in leaked U.S. memos and press accounts over the last year. Among his defenders: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (who told me in a late April interview that both she and Sen. John Kerry have "spent a lot of time talking to President Karzai about why elections oftentimes aren't fair," drawing "on our own personal experience.") Another champion of Karzai is NATO civilian envoy Mark Sedwill, who told me and other reporters recently that the Afghan leader is doing the best he can with the meager cards he's been dealt and who suggests, piquantly, that a better question might be whether Karzai sees the Western allies as reliable.

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NBC: Obama to name Kagan for high court

NBC News and news services

updated 2 hours, 10 minutes ago

 

WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama will nominate U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan to serve as an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, NBC News’ Pete Williams reported late Sunday night.

Kagan, 50, served as the Dean of Harvard Law School from 2003 to 2009. Obama nominated her to serve in her current post as solicitor general early in 2009, and she won Senate confirmation by a vote of 61-31. She is the first woman to serve as solicitor general of the United States. 

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Obama orders unified U.S. message on Karzai’s legitimacy

By Scott Wilson and Rajiv Chandrasekaran

updated 9:07 p.m. CT, Sat., May 8, 2010

 

WASHINGTON - President Obama has bluntly instructed his national security team to treat Afghan President Hamid Karzai with more public respect, after a recent round of heavy-handed statements by U.S. officials and other setbacks infuriated the Afghan leader and called into question his relationship with Washington. 

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Barack Obama: Arizona Immigration Law is "Misconceived Action"

Here is what President Barack Obama thinks about the Arizona Immigration Law.