Democratic Agenda vs. Conservative Courts
Published on 2008/11/25Harper Jean Tobin in the Huffington Post: President-Elect Obama and the strengthened Democratic majority will come to Washington next year with an ambitious agenda and their best shot in a generation at enacting it. Yet while the American people have decisively rejected the policies of the last eight years, federal courts packed with ideological conservatives may prove to be a significant obstacle to the nation's new progressive agenda. View more about this news item