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Some liberals who hoped Johnsen would be Obama's tonic to the office under Bush are bitterly disappointed by her withdrawal, and some accuse the White House of not backing their own candidate. But Lee Casey, a Washington attorney who was an attorney adviser in the Office of Legal Counsel in 1992 and 1993, says her nomination may have been abandoned because of a bigger confirmation fight that is now taking shape: the one for Justice Stevens' seat. "My guess is that it became a question of where do we want to spend the political capital," he says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Obama Backed Down on an Embattled Nominee | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

Police in Tennessee haven't decided yet whether to file criminal charges against Hansen, whose attorney says she won't talk to investigators unless formally charged with a crime. Artyom's adoptive grandmother, who placed the boy on the flight to Russia, told the Associated Press he was violent and threatening to burn his house down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russian Adoption: What Happens When a Parent Gives Up? | 4/14/2010 | See Source »

...nation's top 25 oxycodone-dispensing doctors were all in Florida in the first half of 2008; 18 of them were in Broward County, according to a Broward County state attorney grand-jury report. In South Florida overall, there were 176 pill mills, up from 66 just 14 months before. This has contributed to tourism - pill-shopping trips to the Sunshine State from Tennessee and Kentucky, where authorities have cracked down hard on similar clinics, seem to be as common as Disney vacations nowadays. In the parking lot of the Broward Pain Clinic, there are just as many license plates...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Invasion of the Pill Mills in South Florida | 4/13/2010 | See Source »

Former New Hampshire Attorney General and Republican Senate hopeful Kelly A. Ayotte encouraged Republicans to return to the core values of fiscal responsibility, limited government, and national safety at the Harvard Republican Club’s eighth annual Lincoln Day Dinner on Saturday...

Author: By Stephanie B. Garlock, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: HRC Celebrates Lincoln Day | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

...hunting. Others believe they majestically embody nature in an almost spiritual way, and for this group, killing wolves seems one step away from offing Fido. "The big-bad-wolf thinking is not in line with what we understand about wolves and the ecosystem," says Mary Beth Petersen, a Minnesota attorney who e-mailed Millage after seeing a photo of him kneeling with his rifle over the wolf. But by the time hunting season ended on March 31, Millage's kill had led to extended legal protection not for the gray wolf but for another species: the Idahoan hunter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Wolf Wars: A New Move to Ban Hunter Harassment | 4/12/2010 | See Source »

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