Governors are smaller versions of the Head of State, but they have big personalities. One only needs to look to Governors Arnold Schwartzenegger, Rick Perry, and former Governors Sarah Palin, Mark Sanford, and Rod Blagojevich for proof of that. As a new class takes office next week, what will they bring, be it controversy or leadership...or both?
There has long been wrangling in Congress over the question of federal authority versus States' Rights. But as national health care, economic stimulus funding, and other federal programs come up against detractors in local municipalities, is there a new discussion forming on the issue?
"Whenever you treat a judge the same way you treat other officials that have a different position in office, you tend to confuse within the public's mind, and perhaps even in the judge's mind, the very different roles that different officers in the government perform."
— Attorney Tom Phillips on reforms in appointing judges
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