Solis, who is the daughter of Mexican and Nicaraguan immigrants, has been the only member of Congress of Central American descent. She just won a fifth term representing heavily Hispanic portions of eastern Los Angeles County and east LA.

Obama planned to announce Solis' selection on Friday along with his selection of Republican Rep. Ray LaHood of Illinois for transportation secretary. The official spoke on conditions of anonymity because an announcement has not been made yet. A call to Solis's office was not immediately returned.

Obama is trying to get most of his major appointments out of the way before heading to Hawaii for a holiday vacation, and has held a news conference each day this week to introduce his nominees.

Obama has yet to announce choices for senior intelligence positions or the Office of U.S. Trade Representative.

Solis, in 1994, was the first Latina elected to the California Senate, where she led the battle to increase the state's minimum wage from $4.25 to $5.75 an hour in 1996.

In Congress, she wrote a measure that authorized $125 million for work force training programs in areas such as energy efficiency retrofitting and "green building" construction.

Andy Stern, president of the 1.9-million member Service Employees International Union, the 51-year-old praised Solis for her deep roots in the union movement. He recalled marching with her in Los Angeles � well before she was elected to Congress � to seek higher wages and benefits for janitors.

"We were with her fighting for the rights of people who work from the beginning and we're so proud that she's been chosen to be the labor secretary," Stern said.

Labor unions contributed heavily to Obama and Democrats in the November elections. They hope that having a Democrat in the White House will result in policies that will increase their membership. Their main priority will be passage of legislation that would force businesses to recognize labor unions once more than 50 percent of company's eligible work force sign union cards.

Labor leaders say employers have used secret-ballot elections, generally held on job sites, to coerce and intimidate workers into rejecting unions. Employers counter that workers are often coerced by their peers to sign union cards and that a secret-ballot election is the only way to determine their true desires.

Labor advocates also are counting on Obama's pick to lead the Labor Department to help people hit by the economic downturn by promoting the extension of unemployment benefits and boosting infrastructure spending.

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Associated Press writers Sam Hananel and Erica Werner contributed to this report.

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Solis, Kirk, LaHood Add To Obama's Diverse Team

NPR.org, December 18, 2008 ~{!$~} President-elect Barack Obama's diverse list of key administration choices grew Thursday, with the news that he will announce Rep. Hilda Solis, a California Democrat, as his labor secretary, a Democratic official said.

And NPR has confirmed widespread speculation that U.S. Rep. Ray LaHood, a Republican from Illinois, will be Obama's pick for secretary of transportation.

In addition, the president-elect is expected to name former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk as his choice for U.S. trade representative, media reports said. The Dallas Morning News reported that Kirk called friends Thursday to tell them the news.

Obama is expected to announce at least some of those selections at a news conference Friday; he is scheduled to leave Chicago for a family vacation in Hawaii on Saturday.

Solis, 51, is the daughter of Latin American immigrants. She was first elected to Congress in 2000 and is the first Hispanic woman to serve on the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Solis has been an outspoken advocate on women's issues.

LaHood, 63, has represented 11 counties in central and western Illinois since entering Congress in 1994. It's the same general area Abraham Lincoln served during his one term in Congress in the 1840s. Despite the Democratic gains in the House and Senate, LaHood was re-elected in November with more than 67 percent of the vote.

Kirk, 54, now a partner in the Dallas office of the Houston-based law firm Vinson and Elkins, was the first black mayor of Dallas, serving from 1995 to 2002.

Schapiro To Head SEC

On Thursday, he named Mary Schapiro as his choice to head the Securities and Exchange Commission, an agency that has been the focus of criticism in recent weeks for failing to act on questionable practices that may have cost investors billions of dollars.

In addition, Obama announced Gary Gensler as his pick to lead the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and Daniel Tarullo to fill an open seat on the Federal Reserve Board.

Obama appeared with Schapiro, Gensler and Tarullo at a news conference on Thursday. It was his fourth in as many days to announce administration appointments.

Obama's Cabinet selections, which must be confirmed by the Senate, also include Hillary Clinton for secretary of state, Bill Richardson for commerce secretary and Nobel Physics laureate Steven Chu for energy secretary. He's also asked Robert Gates to stay on as defense secretary.

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US balks at backing condemnation of anti-gay laws
By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer David Crary,

[[[ Ap National Writer ?Fri Dec 19, 12:08 am ET Play Video Gay & Lesbian Issues Video: Obama Taking Heat Over Warren ABC News Play Video Gay & Lesbian Issues Video: Gay Rights Grievance FOX News Play Video Gay & Lesbian Issues Video: Obama's choice of evangelical pastor draws ire AP UNITED NATIONS ?Alone among major Western nations, the United States has refused to sign a declaration presented Thursday at the United Nations calling for worldwide decriminalization of homosexuality. }]]]

In all, 66 of the U.N.'s 192 member countries signed the nonbinding declaration ?which backers called a historic step to push the General Assembly to deal more forthrightly with any-gay discrimination. More than 70 U.N. members outlaw homosexuality, and in several of them homosexual acts can be punished by execution.

Co-sponsored by France and the Netherlands, the declaration was signed by all 27 European Union members, as well as Japan, Australia, Mexico and three dozen other countries. There was broad opposition from Muslim nations, and the United States refused to sign, indicating that some parts of the declaration raised legal questions that needed further review.

"It's disappointing," said Rama Yade, France's human rights minister, of the U.S. position ?which she described as in contradiction with America's long tradition as a defender of human rights.

According to some of the declaration's backers, U.S. officials expressed concern in private talks that some parts of the declaration might be problematic in committing the federal government on matters that fall under state jurisdiction. In numerous states, landlords and private employers are allowed to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation; on the federal level, gays are not allowed to serve openly in the military.

Carolyn Vadino, a spokeswoman for the U.S. mission to the U.N., stressed that the United States ?despite its unwillingness to sign ?condemned any human rights violations related to sexual orientation.

Gay rights activists nonetheless were angered by the U.S. position.

"It's an appalling stance ?to not join with other countries that are standing up and calling for decriminalization of homosexuality," said Paula Ettelbrick, executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission.

She expressed hope that the U.S. position might change after President-elect Barack Obama takes office in January.

Also denouncing the U.S. stance was Richard Grenell, who until two months ago had been the chief spokesman for the U.S. mission to the U.N.

"It is ridiculous to suggest that there are legal reasons why we can't support this resolution ?common sense says we should be the leader in making sure other governments are granting more freedoms for their people, not less," said Grenell, who described himself as a gay Republican. "The U.S. lack of support on this issue only dims our once bright beacon of hope and freedom for those who are persecuted and oppressed."

More than 50 countries opposed to the declaration, including members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, issued a joint statement Thursday criticizing the initiative as an unwarranted attempt to give special prominence to gays and lesbians. The statement suggested that protecting sexual orientation could lead to "the social normalization and possibly the legalization of deplorable acts" such as pedophilia and incest.

The declaration also has been opposed by the Vatican, a stance which prompted a protest in Rome earlier this month.

A Vatican spokesman, the Rev. Federico Lombardi, said the Roman Catholic Church opposed the death penalty and other harsh repression of gays and lesbians, but he expressed concern that the declaration would be used as pressure against those who believe marriage rights should not be extended to gays.

A new Vatican statement, issued Thursday, endorsed the call to end criminal penalties against gays, but said that overall the declaration "gives rise to uncertainty in the law and challenges existing human norms."

The European nations backing the declaration waged their campaign in conjunction with the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The Dutch foreign affairs minister, Maxime Verhagen, said countries that endorsed that 1948 document had no right to carve out exceptions based on religion or culture that allowed discrimination against gays.

"Human rights apply to all people in all places at all times," he said. "I will not accept any excuse."

He acknowledged that the new declaration had only symbolic import, but said it marked the first time such a large number of nations had raised the cause of gay rights in the context of General Assembly proceedings.

"This statement aims to make debate commonplace," he said. "It is not meant to be a source of division, but to eliminate the taboo that surrounds the issue."

Although the declaration's backers were pleased that nations on six continents had signed it, there were only two from Asia and four from Africa.

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Mark Felt, Watergate's `Deep Throat,' dies at 95
By LOUISE CHU, Associated Press Writer Louise Chu,

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Felt died Thursday in Santa Rosa after suffering from congestive heart failure for several months, said family friend John D. O'Connor, who wrote the 2005 Vanity Fair article uncovering Felt's secret.

The shadowy central figure in one of the most gripping political dramas of the 20th century, Felt insisted his alter ego be kept secret when he leaked damaging information about President Richard Nixon and his aides to Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward.

While some ?including Nixon and his aides ?speculated that Felt was the source who connected the White House to the June 1972 break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee, he steadfastly denied the accusations until finally coming forward in May 2005.

"I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat," Felt told O'Connor for the Vanity Fair article, creating a whirlwind of media attention.

Weakened by a stroke, the man who had kept his secret for decades wasn't doing much talking ?he merely waved to the media from the front door of his daughter's Santa Rosa home.

Critics, including those who went to prison for the Watergate scandal, called him a traitor for betraying the commander in chief. Supporters hailed him as a hero for blowing the whistle on a corrupt administration trying to cover up attempts to sabotage opponents.

Felt grappled with his place in history, arguing with his children over whether to reveal his identity or to take his secret to the grave, O'Connor said. He agonized about what revealing his identity would do to his reputation. Would he be seen as a turncoat or a man of honor?

"People will debate for a long time whether I did the right thing by helping Woodward," Felt wrote in his 2006 memoir, "A G-Man's Life: The FBI, `Deep Throat' and the Struggle for Honor in Washington." "The bottom line is that we did get the whole truth out, and isn't that what the FBI is supposed to do?"

Ultimately, his daughter, Joan, persuaded him to go public; after all, Woodward was sure to profit by revealing the secret after Felt died. "We could make at least enough money to pay some bills, like the debt I've run up for the kids' education," she told her father, according to the Vanity Fair article. "Let's do it for the family."

The revelation capped a Washington whodunit that spanned more than three decades and seven presidents. It was the biggest mystery of Watergate, the subject of the best-selling book and hit movie "All the President's Men," which inspired a generation of college students to pursue journalism.

It was by chance that Felt came to play a pivotal role in the drama.

Back in 1970, Woodward struck up a conversation with Felt while both were waiting in a White House hallway. Felt apparently took a liking to the young Woodward, then a Navy courier, and Woodward kept the relationship going, treating Felt as a mentor as he tried to figure out the ways of Washington.

Later, while Woodward and partner Carl Bernstein relied on various unnamed sources in reporting on Watergate, the man their editor dubbed "Deep Throat" helped to keep them on track and confirm vital information. The Post won a Pulitzer Prize for its Watergate coverage.

The nickname "Deep Throat" was a double entendre: Felt was providing information on the condition of complete anonymity, known as "deep background," and his actions coincided with a popular 1972 porn movie.

Within days of the burglary at Watergate that launched the Post's investigative series, Woodward phoned Felt.

"He reminded me how he disliked phone calls at the office but said that the Watergate burglary case was going to `heat up' for reasons he could not explain," Woodward wrote after Felt was named. "He then hung up abruptly."

Felt helped Woodward link former CIA man Howard Hunt to the break-in. He said the reporter could accurately write that Hunt, whose name was found in the address book of one of the burglars, was a suspect. But Felt told him off the record, insisting that their relationship and Felt's identity remain secret.

Worried that phones were being tapped, Felt arranged clandestine meetings worthy of a spy novel. Woodward would move a flower pot with a red flag on his balcony if he needed to meet Felt. The G-man would scrawl a time to meet on page 20 of Woodward's copy of The New York Times and they would rendezvous in a suburban Virginia parking garage in the dead of night.

In the movie, the enduring image of Deep Throat is of a testy, chain-smoking Hal Holbrook telling Woodward, played by Robert Redford, to "follow the money."

In a memoir published in April 2006, Felt said he saw himself as a "Lone Ranger" who could help derail a White House cover-up.

Felt wrote that he was upset by the slow pace of the FBI investigation into the Watergate break-in and believed the press could pressure the administration to cooperate.

"From the start, it was clear that senior administration officials were up to their necks in this mess, and that they would stop at nothing to sabotage our investigation," Felt wrote in his memoir.

Some critics said Felt, a J. Edgar Hoover loyalist, was bitter at being passed over when Nixon appointed an FBI outsider and confidante, L. Patrick Gray, to lead the FBI after Hoover's death. Gray was later implicated in Watergate abuses.

"We had no idea of his motivations, and even now some of his motivations are unclear," Bernstein said.

Felt wrote that he wasn't motivated by anger. "It is true that I would have welcomed an appointment as FBI director when Hoover died. It is not true that I was jealous of Gray," he wrote.

Felt was born in Twin Falls, Idaho, and worked for an Idaho senator during graduate school. After law school at George Washington University he spent a year at the Federal Trade Commission. Felt joined the FBI in 1942 and worked as a Nazi hunter during World War II.

Ironically, while providing crucial information to the Post, Felt also was assigned to ferret out the newspaper's source. The investigation never went anywhere, but plenty of people, including those in the White House at the time, guessed that Felt, who was leading the investigation into Watergate, may have been acting as a double agent.

The Watergate tapes captured White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman telling Nixon that Felt was the source, but they were afraid to stop him.

Nixon asks: "Somebody in the FBI?"

Haldeman: "Yes, sir. Mark Felt ... If we move on him, he'll go out and unload everything. He knows everything that's to be known in the FBI."

Felt left the FBI in 1973 for the lecture circuit. Five years later he was indicted on charges of authorizing FBI break-ins at homes associated with suspected bombers from the 1960s radical group the Weather Underground. President Ronald Reagan pardoned Felt in 1981 while the case was on appeal ?a move applauded by Nixon.

Woodward and Bernstein said they wouldn't reveal the source's identity until he or she died, and finally confirmed Felt's role only after he came forward.

O'Connor said Thursday his friend appeared to be at peace since the revelation.

"What I saw was a person that went from a divided personality that carried around this heavy secret to a completely integrated and glowing personality over these past few years once he let the secret out," he said.

Felt is survived by two children, Joan Felt and Mark Felt Jr., and four grandchildren. His wife, Audrey Felt, died in 1984.

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Associated Press writer Brian Melley contributed to this report.

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Rick Warren and Invoking Teh Inauguration
By: bmaz Thursday December 18, 2008 6:07 pm

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As you may have noticed, a small war has erupted at the mothership over the nature of the invocation at Obama's inauguration on January 20, 2009. Specifically, whether or not it is appropriate for Obama to have Rick Warren participate. The general FDL position is that it is not appropriate to have Warren participate because he is a discriminatory bigot, to the LGBT community, and others.

I agree wholeheartedly with this position. But I have a more fundamental question.

Why is any of this, Warren, Lowery, or any other religious figure, an official part of the inauguration? If a religious aspect is desired for private parties later etc., fine, but why should overt religion be sanctioned as part of the official initiation of a Presidency? No matter how it is configured, it is going to be offensive to many groups inherently; i.e. those whose religions are snubbed, and those such as the LGBT community, for instance in relation to Warren. Probably some groups somewhere will be similarly put off by Joe Lowery; and, of course, the non-believers and/or atheists don't like any of it.

"America" should not have a preacher. If individuals wish to consider religion vis a vis their government, that is most excellent, but it should be and by individual choice only. God is not for a nation to possess, nor claim the mantle of; that is the province of the individuals in the nation to do, or not do, on their own.

Why is this part of the official inauguration? There is no need to have the new government sanctioned by religion from the get go. The new President, President Obama, will serve and represent all Americans, of all stripes, colors and beliefs; excluding and alienating so many at the outset seems antithetical to the spirit, even if not the letter, of Constitutional separation of church and state, equal protection and inclusion.

Invoke the spirit of the Constitution instead of of having an invocation at the Inauguration.

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53 Responses to �Rick Warren and Invoking Teh Inauguration?Synoia December 18th, 2008 at 6:13 pm 1
Because American are educated in hypocrisy.

�Wholesomeness and cheerleading?
�Dress code and cheerleaders uniforms?
�Academics and pep rallies?

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lokywoky December 18th, 2008 at 6:14 pm 2
Thanks for this bmaz. I have been wondering this too. For all the hoo-yah about Warren - what do you think would have happened if Obama had invited a Muslim cleric or a Hindu priest, or a Wiccan warlock or some athiest guy to say something? This whole thing is nuts and I would rather neither Warren or Joe Lowery spoke/prayed on behalf of various Christian sects. (Remember what happened when someone invited a Hindu priest to give the invocation at Congress!) ((Which should also be stopped by the way!!)

I am sick to death of all this religious litmus-testing of everyone and having all these pastors of whatever faiths having such an influence on our political dialogue.

In fact, I think it was Thomas Jefferson who said that the separation of church and state was more about protecting churches from the undue influence of the government than the other way around. I just wish these church folks would stop meddling in the government and pay attention to their own stuff - they have plenty of really messy backyards to clean up themselves!

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bobschacht December 18th, 2008 at 6:19 pm 3
People think about this sort of thing as part of the ritual. The start of a new administration needs some kind of �blessing?that needs something more than �Congratulations, Barack; you�ve just been handed the worst mess in 100 years. Good luck.?An invocation confers a kind of ritual legitimacy, like taking an Oath of Office. Do you also want to dispense with that, and with taking the oath with hand on a Bible?

There�s a lot of Theater involved in an inauguration, and the Invocation is part of that theater. Like it or not, when Bush was inaugurated in 2000 and 2004, it was things like invocations and oaths and such that helped the public accept Bush as President. We didn�t like it, but after the inaugurations, we had to accept it as a Done Deed.

One key to closing the door on the Bush-Cheney maladministration is the inauguration of Obama. Now�s not the time to mess with the formula. Obama�s inauguration, ritually enacted, helps put a nail in the coffin of the Bush-Cheney era.

Bob in HI

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AZ Matt December 18th, 2008 at 6:19 pm 4
I could live without the preachers. I would rather have Arlo Guthrie get up and sing his father�s This Land is My Land.

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bmaz December 18th, 2008 at 6:28 pm 5
In response to bobschacht @ 3
so, not having some preacher, minister or other religious figure participate would make the deal less legitimate, or delegitimize it? Really?

We should keep perpetuating the ritual because �Now�s not the time to mess with the formula? Really? If not now when? Isn�t that the same mantra that was whipped out to continue slavery, segregation and every other form of regressive ingrained discriminatory policy and practice?

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JimWhite December 18th, 2008 at 6:29 pm 6
There is no need for the prayers at the actual inauguration. The separate, private prayer breakfast is a much more appropriate forum. Since this is the fifth one they�ve put on, it looks like the private breakfast started with Clinton�s first term.

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Rayne December 18th, 2008 at 6:30 pm 7
Had a heated exchange with one of my LGBT peeps tonight about this matter; he�s going on about sell-outs, that it�s not enough to have an openly gay person appointed to a position or that the first openly gay group will participate in the parade.

But he couldn�t answer two questions:
?do you remember who gave the last 3 inaugural invocations?
?how many Asians have been appointed so far?

Okay, he could answer the first one ?he didn�t remember. That�s because at best this role should be but a faint footnote in history.

As for Asians, he couldn�t even name Shinseki, because that�s not part of his consciousness, he�s not aware of it (that�s white man�s social capital at work ?present even if you�re white-male-gay).

Pointed out that no Buddhist or Hindu was asked to participate in the invocation, either. Not like there aren�t a few of those folks in the world, you know?

Somebody�s going to get their shirt in a bunch and their panties knotted up, no matter what; if somebody�s not torqued off, somebody else will be. In this respect it will be fair.

And unfortunately, tradition will win out over the Constitution at the same time.

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skdadl December 18th, 2008 at 6:49 pm 8
If individuals wish to consider religion vis a vis their government, that is most excellent, but it should be and by individual choice only. God is not for a nation to possess, nor claim the mantle of; that is the province of the individuals in the nation to do, or not do, on their own.

Yes, that is my understanding of democracy, of what separation of state and church in democracies has meant since at least the C17. In theory.

We haven�t been very good at getting that idea across to citizens, though.

Most Europeans, even in countries that have established churches, get the problem and are puzzled by the confessional pretzel-knots that U.S. political candidates twist themselves into when interviewers ask stupid questions about their private lives and beliefs. Has it ever occurred to a presidential candidate to tell one of those interviewers just to bug off on the personal stuff?

In my country, this stuff used to be beyond the pale, but as you probably know, we are saturated with American media, so the confessional culture is creeping in here too. We used to be too uptight for public nonsense over religion or sex, although we do have at least some of both here. The ground is shifting, though, and it would be so encouraging to see someone stand up against that shift.

To me, confessional rhetoric is egocentric and shameful. I was raised on the story of the Pharisee and the publican praying in the temple, the Pharisee proclaiming his virtue loudly in public, the publican whispering quietly in a corner, �Lord, be merciful to me, a sinner.?Christ was with the publican, and so am I.

Obama has failed us all ?and by us all, I mean internationally ?by choosing Rick Warren to deliver the invocation, by persisting with that mindless argument about being inclusive ?of just about anything?

Beyond that, though, it is a puzzle that one of the first modern republics has not been able to come to terms with one of its founding principles, and the rest of us haven�t either.

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Legal fight planned over Ill. governor wiretaps
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?Gov. Rod Blagojevich's attorney is offering a glimpse of his client's unfolding legal strategy, saying he'll challenge the lawfulness of court-ordered wiretaps at the heart of federal corruption allegations against the Democrat. But the two-term governor appeared ready Friday to defend himself first. }}}

Blagojevich was not expected to resign, or take questions, as he offered what could be his first substantial public comments since his arrest last week on federal corruption charges. The governor's office said he would make a statement later Friday afternoon in his downtown Chicago office building.

With Blagojevich itching to talk, Chicago attorney Ed Genson continued bashing what's gotten his client in a legal bind: FBI wiretaps that prosecutors say catch Blagojevich scheming to deal President-elect Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat for campaign cash or a plum job.

Genson told an Illinois House panel considering whether to impeach Blagojevich that its consideration of the recorded excerpts he cast as meaningless "jabbering" was inappropriate, if not illegal. "I think you're using evidence that was illegally obtained," he said Thursday.

After the committee recessed its hearing until next week, Genson told reporters he planned to go after the taped conversations in court at some point.

Members of the House panel pledged Thursday to do nothing that would interfere with the investigation by U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald. If Fitzgerald asks lawmakers not to interview certain witnesses, the panelists will abide by that, they said.

"The fact that no one has denied that the governor has said those things (on tape) is relevant. That evidence already is on our record," said state Rep. Lou Lang, a suburban Chicago Democrat.

While hopeful that Fitzgerald lets the panel "go in some directions" with some potential witnesses in the criminal case, "if he shuts us down completely, this committee will deal with it," Lang said.

Genson didn't sound keen on the prospect of his client making a public statement.

"I'm a lawyer by trade ?I don't like my clients to talk to anybody," he said.

Genson said he expected federal grand jurors to eventually indict his client, which would likely unseal many of the documents in support of the charges, perhaps marking the point where his legal attack may truly begin.

"I'm talking that within the next few months the air will clear a little bit and we'll be able to get access to all the things that we need to get access to," he said. "And I'll be able to look at those things."

The impeachment process appears certain to grind on until then, possibly into next year, with or without Fitzgerald's help. Without it, the committee probably will emphasize some lower-profile allegations of misconduct against Blagojevich: defying the Legislature, failing to honor reporters' Freedom of Information requests, and trading state jobs and contracts for campaign contributions.

On Wednesday, the Illinois Supreme Court rejected a request to declare him unfit to serve, and Genson made it clear that the governor is not going down without a fight.

Federal prosecutors' case could be undermined ?or at least greatly complicated ?if Illinois lawmakers compel certain witnesses to testify. Following the Iran-Contra scandal of the 1980s, the convictions of Oliver North and John Poindexter were thrown out after the courts determined that the cases against them were built too much on testimony they gave to Congress under a promise of immunity.

The impeachment committee sent Fitzgerald a letter Thursday formally asking for information about people mentioned by pseudonyms in the criminal complaint, and requesting his guidance on who can be called to testify. Fitzgerald refused to comment.

When the panel returns Monday, its members hope to discuss any guidelines or restrictions Fitzgerald may place on them.

Committee chairwoman Barbara Flynn Currie, a Chicago Democrat like the governor, noted that even before Blagojevich's arrest last week, some lawmakers were calling for his impeachment.

"We've got plenty of evidence out there of questionable activity on the part of the governor," she said.

Besides the Senate-seat-for-sale allegations, the governor was accused of trying to strong-arm the Chicago Tribune into firing editorial writers who criticized him and pressuring a hospital executive for campaign donations.

Outraged lawmakers appointed a committee to investigate Blagojevich and issue a recommendation on whether he should be impeached.

Genson had no comment on what restrictions Fitzgerald should place on the committee. "They do what they got to do and I do what I've got to do, and then what happens is what we've got to do," Genson said.

Unlike the U.S. Constitution, which allows impeachment in cases of "high crimes and misdemeanors," the Illinois Constitution does not define an impeachable offense. No Illinois governor has ever been impeached, so lawmakers have little to go on.

Genson has complained about the lack of a clear standard and suggested he might raise the issue in court if the governor is impeached.

"I don't know what the line is," he told the committee. "The line should be based on evidence, should be based on due process, should be based on confrontation."

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Associated Press Writer Deanna Bellandi contributed to this report from Chicago.

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Prop. 8 sponsors seek to nullify 18K gay marriages
(Yahoo!) By LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer Lisa Leff,

[[[ Associated Press Writer �V Sat Dec 20, 9:36 am ET AP �V In this Wednesday, Nov. 5, 2008

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Slideshow: Same-Sex Marriage Issues Play Video Gay & Lesbian Issues Video: Obama Taking Heat Over Warren ABC News Play Video Gay & Lesbian Issues Video: Gay Rights Grievance FOX News SAN FRANCISCO �V The sponsors of Proposition 8 asked the California Supreme Court on Friday to nullify the marriages of the estimated 18,000 same-sex couples who exchanged vows before voters approved the ballot initiative that outlawed gay unions. ]]]

The Yes on 8 campaign filed a brief arguing that because the new law holds that only marriages between a man and a woman are recognized or valid in California, the state can no longer recognize the existing same-sex unions. The document reveals for the first time that opponents of same-sex marriage will fight in court to undo those unions that already exist.

"Proposition 8's brevity is matched by its clarity. There are no conditional clauses, exceptions, exemptions or exclusions," reads the brief co-written by Kenneth Starr, dean of Pepperdine University's law school and the former independent counsel who investigated President Bill Clinton.

The campaign submitted the document in response to three lawsuits seeking to invalidate Proposition 8, the constitutional amendment adopted last month that overruled the court's decision in May that had legalized gay marriage in the nation's most populous state.

Both Attorney General Jerry Brown, whose office is scheduled to submit its own brief to the court Friday, and gay rights groups maintain that the gay marriage ban may not be applied retroactively.

The Supreme Court could hear arguments in the litigation as soon as March. The measure's backers announced Friday that Starr, a former federal judge and U.S. solicitor general, had signed on as their lead counsel and would argue the cases.

Proposition 8's supporters assert that the Supreme Court lacks the authority or historical precedent to throw out the amendment.

"For this court to rule otherwise would be to tear asunder a lavish body of jurisprudence," the court papers state. "That body of decisional law commands judges �X as servants of the people �X to bow to the will of those whom they serve �X even if the substantive result of what people have wrought in constitution-amending is deemed unenlightened."

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Ap National Writer �V 46 mins ago AP �V In this Nov. 4, 2008 file photo, President-elect Barack Obama, left, his wife Michelle Obama, right, �K

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The epic election that made Barack Obama the first African-American president was the top news story of 2008 �X followed closely by the economic meltdown that will test his leadership, according to U.S. editors and news directors voting in The Associated Press' annual poll.

The campaign, with subplots emerging throughout the year, received 100 first-place votes out of 155 ballots cast for the top 10 stories. Two other political sagas �X the history-making candidacies of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sarah Palin �X also made the list.

The vast economic crisis, plunging the U.S. into recession and ravaging many business sectors worldwide, was the No. 2 story, receiving 49 first-place votes. The precipitous rise and fall of oil prices was No. 3.

The top story of 2007 was the massacre of 32 people at Virginia Tech University by a mentally disturbed student gunman.

Here are 2008's top 10 stories, as voted by AP members:

_1. U.S. ELECTION: Obama emerged from Election Night as a decisive victor and a symbol for the world of America's democratic promise. But he reached that point only after a grueling battle with Clinton for the Democratic nomination and then an often-nasty showdown with the McCain/Palin ticket in the run-up to the election.

_2. ECONOMIC MELTDOWN: The bad news kept coming �X collapses of Wall Street giants; huge stock market losses; plummeting home prices and a surge of foreclosures; desperate times for U.S. automakers. It added up to the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, and will cost the federal government well over $1 trillion in various rescue and stimulus packages.

_3. OIL PRICES: The global economic angst produced hyper-volatile energy markets. The price of crude soared as high as $150 a barrel in July before crashing to $33 this month. In the U.S., the average price for a gallon of regular gas peaked at $4.11, then plunged below $1.70.

_4. IRAQ: The much-debated "surge" of U.S. troops helped reduce violence after more than five years of war, but Iraq is still buffeted daily by bombings, ambushes, kidnappings and political uncertainty. A newly ratified U.S.-Iraqi security agreement sets a timetable for U.S. troop withdrawal by 2012.

_5. BEIJING OLYMPICS: China hosted the Olympics for first time, drawing praise for logistical mastery and condemnation for heavy-handed security measures. The games themselves were rated a success, highlighted by the record-shattering performances of swimmer Michael Phelps and sprinter Usain Bolt.

_6. CHINESE EARTHQUAKE: A huge quake in May killed 70,000 people in Sichuan province and left 5 million homeless. Many thousands of children were among the victims �X authorities said about 7,000 classrooms were destroyed in shoddily built schools.

_7. SARAH PALIN: Few Americans outside Alaska knew much about its governor when Republican John McCain picked her as his running mate. That changed rapidly. To her conservative admirers, she was a feisty, refreshing change from most politicians; to her critics, she was in over her head, and worthy of all the lampooning she endured.

_8. MUMBAI TERRORISM: Ten attackers allegedly sponsored by a Pakistan-based Islamic group terrorized India's financial capital in November, killing 164 people in coordinated attacks on hotels, markets and a train station. India's perennially uneasy relations with Pakistan were badly strained.

_9. HILLARY CLINTON: She didn't win, but Clinton came closer than any other woman in U.S. history to becoming a major party's presidential nominee. Her determined primary campaign, waged vigorously even when it seemed a lost cause, inspired millions of women across the country �X and helped persuade Obama to choose her as secretary of state.

_10. RUSSIA-GEORGIA WAR: The two nations waged a five-day war in August ignited by a Georgian artillery barrage on the breakaway region of South Ossetia. Russia responded with a drive deep into Georgian territory, causing severe economic damage and aggravating already troubled Russia-US relations.

Stories that almost made the Top 10 included Cyclone Nargis, which killed more than 84,000 people in Myanmar; Hurricanes Gustav and Ike, which wreaked deadly damage in the Caribbean and on the U.S. Gulf Coast; and the seesaw fate of same-sex marriage in California, where a court ruling approving it was later overturned by a ballot measure.

Several write-in votes were cast for two developments that occurred too late to be included on the AP ballot �X the indictment of Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the efforts of struggling U.S. automakers to get a federal bailout. The alleged financial scam involving Bernard Madoff also was revealed too late to make the ballot.

Several of the editors who voted commented on how two transcendent developments dominated the news in 2008.

"As far as I am concerned, there were only two stories this year," wrote Linda Grist Cunningham of the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star. "Global economy collapses (sending every country into financial, political and personal chaos) and Obama elected U.S. president, changing the way the America does business �X financial, political and personal."
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