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Hillary Clinton speaks up on Syria
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton takes a stand supporting President Obama #39;s plan for a strike on Syria.
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Warren dodges questions about Big Business #39; influence on Hillary Clinton
Elizabeth Warren was determined not to answer questions about prior criticism of Hillary Clinton for the banking industry #39;s influence over her politics Sunday on "This Week."
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FULL-CONTACT With Erik Rush LIVE! April 28 2014
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Elizabeth Warren says she isn't running for president in 2016. But Elizabeth Warren hasn't quite endorsed Hillary Clinton either.
Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren tiptoed up to the edge of endorsing Hillary Clinton for president.
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But didn't quite do it.
"You know, all of the women - Democratic women, I should say, of the Senate - urged Hillary Clinton to run, and I hope she does," Senator Warren responded to ABC's George Stephanopoulos on "This Week" Sunday when asked if Clinton was her candidate in 2016.
When Stephanopoulos pushed a second time, asking if Warren would endorse a Clinton 2016 run, Warren responded, "Hillary is terrific."
Close, but not an endorsement yet. Warren may be banking some of her political capital as her own value as a candidate appears to be rising.
Warren topped Hillary Clinton in a poll early this month when Americans were asked about possible 2016 candidates. The according to a Quinnipiac University "National Thermometer" released on April 3, voters had cooled to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, while warming to Warren:
Number one today is U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts, at 48.6 degrees, but 46 percent of American voters don't know enough about her to form an opinion.
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WASHINGTON ?? Government employees who testify about public corruption are protected by the First Amendment, several Supreme Court justices suggested Monday.
During oral arguments in a freedom-of-speech case out of Alabama, several justices challenged the notion that public employees who testify truthfully about an issue of significant public concern aren't shielded from retaliation by the First Amendment.
"What kind of message are we giving when we're telling employees, you're subpoenaed in a trial, go and tell a falsehood because otherwise you can be fired?" Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked attorneys in the case.
The Fifth Amendment protects state employees against self-incrimination on the witness stand, but "it doesn't protect the department he works for from being incriminated," Chief Justice John Roberts said.
The case involves an employee at Central Alabama Community College whose testimony helped convict former Alabama state Rep. Sue Schmitz of corruption-related charges. The employee, Edward Lane of Ashville, was fired after he testified at Schmitz's first trial in 2008.
Before Lane gets a chance to prove in court his firing was retaliatory, the Supreme Court must decide if his testimony is protected speech under the First Amendment.
Lane, who attended Monday's arguments, was surprised that's even in doubt.
"I thought for sure that being able to go testify truthfully in court that I should be protected," he said in an interview on the Supreme Court steps after Monday's arguments. "And to find out (the other side) actually thinks that is not the case - that just blows me over."
Steve Franks, former president of the two-year college, says Lane's testimony wasn't protected by the First Amendment. His attorney, Mark Waggoner of Birmingham, argued Monday that Lane's testimony was based on information he gleaned only from his job and that he was testifying as a state employee, not a regular citizen.
"If the testimony is factual, based solely on the job duties, as it was here, inseparable from the job duties, and it is information that a citizen would not know, that only the testifier would know, then that is not protected speech," Waggoner told the justices.
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Justices suggest public employees' testimony is protected