Arlen Specter was the last politician of his kind
Is Council's sergeant-at-arms still needed? With a mere three weeks before the election, Joe Biden gave up campaigning in the battlegrounds of Colorado and Nevada Tuesday to remember his Senate Judiciary Committee and Amtrak pal, Arlen Specter.www.philly.com
Funeral held for Sen. Arlen Specter
Hundreds of mourners remembered former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter. Specter, who died Sunday at the age of 82 after battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma, spent 30 years in the Senate.www.washingtonpost.com
On abortion, Arlen Specter mixed principle and politics
The death of Arlen Specter inspired a predictably conflicted reaction from supporters of abortion rights: He was the guy who kept Robert Bork off the Supreme Court, perhaps in the process saving Roe vs.www.latimes.com
Morehouse School of Medicine Mourns the Loss of Senator Arlen Specter
ATLANTA, Oct. 16, 2012 - /PRNewswire/ -- Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) was deeply saddened to learn of the passing of former U. S. Senator Arlen Specter (D-PA). Senator Specter was a consummate champion of justice and worked tirelessly ...www.heraldonline.com
How Arlen Specter Almost Changed History -- and the Supreme Court
The Associated Press report on the death of longtime Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter remembers the former Senate Judiciary Committee chair as playing "a pivotal role in several Supreme Court nominations.www.huffingtonpost.com
Arlen Specter's stand-up comedy
Specter in 2009. (Jahi Chikwendiu/The Washington Post) Was Arlen Specter the funniest lawmaker in Washington? Before former comedy pro Al Franken got elected to the Senate (and promptly stopped cracking jokes), Specter was known for his sideline as ...www.washingtonpost.com
Arlen Specter, Senate centrist from Pa., dies at 82; Obama orders US flags ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. - Arlen Specter, a pugnacious and prominent former moderate in the U.S. Senate who developed the single-bullet theory in President John F. Kennedy's assassination and played starring roles in Supreme Court confirmation hearings, ...www.washingtonpost.com
Arlen Specter, a farewell to a fighter
Arlen Specter was a fighter. He fought crime as a prosecutor. He fought political opponents as a U.S. senator. He fought cancer on more than one occasion.www.winonadailynews.com
Arlen Specter was a fighter: Former senator didn't shy away from controversy
Arlen Specter loved his job as a U.S. senator, on that there is no doubt. There is also no doubt he loved it for the right reasons.www.pennlive.com
Arlen Specter and the Supreme Court
Add this this to the always complicated and often maddening legacy of Arlen Specter in the United States Senate: no Senator in fifty years had as profound an influence on the Supreme Court as he did.www.newyorker.com
Arlen Specter, summed up in his own words
When I heard on Sunday that Arlen Specter had died, I sought solace in rummaging through personal remnants of our 30-year friendship.www.philly.com
Arlen Specter Celebrated at Funeral by Friends, Family and the Famous
Arlen Specter (D-PA) was remembered by loved ones Tuesday as a man of independence, virtue and influence, with well over 1,000 people, including Vice President Joe Biden, filling a suburban Philadelphia synagogue for his funeral.upperdublin.patch.com
Arlen Specter is remembered across the nation for his statesmanship
... rose, Jackson said he and the former senator shared an ultimate respect for democracy. "Arlen Specter was a man of immense dignity and vision whose politics was not limited to the party," Jackson said.www.philly.com
Arlen Specter dies at 82; longtime senator was a political maverick
WASHINGTON - Arlen Specter, who in 30 years representing Pennsylvania in the Senate offended Republicans and Democrats in almost equal measure with maverick votes and a frank cockiness that finally ended his career in politics, died Sunday at his ...www.latimes.com
Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Senator, Is Dead at 82
WASHINGTON - Arlen Specter, the irascible senator from Pennsylvania who was at the center of many of the Senate's most divisive legal battles - from the Supreme Court nominations of Robert H. Bork and Clarence Thomas to the impeachment of ...www.nytimes.com
Arlen Specter, Anita Hill's dogged Senate inquisitor, dies at 82
Arlen Specter, who brought a prosecutor's focus on detail and disdain for deception to the job of U.S. senator, representing Pennsylvania as a Republican for 29 years and a Democrat for his unorthodox final year, has died.newyork.newsday.com
Arlen Specter, the former Senator from Pennsylvania, died Oct. 14, 2012, after ...
Arlen Specter, the former senator from Pennsylvania who stunned both parties on Capitol Hill in 2009 when he announced he would switch his party allegiance to Democrat after 42 years as a Republican, has died.abcnews.go.com
Sen. Arlen Specter Laid To Rest
Senator Arlen Specter will be laid to rest today. The former Pennsylvania Senator died of non-Hodgkin lymphoma on Sunday. The 82-year-old was a moderate Senator who was often at odds with Republican leadership.www.keyc.tv
Arlen Specter, a born fighter, died as he lived
In a storied political career that began as a young assistant counsel whose credulity-straining single bullet theory of President Kennedy's assassination was presented by the Warren Commission in the 1960s, former U.S.www.washingtonpost.com
Remembering former Sen. Arlen Specter
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