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Miller ending legal battle, conceding Senate race (AP)
JUNEAU, Alaska – Republican Joe Miller has conceded the Alaska U.S. Senate race to party rival Sen. Lisa Murkowski, ending nearly two months of debate and court litigation. Miller announced his decision at a news conference in Anchorage Friday, one day after the state certified the Incumbent Murkowski as the winner of the November election. The concession ends what started as a promising campaign for Miller, a Sarah Palin-backed tea party favorite who upset Murkowski in the GOP primary, ...

Joe Miller ending legal battle, conceding Senate race
JUNEAU, Alaska — Republican Joe Miller has conceded the Alaska U.S. Senate race to party rival Sen. Lisa Murkowski, ending nearly two months of debate and court litigation. Miller announced his decision at a news conference in Anchorage Friday, one day after the state certified the Incumbent Murkowski as the winner of the November election. The concession ends what started as a promising campaign for Miller, a Sarah Palin-backed tea party favorite who upset Murkowski in the GOP primary, in...

Joe Miller Bows out in Alaska, Will Not Pursue Further Legal Action
Associated Press JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Republican Joe Miller is ending his fight over Alaska's U.S. Senate seat, conceding the race to his bitter rival, Incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Miller's decision, announced Friday at a news conference in Anchorage, comes one day after the state certified Murkowski as the winner . He had the option of appealing a Federal Judge's ruling or lodging a formal contest to the Election Results. While he said he believes he is right about the law, he said ...

AlaskaDispatch.com: Joe Miller Gives Alaskans The Gift Of A New Year
Alaska's Joe Miller has given up his legal fight to wrest a U.S. Senate seat away from Incumbent Lisa Murkowski, but promised local supporters and national TV audiences on Friday that he will continue the battle for conservative political values. Confident and personable, Miller told reporters and dozens of supporters at a Press Conference in Anchorage that he did not regret the last few weeks of court wrangling over the way the election was conducted. "I've been criticized for seeking to appl...

Chief Justice Says 'Urgent' Need for Senate Action on Judicial Nominees
Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts says there's an "urgent need" for the political parties to put aside their differences and quickly confirm more of President Obama nominees to the federal judiciary. "Each political party has found it easy to turn on a dime from decrying to defending the blocking of Judicial Nominations depending on their changing political fortunes," Roberts said in a year-end report released on New Year's Eve. "This has created acute difficulties for some judiciary dist...

Miller drops Alaska Senate fight
Following adverse decisions by Alaska courts, Senate Candidate Joe Miller, R-Alaska, a favorite of tea-party voters, announced Friday he was ending his two-month Legal Battle to replace Incumbent Republican Lisa Murkowski. "We are going to abide by the court's decision," said Miller, who added it was "unlikely" he could win in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals or have his case heard by the U.S. Supreme Court. On Dec. 22, the Alaska Supreme Court dismissed Miller's Lawsuit attempting to force ...

Alaska Election Results: Joe Miller Concedes Race To Lisa Murkowski, Ends Long Legal Battle
JUNEAU, Alaska — Republican Joe Miller is ending his fight over Alaska's U.S. Senate seat, conceding the race to his bitter rival, Incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Miller's decision, announced Friday at a news conference in Anchorage, comes one day after the state certified Murkowski as the winner. He had the option of appealing a Federal Judge's ruling or lodging a formal contest to the Election Results. While he said he believes he is right about the law, he said it was "very unlikely" an ap...

Murkowski certified as winner in Alaska's drawn-out Senate race
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski was certified as the winner of her Reelection race, ending a Legal Battle over the results that lasted over eight weeks. The act, which the Associated Press reported Thursday, allows Murkowski (R) to be sworn in next week for her third term in the upper chamber.  Murkowski was defeated in the August GOP primary by Tea Party-backed Candidate Joe Miller, but she beat him in the General Election as a write-in candidate. The last time a Candidate won a write-in bid was...

Short Takes
New York and New Mexico have new Governors this morning. Outgoing New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson denied Billy the Kid a posthumous pardon. North Korea would like to cool things off with everybody else. A bomb in Egypt killed 21 people outside a church. Stormy weather, including thunderstorms and tornadoes, killed six in Arkansas and Missouri. Finally final: Joe Miller concedes the Senate race in Alaska. The state had already certified Lisa Murkowski. Travel Light: Florida's new lieutenant gove...

Miller concedes to Murkowski, but doesn't congratulate her
Alaska Senate hopeful Joe Miller wrapped up 2010 by bowing out of his protracted ballot battle and conceding defeat to Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Tea Party favorite Miller, who had waged a nearly two-month court fight against the write-in results that handed Murkowski victory, conceded Friday, a day after the state certified Murkowski the winner. RELATED ARTICLES Murkowski certified as winner in Alaska race Miller said at a news conference in Anchorage that, even though he still believed his campai...

The Fix: Joe Miller bows out in Alaska
Alaska GOP Senate Candidate Joe Miller announced Friday that he will not push forward with a Legal Challenge to Sen. Lisa Murkowski's Reelection win, bringing an end to the last unresolved Senate race in the country. "The time has come to accept the practical realities of the current legal circumstances," Miller said at a news conference, announcing that he will end the effort. Murkowski (R) was certified as the winner of the race Thursday, after the state Supreme Court ruled again...

Joe Miller to CNN: "I'm not going to talk about sour grapes"
(CNN)- Joe Miller is giving up, but he isn’t standing down. He also needs Senator Lisa Murkowski’s Phone Number. Miller won Alaska’s Republican U.S. Senate primary, lost the General Election to a write-in campaign waged by Incumbent Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski, then unsuccessfully challenged the results in court. Today in Anchorage, he told supporters the time has come, " to accept the practical realities of our current legal circumstances. We shall abide by th...

Miller Finally Concedes Senate Race
Joe Miller (R) announced he is ending his legal fight over Alaska's U.S. Senate seat, conceding the race to Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the AP reports. "He was widely seen as the favorite for winning in the fall election. But then Murkowski re-emerged as a Wild Card, launching a long shot write-in campaign. Miller's own campaign began to unravel with revelations about his past and the handcuffing of a Journalist by his security overshadowing his message of Limited Government and fiscal restrai...

Joe Miller bows out in Alaska
Alaska GOP Senate Candidate Joe Miller announced Friday that he will not push forward with a Legal Challenge to Sen. Lisa Murkowski 's Reelection win, bringing an end to the last unresolved Senate race in the country. "The time has come to accept the practical realities of the current legal circumstances," Miller said at a news conference, announcing that he will end the effort. Murkowski (R) was certified as the winner of the race Thursday, after the state Supreme Court ruled against Miller's l...

AK-Sen: Murkowski certified, more to come from Miller?
The 2010 election is officially over, with the re-election of Lisa Murkowski certified today. With it, Murkowski makes sort of history--she's only the second Senate Candidate to win a Senate seat in a write-in campaign. That's how Strom Thurmond got there in 1954. Apparently hoping to stretch his 15 minutes out as long as humanly possible, Joe Miller has issued a response: Anchorage, Alaska. December 29, 2010 — Joe Miller, the Republican Nominee for the U.S. Senate, will hold a Press Conf...

Miller accepts Alaska Senate loss
Joe Miller, a Republican Candidate backed by the Tea Party, has conceded defeat to Lisa Murkowski in Alaska's US Senate election. The move ends a protracted Legal Challenge that Mr Miller mounted following the election on 2 November. Authorities certified Ms Murkowski's victory on Thursday, but Mr Miller could have appealed. Ms Murkowski lost the Republican nomination in August to Mr Miller, but she ran a write-in campaign. This involves voters adding a Candidate's name to the bal...

Alaska certifies Murkowski's write-in Senate victory
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The state of Alaska certified Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski's victory over Tea Party favorite Joe Miller on Thursday, nearly three months after the Incumbent won the race with an unconventional write-in campaign. The certification document was signed in the State Capitol in Juneau by Governor Sean Parnell and Lieutenant Governor Mead Treadwell, a spokeswoman for Parnell said. "It's been certified. The governor signed the certificate and the lieutenant governor n...

Republican Joe Miller ending legal fight, conceding Alaska's US Senate race to Lisa Murkowski
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Joe Miller Concedes Race To Murkowski
(NewsCore) - After almost two months, Alaska Republican Senate Candidate Joe Miller announced Friday that he will end his Legal Challenge to Incumbent Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski's write-in victory, The Anchorage Daily News reported. Speaking at a news conference in Anchorage, Miller said it was time to accept the “practical realities” of recent court rulings that had gone against him. Murkowski was certified the winner of the election Thursday after a federal judge dismissed Mill...

Chief justice urges progress naming judges
FILE - In this Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010 file picture, U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts speaks during a lecture series at Canisius College in Buffalo, N.Y. The Supreme Court will join Congress and the president next year in cutting costs to reduce the federal Deficit, Chief Justice John Roberts said Friday, Dec. 31, 2010 in his year-end report. Republicans and Democrats must find a long-term solution to selecting Federal Judges, Chief Justice John Roberts says, while blaming both side...

Chief justice urges progress naming judges (AP)
WASHINGTON – Republicans and Democrats must find a long-term solution to selecting Federal Judges, Chief Justice John Roberts says, while blaming both sides for the political gridlock of Judicial Nominations in the Senate. "Each political party has found it easy to turn on a dime from decrying to defending the blocking of judicial nominations, depending on their changing political fortunes," Roberts said Friday in his year-end report. "This has created acute difficulties for some judicia...

Roberts: Stop Blocking Judicial Nominees
Like this Story? Share it: History, traditions and key cases, plus what it takes to get on the bench. (AP) WASHINGTON - Republicans and Democrats must find a long-term solution to selecting Federal Judges, Chief Justice John Roberts says, while blaming both sides for the political blockage of Judicial Nominations in the Senate. There are more than 90 judicial vacancies in U.S. district and appellate courts. But only 60 nominees have been confirmed by the Senate for U.S. appellate and district c...

Chief Justice Roberts to parties: Quit bickering, fill judicial vacancies
Stumble This! Republicans and Democrats must find a long-term solution to selecting Federal Judges, Chief Justice John Roberts says, while blaming both sides for the political gridlock of Judicial Nominations in the Senate. "Each political party has found it easy to turn on a dime from decrying to defending the blocking of judicial nominations, depending on their changing political fortunes," Roberts said Friday in his year-end report. "This has created acute difficulties for some judicial dist...

John Roberts: Stop Bickering, Confirm Federal Judges
Even John Roberts thinks the Republicans should stop blocking the approval of Federal Judges. He pretends it's a Bipartisan problem -- but it isn't: There is an "urgent need" for Senate Democrats and Republicans to put aside their bickering and fill federal judicial vacancies, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote Friday in his annual State of the Judiciary report. It was his first comment about the partisan gridlock on judges that affects President Obama's nominees. But Roberts noted that D...

Chief Justice John Roberts Urges Progress Naming Judges, Takes Aim At Gridlock Obstructing Process
WASHINGTON — Republicans and Democrats must find a long-term solution to selecting Federal Judges, Chief Justice John Roberts says, while blaming both sides for the political gridlock of Judicial Nominations in the Senate. "Each political party has found it easy to turn on a dime from decrying to defending the blocking of judicial nominations, depending on their changing political fortunes," Roberts said Friday in his year-end report. "This has created acute difficulties for some judicia...