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29 Aug 2016, 2:13 pm by Emelina Perez
The message comes days before the scheduled World Conservation Congress (WCC) in Honolulu, US, the largest global forum for adopting conservation policies. [read post]
6 Aug 2013, 1:34 pm by CrimProf BlogEditor
From the Daily Caller: A major conservative policy organization has endorsed criminal justice reform, lending further bipartisan support to a bill in Congress that would lessen mandatory minimum sentencing for nonviolent offenses. [read post]
26 Apr 2012, 2:01 pm by Dan Taglioli
Passed 247-184 over strong opposition, the controversial legislation eases conservation rules [BBC report] for farmers and provides amnesty from fines for illegally clearing trees. [read post]
4 May 2010, 9:58 am by charley foster
AP: Congress makes too many vague lawsA conservative think tank and criminal defense lawyers are forming an unusual alliance to try to get Congress to quit writing criminal laws so loosely that they subject innocent people to unjust prosecution and prison.A new study by the Heritage Foundation and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers finds that nearly two dozen federal laws enacted in 2005 and 2006 to combat nonviolent crime lack an adequate provision that… [read post]
29 Mar 2010, 6:50 pm by Kevin
Cnet is reporting that a number of major technology companies have joined with liberal and conservative advocacy groups to convince Congress to update federal privacy laws. [read post]
13 Jul 2007, 5:58 am
"Harriet Miers's Contempt of Congress: Are Conservatives About To Neuter Congress, While Claiming Full Legal Justification for this Separation-of-Powers Violation? [read post]
2 Sep 2021, 1:30 pm by Scott Hajost
As the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) World Conservation Congress prepares to begin September 3-11 in Marseilles, France, there has been an increase in attention to “environmental defenders. [read post]
23 Jan 2008, 3:36 pm
In a speech [text] to the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank, Cheney called on Congress to amend FISA to grant immunity to telecommunications companies [JURIST report] from [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 2:49 am by Jason Poblete
According to the The Daily Caller, Ryan has penned a memo for Prosperity PAC supporters saying the time has come to “replace timid Members of Congress with bold conservatives who know what needs to be done. [read post]
11 Feb 2011, 11:09 am by MorelliRatner
The big story this week in injury law is that some conservative Republican members of Congress are voicing strong opposition to a new measure that would set medical malpractice liability caps for the entire country. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 6:00 am by Ryan J. Farrick
Conservative interest groups and industry lobbyists are begging Congress to roll back Obama-era internet privacy rules. [read post]
2 Jul 2021, 10:55 am by Immigration Prof
CNN reports that conservative YouTuber who participated in the January 6 violence in Washington D.C. accompanied Republican members of Congress on a trip to the border this week and at times served as a translator. [read post]
24 Sep 2015, 12:33 pm by Richard Painter
The text of the speech is here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/transcript-pope-franciss-speech-to-congress/2015/09/24/6d7d7ac8-62bf-11e5-8e9e-dce8a2a2a679_story.html Liberals will point to what they like and conservatives to what they like. [read post]
2 Dec 2021, 12:46 pm by Geoff Schweller
The bill also expands conservation funding, as monies recovered by successful prosecutions under wildlife laws would be put directly into conservation efforts. [read post]
11 Nov 2010, 8:24 pm by Dan Farber
At present, it seems to me that climate denial is the dominant conservative position, as reflected in the views of Republican members of Congress, Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, etc. [read post]
27 Jan 2011, 9:29 am by Steven
AP – “A hawk that spent a week living in the dome of the Library of Congress has finally been captured. [read post]
6 Nov 2013, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Members of Congress and Senators who continue to caucus with the Republicans, therefore, are not part of a “big tent” inside of which a wide variety of views is tolerated. [read post]
15 Jun 2015, 4:16 am by Lawrence B. Ebert
Abandoning the debate, and those best positioned to argue on the behalf of market-based solutions, only raises the likelihood of a bad law resulting.link: http://thehill.com/blogs/congress-blog/technology/244834-why-conservatives-should-back-patent-reformCuriously, there is no mention of "loser pays" in the Titch piece.There is also no mention of Senator Cornyn's efforts at compromise in the last session. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 9:04 am by Tom Smith
Critics do have reason to complain and demand change, but the current response recklessly sets up the expectation of a full repeal among those in the conservative base, an expectation that Congress cannot meet. [read post]