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15 Aug 2022, 9:52 am by William Hibbitts | JURIST Staff
A US federal judge Monday told US Senator Lindsay Graham that he must testify before a Fulton County, Georgia, grand jury about efforts to overturn the 2020 US presidential election in that state. [read post]
6 Feb 2021, 2:26 pm by Steve Gottlieb
As a result, a relatively small part of the American population can block what the rest of us want to do. [read post]
The post Republican US senators send threatening letter to ICC prosecutor over possible Netanyahu arrest warrant appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
The US Senate passed the $740 billion National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) on Friday with veto-proof majority support amidst President Trump’s threats to reject the legislation. [read post]
25 Mar 2010, 11:06 am by Sarah Miley
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] voted 56 to 43 [roll call] to pass a modified version of the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 [HR 4872 materials] Thursday, after certain language in the original bill was altered to fix parliamentary problems highlighted by Republicans. [read post]
8 Sep 2008, 7:27 am
This administration has undercut those concepts for eight years and I have never heard my current US Senator criticize or work to prevent such decay of our fundamental freedoms. [read post]
9 Dec 2016, 10:34 am by Sarah M Donnelly
Links: Senate Bill 5000 (prefiled 12/05/16), Washington State Joint Legislative Task Force on the Use of Deadly Force in Community Policing: Final Report to the Legislature and Governor Download(PDF): Handout: Reduce Violence, Restore Trust Make Use of Deadly Force the Last Resort Media Advisory: Police Use of Deadly Force Should be Last Resort Senator McCoy (Tulalip Tribes) recently was elected to a leadership position in the Senate, where he… [read post]
11 Aug 2014, 2:11 pm by Lawrence B. Ebert
Warner, the senior senator from Virginia. [read post]
13 Jun 2012, 1:32 pm by Rebecca DiLeonardo
[JURIST] Ten US senators on Monday filed an amicus brief urging the US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit [official website] to uphold section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) [text], which denies federal recognition of state-sanctioned same-sex marriages. [read post]
26 Sep 2008, 3:27 pm
[JURIST] The US Senate Judiciary Committee [official website] on Thursday voted in favor of the Deaths in Custody Reporting Act [HR 3971 text, PDF], which as passed by the House reauthorizes a program requiring states receiving criminal justice assistance grants to report to the US Department of Justice (DOJ) [official website] information about people who die while incarcerated or in police [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 9:04 am by Ruben Sindahl
The US Senate approved a bill [text, PDF] on Tuesday to overturn a rule [text, PDF] created by the Obama administration regarding land management. [read post]
19 Nov 2013, 11:19 am by Bradley McAllister
[JURIST] US Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Mike Lee (R-UT) [official websites] on Monday introduced a bill [press release] aimed at limiting frivolous patent lawsuits. [read post]
20 Mar 2007, 5:55 am
[JURIST] The US Senate voted Tuesday to limit the power of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales [official profile; JURIST news archive] to name interim US attorneys, passing the Preserving United States Attorney Independence Act of 2007 [S 214 materials] by a vote of 94-2 [roll call]. [read post]
7 Jun 2011, 7:48 am by Zach Zagger
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] Tuesday approved Donald Verrilli, Jr [Oyez profile], as the next Solicitor General [official website] by a vote of 72-16 [roll call vote], taking the position left open since Elena Kagan was sworn in [JURIST report] to the Supreme Court [official website] last August. [read post]
19 Oct 2005, 12:32 pm
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] moved Wednesday to cut federal funding for projects that seize peoples' homes for private development, continuing a backlash to a recent controversial ruling [JURIST report] by the US Supreme Court [official website]. [read post]
US Senate Intelligence Committee members Tuesday called for the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to investigate social media platform TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance for invading the privacy of its users. [read post]
28 Dec 2015, 6:35 am by John L. Culhane, Jr.
” The Senators assert that the robocall authority should not be used until the ED can “demonstrate with data that the use of this authority will provide net benefits for both student loan borrowers and taxpayers and will not result in potentially abusive debt collection practices. [read post]
27 Feb 2021, 12:09 pm by Dean I Weitzman, Esq.
Later, Dean answers legal questions from callers.The post Court Radio: Learn More About State Rep Malcolm Kenyatta Running for US Senate first appeared on MyPhillyLawyer. [read post]