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26 May 2022, 4:06 pm
The post US Senate fails to pass bill aimed at domestic terrorism prevention appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
16 Mar 2013, 1:28 pm
CDT, the US Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on "The Future of Drones in America: Law Enforcement and Privacy Considerations." [read post]
8 Feb 2016, 12:44 pm
Kaplinsky Democratic Senators Patrick Leahy and several other Democratic Senators have cosponsored a bill that would place new limits on the use of arbitration agreements. [read post]
29 Mar 2024, 12:35 pm
The post Senators decry solitary confinement of immigrants in US as ‘violation of international norms’ appeared first on JURIST - News. [read post]
18 Nov 2010, 10:10 am
[JURIST] The New Jersey Supreme Court [official website] ruled [opinion, PDF] Thursday that a state statute and portion of the New Jersey Constitution [text] authorizing the recall of US senators is unconstitutional. [read post]
23 Sep 2015, 7:20 am
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] on Tuesday voted against [official roll call] a bill [HR 36 materials] that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of gestation. [read post]
18 Sep 2007, 5:47 pm
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] voted Tuesday 57-42 [roll call] against proceeding with debate on the District of Columbia House Voting Rights Act [S. 1257 bill summary], killing the bill before it reached Senate consideration by falling three votes short of the 60 necessary to move forward. [read post]
23 May 2015, 9:02 am
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] on Saturday blocked a House passed bill that would end the mass collection of phone records by the National Security Agency (NSA) [official website] in an after midnight vote of 57-42. [read post]
12 Feb 2008, 11:31 pm
[JURIST] The US Senate on Tuesday voted 68-29 [roll call] in favor of the FISA Amendments Act [S 2248 materials], legislation intended to replace the temporary Protect America Act in modernizing the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. [read post]
15 Jul 2021, 11:38 am
The US Senate approved the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention bill on Wednesday to prohibit all goods produced using forced labor in China’s Xinjiang region from entering US markets. [read post]
14 Mar 2019, 1:42 pm
The post US Senate votes to reject Trump’s border security national emergency appeared first on JURIST - News - Legal News & Commentary. [read post]
3 Mar 2008, 10:42 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Monday unanimously confirmed Illinois US District Judge Mark Filip [official profile] as US deputy attorney general as part of an apparent compromise between the White House and Senate Democrats on a series of stalled nominations. [read post]
4 Nov 2015, 11:00 am
USA Today, IRS Use of 'Stingray' Devices to Track Cellphones Sparks Senate Inquiry: The Internal Revenue Service's newly revealed use of controversial "Stingray" cellphone trackers has prompted an inquiry by Senate Judiciary Committee leaders about how and why the IRS is using the surveillance equipment. [read post]
8 Apr 2022, 7:23 am
On April 5, 2022, the Delaware Senate narrowly passed Senate Bill 231 (the “Bill”), which would prohibit authorized insurers in Delaware from using gender, gender identity, or sex as a rating factor in personal automobile insurance policies. [read post]
28 May 2020, 11:03 am
A group of US senators wrote to the US Secretary of Defense Wednesday expressing concern about the potential for a “significant outbreak” of COVID-19 at the Pentagon prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [read post]
27 Sep 2008, 10:52 am
[JURIST] Telecommunications executives told the US Senate Commerce Committee [official website] Thursday that their companies would refrain from using certain surveillance technology without users' permission but stopped short of endorsing legislation to outlaw the practice. [read post]
30 Sep 2006, 12:24 pm
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] passed the Secure Fence Act of 2006 [HR 6061 text, PDF] Friday by a vote of 80-19 [roll call], authorizing the construction of a 700-mile fence along the US-Mexico border [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
10 Jun 2010, 7:26 am
[JURIST] A bipartisan group of US senators on Wednesday introduced the Reduce Unnecessary Spending Act [S 3474 text], which would give presidents the authority to use a modified version of the line-item veto in order to cut spending. [read post]
16 Aug 2010, 6:53 am
[JURIST] US Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) [official website] has introduced a bill to create rules and guidelines for legal challenges brought by future Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees and enemy combatants captured by US forces. [read post]
26 Dec 2009, 12:26 pm
[JURIST] The US Senate [official website] on Thursday approved a measure raising the federal borrowing limit by $290 billion. [read post]
