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23 Jul 2014, 9:18 am by Tara Hofbauer
Today we learn that Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is close to reaching a deal with the Obama administration on NSA reform. [read post]
25 Sep 2013, 10:26 am by Raffaela Wakeman
    On that topic, at a major event at Georgetown Law yesterday, Judiciary Committee Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy called for a cessation of bulk metadata telephony data collection, and discussed his legislative proposal to adjust Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT ACT. [read post]
22 Sep 2022, 9:54 am by Holly Brezee
In an effort to tackle the root of the problem, a bipartisan group of US senators led by Patrick Leahy and John Cornyn wrote to the USPTO Director Kathi Vidal on June 8, 2021, urging the director to crack down on “patent thickets”, which is defined in the letter as large numbers of patents that cover a single product or minor variations on a single product. [read post]
26 May 2010, 6:46 am by Adam Chandler
The Associated Press (via the Washington Post) reports that Senator Patrick Leahy, who will chair Kagan’s confirmation hearings, is pushing back on what he calls “overheated rhetoric” from Republicans about the timeline for the hearings and the nominee herself. [read post]
4 May 2011, 11:19 am by David Ingram
Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. [read post]
23 May 2007, 2:07 am
.__) (PDF 304 KB) "Introduced by Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Judd Gregg on May 22, 2007" 05/22/2007 Letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales from Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy and Ranking Member Arlen Specter (PDF 182 KB) "Letter seeks answers to longstanding questions about the Bush Administration's warrantless wiretapping program" 05/22/2007 Letter to GAO Comptroller David Walker from the Chairmen of the House… [read post]
13 Feb 2012, 3:30 am by David Kravets
Patrick Leahy, the Democratic chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee who had originally sponsored ECPA during the Ronald Reagan administration, promised to hold hearings on ECPA reform before his committee by year’s end. [read post]
28 Sep 2022, 10:00 am by Matthew Chun
Background Context The USPTO’s Federal Register Notice comes in response to President Biden’s Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy (July 9, 2021) and a September 9, 2021 letter from Senator Patrick Leahy and Senator Thom Tillis to Mr. [read post]
16 Jan 2012, 1:53 pm
“The voice of the Internet community has been heard,” noted Issa.In the Senate, PIPA author and Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) released a statement proposing the bill’s cosponsors amend PIPA so the effects of DNS-blocking could be studied before it is implemented. [read post]
28 Nov 2009, 8:24 am
Those comments had drawn fire from Senator Patrick Leahy, a Democrat who is a longtime advocate of the treaty, and expressions of concerns from anti-mine campaigners. [read post]
15 Feb 2010, 11:15 am by Eugene Volokh
Recall that Ashcroft’s statement came at a hearing organized by Senator Patrick Leahy, then-chair of the Democrat-run Senate Judiciary Committee and a leading adversary of Ashcroft.The hearing had apparently been called in part to criticize the administration’s antiterrorism policy on civil liberties grounds. [read post]
21 Sep 2007, 12:55 pm
Later, on May 15, 2007, my family again visited Washington to deliver additional information personally to the offices of Congressman Conyers, Senator Leahy, various members of the Judiciary Committees. [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 12:00 am by Jennifer Granick
Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Director of National Intelligence James Clapper told Senator Amy Klobuchar that the Administration’s false assurances there had been no abuses of the Section 215 phone records collection were not false because the abuses identified in an internal audit had occurred under E.O. 12333 and need not be reported. [read post]
2 Sep 2018, 2:29 pm by David Kris
Patrick Leahy describing the court’s operations in detail. [read post]
22 May 2015, 3:55 pm
Patrick Leahy forced former NSA director Keith Alexander to admit that the “54 attacks” claim was inaccurate in front of Congress. [read post]
16 Sep 2021, 12:16 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
  And this means not only the most elderly senators like Bernie Sanders and Patrick Leahy of Vermont, but also people like Sherrod Brown in Ohio. [read post]
1 Jun 2020, 2:19 pm by Corynne McSherry
Outside of the beltway, people all over the United States are taking to the streets to demand fundamental change. [read post]