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18 Dec 2009, 2:12 am
[JURIST] US House of Representatives minority leader John Boehner (R-OH) [official websites] said Thursday that Congress could potentially block the Obama administration's plan to purchase [JURIST report] the Thompson Correctional Center (TCC) [DOC backgrounder] in northwestern Illinois to house inmates from Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive]. [read post]
6 Dec 2007, 7:21 am
[JURIST] US House and Senate negotiators agreed Thursday to remove language that would broaden federal hate crimes legislation from a defense reauthorization bill currently being finalized in Congress. [read post]
14 Mar 2008, 2:34 am
[JURIST] US Chief Justice John Roberts [Oyez profile] and Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas [LII profile] told a House Appropriations subcommittee Thursday that Congress should pass a bill to raise the pay of federal judges in an attempt to close the pay gap between the federal judiciary and their colleagues in private practice. [read post]
16 Aug 2007, 10:20 am
Congress does not have the power to demand silence from people forced to turn over electronic communications such as Internet records used to investigate terrorism, an American Civil Liberties Union lawyer argued. [read post]
25 Jun 2014, 4:10 am
Congress this week gave final approval and sent to the President for his signature S. 1044, the World War II Memorial Prayer Act. [read post]
31 Oct 2009, 4:00 am
[JURIST] A US Law Library of Congress (LLOC) [official website] spokesperson said Thursday that the LLOC will not retract its report [text, PDF] on the military-backed coup in Honduras [JURIST report], according to a McClatchy Newspapers report [text]. [read post]
8 Jul 2008, 4:56 am
[JURIST] US President George W. [read post]
27 Oct 2015, 11:07 am
The new rules for exemptions to copyright's DRM-circumvention laws were issued today, and the Librarian of Congress has granted much of what EFF asked for over the course of months of extensive briefs and hearings. [read post]
23 May 2016, 4:44 pm
The Fed used this authority to make loans to non- bank financial firms during the financial crisis. [read post]
20 Jul 2015, 4:43 am
But to deny patentability for a patent to an invention that is so clearly useful to so many people does not fulfill the requirement of the Constitution to promote the useful arts.If the courts are unwilling to listen to the scientists and the patent community as to the effects these positions have on innovation, perhaps it is time to engage the legislators and the White House to clarify the law to ensure that we continue to promote the useful sciences.one notes, currently,… [read post]
23 Mar 2020, 12:29 pm
” And Congress has demonstrated a willingness to use this flexibility creatively to work around in-person quorum and voting requirements. [read post]
10 Nov 2014, 11:50 am
Join us now in telling your Senator to move forward with the USA Freedom Act. [read post]
2 Sep 2014, 3:09 pm
The current version of CISA neglects much of what we've learned from Edward Snowden, such as how information obtained using Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is used for cybersecurity. [read post]
7 Nov 2013, 1:31 am
On this day in history, Congress passed the War Powers Act. [read post]
9 Nov 2018, 12:31 pm
Now that the lame duck session of Congress begins, Congress must answer the question: which extenders should be extended and which should expire? [read post]
7 May 2017, 6:29 am
This program does apply to Medicaid in certain situations.Since the law went into effect, and more and more people started using the program, some members in Congress have been looking at ways to expand ABLE in a way that may benefit even more Americans. [read post]
9 Sep 2013, 12:00 pm
But there may be a difference between a President’s using military force without prior authorization when he did not seek it, and a President’s seeking authorization but then using military force anyway when he is denied that authorization. [read post]
22 Jul 2022, 10:10 am
Congress poised to vote! [read post]
21 Nov 2019, 12:31 pm
Congress today temporarily extended the NSA’s spying powers that time and again have been used to violate our rights. [read post]
30 Apr 2020, 9:00 pm
The US Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) submitted its annual report on Transfers of Civil Nuclear Technology to Congress for fiscal year (FY) 2019. [read post]
