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19 May 2020, 6:00 am by Alan Z. Rozenshtein
Over the past several weeks, Senate Republicans and Democrats have introduced competing bills to regulate how companies can collect and use diagnostic and geolocation data to conduct contact tracing and other forms of disease surveillance. [read post]
18 May 2020, 10:49 am by Jacob Sapochnick
The bill will likely receive push back in the Republican controlled Senate or at the very least be subject to significant changes. [read post]
18 May 2020, 9:50 am by Joe Consumer
  Then, the Republican-led U.S. [read post]
18 May 2020, 9:14 am by Sandy Levinson
 I suspect that most readers of Balkinization will be fonder of Senator Jim Jeffords of Vermont, who switched the Senate from Republican to Democratic control in 2001 when he discovered that he could not stomach the Bush-Cheney GOP. [read post]
18 May 2020, 6:27 am by Jack Goldsmith, Ben Miller-Gootnick
According to Walpin (page 2) and a Republican Staff Report on the Walpin firing (page 44), Walpin was placed on administrative leave immediately upon notice of the termination and not permitted to return to his office. [read post]
17 May 2020, 9:30 pm by Dan Ernst
Harold Ickes (center); Edward Taylor (left) LC[Longtime LHB readers will recall that for the exam in my legal history course I write an essay about some regulatory regime I did not cover in class and ask students to compare it with the ones we did. [read post]
17 May 2020, 9:01 pm by Neil H. Buchanan
Indeed, they seem positively eager to blunder into a mistake that will make our existing public health and economic situations even more catastrophic.In Part 1 of this two-part series of columns, I dissected the arguments from Trump, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and other Republicans who have said that federal aid to sub-federal governments amounts to “blue-state bailouts. [read post]
17 May 2020, 7:04 pm by Tom Smith
During the last presidential campaign, Facebook board member and billionaire Peter Thiel was among Donald Trump’s most important backers, campaigning for the future president as a “proud,” openly gay supporter of the Republican nominee and even speaking at the Republican Party’s 2016 convention. [read post]
16 May 2020, 3:06 pm by Tyler Gillett
The rules change was also opposed by Republicans but passed on a 217-189 vote. [read post]
15 May 2020, 5:14 pm by Odia Kagan
This Democratic Senate bill shares a number of key points with the recently filed Republican Senate bill, among them: consent required for collection and revocable disclosure at collection information security data minimization (collect only what you need) retention limitation (delete after revocation and after the pandemic). [read post]
15 May 2020, 12:20 pm by Sandy Levinson
A major impediment to Elizabeth Warren's becoming Joe Biden's running mate is said to be the fact that Charlie Baker, the immensely popular governor of Massachusetts, is a Republican who would presumably appoint a Republican to succeed her in the Senate until a special election could be held later in the spring. [read post]
15 May 2020, 10:19 am by Kaufman Dolowich Voluck
In Oklahoma, for example a bill sponsored by a Republican legislator that would protect businesses from lawsuits arising from the COVID-19, passed the state Senate on May 11th, 2020. [read post]
15 May 2020, 6:00 am by Gene Takagi
@GivingReview co-editor @mhartmannmke notes @Edelman Trust Barometer update’s movement of government to most-trusted institution around the world and, in U.S., slight decline of trust by Republicans in NGOs since January … Giving ReviewBridgespan Group: As we cope with the fallout from #coronavirus, this moment calls for bold action. [read post]
15 May 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
In a sharply worded letter, the senators said they supported a proposal by a judicial ethics panel that would ban membership among judges in the conservative legal group. [read post]
14 May 2020, 1:35 pm by Brad Schnure
Measure Creates Tax Deduction for Contributions to NJ Charities During COVID-19 Pandemic The New Jersey Senate has approved legislation sponsored by Senate Republican Leader Tom Kean and Senator Troy Singleton that would give a boost to charitable organizations that are hard at work serving communities across New Jersey during the COVID-19 pandemic. [read post]
14 May 2020, 1:32 pm by Scott R. Anderson, Margaret Taylor
Others resurrected the argument that remote voting would be inconsistent with constitutional quorum requirements, a view that many Senate Republicans, at least, have moved away from in recent weeks. [read post]
14 May 2020, 12:55 pm by Brad Schnure
The following was released today by Senator Steven Oroho (R-24), Senator Declan O’Scanlon (R-13), Senator Michael Testa (R-1), and Senator Sam Thompson (R-12), the Republican members of the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee: In advance of the Governor’s May 22 budget report, the Republican members of the Senate Budget & Appropriations Committee issued a joint position statement. [read post]
14 May 2020, 10:14 am by Elliot Setzer
The FBI seized a cellphone belonging for Republican Sen. [read post]