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7 May 2020, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  Rather, he harbored “racialist views of republicanism” and as president “opposed any policy that would create a ‘racial blot or mixture’” in an expanding nation. (120-21)  He fits, accordingly, comfortably within the spectrum of individuals who set up a system premised on the need to exclude rather than include when constructing “We the People. [read post]
7 May 2020, 4:28 am by Tammy Binford, Contributing Editor
Senate to provide a shield for employers against what Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been quoted as calling a “second pandemic” of litigation. [read post]
7 May 2020, 1:00 am by CAFE
On this week’s episode of Stay Tuned, “Consciousness & COVID Ethics,” Preet answers listener questions about Republican-appointed judges, Dr. [read post]
6 May 2020, 5:56 pm by Howard Bashman
” Brent Kendall of The Wall Street Journal reports that “Senate Republicans Return to Judicial Nominees Amid Coronavirus; Hearing for key appeals court vacancy is part of McConnell’s continued push to fill judiciary with conservatives. [read post]
6 May 2020, 12:01 pm by Scott R. Anderson, Margaret Taylor
A separate proposal put forward by Republican Sen. [read post]
5 May 2020, 11:51 am by William Ford
Their resolution would amend Rule XII of the Standing Rules of the Senate to permit the Senate majority and minority leaders, or their designees, to jointly authorize senators to vote remotely when two conditions are present: “an extraordinary crisis of national extent exists” and it is “infeasible for Senators to cast their votes in person. [read post]
5 May 2020, 9:03 am by Hadley Baker
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will hold an open hearing in person on Tuesday to consider the president’s nomination of Republican Rep. [read post]
5 May 2020, 6:19 am by Elliot Setzer
., the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will hold an open hearing to consider the president’s nomination of Republican Rep. [read post]
5 May 2020, 5:00 am by Ari Schwartz
On April 14, six Republican senators wrote a letter voicing concern over guidance from the Trump administration that restrains U.S. technology companies from participating in international standards-setting efforts. [read post]
4 May 2020, 6:30 am by Sandy Levinson
              By the 1830s this “republican” vision of rule by a  benevolent elite, what Jefferson might have labeled a non-partisan “natural aristocracy”—"We are all Republicans; we are all Federalists,” as he put it, sincerely or not, in his first Inaugural—was in complete shambles. [read post]
3 May 2020, 4:16 pm by INFORRM
United States The Verge had a piece on a group of Senate Republicans planning to introduce a privacy bill that would regulate the data collected by coronavirus contact tracing apps. [read post]
3 May 2020, 7:19 am by Eric Goldman
Content Moderation * The Verge: The Terror Queue: These moderators help keep Google and YouTube free of violent extremism — and now some of them have PTSD * The Intercept: Trauma Counselors Were Pressured to Divulge Confidential Information About Facebook Moderators, Internal Letter Claims * NBC News: Inside Facebook’s efforts to stop revenge porn before it spreads *  Use of AI in Online Content Moderation 2019 Report (Produced on Behalf of OFCOM) * Washington Post: Content… [read post]
3 May 2020, 1:01 am by rhapsodyinbooks
There, in 1858, as the Republican Party’s nominee for the United States Senate, Lincoln had given his famous “House Divided” speech. [read post]
1 May 2020, 5:31 pm by Odia Kagan
A group of Republican U.S. senators plan to introduce legislation to protect user privacy in relation to contact-tracing apps used to combat the spread of COVID-19. [read post]
1 May 2020, 2:37 pm by Libbie Canter
Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Roger Wicker is working on draft legislation that would regulate the collection and use of health and location information in connection with efforts to track and limit the spread of COVID-19. [read post]
1 May 2020, 6:36 am by Jonathan H. Adler
Perhaps this reality will encourage Republican Senators to be more openly critical of the President's dishonest claims about the federal government's response to Covid-19. [read post]
1 May 2020, 3:00 am by Jim Sedor
Burr is also one of the Senate’s biggest beneficiaries of the industry’s largesse. [read post]