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29 Oct 2013, 1:32 pm by Jennifer Granick
Today, Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Representative Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) introduced a bill to reform government surveillance in light of the NSA spying disclosures brought to us by Edward Snowden. [read post]
29 Oct 2013, 1:15 pm by aallwash
By Elizabeth Holland, AALL Public Policy Associate Today, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner (R-Wisc.), chairman of the House Judiciary Crime and Terrorism Subcommittee, introduced legislation that seeks to significantly limit the collection and use of Americans’ information under our nation’s domestic surveillance authorities. [read post]
29 Oct 2013, 9:59 am by Raffaela Wakeman
Perhaps the hearing witnesses will be asked about the latest proposal to address NSA surveillance programs, unveiled by Senator Patrick Leahy and Rep. [read post]
24 Oct 2013, 10:26 am by Paul Rosenzweig
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was to have had a hearing today on proposed reforms to the NSA surveillance programs. [read post]
17 Oct 2013, 3:08 pm by Joel Brenner
  This according to statistics released this week by the court’s chief judge, Reggie Walton, in a letter to Senator Patrick Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. [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]
14 Oct 2013, 12:51 pm by LindaMBeale
If you agree, you can sign a petition (circulated by Barbara Boxer, Dick Durbin, Tom Harkin, Mazie Nirono, Mary Landrieu, Patrick Leahy, Claire McCaskill, Patty Murray, Jack Reed, Brian Schatz and Mark Udall) to Republican leaders to end the government shutdown. [read post]
3 Oct 2013, 11:45 am by Joe Mullin
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) expressed support yesterday for serious surveillance reform, saying he will introduce legislation that calls for an end to the National Security Agency's (NSA) mass dragnet of phone data. [read post]
3 Oct 2013, 10:43 am by Ritika Singh
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein sparred over the existence of the program, with the former fighting to shutter it, and the latter advocating to keep it in place. [read post]
29 Sep 2013, 1:15 pm by Jonathan Hummel
The letter was delivered to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Ranking Member Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), and House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and Ranking Member John Conyers, Jr., (D-Mich.).Read the letter here. [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]
23 Sep 2013, 9:30 am by Dan Ernst
  Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), Chairman, Senate Judiciary Committee, will deliver the keynote. [read post]
12 Sep 2013, 6:57 am by Ars Staff
” The Vermont coalition also met with their senator, Patrick Leahy (D), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to discuss patent trolls. [read post]
11 Sep 2013, 2:38 pm by Mark M. Jaycox
Patrick Leahy: The FISA Accountability and Privacy Protection Act of 2013 Reps. [read post]
8 Sep 2013, 2:58 pm by Benjamin Wittes
The New York Times/CBS News poll showed that though just 1 in 4 Americans believe that the United States has a responsibility to intervene in the Syrian conflict, more than 90 percent of the public is convinced that putting all 535 representatives of the United States Congress on the ground in Syria—including Senate pro tempore Patrick Leahy, House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, and, in fact, all current… [read post]
30 Aug 2013, 5:49 am by David Markus
The blue slip is a required by the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont. [read post]