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25 Dec 2015, 12:08 pm by Shahid Buttar
Responding to government claims that Congress approved NSA mass surveillance when voting to reauthorize the USA PATRIOT Act in 2010 and 2011, the court explained that: Congress cannot reasonably be said to have ratified a program of which many members of Congress—and all members of the public—were not aware… Practically speaking, it is a far stretch to say that Congress was aware of the FISC’s legal interpretation of… [read post]
15 Nov 2011, 11:04 pm by Steve Bainbridge
  (a) The argument that Congressional trading is legal under current law is not offered up as a defense of what the members of Congress allegedly did. [read post]
11 Jan 2018, 9:28 am by Ben
It's undoubtedly a threat to current Internet freedoms as we know them. [read post]
31 Aug 2010, 8:53 am
Clemens swept through the halls of Congress, posing for photos with members of the committee that was investigating him and autographing their souvenirs. [read post]
14 Sep 2015, 8:57 am by Kelly Phillips Erb
In years prior, it was former Secretary Timothy Geithner’s job: he went begging to Congress a number of times in 2011 and 2012, asking that the debt limit ceiling be raised. [read post]
1 Jul 2020, 5:01 am by Adira Levine
The NSCAI is currently chaired by Eric Schmidt, the former executive chairman of Google’s parent company, Alphabet. [read post]
27 Sep 2015, 8:05 am by JB
In his analysis of Speaker John Boehner's resignation, former House Majority Leader Eric Cantor explains our current political dysfunction in explicitly constitutional terms. [read post]
10 Sep 2019, 8:31 am by The Sader Law Firm
  Members of Congress are attempting to make it easier to receive a discharge through bankruptcy. [read post]
27 Jan 2024, 7:54 pm by Josh Blackman
Professor Will Baude (another former student of Akhil Amar) and Professor Mike Paulsen (Akhil Amar's former law school roommate) assert in their article that members of state legislatures do hold "office . . . under the United States. [read post]
20 Oct 2021, 7:01 am by Michael C. Dorf
As a result of the most recent increase, the debt ceiling currently stands at $28.88 trillion. [read post]
30 Jan 2023, 5:16 am by Loren Voss
But for the applicants and family members still fighting to stay one step ahead of the Taliban in Afghanistan, each day of waiting could be one day too late. [read post]
8 Dec 2017, 1:42 pm by John Lewis
” While apparently a direct response to the many reports of sexual harassment in the movie, television and entertainment industries as well as in Congress, the current bill could cut a far broader swath. [read post]
10 Jan 2023, 4:40 am by Emma Snell
  Federal prosecutors are set to open their seditious conspiracy case against former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four other members of the right-wing group this week. [read post]
13 Feb 2020, 2:32 pm by Deepak Gupta
Will the court invent an atextual distinction between multi-member commissions like the FTC and single-director agencies like the CFPB, suggesting that for-cause protection is somehow constitutionally acceptable for the former but not for the latter? [read post]
31 Mar 2023, 4:00 am by Jim Sedor
The revisions come after years of pressure from members of Congress, who say the judiciary should follow ethics guidelines closer to those that apply to the executive and legislative branches. [read post]