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9 Jan 2018, 2:38 pm by Mark Walsh
Robert Loeb is up first to defend Byrd, and the justices pepper him with questions and hypotheticals about the rental company’s authority over the car. [read post]
9 Jan 2018, 4:32 am by Edith Roberts
The first argument is in Byrd v. [read post]
2 Jan 2018, 4:28 am by Edith Roberts
” For The New York Times, Adam Liptak looks at Byrd v. [read post]
16 Nov 2017, 7:32 am by Colby Pastre
This rule, named after the late West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd, prohibits tax and spending bills from increasing the federal deficit beyond the ten-year budget window. [read post]
26 Oct 2017, 7:38 am by Andrew Koppelman
  Its best pages vividly describe the Virginia that Harry Byrd dominated, first as governor and then as U.S. [read post]
19 Jun 2017, 2:51 am by NCC Staff
Committed to the filibuster effort were the powerful Senators Richard Russell, Strom Thurmond, Robert Byrd, William Fulbright and Sam Ervin. [read post]
22 May 2017, 4:02 am by Scott Bomboy
In 2001, Trent Lott dismissed Robert Dove, the Senate Parliamentarian, after Republicans were angry that Dove, also a Republican appointee, disallowed spending measures as violating the Byrd Rules. [read post]
As Chairman of the Judiciary subcommittee overseeing the FBI, Senator Robert Byrd said during a hearing on the ten-year term legislation that the FBI director must not use the Bureau as “a political action agency for the President,” but cannot be allowed to turn the Bureau into a personal “empire. [read post]
5 Apr 2017, 10:50 am by NCC Staff
But Merkley did manage to surpass legendary speeches by Alphonse D’Amato in 1992 and Robert Byrd in 1964 that were about 20 minutes shorter. [read post]
7 Nov 2016, 2:33 pm by Amy Howe
Robert Byrd had made a statement that supported SW General’s argument. [read post]
1 Nov 2016, 7:50 am by Amy Howe
” SW General dismisses the Thompson statement as merely one sentence that was “quickly contradicted by” Senator Robert Byrd, another sponsor of the FVRA. [read post]
14 Sep 2016, 8:03 am by Eric Baxter
The bill passed both houses of Congress almost unanimously, with only three (also bipartisan) opposing votes in the Senate, including from Republican Senator Jesse Helms and Democratic Senator Robert Byrd. [read post]
11 Apr 2016, 7:30 am by Ilya Somin
Former Democratic Senate leader Robert Byrd explained it well in a 2005 speech endorsed by then-Senator Joe Biden, among others: There is no stipulation in the Constitution as to how the Senate is to express its advice or give its consent… The Senate can refuse to confirm a nominee simply by saying nothing and doing nothing. [read post]
19 Jan 2016, 2:43 pm by David Bernstein
The last three Democrats who did so with some regularity were (especially) Robert Byrd (W.Va.), Russ Feingold (Wis.) and Herb Kohl (Wis.), and they are all gone. [read post]
10 Sep 2015, 6:50 am
Byrd in which the Supreme Court held that individual members lack standing. [read post]
1 May 2015, 8:00 am by Jim Sedor
” The ruling was an outlier for the high court and for Roberts himself, who supported decisions over the past six years that have opened the floodgates on political spending and given rise to super PACs. [read post]