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25 Jan 2018, 9:00 pm by Dean Falvy
House and Senate GOP leaders have refused to recognize that the Trump–Russia allegations, if true, represent a similarly serious rupture in the nation’s governing fabric.The energy of the House’s inquiry has been particularly dampened by the antics of Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. [read post]
31 Oct 2017, 1:37 pm by Moni Gill
The bill was passed by the House Judiciary Committee on a party-line vote. [read post]
11 Oct 2017, 4:30 am by Bob Bauer
The House Judiciary Committee approved an article of impeachment citing Nixon’s publicly stated falsehoods about the Watergate break-in and his actions to investigate it, as violations of his constitutional oath to take care to faithfully execute the laws and his office. [read post]
4 Sep 2017, 2:20 pm by Kevin LaCroix
  As Democratic Senator Chris Coons, a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee was recently quoted as saying, President Trump’s influence on the federal judiciary as a result of his nominations “will be the single most important legacy of the Trump administration,” adding with respect to the kinds of candidates that the Trump administration has been nominating, “given their youth and conservatism, they will have a significant impact on the… [read post]
28 Jun 2017, 11:51 am by Jonathan Rauch, Benjamin Wittes
Professional intermediaries make democracy more inclusive and more representative than direct participation can do by itself. [read post]
5 Jun 2017, 9:00 am by Russell Spivak
Then the House passed House Resolution 581 in 1998, charging: the Committee on the Judiciary, acting as a whole or by any subcommittee thereof appointed by the chairman . . . to investigate fully and completely whether sufficient grounds exist for the House of Representatives to exercise its constitutional power to impeach [President Clinton and] report to the House of Representatives such resolutions, articles of… [read post]
27 May 2017, 1:56 pm by Josh Blackman
Motivated reasoning is not new to the judiciary—all men are mortal—but it is brazen in the travel ban cases. [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]
2 Apr 2017, 11:14 am by Chris Castle
Here’s the important thing–the bill passed out of the Judiciary Committee with an unprecedented bi-partisan vote of 27-1 (let us not dwell on who the 1 was who voted against). [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 10:37 am by Jordan Brunner
Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC), House Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX), and members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence visited CIA headquarters on Monday to view intelligence information. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 6:31 am by F. Tim Knight
Thomas Bruce, Director of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School, spoke before the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee specifically to the Judiciary’s Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet who are exploring issues related to judicial transparency and ethics. [read post]
22 Feb 2017, 3:24 pm by Kevin LaCroix
  A motley assortment of procedural “reforms”—some good, many bad, and most overbroad—H.R. 985 has been introduced by Representative Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. [read post]
14 Feb 2017, 5:32 pm by Kevin LaCroix
.), the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, introduced the Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act (H.R. 985) to “keep baseless class action suits away from innocent parties, while still keeping the doors to justice open for parties with real and legitimate claims. [read post]
1 Feb 2017, 5:43 am by Mark Walsh
Most, if not all, Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are here, led by Sen. [read post]
27 Dec 2016, 8:16 am by Kate Tummarello
Section 702 is not set to expire until the end of 2017, but Congress started thinking about reauthorizing as early as January, when the House Judiciary Committee announced a closed-door, members only meeting to discuss the surveillance authority. [read post]
21 Oct 2016, 4:00 am by INFORRM
That suggests a degree of continuity that rather belies IPSO’s claim to represent a new departure. [read post]
18 Aug 2016, 9:01 pm by John Dean
And as the following information shows, I am correct and she has not done so.That two of the most powerful committee chairs in the House of Representatives have trumped up these bogus charges is stunning to me. [read post]
17 Apr 2016, 3:57 pm
The AmeriKat keeping her ears peeled forthe possibility of major reform forpatent disputes in the ITCLast Thursday, the Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet Subcommittee of the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee held a hearing to determine whether the way patent disputes are handled by International Trade Commission (ITC) is fair to litigants, beneficial to the US economy and complements or conflicts with the work of the US… [read post]