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30 Nov 2007, 5:27 pm
[JURIST] US Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) [official website] Friday praised Pakistan's lawyers for standing up for the rule of law and emphasized the county's need for an independent judiciary as a guard against overreaching executive power. [read post]
16 Jun 2020, 8:42 am by Elliot Setzer
., the Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing to discuss police use of force and community relations. [read post]
25 Apr 2008, 9:24 am
[JURIST] The US Senate on Thursday voted 95-0 [roll call] in favor of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA) [HR 493 materials], legislation aimed at preventing employers and health insurers from discriminating against people who have a genetic predisposition to disease. [read post]
13 Aug 2008, 5:45 am
[JURIST] Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf [official website; JURIST news archive] should resign from office immediately, US Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) [official website] said in a statement released on Monday. [read post]
3 Aug 2021, 8:54 am by Ajay Sarma
., the Senate Foreign Relations Committee will hold a hearing on administration perspectives on authorizations of use of force. [read post]
18 Oct 2007, 11:49 am
[JURIST] The US Senate Intelligence Committee [official website] Thursday debated a draft bill that would grant immunity from prosecution to telecommunications companies [JURIST report] that assisted in government eavesdropping between 2001 and 2007. [read post]
7 Jun 2007, 12:55 am
[JURIST] The US Senate voted 49-48 [roll call] Wednesday evening to approve an amendment [S Amdt 1316] to the proposed Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007 [S 1348 summary; JURIST report], restricting the Y-1 temporary guest worker visa program to five years. [read post]
1 Aug 2006, 1:43 pm
[JURIST] The US Senate voted 71-25 [roll call] Tuesday to approve the Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act of 2006 [S 3711 text; bill summary], which would allow oil and gas drilling in about 8.3 million acres of federal waters in the central Gulf. [read post]
15 Nov 2005, 6:41 am
[JURIST] The US Senate on Tuesday passed a compromise amendment [JURIST report] to the 2006 Defense Appropriations Bill [bill summary] that would curtail, but not totally cut off, Guantanamo Bay [JURIST news archive] detainees' access to the federal court system to challenge their detentions. [read post]
2 Oct 2008, 3:42 am
[JURIST] The US Senate voted Wednesday to approve legislation [HR 7081 text, PDF] establishing a cooperative nuclear energy agreement with India. [read post]
13 Jun 2005, 1:54 am
[JURIST] US senators Chuck Hagel [official website] and Dianne Feinstein [official website] have responded to a newly released log of a Guantanamo interrogation [excepts] with anger and bewilderment. [read post]
19 Sep 2007, 1:21 pm
[JURIST] A measure in the US Senate [official website] that would have overturned the current ban on habeas corpus petitions [SA 2022 materials] for detainees at Guantanamo Bay was unable to achieve the 60 votes needed [roll call] to cut off debate Wednesday. [read post]
25 Oct 2004, 10:25 am
Following up on a story reported yesterday on JURIST's Paper Chase, several US senators have responded to a report that the CIA secretly moved prisoners out of Iraq in possible violation of international treaties by calling for compliance with the Geneva Conventions. [read post]
17 Oct 2003, 7:33 am
The Nigerian Senate has resolved to investigate the Article 98 agreement[PDF] between United States and the Nigerian government (along with other countries) to prevent the extradition of US nationals declared wanted by the International Criminal Court. [read post]