Senate Judiciary Committee

FBI Director Challenges Top Republican's Theory On 'Fast And Furious'

HuffingtonPost.com | Mollie Reilly | Posted 12.15.2011

Read More: Operation Fast and Furious, Video, Senate Judiciary Committee, Darrell Issa, Atf, Robert Mueller, Fbi, Fast and Furious, Eric Holder, Guns, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller denied that his agency attempted to cover up evidence related to Operation Fast and Furious, denouncing Rep....

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DOMA Repeal Bill Clears Senate Judiciary Committee Vote

AP | LARRY MARGASAK | Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Video, Gay Rights, Senate Judiciary Committee, Doma, Same Sex Marriage, Obama Gay Rights, Democratic Party, Gay Marriage, Civil Rights, Defense of Marriage Act, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Senate Judiciary Committee voted Thursday to repeal a federal law defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman, but t...

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Democrats Try To Overturn Supreme Court's Anti-Consumer Rulings

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.20.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, John Cornyn, US Supreme Court, Video, Victor Schwartz, Senate Judiciary Committee, Richard Blumenthal, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, Michael McConnell, Scotus, Consumer Financial Protection Agency, Hank Johnson, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Al Franken, Consumers, Cellphones, Democrats, Arbitration, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- It's not abortion or affirmative action -- or, for that matter, campaign finance -- but a series of recent cases on arbitration has shar...

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DOMA Repeal Moves Forward In Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 12.14.2011

Read More: Senate Judiciary Committee, Doma, Patrick Leahy, Dianne Feinstein, 112th Congress, Senate Doma, Human Rights Campaign, Kirsten Gillibrand, Defense of Marriage Act, Gay Marriage, Same-Sex Marriage, Doma Repeal, Marriage Equality, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Next month, the Senate Judiciary Committee will be voting on legislation to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act, an important ste...

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The NBA Lockout, Congress and Senator Herb Kohl

Brian Frederick | Posted 12.11.2011

Read More: Senator Herb Kohl, Richard Blumenthal, Senate Judiciary Committee, Nba Lockout, David Stern, Milwaukee Bucks, Herb Kohl, New Orleans Hornets, Senator Al Franken, Nba, Sports News

Only Congress can force owners to explain why their own profits should trump the massive public investment we've made in the game. But when Congress is made up of an NBA owner and at least 244 other millionaires, don't hold your breath.

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Two Justices Took Their Show To The Senate

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.05.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, Video, Senate, Senate Judiciary Committee, Chuck Grassley, Judicial Nominations, Antonin Scalia, Living Constitution, Originalism, Jeff Sessions, 112th Congress, Lindsey Graham, Confirmation Hearings, Stephen Breyer, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Antonin Scalia took their constitutional law road show to Congress on Wednesday at the invitat...

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Matt Taibbi: The SEC's 'Orwellian' Wall Street Cover Ups

Rolling Stone | MATT TAIBBI | Posted 10.17.2011

Read More: Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, Insider Trading, Congress, Senate Judiciary Committee, Wall Street, Stock Market, National Archives and Records Administration, Aig, Sec, SAC Capital, Securities and Exchange Commission, Business News

For the past two decades, according to a whistle-blower at the SEC who recently came forward to Congress, the agency has been systematically destroyin...

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Will Obama's Judicial Nominees Be Delayed or Denied Justice?

Debbie Hines | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Women, President Obama, Senate, Senate Judiciary Committee, Judges, Diversity, African Americans, Republicans, Politics News

We should demand no less from the Senate than to give judicial nominees their due process. The unprecedented delay benefits no one who cares for justice.

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Grassley Demands Review of Veterans Dept Travel After News of $131,000 Commute

Corbin Hiar | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Fraud, Inspector General, Department of Veterans Affairs, Senate Judiciary Committee, Charles Grassley, Chuck Grassley, George Opfer, Official Travel, Politics News

Iowa Republican and longtime government watchdog Sen. Charles Grassley on Thursday demanded a review of $80 million spent on travel last year by the Department of Veterans Affairs.

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Gay Marriage Supporters Lobby For DOMA Repeal, Compare Struggle To Civil Rights Movement

AP | KEVIN FREKING | Posted 09.19.2011

Read More: Gay Rights, Senate Judiciary Committee, Respect for Marriage Act, Doma, Gay Rights Civil Rights, Obama Doma, Obama Doma Unconstitutional, Gay Marriage, Defense of Marriage Act, Civil Rights, Same-Sex Marriage, Doma Repeal, Politics News

WASHINGTON — Proponents of same-sex marriage are likening their cause to the civil rights battles, calling once more for repeal of a 1996 law th...

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Martin Sheen Asks Senate For Drug Courts

HuffingtonPost.com | Christina Wilkie | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Martin Sheen, Senate Judiciary Committee, Matthew Perry, Crime, Al Franken, Ukfilm, Drugs, War on Drugs, Office of National Drug Control Policy, Trey Anastasio, White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, Drug Policy, Celebrity Tags, Senate, Drug Courts, Illegal Drugs, 112th Congress, Uktv, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- Actor Martin Sheen pressed senators to expand federal funding for drug courts on Tuesday during testimony before a Senate Judiciary subc...

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Bin Laden Documents Help U.S. Piece Together Intelligence Puzzle

AP | KIMBERLY DOZIER | Posted 08.08.2011

WASHINGTON — The U.S. is tracking possible new terror targets and stepping up surveillance of operatives previously considered minor al-Qaida fi...

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Steve Cohen's SAC Capital Investigated For Possible Insider Trading

Posted 07.21.2011

Read More: Insider Trading, Steve Cohen, Raj Rajaratnam, Charles Grassley, Senate Judiciary Committee, Hedge Funds, Economic Crisis, Business News, SAC Capital, Business News

CHICAGO/NEW YORK (Ann Saphir and Matthew Goldstein) - A powerful Republican lawmaker is investigating possible insider trading at SAC Capital Advi...

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GOP, Stirring a Lethal Brew

James Zogby | Posted 06.02.2011

Read More: Islam, Senate Judiciary Committee, Religious Freedom, Murfreesboro Mosque, Park 51, Jon Kyl, Civil Rights, Islamophobia, Richard Durbin, John Hagee, Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, Herman Cain, Tim Pawlenty, Muslim, Newt Gingrich, Gop 2012, Gop 2012 Candidates, Politics News

GOP 2012 presidential aspirants, courting their party's religious fundamentalist base are making truly outrageous comments about Islam and Muslims.

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Leahy Presses Obama To Name Key Reformer To Swaps Panel

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) is lobbying President Obama to appoint Sean Cota, a Vermont business owner and an advocate of the regulation ...

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Unfinished Business: 19 Judicial Nominations Left Unconfirmed by 111th Congress

Nan Aron | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: 111th Congress, Senate, Senate Judiciary Committee, Judges, President Obama, Judicial Nominations, Judicial Activism, Obama Judicial Nominations, Politics News

As a result of unprecedented Republican political gamesmanship, President Obama ends the first half of his first term with a smaller percentage of his nominees confirmed than any previous president.

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Stalling for Stalling's Sake

Andrea Lyon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Judges, Senate Judiciary Committee, Gridlock, Judges, House Judiciary Committee, Confirmation Hearings, Politics News

This "I'm going to take my toys and go home" attitude is injurious to our needs as a country -- we need to fill these vacancies so trial can be held, opinions written, and decisions made both on the bench and before it.

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Judiciary Committee Member to Block Leonhart for DEA

Michael Carmichael | Posted 05.25.2011

Citing Michelle Leonhart's controversial position on prescription pain-killers for terminal patients suffering intractable pain, the Senate Judiciary Committee blocked her nomination to head the DEA.

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Jolting Congress on Patents

Pat Choate | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Independent Inventors, Senate Judiciary Committee, House Judiciary Committee, Post-Grant Challenges, White House White Paper on Innovation, Patents, Politics News

Independent American inventors are becoming an endangered species. The numbers tell the story. In 1980, independent American inventors received 16 pe...

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Online Seizure and Counterfeit Bill: Burning the House to Roast the Pig

Christina Gagnier | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: First Amendment, Coica, Congress, Piracy, Counterfeiting, Anticyberquatting, Content, Senate Judiciary Committee, Domain Names, Orrin Hatch, Web 2.0 Summit, Peter Chernin, Technology News

While the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act has been touted as a way to combat counterfeiting online worldwide, its overly excessive means will surely cause harm beyond posing a threat to free speech.

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The House Is Duty-Bound to Bring Articles of Impeachment Against Clarence Thomas

Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Impeachment Hearings, Lillian Mcewan Clarence Thomas, Jr., Federal Judge Impeachment, Supreme Court Judge Impeachment, Senate Judiciary Committee, Clarence Thomas-Anita Hill, Imoeachment, House Judiciary Committee, Clarence Thomas, John Conyers, Clarence Thomas Impeachment, Politics News

The evidence is compelling that Thomas perjured himself in his testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee during his court confirmation hearings in 1991.

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Republican Obstruction is Holding the Judicial System Hostage

Nan Aron | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Senator-Whitehouse, Senate Judiciary Committee, Republican Obstructionism, Goodwin Liu, President Obama, Judicial Nominations, Politics News

On Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee sent seven more of President Obama's judicial nominees to the full Senate for a final vote. They are joini...

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Don't Wait Another Minute: Confirm Goodwin Liu

Marcia D. Greenberger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Federal Court, Senate Judiciary Committee, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, Goodwin Liu, Politics News

The Senate can make some important progress on judges before Senators leave town. The first step is to confirm Goodwin Liu to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Senate Hearing Paves Way for Crack Down on Crush Videos

Wayne Pacelle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Supreme Court, House of Representatives, Animal Cruelty, Senate, Richard Burr, Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, Scotus, Jeff Sessions, Jeff Merkley, Crush Videos, Jon Kyl, Elton Gallegly, Politics News

The Humane Society of the United States was called to testify this morning at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the repugnant phenomenon of anim...

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NRA Campaigns to Protect Corrupt Gun Dealers

Paul Helmke | Posted 05.25.2011

If two NRA-backed bills get hearings before Congress and become law, they would devastate the ATF's ability to protect our communities and families from gun dealers who sell guns into the illegal market.

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