Patrick Leahy

Leahy: Vt. judge confirmation fastest this year

Boston Globe (Free subscription) | yesterday

U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy says the confirmation of Vermont's new federal judge by the Senate was the fastest one this year.

U.S. Senate Judiciary sets hearing date on R.I. judge

Providence Journal (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago

By Katie Mulvaney Thompson WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee will consider President Obama's nomination of Rhode Island Superior Court Judge O. Rogeriee Thompson to the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Dec. 1. The 10 a.m. hearing will be led by Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse by order of committee chairman chaired by Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy. Whitehouse, who sits on...

How Mike Capuano Can Become the Next Senator from Massachusetts

democrats.com (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago

By David Swanson Congratulations are in order for Congressman and senate-candidate Mike Capuano of Massachusetts for openly acknowledging that Dick Cheney should be prosecuted for his crimes. Calling Dick Cheney a vampire recently helped Congressman Alan Grayson raise over 1/2 million dollars in a day. But for Capuano to light the sort of fire needed for him to win (or for Grayson to continue exciting...

The Mexican Army's Unsystemic Human Rights Violations

Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | yesterday

In the last three years, The Washington Post reports , Mexico's National Human Rights Commission has received more than 2,000 complaints about abuses committed by soldiers waging the country's U.S.-backed war on drugs. But according to the Interior Ministry, only one of those cases has resulted in a conviction: A soldier who fired on civilians at a checkpoint, killing one of them, received a nine-month...

Weak Public Option Myths That Liberals Believe

Healthcare-NOW! (Free subscription) | yesterday

For OpEdNews by Kevin Gosztola – On Saturday night, the Senate will take a procedural vote to move debate on the current health insurance enrichment bill in Congress forward. Democratic Senators like Dick Durbin, Patrick Leahy, and Chuck Schumer, through a project called Citizens for a Public Option, have been building support for the public option [...]

KSM Inquiry: Party Before Citizenry

America's Right (Free subscription) | yesterday

Assigned Reading: Eric Holder's Baffling KSM Decision (FROM: The Wall Street Journal) I missed this one on Friday. If you missed it as well, it was an op-ed piece written for the Wall Street Journal by David Beamer. If his last name rings a bell it's because his son, Todd, was killed on September 11, 2001 after standing up and fighting back on United Flight 93. Nearly all of us have heard his story,...

David Beamer on 9/11 trial

Pundit & Pundette (Free subscription) | yesterday

In case you missed it, excerpts from Todd Beamer's father's compelling witness to the Judiciary Committee's questioning of Atty. Gen. Holder last week: The committee, chaired by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.), displayed the division in our country not only visually—the Democrats were seated on the left and the Republicans on the right—but in every aspect of the proceedings. I expected that...

• Father of Todd Beamer, who died on United Airlines Flight 93 on 9/11: "...party loyalty is trumping concern for America's security interests." - lgstarr
• Eric Holder's Baffling KSM Decision = 9/11 Part II - The Whig

SeniorCare under Obama-Pelosi-Reid Healthcare

A Good Choice . . . for Ohio et al. (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

Hat tip to T.D. for sending the following information letting us in on President Barry Soetoro a/k/a Barack Obama , House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid 's future Social Security and healthcare plans for our senior citizens. Social Security For the first time in history, the Democratic Congress will not allow an increase in the social security COLA (cost of living adjustment)....

Dick Durbin, you are a liar

Cao's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

And so are Senators Patrick Leahy and Chuck Schumer. The majority of Americans DO NOT SUPPORT A so-called PUBLIC OPTION because of all the horrible things it will do to the economy, to patient care, and to the relationship between doctors and their patients. Shame on all of you for sending out that [...]

Chatter -- By: Robert Costa

The Corner (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009

Arguments offered from Democrats on the Senate floor this morning: Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vt.) -- Cites the late Teddy Kennedy, speaks about his legacy, calls this a "moral" issue Sen. Michael Bennet (D., Col.) -- Says this cloture vote is about finishing the dream of the Baby Boom generation Sen. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) -- Calls our private health system “inhumane,” says we need...

Congress To Probe Fort Hood

Judiciary Report (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009

President Obama On November 14. 2009 , the Judiciary Report stated, the U.S. Congress should probe the Fort Hood shootings, in spite of President Obama's wishes to the contrary. Today, the U.S. Senate announced it will unobtrusively probe the Fort Hood murders, that were undertaken by Al Qaeda influenced, Muslim extremist, Nidal Malik Hasan. FBI data on Fort Hood suspect is scrutinized WASHINGTON...

Shocker: Ars, Hollywood agree on need for ACTA openness

Ars Technica (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

MPAA head Dan Glickman sent a letter yesterday to both Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and to US Trade Representative Ron Kirk in which he called for a serious US push to pass the secretive Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. That's certainly expected—ACTA contains a host of goodies for Hollywood and the recording industry—but what came as a surprise was Glickman's irritation at various...

Senate Judiciary Committee Head: We wouldn't need to interrogate Bin Ladin

The Common Room (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

Drew over at Ace's place has more video footage of Holden attempting to defend his decision to try a war criminal in civilian court , plus this: Here's the crap Holder is trying to sell that Graham won't let him get away with...Holder says, 'we don't need to question bin Laden because we have so much evidence already so we won't question him for a statement, therefor Miranda doesn't apply'. Graham...

Senate confirms Obama's earliest judicial nominee after delay

JURIST (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

[JURIST] The US Senate on Thursday voted 59-39 to confirm Judge David Hamilton to the US Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, overcoming Republican opposition to secure President Barack Obama's first and longest-delayed judicial nominee. Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said a Republican filibuster delayed the vote for five-and-a-half months, since it was first put on the...

Leahy: We wouldn’t bother to interrogate … Bin Laden?

Hot Air (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009

If you want to see why a law-enforcement approach is absolutely the wrong way to defend the US against dangerous terrorists abroad, look no further than this asinine statement from Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT). Lindsey Graham asked Eric Holder how he would go about interrogating any terrorists captured by military ...

• Leahy: No need to interrogate Bin Laden - Infidels Are Cool