A Washington Times editorial has again used select comments and decisions made by one of President Obama's judicial nominees to smear him as a "radical's radical." In addition to invoking judicial nominee Judge David Hamilton's views on "empathy" -- a favorite conservative attack -- the editorial, which is being highlighted by the Fox Nation, misleadingly suggested that Hamilton...
Female employees of KBR are advised that according to Senator John Ensign (R-NV) the only recourse to being drugged, gang raped, and imprisoned in a shipping container is the private arbitration incorporated in the fine print of one's employment contract. [ ISS ] Ensign was one of 30 members of the U.S. Senate to vote against the Franken Amendment which " prohibits DOD from spending federal money...
The GOP has a women's problem. Yep. They are becoming the party of crazy white men. No really, just take a look at Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh to confirm that rumor. Political jests aside - it's actually true. Just take a look at some of these statistics and see why women have been running away from the Republican party in droves and then why they were never really there in the first place: Unmarried...
I hope you've all heard about this by now, but just in case... Remember Jamie Leigh Jones? Jones was gang-raped by Halliburton/KBR coworkers in Iraq. The company colluded with their federal-government funders to cover up the incident. I've blogged about Jones several times; links to background below. From Think Progress: Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) proposed an amendment to the 2010 Defense Appropriations...
Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) sponsored an amendment to the defense appropriations bill that is a major victory for justice and accountability for private contractors. The amendment that would "withhold defense contracts from companies like KBR 'if they restrict their employees from taking workplace sexual assault, battery and discrimination cases to court.'" In 2005, Jamie Leigh Jones was gang-raped...
Go Senator Al! Al Franken successfully introduced legislation that denies federal contracts to companies that have policies -- anywhere in the world -- that punish employees for complaining about rape or discrimination on the job. This is in response to a KBR/Halliburton employee in Iraq who was drugged and gang-raped by co-workers and denied justice or even medical treatment, then locked in a storage...
Jamie Leigh Jones, age 19, was drugged and gang-raped by fellow employees of Halliburton subsidiary KBR while working in Iraq. The company kept her locked in a crate for several days and then sent her home. The doctor's notes and the crime reports have disappeared into KBR's bureaucracy, and Halliburton tried invoking the fine print of her contract to avoid a lawsuit: The Senate passed an amendment...
[Trigger warning.] Jamie Leigh Jones, the Halliburton/KBR employee who reported being gang-raped by her co-workers, only to then be held hostage by her employer, has been denied anything even resembling justice ever since because her employment contract stipulated that sexual assault allegations could only be addressed by private arbitration. That absurd (and implicitly rape-minimizing) contractual...
ANDALUSIA—The town hall meeting here between residents and Republican U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions wasn’t peppered with the confrontational anger common in many other town hall meetings around the country.
E-Verify have the new changes. During July, both the U.S. House and Senate took measures that would E-Verify will be required to use by more employers, including federal contractors and companies that benefit from federal stimulus spending. The U.S. Senate passed an amendment to the 2010 Department of Homeland Security budget sponsored by Senate Jeff Sessions of Alabama . This amendment will prevent...
Former Vice President Dick Cheney gave The Weekly Standard a statement Monday night about the CIA documents and the coming Justice Department investigation. It speaks volumes about the importance of the interrogations and astutely points out that Obama's decision to allow the Justice Department to investigate and possibly prosecute CIA personnel, and his decision to remove authority for interrogation...
Senator Kit Bond is warning the U.S. Attorney General against naming a special prosecutor to investigate Bush administration interrogation policies because such an exercise would "leave us more vulnerable to attack." "We are deeply concerned by recent news reports that you are 'poised to appoint a special prosecutor' to investigate CIA officials who interrogated al Qaeda terrorists....
Danger, Eric Holder - apparently Republican Senators want you to know that if you actually obey the rule of law, you're killing innocent people just like the terrorists did when they flew into the World Trade Center. Leading GOP lawmakers cautioned U.S. Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. on Wednesday against opening an investigation into alleged CIA interrogation abuses, saying that such an inquiry could...
Health care reform is a hot topic right now. Hundreds of people gathered in Huntsville today to voice their concerns to Senator Jeff Sessions. The auditorium only held 175 people but according
By Jason Morton Staff Writer While President Barack Obama was defending his health-care reform plan in New Hampshire on Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions was asking how the existing health-care system is affecting Alabama businesses.
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