The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
WASHINGTON — Bringing those accused in the Sept. 11 attacks to New York for trial would increase the security threat to the city and give radical Islamists a platform to propagate their ideology, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani said Sunday. Giuliani's view that the Obama administration is erring in trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others near the site of the World Trade Center was echoed...
The Virginian Federalist (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
The weekend news reports and talk show discussions are full of viewpoints regarding the announced terrorism trials to be held in New York City. Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani remarked on the security threats trials in New York would pose as well as the publicity platform which such trials may provide to the defendants. Meanwhile, the AP reports Senator Patrick Leahy D-Vt, chairman of the Senate...
JURIST (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
[JURIST] The US Senate on Thursday voted 68-29 to approve a bill that extends the definition of federal hate crimes to include crimes motivated by gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability. The Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act is part of a $681 billion military appropriations conference report for fiscal year 2010, and enables the Department of Justice...
Aftermath News (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
Sens. Jon Kyl (R-Arizona) and Patrick Leahy, (D-Vermont) ride the Up escalator moments after approving constitutionally suspect Patriot Act provisions./AP photo Wired | Oct 8, 2009 By David Kravets A deeply divided Senate committee on Thursday forwarded legislation to the full Senate that reauthorizes three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act hastily adopted in the wake of [...]
Wampum (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
via Susie , at Chris Dodd's website : Senators Chris Dodd (D-CT), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Russ Feingold (D-WI), and Jeff Merkley (D-OR) announced today that they will introduce the Retroactive Immunity Repeal Act, which eliminates retroactive immunity for telecommunications companies that allegedly participated in President Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program. “I believe we best defend...
Counterterrorism Blog (Free subscription) | 10/02/2009
The Supreme Court’s decided Wednesday to review a challenge to a Clinton administration era law that makes it illegal to provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations. Meanwhile an amendment by Senator Russ Feingold also throws into question an extremely important legal tool against terrorists and those who fund them. The court’s decision to consider a case challenging the...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 09/28/2009
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont) and Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wisconsin) have introduced legislation that would effectively gut the USA PATRIOT Act. This week, against the backdrop of multiple domestic terrorism-related investigations and arrests, Leahy and Feingold tried to use hearings on extending the PATRIOT Act to advance legislation that would substantially weaken it....
Uncle Sam's Cabin (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
The Senate dealt a blow to ACORN Monday evening, voting to deny the Department of Housing and Urban Development from granting funds to the community organization. Sen. Mike Johanns’s (R-Neb.) amendment to the appropriations bill providing funding to the department passed in a bipartisan, 83-7 vote. It’s the latest in a series of recent setbacks for ACORN, which has come under increasing...
ACLU (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
WASHINGTON – In a letter sent to Senate Judiciary Chairman Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) Monday, the Department of Justice called for the reauthorization of three expiring provisions of the Patriot Act, but also expressed that the Obama administration is open to reforming those and other provisions. The Patriot Act was rushed through Congress just 45 days after September 11 and has led to egregious...
Marathon Pundit (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Yesterday the US Senate voted 83-7 in favor of an amendment by Sen. Mike Johanns (R-NE) to strip ACORN of funding in the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill. Who voted to keep the cash train flowing to ACORN? •Sheldon Whitehouse, D-RI •Roland Burris, D-IL •Dick Durbin, D-IL •Bernie Sanders, I-VT (Sanders caucuses with the Democrats) •Patrick Leahy,...
New York Supreme Court Criminal Ter (Free subscription) | 09/15/2009
Source: Lexology, September 14. 2009. Sen. Leahy proposes uniform data breach notification standards Wiley Rein LLP "Prospects for a federal law establishing uniform national data security breach notification requirements improved with the July introduction by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, of the "Personal Data Privacy and Security Act" (S. 1490)."...
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 08/26/2009
Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy is among the nation's politicians mourning the passing of Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Graham Pointer's Blog (Free subscription) | 08/19/2009
A group of 7 Democratic Senators- Kirsten Gillibrand (New York), Edward Kennedy (Massachusetts), John Kerry (Massachusetts), Frank Lautenberg (New Jersey), Patrick Leahy (Vermont), Bob Menendez (New Jersey) and Charles Schumer (New York)- have decided to write to Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish Secretary for Justice, to inform him that he is not to allow the release of Adbul al-Magheri. What is interesting...
Mouth of the Potomac (Free subscription) | 07/17/2009
With Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court confirmation all but assured after four days of Senate hearings, The Mouth thinks it’s a good time to look back at the odder remarks heard in the Judiciary Committee this week. I’m not an expert in marijuana growing, but apparently when you’re growing marijuana there’s certain heating lights that you need. —Sotomayor to...
Washington Post (Free subscription) | 07/16/2009
Review all exchanges organized by Senator SEN. PATRICK LEAHY: Thank you very much, Senator Grassley. Senator Kyl, did you want another round? SEN. JON KYL: Yes, thank you, Mr. Chairman. I'm not sure how long this will take. But, Judge, I think maybe we're, to use the president's analogy ...
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con1 | 12/03/2008
(For more like this, go to Conservative Oasis ) Franken Ain’t Joking Now You all know the story, or should. Here we go again. Dems trying to recount and recount until they “find” enough votes to get their guy in. In a very close race, incumbent Senator Norm Coleman is hanging by a thread against a Democrat party and Secretary of State in Minnesota that believes that you have to do everything you can...
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