Ariana Figueroa, Georgia Recorder Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats this week discussed how to treat gun violence as a public health crisis, in hopes of building upon last year’s federal gun safety legislation. “Across the country, gun violence is a public health epidemic,” Illinois Democrat Dick Durbin, the chairman of the …
Read More »With No GOP Support, Senate Panel Passes Bill Requiring Supreme Court to Adopt Ethics Code
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced legislation that would require the U.S. Supreme Court to adopt an enforceable code of ethics and adhere to stronger disclosure rules following a series of revelations about the luxury trips and other gifts justices have received from right-wing billionaires. Led by Sen. Sheldon …
Read More »‘Lobbying For My Right To Exist’: US Senate Panel Examines How States Target Trans Kids
Ariana Figueroa, Kentucky Lantern Harleigh Walker wants U.S. senators to understand she is a typical 16-year-old girl. She likes Taylor Swift. She enjoys being on her school’s debate team. And she listens way too loudly to music in her room. “I’m just trying to be a teenager in America,” she …
Read More »Tougher Ethics Rules For U.S. Supreme Court Justices Advocated In Senate Hearing
Ashley Murray, Florida Phoenix Senate Democrats for the third time this year made their case that U.S. Supreme Court justices must follow stronger ethics rules, including recusing themselves from cases where they have a financial stake or other connection to a case. The series of hearings by the Senate Committee …
Read More »Republicans Block Effort To Replace Feinstein On Judiciary Committee
Senate Republicans blocked an effort by Democrats to replace California Sen. Dianne Feinstein on the Senate Judiciary Committee temporarily as she recovers from shingles at home. Senate Democrats are seeking to temporarily replace Feinstein on the powerful panel that processes judicial nominees as the California Democrat remains absent. Feinstein’s return …
Read More »Lack Of Action By Congress To Protect Kids Online Criticized At U.S. Senate Hearing
Jennifer Shutt, Arkansas Advocate U.S. senators on Tuesday voiced frustration and outrage that Congress has been unable to pass legislation bolstering protection for children online, including adding guardrails to social media platforms. During a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, Democrats and Republicans pledged to keep working together to pass …
Read More »Federal Prisons ‘riddled with mismanagement’ Probed By Senate Panel
Ariana Figueroa, Georgia Recorder Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in a Thursday hearing grilled the top leader of federal prisons on how the agency would address staffing shortages and reports of abuse of incarcerated people. “The Bureau (of Prisons) has been riddled with mismanagement and, sadly, with scandal,” …
Read More »Effects Of Gun Violence On Kids Probed By Senate Committee
by Ariana Figueroa, Nebraska Examiner The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday examined the public health effect that gun violence has on children. “Guns are killing our kids at a devastating rate,” Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the committee, said in his opening statement. The hearing followed the May …
Read More »‘My mom’s life mattered’: Son of Black Shooting Victim Urges Congress To Act
by Ariana Figueroa, Florida Phoenix The son of a Black woman shot and killed by a white supremacist begged members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday to take action against such domestic terrorism. The gunman in Buffalo, New York, was motivated by the “great replacement theory,” a racist conspiracy theory …
Read More »Senate Advances Judge Jackson’s Supreme Court Nomination
by Jacob Fischler, Idaho Capital Sun April 4, 2022 The U.S. Senate advanced Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson’s historic Supreme Court nomination in a 53-47 procedural vote Monday evening, hours after the Judiciary Committee deadlocked along party lines. Republican Sens. Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Mitt Romney …
Read More »Day 3 Of Ketanji Brown Jackson’s Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings
by Jacob Fischler, Missouri Independent March 24, 2022 WASHINGTON — Members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee picked up Wednesday morning where they left off Tuesday evening in questioning Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson about her judicial philosophy, sentencing practices and personal background. Two senators, Democrat Jon Ossoff …
Read More »Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse Says FBI’s Brett Kavanaugh Investigation Was “Politically Constrained And Perhaps Fake”
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse says the FBI’s investigation into sexual assault and misconduct against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh was “politically constrained and perhaps fake.” After former President Donald Trump nominated Kavanaugh in 2018, multiple women accused Kavanaugh of sexual assault and misconduct. One of his accusers, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, testified …
Read More »FBI Director Says Agents Are Looking Into Roughly 2,000 Domestic Terrorism Cases
The FBI is currently looking into roughly 2,000 domestic terrorism cases following the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. On Tuesday, FBI Director Christopher A. Wray said his agents are pursuing cases that involve domestic terrorism, highlighting that since 2017, the number of arrests and investigations by the FBI …
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