#Senate Judiciary Committee

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Joan McCarter at Daily Kos:

Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Dick Durbin is failing at his job of holding the Supreme Court accountable. While he continues issuing stern statements and making floor speeches about Justice Samuel Alito’s recent flag scandals, he isn’t actually doing anything about it. Now other Democrats—like Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island and Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland—are stepping up to fill the leadership void. Alito already blew off Durbin and Whitehouse’s demands that he recuse himself from insurrection-related cases, despite his display of Stop the Steal flags. Whitehouse followed up with a letter Monday, inquiring about a tax case from which he pressed Alito to recuse himself. 

Before the hearing for that case, Alito was interviewed for The Wall Street Journal by one of the lawyers, David Rivkin Jr. In the article, Alito declared that both he and the Supreme Court are above the law. Whitehouse wrote that it “appears that you offered an improper opinion regarding a question that might come before the Court; did so in the context of a known ongoing legal dispute involving that precise question; did so at the behest of an interviewer who as a lawyer represented a client in that ongoing dispute; and did so to the benefit of his client, your personal friend, and to the benefit of yourself, as a recipient of undisclosed gifts that are the subject of our investigation.” “I note that the Supreme Court is the only place in all of government where issues of this nature have no place or means of investigation or resolution,” he continued. “So far, my questions regarding these events seem to have disappeared into a black hole of indifference.” This letter is likely to fall into the same black hole, but it does help build the case against Alito and the rampant corruption he and fellow Justice Clarence Thomas have brought to the court. 

So disappointed in Sen. Durbin’s inaction on the SCOTUS corruption crisis. #DoBetterDurbin

[looseygoosey66]

On a sillier note, today is also the anniversary (29 years) of Stoney & Jeff testifying before Congress regarding Ticketmaster. The sass and snark is strong & I love it. June 30 1994

Stone is not amused 🤨

[politicalantibody]

The Supreme Court’s power is NOT absolute. Time to lower the boom!

“Sen. Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Tuesday that “Chief Justice Roberts ought to be summoned to a hearing before the Judiciary Committee of the Senate. He ought to show some leadership and be held accountable.” “Of course, Justice Alito ought to be subpoenaed as well in my view, but likely he is not going to appear and I think it is a time of reckoning for the Congress,” Blumenthal continued. “Justice Alito says the Congress can’t regulate, to use his term, the Supreme Court. But the Congress set salaries. It sets rules of procedure. It sets the numbers of justices. The founders didn’t want the United States Supreme Court to be above the law.””

— The pressure is building for the Senate to do something about Alito

[timothy-kang]

News/Chew Shou Zi—1 Feb. 2024

On January 31, Chew Shou Zi, the Singaporean CEO of TikTok, attended a hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington. The hearing was centered around two main issues. The first issue was related to the adequacy of child protection measures in th

On January 31, Chew Shou Zi, the Singaporean CEO of TikTok, attended a hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington. The hearing was centered around two main issues. The first issue was related to the adequacy of child protection measures in the platform due to the presence of child sexual abuse material. Additionally, it was noted that Hong Kong and Tibet were less mentioned on TikTok…

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Democrats highlight IVF issue ahead of elections as Senate GOP blocks IVF bill again

Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024, at the Aspire Houston Fertility Institute in vitro fertilization lab in Houston, laboratory staff prepare small petri dishes filled with 1-7-day-old embryos. Cells will be extracted from each embryo to determine viability. As Democrats highlight the issue in the run-up to the November election, Senate Republicans voted Tuesday to block a bill ensuring access to in vitro…

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Citation: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. (1987). Government liability for atomic weapons testing program: hearing before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-ninth Congress, second session on S. 2454 ... and on H.R. 1338 ... June 27, 1986. Washington: U.S. G.P.O. . Full text available via HathiTrust

Description: A document from a Senate hearing published in 1986 concerning debate on whether the United States should be able to be sued by people who lived near or on land that, unbeknownst to them, was being used for nuclear testing. This is interesting to me, personally, as I come from Nevada: a state with a lot of history surrounding the nuclear weapons programs. Another interesting thing to note is that the hearing was being run by none other than Mitch McConnell, a man who just retired from the Senate this year. In his opening statement, McConnell mentions another perhaps infamous senator, Senatcor Strom Thurmond: the man who holds the record for conducting the longest filibuster at a full, uninterrupted 24 hours and 18 minutes. The purpose of said filibuster was to prevent The Civil Rights Act of 1957 from passing. The bill passed 2 hours after he finally sat down.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Al Jazeera:

Washington, DC – A US senator has launched ad hominem attacks against a prominent Arab American community advocate during a congressional hearing into hate crimes in the United States, which have surged in the shadow of Israel’s war on Gaza. The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday aimed to address the rise of hate crimes in the country.

But several Republicans dedicated their time to bashing college students who have protested for Palestinian rights amid the Gaza war, and many took aim at the event’s sole Arab American witness – Maya Berry, executive director of the Arab American Institute. “You support Hamas, do you not?” Louisiana Republican John Kennedy asked Berry. She unambiguously said “no” as she tried to refocus the conversation on the domestic issue of hate crimes, rather than foreign policy. “I’m going to say thank you for that question because it demonstrates the purpose of our hearing today,” Berry told the senator, suggesting that it effectively shows the rise in hate and dehumanisation she has been decrying.

[...] When Berry defended her support for UNRWA, which provides vital services – including healthcare and education – to millions of Palestinian refugees across the Middle East, Kennedy asked her one more time whether she supports Hamas. Although Berry had clearly said she does not support Hamas or Hezbollah, Kennedy said the witness could not bring herself to say that she did not back the groups. “You should hide your head in a bag,” he told Berry.

Shame on you, Sen. John N. Kennedy! Your treatment towards Maya Berry was appalling!

See Also:

HuffPost: GOP Sen. John Kennedy To Arab American Witness: 'You Support Hamas, Don't You?’

[looseygoosey66]

Another clip since Tumblr apparently decided 2 videos on the same post would be too easy 🤷 June 30 1994

[gwydionmisha]

Don't hold your breath. Republicans are strongly opposed to Ethics of any kind.

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NBA PRESIDENT MOURNS FORMER CHAIRMAN OF ABUJA BRANCH, SENATOR SODANGI DANSO ABUBAKAR

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Mr Yakubu Chonoko Maikyau, OON, SAN, has expressed sadness over Senator Sodangi Danso Abubakar’s recent passing. Abubakar was a former chairman of the Abuja Branch of the NBA and past National Legal Adviser of the NBA. Senator Abubakar was an illustrious and respected member of the bar. The former Chairman of the NBA Abuja Branch was also a…

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Watch "JUST IN: Mark Zuckerberg, Social Media CEOs Face Epic Grilling By Senate Judiciary Committee | Full" on YouTube

[the-eternal-quest-for-balance]

I'm seriously fed up with the people who can only regurgitate Democrat Propaganda. It's like saying the Steele Dossier was factual, that Russian Collusion was accurate. Well, fact based deniers, here's a little information to chew on. Not that facts, truth, honesty, integrity, or anything like that matters to any of you.

A senate report, a CNN source ( if you can believe that ) and an article from the Hill.

President Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign WAS SPIED ON.

Obamas DOJ and buddies in the FBI wiretapped Trump and his campaign.

There will never be enough facts to sway the blind sycophants of the Left.

May God have mercy on their souls.

[mariacallous]

The U.S. Senate voted 52-41 on Tuesday to confirm Mary Kay Costello as a judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, thereby setting a record for the number of LGBTQ federal judicial appointments made under the Biden-Harris administration, 12.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights says less than three percent of the country’s nearly 900 federal judges are LGBTQ. Until this week, the Obama-Biden administration had appointed the most, 11, over two terms.

Costello is a prosecutor who has served as assistant U.S. attorney in Philadelphia since 2008.

In a post on X, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Democratic majority wrote that she “exhibits a breadth of experience and a strong dedication to public service” and is “ready to serve as a federal judge.”

U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin (Ill.), the Democratic majority whip and chair of the committee, shared another post on X celebrating the administration’s record-breaking number of LGBTQ judicial appointments, writing, “We’re diversifying the federal judiciary for generations to come.”

[nudityandnerdery]

The GOP is, of course, throwing a fit that their behavior is being cited as precedent. "Consequences? For my actions?"