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• Lawmakers Pursue Financial Crisis Prosecutions

  
  DealBook — Authority: 766
  Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned three of Wall Streets top cops on Wednesday in an effort to examine why they had not done more to prosecute individuals and securities firms that may have played a part in creating the financial crisis.
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• Committee approves marriage in NJ

  
  PinkNews.co.uk — Authority: 140
  The NJ senate judiciary committee approved a law to legalize same-sex marriage rights. Read more….
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• Sessions Opens DHS Oversight Hearing With Jab at Holder for 9/11 Trials

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) just opened this morning’s  hearing that’s supposed to be about oversight of the Department of Homeland Security with a quick jab at Attorney General Eric Holder for his decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged terrorists to the ...
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• DHS Oversight Hearing Likely to Be Contentious

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 742
  In advance of a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing on the Department of Homeland Security Wednesday morning, Senator Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has released a statement announcing his disapproval with DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano’s immigration policies and enforcement. “As many as twenty million ...
  21 hours ago

• New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee Passes Marriage Equality Bill

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  On Monday, December 7, New Jersey’s Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would allow gay and lesbian couples to legally marry. The bill, which passed in a 7-6 vote, will be voted on by the full Senate on Thursday. The Philadelphia Inquirer reports : The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the ...
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• Applause after NJ committee approves gay marriage bill

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  (Trenton, NJ)  The New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee handed proponents of marriage equality an important first-round victory last night, approving a bill that could make New Jersey the sixth state to allow same-sex marriage. The panel’s 7- 6 approval came shortly after ten o’clock Monday night, after more ...
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• New Jersey Senate Committee Passes Marriage Bill

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Last night the New Jersey Senate Judiciary committee voted 7 to 6 to send a marriage equality bill to the full Senate for its consideration (for an audio archive of the committee testimony, head to Good-As-You).  Reports indicate that vote could come as soon as Thursday.After facing defeats for equal marriage lately ...
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• NJ: Gay Marriage Bill Clears Senate Panel

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  A state Senate committee voted narrowly Monday night in favor of a proposal to permit gay couples to marry in New Jersey, a bill supporters hope to have Gov. Jon S. Corzine sign before he leaves office in six weeks. An hours-long hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee packed with emotional testimony, both from ...
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• New Jersey Senate Hearing on Gay Marriage Today

  
  Blog Out - Just Out Newspaper — Authority: 144
  Though similar legislation in New York state was not passed last week, New Jersey gay marriage advocates are hoping for a positive outcome in today’s head-to-head battle for gay marriage legislation in New Jersey.The race against time is triggering a ferocious lobbying campaign on the part of gay rights activists. ...
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• New Jersey Marriage Equality hearing is Today!

  
  Maybe it's just me... — Authority: 533
  NJ marriage bill in the Senate Judiciary Committee is happening now! If you want to listen to it, heres the link http://www.njleg.state.nj.us/media/live_audio.asp Good Luck, New Jersey!
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• Urge NJ Senate Judiciary Committee to Approve Marriage

  
  Queers United — Authority: 474
  The 13 member New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee is voting today on whether to let the same-sex marriage bill go to a vote before the entire senate this Thursday. Please contact the members of the committee below and urge them to vote in favor of marriage equality! Sen. Paul Sarlo (Chair): (201) 804-8118 Sen. ...
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• NJ Marriage Update – Judiciary Committee Hearing Today

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Last week they saw us and today they’ll hear us.Almost 700 New Jerseyans convened on Trenton Thursday of last week for Garden State Equality’s marriage equality lobby day.  Constituents spent the day attending committee meetings and searching for their legislators in the Capitol halls.   Around 3pm we were ...
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• NJ to take up gay marriage today

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  Pro- and anti-equality advocates will testify before the New Jersey state senate judiciary committee today on whether the state should legally institute gay marriage.The committee is expected to pass the bill; it will then be taken up by the full state senate on Thursday.Says the Star-Ledger:Advocates for same sex ...
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• Urgent Action Needed: Senate Committee Vote on "same-sex marriage" Monday (today) — New Jersey

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Dear Friends of Marriage, On Monday, at 1pm, the New Jersey Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing and vote on same-sex marriage. If passed out of committee, the bill could be voted on by the full Senate as early as Thursday.Please make time to call the Senate Judiciary Committee members today. And if there’s ...
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• NJ: Church Group to Attend Senate Committee Hearing in Support of Gay Marriage

  
  Gay Marriage Watch — Authority: 445
  The pastor, staff members and congregants of the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship will attend a rally in Trenton in hopes of convincing state senators on the Judiciary Committee to vote in favor of gay marriage. The Rev. Alison B. Miller will travel with Kathy Brown, the churchs director of religious ...
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• Weekly Judicial Selection Snapshot

  
  Justice Watch — Authority: 410
  As we mentioned earlier this week, we are now providing data on judicial selections more frequently. Here is this weeks update: On Tuesday, the Senate confirmed Jacqueline Nguyen to a seat on the United States District Court for the Central District of California by a vote of 97 to 0. Judge Nguyen, previously a ...
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• NJ: State Senate to Vote on Gay Marriage Next Week

  
  OutGayLife.com — Authority: 158
  A day after New York turned back gay marriage rights, a New Jersey senator said the Garden State would pick up the slack next week. State Sen. Ray Lesniak, a Democrat, told a group of protesters the state’s Judiciary Committee would vote on a marriage rights bill on Monday. If all goes according to plan, the bill ...
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• Klobuchars Senate committee OKs Lubinskis U.S. Marshall nod

  
  City Pages - The Blotter — Authority: 720
  The assistant chief of police in Minneapolis is one step closer to making history.
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• Congress Considering Reporter Shield Law – Some Want It to Shield Bloggers Too

  
  Akron Law Caf — Authority: 429
       Should Congress adopt a "shield law" for reporters?  Should the new law protect bloggers, too?      On March 31, 2009, the House of Representatives passed H.R. 985  (the link is to the relevant page at OpenCongress.org), the "Free Flow of Information Act of 2009,"  introduced by Rep. Rick Boucher ...
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• Feinstein and Durbin seeking to narrow shield law’s scope

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 650
  Senators Diane Feinstein and Dick Durbin are attempting to narrow the definition of a journalist in the federal shield law under consideration by the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning. Their amendment would limit protection from testifying to professional journalists working for “a newspaper, book, magazine, ...
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