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• Gay Culverhouse, a Grandmother Who Speaks Truth to NFL Power

  
  Women's Voices For Change — Authority: 511
  Instantly noticeable among the dark suits at the House Judiciary Committee hearing two weeks ago, Gay Culverhouse stood out in her purple dress, but even more for what she said. [...]
  2 days ago

• Kings grandstanding sank Republican amendments to PATRIOT Act

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 156
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem Representative Steve King (IA-05) enjoyed Thursdays "House call" rally against health care reform so much that he organized another rally at the Capitol today to "kill the bill." Unfortunately for fellow Republicans, King and several other ...
  5 days ago

• Reps. Conaway and Green: Champions of Radio

  
  Radio 2020 — Authority: 118
  There is a discussion of the Performance Rights Act (PRA) scheduled for November 17 on Capitol Hill.  Among the invited participants are National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) President/CEO Gordon Smith and Joint Board Chair/Commonwealth Broadcasting President/CEO Steve Newberry, as well as representatives of ...
  6 days ago

• Two Battles Won: PATRIOT Reform AND State Secrets Reform Bills Pass House Committee

  
  Privacy Digest — Authority: 436
  Two Battles Won: PATRIOT Reform AND State Secrets Reform Bills Pass House Committee : Via EFF.org Updates . After a long two days of legislative battle, the House Judiciary Committee just finished its second day of debate on Chairman Conyers PATRIOT reform bill, HR 3845 (see our wrap-up of the first day ). ...
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• Senate Panel Clears Data Breach Bills

  
  DISC Infosec blog — Authority: 118
  Image via WikipediaLegislation Heads for a Senate VoteNovember 5, 2009 - Eric Chabrow, Managing EditorThe Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved two companion bills that would require... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  1 week ago

• State Secrets Bill Passes House Judiciary, 18-12

  
  Emptywheel — Authority: 712
  The House Judiciary just passed Jerry Nadler’s bill reining in state secrets abuse by a vote of 18-12, with Adam Schiff as the sole Democrat voting against the bill. One thing Nadler has added to his bill since it was first introduced are measures to prevent the government from refusing to give plaintiff lawyers ...
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• Iowas U.S. attorney nominees move to Senate floor

  
  Featured States News — Authority: 156
  Original Author:  desmoinesdem Iowans Nick Klinefeldt and Stephanie Rose were among three U.S. attorney nominees the Senate Judiciary Committee approved today by unanimous consent, the Main Justice blog reported . Their nominations still need to be confirmed by the full Senate, ...
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• Congressional Supporters of Performance Royalty Tell NAB to Negotiate With Music Industry - Will It Resolve Anything?

  
  Broadcast Law Blog — Authority: 508
  This week, six Congressional supporters of the broadcast performance royalty wrote a letter  calling upon the NAB to sit down with music industry representatives to reach a "negotiated resolution" of the "longstanding disagreement" in a session to last from November 17 through December 1.  The letter suggests ...
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• Citing Kalamazoo vote, Mich. House panel sends civil rights law to floor

  
  Michigan Messenger — Authority: 669
  LANSING — The Michigan House Judiciary Committee Wednesday voted 9-5 to send legislation to the full House to amend civil rights laws in the state to include sexual orientation and gender identity as protected classes. “With the passage in Kalamazoo last night by overwhelming majority of voters of a similar ...
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• Report to DoD: Data Mining Won’t Catch Terrorism

  
  Cato @ Liberty — Authority: 740
  Via Secrecy News , “JASON”—a unit of defense contractor the MITRE Corporation—has reported to the Department of Defense on the weakness of data mining for predicting or discovering inchoate terrorist attacks. “[I]t is simply not possible to validate (evaluate) predictive models of rare events that have ...
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• Watch House Judiciary Committee Mark Up Patriot Act Bill Today

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 547
  While we may be tempted to direct the entirety of our gaze backwards today, looking over election results in a post-mortem fashion, the wreaking of political havoc outside the voting booth continues. Today at 12:30 pm, the House Judiciary Committee will “mark up” (that is, amend and pass to the floor of the House ...
  1 week ago

• Health Care Reform Will Take Away Our Freedom As Americans!

  
  Molly Mormon — Authority: 110
  A mandate requiring all individuals to purchase health insurance would be an unprecedented form of federal action. The government has never required people to buy any good or service as a condition of lawful residence in the United States...it would require people to purchase a specific service that would be heavily ...
  1 week ago

• “Truth” Update: New Bi-Partisan Co-sponsors

  
  Medical Cannabis: Voices from the Frontlines — Authority: 119
  Your emails to Congress are paying off! The “Truth in Trials” Act has new bi-partisan support, including backing from two members who serve on the committee with jurisdiction over HR 3939.  House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers (D-MI/14) and U.S. Representatives Jerrold Nadler (D-NY/8), Tom McClintock ...
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• Controversial Patriot Act Provisions Appears Set For Reauthorization

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 500
  The USA Patriot Act, rushed into law by a panicky U.S. Congress in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, gave the government broad surveillance powers to spy on innocent Americans. But it also stipulated that three of its more controversial provisions should expire next month unless reapproved ...
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• 1,600 are suggested *daily* for FBI’s list

  
  Survival News Network — Authority: 142
  Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation’s terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list.During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily ...
  1 week ago

• FBI Using Physical Surveillance in Churches for Purposes of Assessment

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 547
  In the Spring of 2009, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee sent written questions to FBI Director Robert Mueller regarding various topics. Ranking Judiciary Committee members Patrick Leahy and Jeff Sessions received responses to these questions on September 15, and those responses were made public late ...
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• FBI ‘Watches’ 1,600 New Terrorist Suspects Every Day

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 140
  Here is a somewhat overlooked legacy of the “war on terror” — The Washington Post’s Walter Pincus reported this weekend that FBI Director Robert Mueller told the Senate Judiciary Committee that everyday 1,600 new names are added to the terrorist watchlist — and 600 names are removed. Overall, there are 1 ...
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• Shield law: Definition of a journalist still up for grabs

  
  Nieman Journalism Lab — Authority: 737
  Thanks to the American Society of News Editors , we can now read the compromise shield law hashed out last week by the White House, news-industry lobbyists, and the Senate Judiciary Committee. There are plenty of moving parts here, but I’ve been focused on the law’s definition of a journalist, as have ...
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• Terrorist Watch List Grows 1,000 People Longer Every Day

  
  Irregular Times: News Unfit for Print — Authority: 547
  Walter Pincus of the Washington Post has waded through FBI disclosures to the Senate Judiciary Committee to find out that in the twelve-month period leading up to March 2009, the U.S. government added on average 1,600 people every day to its terrorist watch list. On the average day, 600 people were taken off the ...
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• 1,600 are suggested *daily* for FBI’s list

  
  The Gates of Hell — Authority: 133
  Newly released FBI data offer evidence of the broad scope and complexity of the nation’s terrorist watch list, documenting a daily flood of names nominated for inclusion to the controversial list. During a 12-month period ended in March this year, for example, the U.S. intelligence community suggested on a daily ...
  1 week ago

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