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• Day’s Worst: Arizona lawmaker says pregnancies from rape “very low”

  
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  Move over Todd Akin, meet Trent Franks. The GOP’s latest male-foot-in-male-mouth nominee is Franks, a congressman from Arizona, who said during a committee hearing that the incidences of pregnancy from rape are “very low.” That was Franks’ way of arguing against a Democratic amendment to his bill banning ...
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• US leaker Snowden under criminal investigation

  
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  The United States has launched a criminal investigation and is taking “all necessary steps” to prosecute Edward Snowden for exposing secret US surveillance programs, the FBI director said Thursday. “These disclosures have caused significant harm to our nation and to our safety,” Federal Bureau of ...
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• The gift that keeps on giving

  
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  It is a political gift to Democrats that won’t stop giving: Republican extremists are still fighting the war on women. Despite calls from mainstream Republicans (or are they the new fringe?) to present a more moderate face to the electorate, … Continue reading →        
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• VIDEO: Breaking News Headlines: UN Says 93,000 Killed in Syrian War

  
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  UN says 93,000 killed in Syrian war. House Panel Votes To Ban Abortions After 20 Weeks Of Pregnancy. Arizona Government Claims A Win As House Approves Medicaid Expansion Plan This article, “Breaking News Headlines: UN Says 93,000 Killed in Syrian War”, is categorized as “World” and its copyright notice is ...
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• FBI director to undergo questioning by House panel

  
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  FBI Director Robert Mueller (MUHL-ur) is nearing the end of his 12 years as head of the law enforcement agency that is conducting high-profile investigations of the Boston Marathon bombings, the attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans and leaks of classified government information. On Thursday, ...
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• SENATE FIGHT: REID BLOCKS BORDER FIX

  
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  On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) blocked a vote on the border security amendment to the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill offered by Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). Grassley was pushing for an up-or-down vote by the Senate on his amendment, which would ...
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• Suggestions From Author X For Copyright Reform

  
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  These suggestions are not mine, but I have permission to share them. 1. I have to provide a name, email, address, and phone number with every DMCA I issue to ask for my work to be taken down. Proposal: Require every site to mandate every uploader provide the same information, publicly available.  2. I ...
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• At hearing for ATF nominee, more Republican obstruction

  
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  On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a high-profile hearing on President Obama’s nominee to head the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, B. Todd Jones.    Jones is an exceptionally qualified nominee.  He currently serves as both the acting director of ATF and as the U.S. Attorney for ...
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• House panel backs bill to ban later-term abortions

  
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  The House is girding for another wrenching debate on abortion after a House panel approved legislation that would ban almost all abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. The bill, named the... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
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• Dem senator weighs changes to military prosecution

  
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  The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee says Congress is considering stripping the military of its authority to prosecute sexual assault cases and shifting the responsibility to state prosecutors. Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont told Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday that the status quo is ...
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• Gang of Eight immigration… There is no requirement that immigrants pay state or local back taxes or that employers pay back taxes.

  
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  Sen. Sessions on immigration bill’s broken promises The so-called Gang of Eight immigration plan now being considered by the Senate fails to live up to every major promise made by its sponsors. Far from improving the immigration system, their 1,000-page proposal would exacerbate many of its flaws. It would ...
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• Internet Business Collection of State Sales Taxes: House Judiciary Chair Goodlattes "fairness to consumers" doesnt hold water

  
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  Bob Goodlatte , (R-VA) is chair of the House Judiciary Committee.  He has said that the House wont pass the measure already approved by the Senate that would require online businesses to collect state and local sales taxes like "brick and mortar" businesses do and he wants an "alternative" to be developed in the ...
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• Washington Debates Constitutional Rights During the War on Terror

  
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  Congress wants to revisit post--9/11 authorizations, especially in light of recent drone controversy.
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• Eric Holder Admits on Secretly Pulling Records on Reporters To Prevent Media Leaks… Has No Intention of RESIGNING

  
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  ‘Things have got a little out of whack’: Eric Holder admits failings on secretly pulling records on reporters but says he has no intention of standing down Attorney General Eric Holder has admitted that  investigators may have gone too far in their recent attempts to prevent leaks to the media and he said  ...
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• GOP Rep: Rubio’s Immigration Presentation Was ‘Unconvincing’

  
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  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., sought support from House conservatives Wednesday for far-reaching immigration legislation, but many lawmakers emerged from their meeting deeply skeptical of any comprehensive bill with a pathway to citizenship for immigrants here illegally. It underscored the challenges ...
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• Obama Nominates Three to DC Court of Appeals

  
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  "What Makes the D.C. Circuit Different?" is the title of an editorial in todays New York Times. Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, is pushing a bill misleadingly called the Court Efficiency Act, which would eliminate three unfilled seats...
  2 weeks ago

• BREAKING: Rubio: Senate immigration reform bill lacks 60 votes.

  
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  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) on Tuesday said the Senate’s immigration bill does not have 60 votes, contradicting Democrats who say it would pass the chamber in its current form. Asked by FOX News if the bill approved by the Senate Judiciary Committee had 60 votes, Rubio replied: “No, and I think even the Democrats ...
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• Holder’s Worst Week Ever?

  
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  The House Judiciary Committee will wait for the attorney generals response, due by Wednesday, “before passing judgment" on "perjury.”
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• Press Coverage of DOJ Lacks in Analysis and Objectivity

  
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  Matthew L. Schafer On Thursday and Friday of this week, Attorney General Eric Holder met with various news organizations after revelations surfaced about the DOJ’s aggressive investigations of national security leaks.  During the investigations, the DOJ in one instance in federal court documents alleged that a ...
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• Prosecutor tapped to head FBI known for role in Bush-era surveillance standoff

  
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  DatzHott.com - "Where Everything Cool is Hott!" Alex Wong / Getty Images file Former U.S. Deputy Attorney General James Comey testifies during a hearing before the House Commercial and Administrative Law Subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee May 3, 2007 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. By Andrew Rafferty, ...
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