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Above the Law
3 weeks ago
Law

Would-Be Federal Judges Are Flunking This Senator's Judicial 'Bar Exam'

Judicial nominees are expected to know the law well for lifetime positions
Sen. John Kennedy conducts 'pop quizzes' for judicial nominees
www.npr.org
10 months ago
Law

Morning news brief

The U.S. could run out of cash to pay its bills by June 1.Hollywood writers are striking against the major studios.The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a hearing on Supreme Court ethics.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Law

Lindsey Graham will fight Georgia 2020 election subpoena, his lawyers say

Attorneys representing Sen. Lindsey Graham said Wednesday that he intends to challenge a subpoena compelling him to testify before a special grand jury in Georgia investigating former President Donald Trump and his allies' actions after the 2020 election.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Law

The Senate will vote on a bill creating a federal right to an abortion, Schumer says

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., speaks to reporters April 27 outside the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Law

Sen. Cory Booker says we are witnessing 'a Jackie Robinson moment for our nation'

NPR's Ailsa Chang speaks with New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat who sits on the Senate Judiciary Committee, about the nomination of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson for a seat in the Supreme Court.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Law

Democrats are expected to advance SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Jackson Brown to floor vote

Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson arrives for the third day of her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee last month.
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Marketing
Intelligencer
1 month ago
Marketing

Big Tech Still Has a Big Addiction to China

The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on online child safety also focused on TikTok's relationship with the Chinese government.
Executives at competing companies have not defended TikTok on the issue of China.
Theregister
1 month ago
Marketing

Mark Zuckerberg says sorry to families at Senate hearing

Executives from top social media companies faced tough questioning from the US Senate Judiciary Committee regarding their handling of online child exploitation and abuse.
Both Republicans and Democrats criticized the social media CEOs for their failure to adequately address these issues.
www.nytimes.com
1 month ago
Marketing

Child Safety Hearing: Tech Chiefs From Meta, TikTok and Others to Testify on Child Safety Online

Senate committee will question tech CEOs on online dangers faced by children
Focus on child sexual abuse material and platforms' responsibility for protecting young people
The Verge
1 month ago
Marketing

Meta, TikTok, and other tech companies go to Congress: all the news

The Senate Judiciary Committee has summoned five tech CEOs to testify on the topic of online child sexual exploitation.
The proposed legislative solutions, including the Kids Online Safety Act, are controversial and could potentially infringe on constitutionally protected speech.
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Privacy professionals
Therecord
1 month ago
Privacy professionals

Senator proposes new encryption provision in bill against online child exploitation

Sen. Dick Durbin has circulated an updated version of a bill targeting the circulation of child exploitation materials online.
The new draft removes the word 'reckless,' offering more legal protections for encrypted communications.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
9 months ago
Privacy professionals

EFF and Allies Send Letters to Senate Judiciary Opposing Bill to Require Messaging Platforms to Report Users to the DEA

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1. EFF and a coalition of civil society groups have sent a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee to oppose a bill that would require messaging platforms to enable government access to encrypted communications.
2. The proposed bill would weaken user security and privacy, and create a dangerous precedent for other countries to follow.
3. The letter emphasizes the importance of encryption for protecting users’ rights to privacy and security, and urges Congress to reject the bill.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
10 months ago
Privacy professionals

Dangerous EARN IT Bill Advances Out of Committee, but Several Senators Offer Objections

Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted, for a third time, to advance the dangerous EARN IT bill (S.1207)-a law that could lead to suspicionless scans of every online message, photo, and hosted file.In the name of fighting crime, the EARN IT Act treats all internet users like we should be in a permanent criminal lineup, under suspicion for child abuse.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
10 months ago
Privacy professionals

EFF letter to Congress: Oppose the EARN IT Act and the STOP CSAM Act

The Senate Judiciary Committee is about to debate multiple bills that will lead to peoples' private messages being scanned and reported to the government.We oppose these bills, and we have sent a urging the Committee to vote No.
On Thursday, May 4, 2023, the committee will consider S. 1207, the Eliminating Abusive and Rampant Neglect of Interactive Technologies Act of 2023 (EARN IT Act), and S. 1199, the Strengthening Transparency and Obligation to Protect Children Suffering from Abuse and Mistreatment Act of 2023 (STOP CSAM Act).
www.mercurynews.com
11 months ago
Privacy professionals

Editorial: Delete Act' would give Californians needed privacy protections

Big data is big business.An estimated 2,000-4,000 data brokers around the world have created an estimated $200 billion industry from the data they collect, largely without consumers' knowledge.Acxiom, one of the leading global brokers, says it has collected data from 2.5 billion consumers, which equates to roughly half of the world's 5 billion active internet users.
Ars Technica
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Senators blast Twitter's alleged security failures as whistleblower testifies

The Democratic and Republican leaders of the US Senate Judiciary Committee blasted Twitter for alleged security failures in a letter last night on the eve of today's hearing featuring testimony from whistleblower Peiter "Mudge" Zatko.
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Poynter
1 month ago
Media industry

'A moment for the ages' as Mark Zuckerberg apologizes to families of abuse victims - Poynter

Mark Zuckerberg apologized to families of victims of abuse on Meta's apps during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Lawmakers expressed frustration over Congress's slow progress on child online safety legislation.
American Military News
1 year ago
Media industry

Lawmakers drop journalism act from 'must-pass' defense spending bill under pressure from Facebook

An effort to add proposed journalism legislation to an annual "must-pass" defense spending bill was shot down by lawmakers after a public face off with Meta/Facebook over required payments to publishers for online news content.The 4,408-page text of the National Defense Authorization Act, released Tuesday evening, did not include any reference to the journalism bill.
www.ocregister.com
1 year ago
Media industry

Lawmakers drop journalism act from must-pass' defense spending bill under pressure from Facebook

Robert Channick | Chicago Tribune An effort to add proposed journalism legislation to an annual must-pass defense spending bill was shot down by lawmakers after a public face off with Meta/Facebook over required payments to publishers for online news content.The 4,408-page text of the National Defense Authorization Act, released Tuesday evening, did not include any reference to the journalism bill.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Media industry

Lawmakers drop journalism act from 'must-pass' defense spending bill under pressure from Facebook

An effort to add proposed journalism legislation to an annual "must-pass" defense spending bill was shot down by lawmakers after a public face off with Meta/Facebook over required payments to publishers for online news content.The 4,408-page text of the National Defense Authorization Act, released Tuesday evening, did not include any reference to the journalism bill.
The Verge
1 year ago
Media industry

Facebook threatens to ban news in the US over journalism bill

Facebook warns it could ban news in the US if Congress passes a bill that would require the platform to negotiate with and compensate publishers for their content.Andy Stone, Meta's head of policy communications, said on Twitter that Facebook will "be forced to consider removing news" from Facebook if the Journalism Competition and Preservation Act (JCPA) is passed.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Media industry

Legislative 'lifeline' for news publishers hits wall in Senate

A bill that would enable publishers to get Big Tech platforms such as Google and Facebook to pay for their content is stalling in the Senate over GOP censorship fears.
time.com
1 month ago
Artificial intelligence

As Tech CEOs Are Grilled Over Child Safety Online, AI Is Complicating the Issue

CEOs of social media companies grilled by Senators on preventing online child sexual exploitation
Reports of child sexual abuse material reached a record high last year
www.nytimes.com
3 months ago
US Elections

Senate Panel Approves Subpoenas in Supreme Court Ethics Inquiry

The Senate Judiciary Committee authorized subpoenas for conservative allies of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr.
Republicans expressed outrage and boycotted the committee vote in response to the subpoenas.
POLITICO
1 year ago
US Elections

New GOP senator irks colleagues with Judiciary committee push

"This is something the Missouri senators need to work out," Blackburn said in an interview."I'm the only Republican woman on the Senate Judiciary Committee and I don't intend to come off the committee," she added.Blackburn joined the panel after the GOP drew heat for having no female members during the confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
US Elections

Adam Schiff, a Trump Impeachment Manager, Runs for Senate in California

WASHINGTON Representative Adam B. Schiff, the California Democrat who emerged as one of President Donald J. Trump's chief congressional tormentors from his perch atop the House Intelligence Committee, announced on Thursday that he would seek the Senate seat long held by Dianne Feinstein.I wish I could say the threat of MAGA extremists is over, he said in a video on Twitter.
www.mediaite.com
3 months ago
Chicago

Actually': Witness Hits Back At Republican's Leading Question on Gun Violence By Citing His Own State's Abysmal Statistics

Sen. John Kennedy asks about gun violence in Chicago during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing.
Dr. Megan Ranney points out that Mississippi, Louisiana, and Missouri have higher firearm death rates compared to Chicago.
Kennedy dismisses Ranney's response as 'word salad'.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Lawmakers drop journalism act from 'must-pass' defense spending bill under pressure from Facebook

An effort to add proposed journalism legislation to an annual "must-pass" defense spending bill was shot down by lawmakers after a public face off with Meta/Facebook over required payments to publishers for online news content.The 4,408-page text of the National Defense Authorization Act, released Tuesday evening, did not include any reference to the journalism bill.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Editorial: Chicago will survive without both Jewel and Mariano's. Food deserts are more complicated.

Grocery stores attract outsized political attention across the country, and nowhere more than in Chicago.On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee held a hearing to scrutinize the planned, more-than-$20 billion megamerger of two huge operators of U.S. grocery stores - Albertsons, the parent company of Chicago's ubiquitous Jewel-Osco stores, and Kroger, the operator of the Mariano's brand.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Letters: The stress that Chicago police officers face

Three Chicago police officers committed suicide in July.
www.cnn.com
9 months ago
US politics

FBI announces new curbs on controversial surveillance program as Congress considers whether to renew it

Senior Biden administration officials on Tuesday announced new disciplinary measures to prevent further FBI abuses under a controversial surveillance program that will expire at year's end unless Congress renews it.A new three strike FBI policy will have analysts disciplined, or even fired, for three incidents in which they misuse the intelligence program, Deputy FBI Director Paul Abbate told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
www.cnn.com
10 months ago
US politics

IRS whistleblower's attorneys meet with congressional investigators on Hunter Biden probe

Attorneys for an IRS whistleblower who allege there is political interference at the Justice Department in the Hunter Biden criminal investigation met with congressional investigators Friday to lay the groundwork for what their client hopes to share with Congress, according to sources familiar with the matter.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

Attorney General Merrick Garland makes unannounced trip to Ukraine

Attorney General Merrick Garland made an unannounced trip to Ukraine on Friday, according to a Justice Department official, his second trip to the country after Russia invaded a little more than a year ago.The trip was not announced for security reasons, the official said.Garland was invited to Lviv by the Ukrainian prosecutor general, the official said, and joined President Volodymyr Zelensky at the United for Justice Conference.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Analysis | Taylor Swift Can Stop Slagging Ticketmaster

TORONTO, ONTARIO - SEPTEMBER 09: (NO COVERS) Taylor Swift attends 'In Conversation With... Taylor Swift' during the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival at TIFF Bell Lightbox on September 09, 2022 in Toronto, Ontario.(Photo by Amy Sussman/Getty Images) (Photographer: Amy Sussman/Getty Images North America)You'd think Taylor Swift would be happy with the way her 52-date "Eras Tour" has gotten underway.
emptywheel
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

FBI Approved Igor Danchenko as a Source before It Stopped Doing Back-Door FISA Searches to Vet Informants - emptywheel

Last Thursday, Judge Anthony Trenga denied Igor Danchenko's motion to dismiss, while making it clear the government's case was really shoddy.
New York Daily News
1 year ago
Privacy professionals

Twitter whistleblower testifies at Congress about security flaws

Twitter's ex-security chief told a Congressional committee on Tuesday that the website was vulnerable to "teenagers, thieves and spies" exploiting users' privacy because of weak cyber defenses.
www.cnn.com
10 months ago
US politics

Harlan Crow on buying house of Justice Clarence Thomas' mother: I don't see the foot fault'

Harlan Crow, the GOP megadonor and real estate magnate who paid for luxury travel for Clarence Thomas, defended his relationship with the Supreme Court justice in an extensive interview with The Atlantic, reiterating he has never discussed cases before the court with Thomas.I have never, nor would I ever, think about talking about matters that relate to the judiciary with Justice Clarence Thomas, Crow said in the interview.
www.cnn.com
10 months ago
US politics

Senate Democrats turn up pressure on Clarence Thomas' billionaire friend by demanding accounting of gifts

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee have asked Harlan Crow, the GOP megadonor and friend of Clarence Thomas whose gifts to the Supreme Court justice have prompted fresh criticism about the ethical standards of the nation's highest court, for more information about the expenditures.In a letter on Monday, Judiciary Democrats requested information from Crow on all gifts and payments that exceed $415 that were given to any justice of the Supreme Court or family member as well as an itemized list of real estate transactions and trips.
www.cnn.com
10 months ago
US politics

Some Republicans call for more transparency around Supreme Court while calling Democratic push for ethics reform partisan

Some Republican lawmakers said Tuesday that they want to see more transparency around the Supreme Court, though they railed against the Democratic push for Congress to impose a code of conduct on the justices who exempt themselves from many of the ethics rules that lower courts follow.The debate coming after several weeks of reports of alleged ethical lapses by the justices that have dominated headlines was the subject of a hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee, where a law professor, legal advocates and two former judges, including former Attorney General Michael Mukasey, testified on whether Supreme Court ethics reform was warranted.
www.cnn.com
10 months ago
US politics

Sen. Ben Cardin will not seek reelection in 2024

Maryland Sen. Ben Cardin announced Monday that he will not seek reelection in 2024, likely setting up a competitive primary in the Democratic stronghold state.It is time and when this term ends it will be my last years as an elected official, I will not seek reelection, Cardin said in a video.Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer praised Cardin in a statement and expressed confidence that Democrats will hold onto the Senate seat.
Of course he didn't but his Judicial "Colleagues" advice was sought & they advised him that it's "Real Estate" & needn't be disclosed-esp. When everyone knows it's just a deal between two friends from 'Regular Stock' ...#GOPHypocrisy
#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt
www.cnn.com
11 months ago
US politics

Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose 2014 real estate deal with GOP megadonor, ProPublica report finds

Justice Clarence Thomas failed to disclose a 2014 real estate deal he made with a GOP megadonor, according to a ProPublica report published Thursday.The deal involved the sale of three properties in Savannah, Georgia, that were owned by Thomas and his relatives to the megadonor, Harlan Crow, according to ProPublica, which said that tax and property records showed that Crow made the purchases through one of his companies for a total of $133,363.
RT @piyushmittal: I don’t like the look of this ????
www.cnn.com
11 months ago
US politics

Chief Justice John Roberts punts on request to testify about Supreme Court ethics

Chief Justice John Roberts has declined to directly respond to a congressional request for his testimony at a Supreme Court ethics hearing next month about Justice Clarence Thomas' alleged ethical lapses.Roberts instead referred the request from Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin to the Judicial Conference, which serves as the policy-making body of the federal courts.
Chicago Tribune
10 months ago
Chicago

Letters: Justice Clarence Thomas' actions threaten the integrity of the US Supreme Court

In 1991, lawyer Anita Hill tried to warn the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee about Clarence Thomas' character flaws.The committee, chaired by then-Sen.Joe Biden, found itself in the uncomfortable position of confirming or rejecting him as the nominee to replace the late Thurgood Marshall, the first Black justice.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
US politics

Senate Democrats Seek Accounting of Gifts to Thomas and Other Justices

Democratic members of the Senate Judiciary Committee have given Harlan Crow, a billionaire Republican donor, until May 22 to provide the panel with a full accounting of gifts and other valuable benefits provided to Justice Clarence Thomas or other members of the Supreme Court.In a letter sent on Monday, Senator Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the chairman of the committee, led fellow Democrats in pressing Mr. Crow for documentation of gifts and travel provided to justices as well as any real estate transactions involving members of the court.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

McConnell chomping at the bit' to return as several ailing senators absent from Capitol

Three closely watched ailing senators remain away from the Capitol this week and it's not clear when they will return.One of them, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, has spoken directly with some members of his leadership team and conveyed to them he is doing well and anxious to get back to work.
Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
1 year ago
Washington DC

DC's Free Britney Advocates Are Organizing Again - Washingtonian

What do Senator Amy Klobuchar, Britney Spears, and Taylor Swift have in common?We're so glad you asked!Roughly a year-and-a-half after Britney Spears was released from her father's conservatorship, DC's Free Britney advocates are now protesting another cause: what they-and others like -say is a monopoly held by Ticketmaster.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles Rams

Major League Baseball agrees to pay minor leaguers $185 million to settle lawsuit

As Major League Baseball agreed to pay $185 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the league had violated federal wage laws in compensating minor leaguers, an advocacy group called the settlement a "first step" toward overhauling the minor league pay structure.
AdExchanger
1 year ago
Marketing tech

Apple CEO Tim Cook Calls For A Federal Data Privacy Law And Warns Against Open App Markets Act | AdExchanger

On Tuesday, Apple CEO Tim Cook called for a comprehensive, national privacy law in the US at the International Association of Privacy Professionals' (IAPP) Global Privacy Summit in Washington, DC.
www.nytimes.com
10 months ago
Europe news

Zelensky addresses The Hague as he pushes for a special tribunal for Russia.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Thursday delivered an address at The Hague, the seat of the International Criminal Court and a longtime symbol of international law and justice, as he pushed for a special tribunal to prosecute Russian leaders for crimes committed during the war.We all want to see a different Vladimir in The Hague, Mr. Zelensky said, referring to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia.
www.nytimes.com
1 year ago
Europe news

The U.S. attorney general meets with Zelensky during a surprise visit to Ukraine.

Attorney General Merrick B. Garland made an unannounced visit to Ukraine on Friday to reaffirm America's commitment to help hold Russia responsible for war crimes, a Justice Department spokeswoman said.Mr. Garland held several meetings with President Volodymyr Zelensky and foreign law enforcement officials in Lviv, while attending the United for Justice Conference, the department said in an email.
www.npr.org
2 years ago
Europe news

News brief: Latest in Ukraine, NATO's Ukraine options, Ketanji Brown Jackson

While the war in Ukraine continues, President Biden will head to Brussels for a NATO meeting on the crisis.
The Senate Judiciary Committee considers President Biden's nominee for the Supreme Court.
USPTO Director Scolds VLSI for Publicly Citing Anonymous Report on PQA-Intel Connection
IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
11 months ago
Intellectual property law

USPTO Director Scolds VLSI for Publicly Citing Anonymous Report on PQA-Intel Connection

"Despite Vidal's disagreement with VLSI, she stopped short of imposing sanctions 'because I agree that, for the most part, the allegations contained in the Rehearing Request were already asserted in a publicly available blog article,' she said."U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) Director Kathi Vidal said in an Order filed yesterday in IPR2021-01229 between Patent Quality Assurance (PQA)/Intel and VLSI Technology that VLSI's reference in its Rehearing Request to an "unsolicited, anonymous, and improper ex parte communication" about the relationship between PQA and Intel that Vidal had put under seal has put VLSI on thin ice and in danger of being sanctioned.
RT @kate13luna:
Outrageous! Public pressure is needed to DEMAND accountability for SCOTUS justices, who operate abo…
www.npr.org
11 months ago
Law

Chief Justice Roberts declines to testify before Senate panel

Chief Justice John Roberts says he won't testify before a Senate panel that is examining judicial ethics.Alex Wong/Getty Images Chief Justice John Roberts has declined an invitation from Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to testify before the panel, calling such testimony by chief justices "exceedingly rare."
RT @kate13luna:
Outrageous! Public pressure is needed to DEMAND accountability for SCOTUS justices, who operate abo…
www.npr.org
11 months ago
Law

Chief Justice Roberts declines to testify before Senate panel

Chief Justice John Roberts says he won't testify before a Senate panel that is examining judicial ethics.Alex Wong/Getty Images Chief Justice John Roberts has declined an invitation from Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, to testify before the panel, calling such testimony by chief justices "exceedingly rare."
www.npr.org
10 months ago
Law

The Senate holds its Supreme Court ethics hearing this week with no justices

A mobile billboard showing Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts passes the U.S. Capitol on Friday.Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images for Accountable.US The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing on Supreme Court ethics reform on Tuesday, as questions continue to swirl about the business dealings of several justices.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Europe news

Ukraine war updates: Regions vote on joining Russia, Putin orders a draft (Sept. 26)

Police officers detain a man in Moscow on Wednesday, following calls to protest against mobilization announced by President Vladimir Putin.
Social Media Explorer
1 year ago
Online marketing

Twitter Shareholders Formally Accept Musk's $44 Billion Offer He's Desperately Trying To Get Out Of - Social Media Explorer

KQED
1 year ago
Music production

Robert Smith of The Cure Convinces Ticketmaster to Give Partial Refunds, Lower Fees | KQED

Ticketmaster has been in a harsh spotlight in recent months.Last November, Taylor Swift fans waited hours, paid high fees and weathered outages on the Ticketmaster website to try to score tickets to her Eras Tour.A day before the tickets were set to open to the general public, the company canceled the sale due to "extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand."
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

Column: Civil Feinstein delivered results but irked ideologues

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California's most accomplished senator, became an anachronism.She practiced civility and compromised with the other side.That's how the state's first female senator has gotten so many important things done in an increasingly antagonistic political world.It's the way major legislation used to be passed before social media and cable "news" provided wide-ranging platforms for demagogues and nurtured the ideological extremes on both sides.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles

New push to force California lawyers to report misconduct by fellow attorneys

An influential Sacramento lawmaker has proposed legislation that would require California's 266,000 lawyers to report misconduct by colleagues to the State Bar, the agency that regulates the legal profession.The bill introduced this week by state Sen. Tom Umberg (D-Orange) comes after a Times story noting that California is the only state that does not require or encourage lawyers to turn in their peers for wrongdoing and that highlighted how that outlier status may have figured into the corruption by Los Angeles legal legend Tom Girardi.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

Dianne Feinstein announces she won't run for reelection in 2024

Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein announced on Tuesday that she will not run for reelection in 2024, a major moment for a historic political career as the fight to succeed her is already under way.I am announcing today I will not run for reelection in 2024 but intend to accomplish as much for California as I can through the end of next year when my term ends, Feinstein said in a statement.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Carole Levine: Durbin should work through August to confirm Biden's judicial nominees

Bringing greater diversity to our federal courts has been one of the most important and lasting accomplishments of President Joe Biden and Sen. Dick Durbin during the Biden presidency.
time.com
1 year ago
US politics

Ketanji Brown Jackson Heading Towards Supreme Court Confirmation With Two More GOP Votes

(Washington, D.C.) Republican Sens. Lisa Murkowski and Mitt Romney say they will vote to confirm Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's historic nomination to the Supreme Court, bolstering bipartisan support for the first Black woman to be nominated for the court.
Boston.com
1 year ago
Boston

Sexual assault survivor Chessy Prout: After what Michael Delaney did, he doesn't deserve to be a judge

Politics Judicial nominee Michael Delaney has come under fire for his role representing St. Paul's School in its high-profile sexual assault case.Federal appeals court nominee Michael Delaney doesn't deserve to be a judge after some of the tactics he used while representing St. Paul's School in its high-profile sexual assault lawsuit, according to Chessy Prout, the survivor at the center of that case.
Truthout
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

Biden Calls GOP's Inability to Select Speaker of the House "Embarrassing"

The selection of a speaker is "not my problem," Biden said, adding that the "world is watching" to see what happens.President Joe Biden returns to the White House on January 2, 2023, in Washington, D.C. Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images On Wednesday, President Joe Biden spoke to reporters about Republicans' failure to select a speaker of the House of Representatives, the congressional chamber in which they hold a majority.
Chicago Tribune
1 year ago
Chicago

Vice President Kamala Harris, in Chicago visit, calls Supreme Court abortion ruling 'a health care crisis'

Vice President Kamala Harris had planned to discuss the Biden administration's plan to improve maternal health care during her visit Friday to C.W. Avery Family YMCA in Plainfield.
the Guardian
1 year ago
World news

'All these men': Jill Biden resented Joe's advisers who pushed 2004 White House run

Feeling "burned" by her husband's first run for the presidency, Jill Biden resisted advisers including Ron Klain, now White House chief of staff, who pushed him to mount another campaign in 2004.
www.npr.org
2 years ago
Law

Photos: See what happened at hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson

March 21: Supreme Court nominee Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is sworn in for her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing.
www.npr.org
2 years ago
Law

Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson confirmation hearings: What happened today

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson arrives for her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill March 21, 2022, in Washington, D.C. Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images Day 1 of the confirmation hearing of Ketanji Brown Jackson, the federal judge President Biden nominated to fill Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer's seat when he retires this summer, has concluded.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US politics

Federal appeals court dismisses ERA case in another blow to legal fight for supporters

A federal appeals court on Tuesday dismissed a case brought by two Democratic states that sought to have the US archivist publish and certify the Equal Rights Amendment as part of the Constitution.The decision deals another blow to advocates' legal efforts to get the amendment, which they say would ban discrimination on the basis of sex, recognized as the 28th Amendment to the Constitution.
www.cnn.com
1 year ago
US news

Senators warn Big Tech on Section 230: Reform is coming'

US senators said Wednesday that bipartisan support is growing for revising a federal immunity law for tech platforms and websites known as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, a warning aimed squarely at large social media platforms.Here's a message to Big Tech: Reform is coming, said Sen. Richard Blumenthal, who chaired a technology subcommittee hearing to consider changes to the law.
Portland Mercury
1 year ago
Portland

Good Morning, News: Cully's Urban Renewal Plans, Another Dead Whale on the Oregon Coast, and the Proud Boys' Masturbation Rules

The Mercury provides news and fun every single day-but your help is essential.If you believe Portland benefits from smart, local journalism and arts coverage, please consider making a small monthly contribution, because without you, there is no us.Thanks for your support!Morning, Portland!No dilly dallying, let's jump right in.
Washingtonian - The website that Washington lives by.
1 year ago
Washington DC

A Documentary About Brett Kavanaugh's Sexual Assault Allegations Will Debut at Sundance - Washingtonian

The Sundance Film Festival announced Thursday that it would debut Doug Liman's documentary Justice, which examines the sexual assault allegations against Brett Kavanaugh and his Supreme Court confirmation hearings in 2018.Three women accused Kavanaugh of assault as the Senate Judiciary Committee considered whether he should be seated on the nation's highest court; he denied them all.
www.commondreams.org
1 year ago
Left-wing politics

State Senate Panel Rejects Right-Winger for New York's Chief Judge

Progressive lawmakers and rights advocates in New York celebrated Wednesday after the state Senate Judiciary Committee voted against Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul's nominee to serve as the state's top judge, Justice Hector LaSalle whose rulings regarding abortion rights, labor, and criminal justice made his nomination an absolute disaster, according to one critic.
IPWatchdog.com | Patents & Intellectual Property Law
1 year ago
Intellectual property law

Other Barks & Bites for Friday, September 23: Thaler Seeks Rehearing of CAFC Decision on DABUS AI, the Solicitor General Urges SCOTUS to Deny Cert in Amgen, and FTC Orders Amazon's Jassy and Bezos to Testify in Prime Investigation

Bite (noun): more meaty news to sink your teeth into.
Bark (noun): peripheral noise worth your attention.
www.cbc.ca
1 year ago
Canada news

Majority of Twitter shareholders vote in favour of sale to Elon Musk | CBC News

Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko testifies to a U.S. Senate judiciary hearing examining data security at risk, on Tuesday in Washington D.C. (Jacquelyn Martin/The Associated Press) He said there was "at least one agent" from China's intelligence service on Twitter's payroll and that the company knowingly allowed India to add agents to the company roster as well, where they had access to highly sensitive data on users around the world.
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"They don't know what data they have, where it lives and where it came from and so, unsurprisingly, they can't protect it," Zatko said.
Nytimes
1 year ago
Tech industry

Whistle-Blower Says Twitter 'Chose to Mislead' on Security Flaws

Twitter's former top security official, who has accused the company of misrepresenting its security practice s, told lawmakers at a hearing on Tuesday that the site had put user data at risk and exposed its inner workings to possible foreign agents, adding to the embattled social media service's woes.
www.npr.org
1 year ago
Tech industry

Elon Musk wants to get out of buying Twitter. A whistleblower's claims might help him

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's legal team argues that allegations by Twitter's ex-security chief give him reason to pull out of his agreement to buy the Twitter.
Engadget
1 year ago
Tech industry

Tinder owner Match Group sues Google alleging antitrust violations | Engadget

The parent company of Tinder and Hinge has sued Google.
The Verge
1 year ago
Tech industry

Match Group is suing Google over Android's in-app payment monopoly

Match Group, the company behind popular dating apps such as Tinder, Match, and OkCupid, is suing Google over its restrictive billing policies on the Play Store.
Washingtonpost
1 year ago
Business

Twitter whistleblower Peiter Zatko's full opening statement

Peiter Zatko, the former head of security at Twitter, filed a whistleblower complaint alleging unsafe data storage practices at the tech company.
Washington Post
1 year ago
Business

Twitter whistleblower to testify in Congress about security failures

Peiter Zatko, who is also known as Mudge, poses for a portrait.He is scheduled to testify before Congress next month.
Los Angeles Times
1 year ago
Los Angeles Rams

Congress asks Rob Manfred for MLB antitrust rationale in letter

The Senate Judiciary Committee got right to the point in a letter to Commissioner Rob Manfred on Monday: If America's other major sports have to follow antitrust law, why should baseball remain exempt from that law?
www.npr.org
2 years ago
Health

Confirmation hearings for Biden's Supreme Court nominee continue for a 3rd day

President Biden's Supreme Court nominee, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, faces a second day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
www.npr.org
2 years ago
Law

Sen. Graham grilled Judge Jackson on day 2 of Supreme Court confirmation hearings

Judge Katanji Brown Jackson faced a marathon day of questioning before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is considering her nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.
www.npr.org
2 years ago
Law

A marathon day is ahead for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson

President Biden's Supreme Court nominee appears before the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions from lawmakers in her bid to become the first Black woman on the nation's high court.
www.npr.org
2 years ago
Law

Sen. Dick Durbin on the 1st day of hearings for SCOTUS nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson

NPR's Juana Summers speaks with Sen. Dick Durbin, chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, as the first day of confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson wraps up.
www.npr.org
2 years ago
Law

Senate panel will hold 4 days of hearings for Biden's Supreme Court nominee

The Senate Judiciary Committee opens Supreme Court confirmation hearings Monday for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
If confirmed, she would be the first Black woman on the high court.
the Guardian
2 years ago
World news

Ketanji Brown Jackson hearings begin - could Republicans sink her chances?

Ketanji Brown Jackson appears before the Senate judiciary committee on Monday, at the start of confirmation hearings that could see her become the first Black woman to sit on the US supreme court since it was founded more than two centuries ago.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
2 years ago
Privacy professionals

Cybersecurity Experts Urge EU Lawmakers to Fix Website Authentication Proposal That Puts Internet Users' Security and Privacy at Risk

December 22, 2021 H.E. Ms Faouzia Boumaiza MebarkiChairpersonAd Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Criminal PurposesYour Excellency,We, the undersigned organizations and academics, work to protect and advance human rights, online and offline.
Nytimes
2 years ago
US politics

Few Republicans are likely to back Biden's nominee.

The Senate could confirm President Biden's Supreme Court nominee without a single Republican vote, but Mr. Biden and Democrats would like to avoid that outcome if possible - and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has drawn some G.O.P. support in the past.
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