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发帖数: 16479 | 1 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pacific/why-an-indian-judge-thinks
-rapists-should-marry-their-victims/2015/07/08/606f8998-23e5-11e5-b621-
b55e495e9b78_story.html
Why an Indian judge thinks rapists should marry their victims
By Annie Gowen July 9 at 3:30 AM Follow @anniegowen
CHENNAI, India — In a country still struggling to deal with widespread
violence against women, an Indian judge has touched off a firestorm by
suggesting that a rape victim and her attacker heal their rift in the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8869 | 2 no, FBI is under DoJ which is the dual agency of executive and Judiciary.
DoJ's independence is essential part of Western Judiciary independence
tradition. |
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发帖数: 1 | 3 【 以下文字转载自 USANews 讨论区 】
发信人: YouHi (YouHi), 信区: USANews
标 题: Dem chairman: Trump the 'greatest threat' to US democracy 'since the Civil War'
发信站: BBS 未名空间站 (Sun Feb 24 11:47:51 2019, 美东)
House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) in an interview
airing Sunday called President Trump the "greatest threat" to U.S. democracy
since "the Civil War."
"I view this president and his conduct as the greatest threat to the
democratic system and to the constitutional government since the Civ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 4 Posted on Advocate.com February 15, 2011
Colo. Civil Unions Bill Introduced
Colorado state senator Pat Steadman introduced a civil unions bill Monday,
as supporters sent legislators construction-paper “links of love” for
Valentine’s Day.
By Advocate.com Editors
Colorado state senator Pat Steadman introduced his much-anticipated civil
unions bill Monday.
Steadman had been talking about the bill for months, even wondering if he
should sponsor it, as he took into account the criticism that civil un... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 5 Posted on Advocate.com March 09, 2011
Marriage Commercial Debuts in Rhode Island
By Julie Bolcer
MarriageEqualityRhodeIslandx390 (Screengrab) | Advocate.com
A TV commercial urging the passage of the marriage equality bill premiered
Tuesday in Rhode Island.
The 60-second commercial from the Rhode Island Marriage Coalition features
couples from a variety of backgrounds talking about what marriage means to
them.
“Today’s roll out is the next step in a broader strategic plan aimed at
raising awaren... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 6 Senate DOMA Hearing Scheduled for Next Week
By Andrew Harmon
US Capitol x390 (Getty) | Advocate.com
The first Senate hearing on legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage
Act will be held July 20, Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Patrick Leahy
announced Tuesday. A witness list for the hearing has yet to be finalized.
The hearing on the Respect for Marriage Act, one first announced last week,
is subtitled, “Assessing the Impact of DOMA on American Families.”
“Until DOMA’s enactment, the fed... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 7 http://www.scotusblog.com/
摘要：今年或NEXT TERM（明年？）最高法院会以5：4承认同性婚姻， JUSTICE
KENNEDY会站在历史正确的一边。(这有点太乐观了，而且讲的不具体)
Erwin Chemerinsky
Posted Friday, August 19th, 2011 11:35 am
The time for marriage equality has finally arrived
Ewrin Chemerinsky, Dean and Professor of Law at University of California,
Irvine, predicts a narrow same-sex victory at the Court.
The following contribution to our same-sex marriage symposium is by Erwin
Chemerinsky, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Law, University of
Californ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 374 | 8 http://www.washingtonblade.com/2011/10/25/leahy-sets-doma-repea
The chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee has set Nov. 3 as the start for
debate and a committee vote on legislation to repeal the Defense of Marriage
Act.
In a statement Tuesday, the office of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) announced
the committee “will begin debate on legislation” starting Nov. 3. The
Vermont lawmaker previously pledged to hold a panel vote on the bill in
November.
The committee begin its executive business meeting ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 9 GSE is looking for LGBT couples to testify at Senate Judiciary Committee
hearing on Tuesday
Last Updated on Thursday, 19 January 2012 09:14 Written by Peter Frycki
Wednesday, 18 January 2012 17:41
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Stephen Goldstein after 2010 Senate vote GSE's Steven Goldstein says "the
game is on" for marriage equality in 2012. Next Tuesday the Senate
Judiciary Committee will take the next step in the process with a hearing on
the marriage equalit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 10 New Jersey Assembly Panel Advances Gay Marriage Bill
By Julie Bolcer
NEW JERSEY STATE HOUSE (SCOTT MCPHERSON) | ADVOCATE.COM
The New Jersey Assembly Judiciary Committee approved the marriage equality
bill in a vote Thursday afternoon, promising to escalate the standoff
between Democratic lawmakers and Republican governor Chris Christie, who has
vowed to veto the legislation.
In its first-ever hearing in the Assembly, the Marriage Equality and
Religious Exemption Act bill passed the panel Thursda... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 4174 | 11 By Ian Simpson
A joint panel of the Maryland legislature approved on Valentines's Day a
bill to legalize same-sex marriage, adding to national momentum for gay
nuptials following advances in California, New Jersey and Washington state
over the last week.
Committee approval of Governor Martin O'Malley's bill on Tuesday moves
Maryland closer to becoming the eighth state to legalize gay marriage.
The House of Delegates' Judiciary Committee and the Health and Government
Operations Committee approved... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 12 http://www.goproud.org/goproud-unveils-2012-agenda/
The so-called “gay agenda” has been defined narrowly by the gay left. In
contrast to the approach of the left, GOProud’s agenda emphasizes
conservative and libertarian principles that will improve the daily lives of
all Americans, but especially gay and lesbian Americans.
1 – TAX REFORM – We support replacing the current tax code with the Fair
Tax. The Fair Tax would treat everyone – gay or straight – equally. Until
then, we support death tax r... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2596 | 13 Gay couples campaigning for civil unions in Colorado have claimed their
biggest victory yet as a key Republican-led House committee advanced a bill
it had previously opposed.
The newfound support means Colorado is likely to become the latest of more
than a dozen states to provide legal protections to gay couples similar to
marriage.
The measure approved Thursday evening faces two more committee votes, but
sponsors are optimistic they have enough support to get the legislation to
Gov. John Hicken... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 19713 | 14 Rhode Island moved one big step closer to marriage equality today with the
House of Representatives approving the bill.
On Tuesday it had moved out of committee for the first time in all of the
previous attempts made during the last 11 years and went to the floor of the
state House, where it passed 51-19 today, led by out House speaker Gordon
Fox and the bill's author, Arthur Handy. But next up is what is still
considered by many to be the legislation's greatest hurdle — the Senate.
Senate presi... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9493 | 15 Professor Goodwin Liu’s nomination to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Ninth Circuit will be voted on by the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday
, May 13. You can support him by calling Senate Judiciary Committee members
this week at 202-224-3121 and asking them to vote for Professor Liu. |
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发帖数: 29846 | 16 By Terence P. Jeffrey
December 14, 2011
Considering the debate around President Barack Obama's health care plan and
the lawsuits filed against it, then-Solicitor General Elena Kagan's written
answers to some of the 13 written questions relating to Obamacare that
Senate Judiciary Committee Republicans submitted to her during her Supreme
Court confirmation process were remarkably simple and straightforward.
"No," she said.
That was how she answered question No. 2, which inquired if she had eve... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 17 https://www.judicialwatch.org/corrupt-politicians-lists/washingtons-ten-most
-wanted-corrupt-politicians-for-2011/
Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes
government corruption, today released its 2011 list of Washington’s “Ten
Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.” The list, in alphabetical order, includes:
Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL)
Former Senator John Ensign (R-NV)
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
Attorney General Eric Holder
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)
President Ba... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2617 | 18 this is so ridiculous.
first, the president should not have commented on the judiciary and on a
pending case.
second, the 5th cir. is also idiotic for ordering US attorneys to clarify
the president's words. the president is not a party to this case. obama,
the administration side, has no influence on the judiciary whatsoever. who
gives a fuck about what he says? it's like, some homeless beggar cursed on
the court system, should a judge order him to clarify?
and how the hell can US attorneys ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 19 He’s the custodian of the Court’s reputation.
By Charles Krauthammer
It’s the judiciary’s Nixon-to-China: Chief Justice John Roberts joins the
liberal wing of the Supreme Court and upholds the constitutionality of
Obamacare. How? By pulling off one of the great constitutional finesses of
all time. He managed to uphold the central conservative argument against
Obamacare, while at the same time finding a narrow definitional dodge to
uphold the law — and thus prevented the Court from being seen as ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 20 ＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝
James Williams, an attorney for Ms. Johnson, called the attempts to “impede
Justice Johnson’s ascension to the Chief Justice position… a racially
divisive maneuver
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反正你ｔｍｄ的不同意我老黑的就是种族歧视．
The unusual contest to determine who should be the next chief justice of the
Louisiana Supreme Court isn’t over just yet.
Lawyers for Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal on Friday filed notice that they
planned to appeal U.S. District Court Judge Susie Morgan’s ruling last week
that settled the is... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 21 A group of conservative organizations are headed to Richmond, VA, on Monday
evening to protest the Senate “Gang of Eight” immigration bill and ongoing
House GOP leadership efforts to try to produce a similar legislative
solution.
The event, being put on by NumbersUSA, Tea Party Patriots, Eagle Forum, and
The Remembrance Project, is the first stop of a “Stop Amnesty Tour” the
groups are leading across the country. Speakers at the event include
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) National Co... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29846 | 22 刚说了要观望,马上就来个现行,天使们真是狗改不了吃屎.
AG Nominee Lynch: Illegal Aliens Have ‘The Right’ to Work In U.S.
January 29, 2015 - 9:44 AM
AG Nominee Lynch: Illegal Aliens Have ‘The Right’ to Work In U.S.
See More at: http://cnsnews.com/news/article/cnsnewscom-staff/ag-nominee-lynch-illegal-aliens-have-right-work-us
AG Nominee Lynch: Illegal Aliens Have ‘The Right’ to Work In U.S.
January 29, 2015 - 9:52 AM
By CNSNews.com Staff
Attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch being sworn in at her confirmation
hearing on ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 9531 | 23 http://news.yahoo.com/immigrants-caught-border-believe-families
WASHINGTON (AP) — Hundreds of immigrant families caught illegally crossing
the Mexican border told U.S. immigration agents they made the dangerous
journey in part because they believed they would be permitted to stay in the
United States and collect public benefits, according to internal
intelligence files from the Homeland Security Department.
The interviews with immigrants by federal agents were intended to help the
Obama administ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 1455 | 24 No. The President does not need to consult the Senate Judiciary Committee in
nominating a justice. The Senate Judiciary Committee only holds a
confirmation hearing and makes recommendation to the entire Senate.
committee |
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发帖数: 1814 | 25 DONALD J. TRUMP RELEASES LIST OF POTENTIAL UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT
JUSTICES
(New York, NY) May 18, 2016 - Today Donald J. Trump released the much-
anticipated list of people he would consider as potential replacements for
Justice Scalia at the United States Supreme Court. This list was compiled,
first and foremost, based on constitutional principles, with input from
highly respected conservatives and Republican Party leadership.
Mr. Trump stated, “Justice Scalia was a remarkable person and a... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 7021 | 26 Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says Donald Trump is right to
challenge the fairness a judge overseeing lawsuits against him.
“An independent judiciary is extremely important. But that value is not the
only one in play here,” Gonzales wrote in a Saturday op-ed for The
Washington Post.
"Equally important, if not more important from my perspective as a former
judge and U.S. attorney general, is a litigant’s right to a fair trial,”
he continued.
ADVERTISEMENT
“The protection of that right ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 27 楼主是个傻逼，连什么是司法独立都不懂。
Judicial independence is the concept that the judiciary needs to be kept
away from the other branches of government. That is, courts should not be
subject to improper influence from the other branches of government, or from
private or partisan interests. Judicial Independence is vital and important
to the idea of separation of powers.
川普要求法官回避，就是在力挺司法独立，让judiciary不受任何private interest（
支持非法移民的法官） or partisan interest（支持克林顿的原告律师）影响。 |
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发帖数: 6571 | 28 维基百科对司法独立的解释：
Judicial independence is the concept that the judiciary needs to be kept
away from the other branches of government. That is, courts should not be
subject to improper influence from the other branches of government, or from
private or partisan interests. Judicial Independence is vital and important
to the idea of separation of powers.
川普要求法官回避，就是在力挺司法独立，让judiciary不受任何private interest（
支持非法移民的法官） or partisan interest（支持克林顿的原告律师）影响。、、 |
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发帖数: 43471 | 29 我就等在这里打你的脸，恩
S.98 - STEM Jobs Act of 2015
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发帖数: 6571 | 30 WASHINGTON, D.C. — Top Republican leaders in the House and Senate are
talking about next steps in the Hillary Clinton email investigation —
namely, making sure that all of the information comes out in the open.
House Speaker Paul Ryan said Tuesday that “we need more information” about
the FBI’s decision-making process, following a bizarre press conference in
which FBI director James Comey said that he found “evidence” that Clinton
potentially violated the law yet he will not recommend indictment... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 24594 | 31 WASHINGTON — FBI Director James Comey will testify to the House Oversight
Committee Thursday on the investigation in Hillary Clinton’s private email
server.
Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, announced Wednesday that Comey
had accepted an invitation to attend the Thursday morning hearing, a day
after Comey announced the FBI would not recommend criminal charges against
Clinton.
“The FBI's recommendation is surprising and confusing. The fact pattern
presented by Director Comey makes clear ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 11530 | 33 Trump picks Elaine Chao for transportation secretary
By Phil Mattingly and David Wright, CNN
Updated 12:57 PM ET, Tue November 29, 2016
(CNN) — President-elect Donald Trump has chosen Elaine Chao, the former
labor secretary and wife of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, to be
his choice for transportation secretary, an official briefed on the matter
told CNN on Tuesday.
The announcement is expected to come this afternoon.
Chao served as secretary of labor under President George W. Bush from... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 8869 | 34 Neither Chairman of senate judiciary committee nor ranking member of
judiciary committee is a lawyer.
just |
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发帖数: 386 | 36 Thursday in an appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX),
dismissed the seriousness of a Washington Post report from a day earlier
that alleged Attorney General Jeff Sessions failed to disclose meeting with
Russian officials in his AG confirmation hearing as “political theater.”
Cruz, Sessions’ former colleague on the Senate Armed Services Committee,
called the underlying meeting a “nothing burger” and argued against an
investigation into the matter.
Transcript as follows:
MIKA ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 37 Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Thursday urged faith in the
judiciary and pushed back against recent accusations that judges act too
politically.
Speaking to law students at the University of California, Berkeley,
Sotomayor said it was “sad that the public has lost confidence in the
judiciary” and “that so many people believe we’re politicized.”
“It’s not that the court has become politicized, but that society has,”
Sotomayor said, according to SFGate.
The judicial branch has been a fre... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 38 看和党参议院是不也是黔之驴了。
Senate Democrats secured the votes on Monday to block President Donald Trump
's Supreme Court nominee, but it was virtually certain to be a short-lived
political victory. Republicans have vowed to change Senate rules to put Neil
Gorsuch on the court and score a much-needed win for their party.
Delaware Sen. Chris Coons said before a Judiciary Committee vote on Gorsuch
that he would vote with his fellow Democrats to block the nomination later
this week. Majority Leader Mitch McCon... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 39 With Democrats now able to block Gorsuch's nomination, Republicans are
expected to change the rules to circumvent the filibuster.
Though GOP leadership hasn't specifically said it will use the "nuclear
option," GOP senators appear resigned to lowering the vote threshold for
Supreme Court nominations.
"If we have to, we will change the rules, and it looks like we're going to
have to," Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) said during the Senate Judiciary
Committee's meeting on Gorsuch's nomination. "I ha... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 40 Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) is calling on the Judiciary Committee to
investigate any possible obstruction of justice, including subpoenaing
officials to testify if they don't cooperate.
"It is my strong recommendation that the Judiciary Committee investigate
all issues that raise a question of obstruction of justice. These issues
should be ... subject to full Committee hearings," Feinstein wrote in a
letter Friday to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), the chairman of the committee
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发帖数: 24733 | 42 House Republicans launch new probes into Obama-era Uranium One deal, FBI
handling of Clinton case
House Republicans on Tuesday launched new probes into several Obama-era
controversies, covering both the Justice Department’s 2016 handling of the
Clinton email case and the administration’s 2010 approval for the sale of a
mining company that gave the Russians partial control over American uranium
reserves.
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., announced his
committee and the ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 29576 | 43 赵老公真流氓。
McConnell's vehicle for further marginalizing Senate
Democrats involves an obscure tradition known as the blue slip. The
President nominates all federal judges, but for decades the home-state
senators for all nominees have been asked for their approval of the choices.
If the senators agree, they submit a form (on blue paper) that ratifies the
choice. If they do not approve of the nominee, they do not return the so-
called blue slip and the Judiciary Committee does not move the nominee
fo... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 3813 | 44 Congress has handed Trump a historic presidential victory
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/24/trumps-biggest-win-yet-comes-thanks-to-
congress-commentary.html
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is giving President Trump
yet another major victory on judicial nominations.
None of this would have been possible without Harry Reid's decision to kill
the filibuster.
The result is Trump will get to fill the most federal judiciary vacancies in
40 years. |
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发帖数: 8869 | 45 "奥八不是做了八年么？不到一年遗毒就清理差不多了"
the 遗毒 of one third of the federal Judiciary cannot be undone within 不到
一年.
Obama has already appointed 329 judges to lifetime jobs, more than one third
of the judiciary, and they’re already moving American jurisprudence in
Obama’s direction. He got two left-leaning women onto the Court: Sonia
Sotomayor, the first Hispanic justice, and Elena Kagan, his former solicitor
general. He also flipped the partisan balance of the nation’s 13 courts of
appeals; when he took offic... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 46 he top Democrats on the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees are asking
the Justice Department to turn over documents they say could be "evidence"
that the FBI showed "political bias or personal animus" toward former
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election.
Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Jerrold Nadler (N.Y.), the ranking members
of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees, respectively, called on
two top Justice Department officials on Monday to share... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 734 | 47 老账被翻出来了，关键是白等来翻的。确定不是搞笑？
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/joe-biden-on-anita-hill-i-owe-her-an-apology/
Former Vice President Joe Biden is expressing regret over how he handled the
1991 hearing in which Anita Hill shared stories about alleged sexual
harassment from her former boss Clarence Thomas who the Senate was preparing
to confirm as a justice on the Supreme Court.
"I believed Anita Hill. I voted against Clarence Thomas. And I insisted the
next election — I campaigned for two women Senators on ... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 61690 | 48 Two top Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee are questioning former
national security adviser Susan Rice about an "unusual" message she sent to
herself on Jan 20, 2017 — President Trump's Inauguration Day.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R
-S.C.) questioned Rice why she sent a note detailing a conversation she
observed on Jan. 5 between then-FBI Director James Comey and then-President
Barack Obama.
"It strikes us as odd that, among your activit... 阅读全帖 |
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发帖数: 2018 | 49 WSJ这篇写得不错：
The woman accusing Brett Kavanaugh of a drunken assault when both were
teenagers has now come forward publicly, and on Monday it caused Republicans
to delay a confirmation vote and schedule another public hearing. Yet there
is no way to confirm her story after 36 years, and to let it stop Mr.
Kavanaugh’s confirmation would ratify what has all the earmarks of a
calculated political ambush.
This is not to say Christine Blasey Ford isn’t sincere in what she
remembers. In an interview pub... 阅读全帖 |
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