Sentences with phrase «judiciary committee»

He referred to a letter the company and other Silicon Valley giants sent to the Senate judiciary committee on Thursday.
A state House judiciary committee heard public comment Wednesday on a bill that would allow magistrates and registers of deeds to opt - out of performing marriages altogether if they are opposed to same - sex unions for religious reasons.
Only three of twelve Republicans on the senate judiciary committee voted with their Democratic colleagues to advance New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's recent nominee to the state court of appeals, but they did so «without recommendation.»
One of the judges wasn't thrilled about being portrayed as endorsing Dwyer, and complained to the state judiciary committee about it.
The Senate asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during his testimony in front of the joint commerce and judiciary committee about whether Facebook has considered letting users pay to opt out of seeing ads.
Cuomo announced Garcia's selection came just minutes after the Senate judiciary committee unanimously voted to advance the nomination of another prosecutor, Westchester district attorney Janet DiFiore, to serve as the state's next chief judge.
Gun control advocates and critics filled a public hearing room Friday as judiciary committee members raised 16 bills, including one banning bump stocks and another regulating ghost guns, (Sandra Gomez - Aceves / Hartford Courant)
Gun control advocates and critics filled a public hearing room Friday as judiciary committee members raised 16 bills, including one banning bump stocks and another regulating ghost guns,
Back during his 2005 Senate judiciary committee confirmation hearings to become the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts tried to allay Democratic senators» fears that he -LSB-...]
Under withering criticism from government watchdogs for failing to pass any ethics reform laws this year, the Assembly judiciary committee voted 21 - 0 in favor of the same pension forfeiture bill that the state Senate passed in 2015.
The House and Senate judiciary committees held a joint hearing on June 16 to discuss those issues in advance of a special legislative session to deal with the court order.
«His policies have often leaned to the left philosophically, and at times I felt he was a judicial activist who would rather have been a legislator than a judge,» said State Sen. John Bonacic, a Republican who has chaired the chamber's judiciary committee since 2011.
Andrew McDonald, Governor Dannel Malloy's choice for Supreme Court Chief Justice speaks before the State judiciary Committee at the Legislative Office Building in Hartford.
HARTFORD — The General Assembly's judiciary committee Monday approved a proposed $ 100 million settlement of a 12 - year - old lawsuit by unions against the state over the 2003 layoff of more than 2,500 unionized workers by then - Gov.
McDonald had a contentious hearing before the General Assembly's judiciary committee last month.
This was the second time Tillett clashed with Coleman, an 11 - term incumbent from Bloomfield who co-chairs the powerful judiciary committee.
Several attended a normally quiet judiciary committee meeting, and were besieged by reporters.
Drawing on his background on both the education and judiciary committees Representative Scott described the school - to - prison pipeline as a step - by - step process that can be interrupted along the way.
In January the UK ambassador to Korea and his US and EU counterparts made representations to the Korean parliamentary and judiciary committee arguing that the current law allowing international firms to operate in Korea has failed to live up to the commitments made under the free trade agreements, as firms can not hold a majority stake in joint ventures.
On Monday, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee announced the details of a compromise selection reform proposal for the state's appellate judges, which the Kansas Bar Association's board of governors rejected on Tuesday.
The US Senate commerce and judiciary committees also have requested that Mr Zuckerberg appear in front of them.
Does it come under the South Dakota (traditional) statute, the Mullen and Verplanck precedents, Rule 506 of the proposed Rules of Evidence, or the House judiciary Committee's reversion to the strict common - law principle of no privilege at all?
Zuckerberg is slated to appear before the Senate's commerce and judiciary committees on Tuesday and the House energy and commerce committee the following day.
The Assembly's judiciary committee unanimously approved an amendment on Wednesday afternoon that was actually agreed to last year by legislative leaders.
Back during his 2005 Senate judiciary committee confirmation hearings to become the Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court, John Roberts tried to allay Democratic senators» fears that he was a conservative ideologue by famously comparing the role of judges with baseball umpires and declaring, «It's my job to call balls and strikes and not to pitch or bat.»
A Senate judiciary committee voted 4 - 1 Tuesday to send Mack's House - approved bill to the full Senate.
Representatives of Facebook, Google, and Twitter told members of the Senate judiciary committee Tuesday afternoon that they deplored the «vile» anti-immigrant, Islamophobic and other bigoted messages spread by a propaganda factory linked to the Kremlin.
After his stint at Verizon, Pai had gone to work in various roles at the Senate judiciary committee (advising Jeff Sessions and Sam Brownback) and at the justice department, before becoming FCC deputy general counsel in 2007.
In addition, I provided supplemental testimony to the Senate judiciary committee to explain this.
Both Brigham and Stewart agreed that gun safety bills never made it to the floor because they were not part of the political agenda of Senator Greg Steube, who chairs the judiciary committee responsible for advancing the bill to be discussed on the senate floor.
He told the judiciary committee that local areas don't report these religious - based hate crimes as they should, which distorts the numbers.
Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., has agreed to sit down for a transcribed interview with the Senate judiciary committee, as investigators continue to dig into his attendance at a 2016 meeting where he was promised Russian dirt on the Clinton campaign.
The chair of the House judiciary committee, Rep. Bob Goodlatte, introduced his own reauthorization bill several weeks ago that has been roundly criticized by members of the New York delegation.
Cuomo's first selection to the court, Jenny Rivera, faced a contentious hearing before the Senate's judiciary committee, where Republicans questioned her experience and political leanings.
We saw him as a senator,» said Senator John Bonacic, the head of the judiciary committee.
Schumer (Harvard Law «74) has always had a particular interest in the federal courts, and by virtue of his standing as the top lieutenant to Harry Reid, and his status as a senior member of the Senate judiciary committee, he is expected to all but name the next U.S. attorney for the Eastern District.
Rep. William Tong, a Democrat and the House chairman of the judiciary committee — where the bump stock ban was approved 36 - 5 — said earlier Tuesday, «in 2017 we learned about bump stocks; we learned after hearing that 58 people had been killed in Las Vegas and 500 had been injured.»
People for the American Way, a major progressive advocacy group, has issued a statement condemning the judiciary committee's version of 1171.
The Senate on Thursday tasked its judiciary committee on Judiciary for legal advice on the motion for the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari which was moved by Chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriation, Senator Matthew Urhoghide.
Tong, who co-chairs the legislature's judiciary committee, is hoping to capture the 40 Democratic delegates in D'Agostino's hometown of Hamden as he moves toward the state Democratic nominating convention on May 18 and 19.
It has been referred to the judiciary committee.
U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions faced tough questions from his former colleagues on the Senate judiciary committee — forcing him to once again repeatedly deny any improper contacts with the Russian government during the presidential campaign.
Coleman, who became the first African American to be co-chairman of the judiciary committee in 2001, has served in the state senate since January 1995.
State Sen. John Bonacic, the Republican who chairs the Senate's judiciary committee, took issue with language in the bill that would make an exemption in the state's grand jury secrecy laws to allow the special counsel to hand over usually confidential information to the governor «or his designee» as part of the recommendation for action.
State Rep. William Tong, D - Stamford and co-chair of the legislature's judiciary committee, has also filed paperwork to run for attorney general.
Other Democratic candidates exploring a run for the office include state Sen. Paul Doyle of Wethersfield, another co-chairman of the judiciary committee and state Rep. Mike D'Agostino of Hamden.
Republican Sen. John Kissel, the judiciary committee's co-chair, said that while he appreciates that Senate Democrats crafted the legislation, there was bipartisan effort out outside of party lines.
As co-chairman of the legislature's judiciary committee, Tong was a strong supporter of Andrew McDonald to be the next chief justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
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