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U.S. Senate panel bickers over Supreme Court nomination but sets vote next week

3 years 9 months ago

The U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee reopened partisan disagreements Monday as members scheduled a vote for April 4 on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court. Chairman Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said Republicans’ criticisms of Jackson’s record and responses were either untrue or disingenuous. Meanwhile, ranking Republican Chuck Grassley of Iowa again raised process concerns. Jackson […]

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Jacob Fischler

Missouri Senate congressional redistricting plan stalls on return to the House

3 years 9 months ago

Missouri House members are not ready to accept the congressional redistricting map approved by the state Senate. The House met Monday without voting on the Senate plan, approved Thursday at the end of a Senate session that lasted almost 24 hours.  State Rep. Dan Shaul, R-Imperial and chairman of the House Redistricting Committee, said after […]

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Rudi Keller

Policy Building Blocks, And How We Talk About The Law

3 years 9 months ago
One of the fundamental difficulties in doing policy advocacy, including, and perhaps especially tech policy advocacy, is that we are not only speaking of technology, which can often seem inscrutable and scary to non-experts, but law, which itself is an intricate and often opaque system. This complicated nature of our legal system can present challenges, […]
Cathy Gellis