Reflections on the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on EB-5: Time for TEA Reform

Statement of LAUREL G. BELLOWS President on behalf of the AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION for the record of the hearing on COMPREHENSIVE IMMIGRATION REFORM before the Committee on the Judiciary of the U.S. SENATE

Testimony of Jill C. Manning, M.s. Hearing on Pornography’s Impact on Marriage & the Family Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Property Rights Committee on Judiciary United States Senate

Introduction and history of position statement on the insanity defense for the proposed Federal criminal code.

To understand the following position statement and testimony on the Insanity Defense that I submitted on ]\(ay 15. 1!174. to the United States Senate Sub-committee on Criminal Laws and Prou:dure of the Senate Judiciary Committee. it is necessary to review the legislative historv of these recent eflons to reform Federal criminal laws. Need to refo;m the archaic collection of laws in the present ...

“advice and Consent” in the Appointments Clause: from Another Historical Perspective

The sharply contrasting experiences of John G. Roberts, Jr. and William Howard Taft with the Article II, Section 2 appointments process illustrate that the long view of history is governed by perspective. William Howard Taft, the twenty-seventh President, also later became the tenth Chief Justice of the United States. Taft was nominated for the position of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court—a p...

Working to Reform Marijuana Laws

I applaud the members of the Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee for holding this hearing regarding Senate Bill 757, which seeks to shield qualified patients who use cannabis therapeutically with a doctorʹs recommendation from criminal prosecution. The physician-supervised use of medicinal cannabis is a scientific and public health issue. It should not be held hostage by the socalled “war on ...