Legal Advice and Services Blog

Question by CIE: Do McCain supporters think he voted properly on the following senate votes? Senator McCain has voted ‘NO’ to all of these issues when they came up for vote before the senate. Does the public really know his voting record? (Obama voted ‘Yes’) Information is from the US Senate website. 1.To provide safeguards [...]

In this meeting of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senator Whitehouse urged his colleagues to confirm Dawn Johnsen to head the Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel. Whitehouse cited a long list of bipartisan supporters who have backed Johnsen’s nomination. The Committee voted 12-7 to allow Johnsen’s nomination to proceed to the floor of the Senate. [...]