Patrick Leahy
Patrick Leahy
Patrick Joseph Leahyis an American politician and the senior United States Senator from Vermont. He has been in office since 1975. A member of the Democratic Party, Leahy served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate from December 17, 2012, to January 6, 2015. As President pro tempore, he was third in the presidential line of succession. He is the most senior senator and took office at a younger age than any other current senator. Leahy received...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth31 March 1940
CountryUnited States of America
She [Justice sandra Day O'Connor] wrote - and this is one we should all remember - she wrote that even war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens. She held that even this president is not above the law.
Of course no president, Democratic or Republican - no president - is above the law, as neither are you, nor I, nor anyone.
The American people deserve a Supreme Court justice who can demonstrate that he or she will not be beholden to the president, but only to the law.
The FBI wanted us to introduce the 1994 Digital Telephony bill today and I said absolutely not. They have to understand they have a Vermonter as the Chairman Of the Technology and Law committee and that we Vermonters respect our privacy.
This was the memo that basically justified the United States be involved in torture,
Let's let the Senate run this and not the gun lobbies run this Senate chamber.
Many would say that amount is negligible. Where does the rest of it go?
We have reached the point that if you have a medical record, credit card or computer, you have a privacy problem,
I take him at his word that he will steer the court to serve as an appropriate check on potential abuses of presidential power.
Frankly, had Chief Justice Roberts been rammed through on an accelerated schedule that some in the White House wanted, he would not have gotten anywhere near the number of votes he got.
We've given billions of dollars to the Department of Homeland Security. I voted for those billions of dollars as a member of the Appropriations Committee. We have given as many tools as they've asked for. What in heaven's name was happening?
has gone way beyond anything that the United States said it would tolerate.
The President and Vice-President have been consistent alright-consistently wrong. There is no value in that.
We are planning on having Thanksgiving in Washington,