Laws, nominations and legal issues / Howard D. Stern and Thomas W. O'Grady, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

O'Grady, Thomas W.

Stern, Howard D.

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.

Series:

Congressional Policies, Practices and Procedures

Congressional policies, practices and procedures

Laws and legislation

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Law--United States.

Law.

Legislation--United States.

Legislation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (361 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book presents and discusses the procedures involved in putting laws and nominations in effect, as well as a variety of legal issues and practices. Topics discussed include criminalizing unlawful presence; federal sentencing guidelines; the Armed Career Criminal Act (ACCA); Supreme Court nominations; the Whistleblower Protection Act; enforcing the immigration law; the Fairness Doctrines and U.N. conventions.

Contents:

""LAWS, NOMINATIONS AND LEGAL ISSUES ""; ""LAWS, NOMINATIONS AND LEGAL ISSUES ""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE ""; ""SHARING LAW ENFORCEMENT AND INTELLIGENCE INFORMATION: THE CONGRESSIONAL ROLE ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""THE LEGACY OF FISA ""; ""RECOGNIZING THE NEED TO SHARE INFORMATION ""; ""INITIAL EFFORTS TO LEGISLATE ""; ""AFTER 9/11, CONGRESS TEARS DOWN THE WALL ""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""CRIMINALIZING UNLAWFUL PRESENCE: SELECTED ISSUES ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""PROPOSALS TO CRIMINALIZE UNLAWFUL PRESENCE ""; ""SELECTED ISSUES ""; ""REFERENCES ""

""FEDERAL SENTENCING GUIDELINES: BACKGROUND, LEGAL ANALYSIS, AND POLICY OPTIONS """"ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""SUPREME COURT CASES ""; ""United States v. Booker ""; ""PENAL POLICY ""; ""Indeterminate Sentencing ""; ""Determinate Sentencing ""; ""THE SENTENCING REFORM ACT OF 1984 ""; ""SENTENCING GUIDELINES ""; ""Departures from the Guidelines ""; ""POSSIBLE POLICY CONSIDERATION ""; ""REFERENCES""; ""ARMED CAREER CRIMINAL ACT (ACCA): USING PRIOR JUVENILE ADJUDICATIONS FOR SENTENCE ENHANCEMENTS ""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""PRIOR CONVICTION EXCEPTION UNDER ALMENDAREZ-TORRES ""

""TWO INTERPRETATIONS OF THE PRIOR CONVICTION EXCEPTION AS APPLIED TO PRIOR JUVENILE ADJUDICATIONS """"REFERENCES ""; ""SPEED OF PRESIDENTIAL AND SENATE ACTIONS ON SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS, 1900-2009 ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""RECENT NOMINATIONS ACTIVITY ""; ""The Souter Departure Announcement and the Sotomayor Nomination Announcement""; ""Activity during 2005-2006 ""; ""The Roberts Nomination ""; ""The Miers Nomination ""; ""The Auito Nomination ""; ""MEASURING THE PACE OF SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENTS ""; ""Official and Unofficial Timetables ""; ""Objectives of This Chapter ""

""HOW SUPREME COURT VACANCIES OCCUR """"Death of a Sitting Justice ""; ""Retirement or Resignation of a Sitting Justice ""; ""Nomination of a Sitting Justice to Another Position ""; ""Controversial, Withdrawn, and Rejected Nominations ""; ""DATA PRESENTATION ""; ""Date of Actual or Prospective Vacancy ""; ""Announcement-of-Nominee Date ""; ""Use of Medians to Summarize Intervals ""; ""The Duration of the Nomination-and-Confirmation Process ""; ""Changes Since 1981 ""; ""Factors Influencing the Speed of the Process ""; ""How the Vacancy Occurs ""; ""The Senate's Schedule ""

""Committee Involvement and Institutional Customs """"Controversial Nominations ""; ""DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS ""; ""Implications for the Sotomayor Nomination ""; ""REFERENCES ""; ""SUPREME COURT NOMINATIONS, 1789 - 2009: ACTIONS BY THE SENATE, THE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE, AND THE PRESIDENT ""; ""ABSTRACT ""; ""INTRODUCTION ""; ""DESCRIPTION OF REPORT�S CONTENTS ""; ""FINDINGS FROM THE NOMINATIONS TABLE ""; ""Number of Nominations and Nominees ""; ""Presidents Who Made the Nominations ""; ""Date That Nominations Were Received in Senate ""

""Referral of Nominations to Senate Judiciary Committee ""

Notes:

Contains edited, excerpted and augmented editions of CRS reports.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61942-155-0

OCLC:

923654280