Page 9 - James Arkin News Today

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol subpoenaed former President Donald Trump on Friday, making good on its promise to seek documents and testimony about his role in the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

The director of the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts told lawmakers in a letter Wednesday that work is "well underway" to modernize the electronic case management system and said there have been "productive" talks with congressional staff on proposed legislation to make access to PACER free.

A bill to protect federal judges' personal information online was added to annual defense authorization legislation in the Senate Tuesday, giving the long-stalled judicial security measure a potential path to become law before the end of this year.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and a top committee chairman expressed concerns about Tegna Inc.'s $8.6 billion deal to go private with hedge fund Standard General in a letter to the Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Thursday, urging the agency to carefully scrutinize the deal.

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced six judicial picks Thursday, including two for the Third Circuit and four for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, adding to the growing number of President Joe Biden's nominees available for consideration in the full Senate.

And Russia grants Edward Snowden citizenship.

A veteran abortion-rights attorney nominated to the First Circuit vowed to apply the U.S. Supreme Court's recent Dobbs decision "faithfully" and pledged that she would separate her past advocacy from rulings on the bench during a Senate hearing Wednesday.

The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced President Joe Biden's nominees for the Fifth Circuit and D.C. Circuit on Thursday, adding to the number of judges available for votes in the full Senate as Democrats race to confirm as many nominees as possible before the midterm elections.

The Senate voted to confirm U.S. District Judge Sarah A.L. Merriam to the Second Circuit on Thursday, elevating her to the appellate court less than a year after senators approved her nomination to the District of Connecticut.

A former top security executive at Twitter who filed a whistleblower complaint over the company's data practices told senators on Tuesday that the social media giant has substandard data privacy and security measures that left users' data and national security vulnerable to malicious actions.