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Monday, February 22, 2021
On November 19, 1979, a twenty-seven-year-old Justice Department attorney appeared on a panel of witnesses before the Senate Judiciary Committee. The issue was how to modernize the False Claims Act to make it an effective tool to fight fraud against the government. Over forty years later, that same attorney would appear again before the Senate Judiciary Committee to explain his vision for the Department of Justice and why he should be confirmed as the Attorney General of the United States. That attorney is Judge Merrick Garland.
Looking back, Judge Garland s early advocacy for modernizing the False Claims Act seems prophetic. Seven years after that testimony, Senator Charles Grassley, the current Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, led a bi-partisan effort that succeeded in modernizing the False Claims Act. Many of the proposals made in 1979 were incorporated into the Grassley-led 1986 amendments, including increasing penalti
Senators Durbin and Grassley re-introduce COVID-19 Safer Detention Act
As detailed in this post from last June, US Senators Dick Durbin and Chuck Grassley responded to the ugly realities of the COVID pandemic and its impact on incarcerated persons by introducing a modest, but still important, new bill to reform the procedures surrounding federal elderly home release and compassionate release. Disappointingly, that bill never moved forward in the last Congress, but this press release reports that it is back on the docket for the new Congress. Here are excerpts from the release:
Amid the COVID-19 public health pandemic, U.S. Senate Democratic Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee, and U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), Ranking Member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, authors of the bipartisan