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US Officials Considering Law to Address Domestic Terrorism The Department of Justice is reviewing the need for a new law to address domestic terrorism, a top official said Thursday. “That is something that we are thinking about as we are looking at all of our tools to see if we might have a threat environment, are we doing everything we can to counter the threat. One of the things we are looking at is what we need to do with authorities,” Brad Wiegmann, deputy assistant attorney general at the department’s National Security Division, testified to Congress. Officials have been “pretty ...

Domestic Terrorism Legislation: Senate Floor Action Likely SHARE Last week, I reported that Senate Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-IL) had introduced the S. 963, the Domestic Terrorism and Hate Crimes Prevention Act of 2021–the companion bill to Rep. Brad Schneider’s (D-IL) H.R. 350. Both bills would create new “Domestic Terrorism” bureaucracies inside the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security, and direct both departments to put special emphasis on a requirement for “anti‐​terrorism” training for federal, state, tribal, and local law enforcement agencies for t...

Vermont Rep. Peter Welch proposes new regulatory agency to oversee Big Tech by Christopher Hutton Print this article In a move that comes outside the box, Rep. Peter Welch, a Vermont Democrat, recommended that Congress consider investing in a government agency for regulating social media companies. On March 25, the House Energy and Commerce Committee hosted a hearing on social media, extremism, and misinformation. The hearing featured Facebook's Mark Zuckerberg, Twitter's Jack Dorsey, and Google's Sundar Pichai as key witnesses. Welch suggested that Congress form a ne...

As we mark Sunshine Week 2021, it’s a fair question to ask: how broken is the nearly 60 year‐​old Freedom of Information Act? Very, in many ways. But for my purposes here, I’m going to focus on just one, recently highlighted in a January 2021 Government Accountability Office report titled In fiscal years 2010 through 2019, federal agencies claimed a total of 256 statutes as the basis for withholding requested information using Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemptions known as (b)(3) exemptions. During this time, 91 agencies reported withholding information using at least one ...

Somerset County Democratic Screening Committee Endorses Powerful 16th District Ticket February 28, 2021, 8:34 pm | in Somerset County Democratic Screening Committee Endorses Powerful 16th District Ticket Zwicker, Freiman, and Jaffer will Complement Commissioners Robinson and Sooy’s County-Wide Bid Somerville – After interviewing more than a dozen state legislature hopefuls, the Somerset County Democratic Committee today unanimously endorsed a 16th District ticket of Assemblyman Andrew Zwicker for Senate, and Assemblyman Roy Freiman and former Montgomery Mayor Sadaf...