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Rachel Ehrenfeld

Huge Win: Senate Passes Anti-Libel Tourism Law

Posted by Rachel Ehrenfeld Jul 21st 2010 at 6:21 am in Foreign Policy, Justice/Legal, Other, Politics, Terrorism | Comments(10)
On July 19, 2010, the U.S. Senate Senate passed the Bipartisan HR 2765 (as amended by the Leahy-Sessions SPEECH Act) by Unanimous Consent. The House of Representatives, which already passed HR 2765 introduced by Congressman Steve Cohen (D-TN) by 433-2, has indicated that it will pass the same bill within days. The bill was introduced by [...]
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Rachel Ehrenfeld

Protecting Our Freedom of Speech: The SPEECH Act Now Before the Senate

Posted by Rachel Ehrenfeld Jul 13th 2010 at 2:50 am in Featured Story, Foreign Policy, History, Justice/Legal, News, Other, Terrorism | Comments(38)
Update:  the Judiciary Committee has passed the SPEECH Act; it now goes to the full senate As an American citizen who has spent seven years fighting against and promoting awareness of the threat of libel tourism to American free speech rights, I am writing in support of the S 3518, the “Securing the Protection of our [...]
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