You have got to get the United States back on track, get your own house in order, because we need the United States to be a strong global leader on human rights.
I always thought this annual report from the State Department with our human rights report card on the world was an inte...
Racial disparities and racial discrimination in our criminal justice system is a stain on American democracy.
As bad as this is, as much as it has aggravated the situation--and I plead guilty as one of those who voted for it.
We still have a long way to go.
This is what the Constitution requires, so it is particularly fitting that the Judiciary Committee now formally can look...
The announcement yesterday with moves to close Guantanamo is a welcome step.
Democrats and Republicans alike agree that we must make every effort to comply with the legal obligations we undertake w...
Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I thank the Committee for holding this important hearing.
I think that we feel--and I think you share this feeling in the administration--that as painful as some of these questio...
This law shielded sexually exploited children from being charged with prostitution.