Mike Lee

As I have expressed many times on previous occasions, in my view the Federal Government has been for decades enacting and subsequently enforcing far too much substantive criminal law.

I think most people would agree that that is too long.

I think dissents are very valuable in advancing an alternative view to the approach taken by the majority.

I am certain that she will serve in the Federal judiciary with great distinction.

I like your choice in mentioning John Marshall Harlan II. He is an unsung hero in the last century or so.

The first and easiest thing we could do is to clarify how a good time credit is calculated.

I applaud the Attorney General's recent announcement about reforms within the Department of Justice, but we need to do a lot more if we are going to extend this expansive growth.

The increase in patent filings that Senator Sessions mentioned has really created an enormous burden on that court.

I would like to thank Senator Coons and Senator Leahy for introducing Senate bill 1385, the Federal Judgeship Act of 2013.

The lack of additional judgeships, combined with significant growth in the caseload, has created enormous difficulties for many courts across the Nation.

I think at some point when you collect that much data on that many people--whether it is that much data on one person, that might create some problem.

I do think it is worth discussing publicly, and I think it is also something that we need to consider from a constitutional standpoint.

We were unable to speak about this publicly because we have secret procedures being undertaken pursuant to secret law.

Yet regardless of how difficult it might be to define in the abstract what relevance is, don't you think we have left the station of relevance long before we get to the point of collecting metadata on potentially 300 million Americans?

I assure you, as a recovering lawyer myself, there is no context in civil discovery or otherwise in which one may define 'relevance' broadly enough to take in information regarding each and every single American who owns a telephone.

I do not want the Government having that information. It is not the Government's information.

As I understand it, the NSA's collection of metadata... is accomplished pursuant to Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act.

Are there ways of keeping that leverage in check? For each leverage point, is there a counterpoint?

There are those who say that this is more of a theoretical problem than a real one.

There has to be some ability to say, no, you cannot just say, I am unwilling to license on any terms, let alone fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms.

In the small town of Alpine, Utah, where I live, we speak of little else.

But once that commitment is made, you have got to stick with it.

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Okay. Will the increasing consensus within the federal courts... reduce the prevalence of patent hold-up situations?

I feel the need to ask: Is it always anticompetitive for a holder of an SEP to see an injunction or an exclusion order?