You don't have a position supporting mandatory minimums as a crime-fighting tool?

Americans have the right to feel as well as be free and secure in their persons belonging and activities from unwarranted government intrusion.

Well, you said 'the' significant purpose. It is 'a' significant purpose.

I believe that Americans have a reasonable expectation of privacy.

We need to work together to reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act; but, unfortunately, H.R. 4970 is seriously flawed and should not pass. Among its many flaws, it harms immigrant women and fails to protect the LGBT community. It also…

The Supreme Court's 1967 decision, Katz v. The United States continues to direct our privacy jurisprudence.

This is an area with unlimited implications, and so I appreciate all of the witnesses today for your diligence in responding to some difficult questions.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Mr. Black, if the police had five unsolved rapes using what essentially looks like the same MO...

But how long--if you made a call, how long is that kept? Is that a different list?

Even for getting a historic business record should be the same standard as realtime tracking?

What do not expect is a carrying of personal communication devices such as cell phones will be used by the government to track and record our every move.

The possibility of terrorists or weapons of mass destruction being transported through border tunnels is frightening. The possibility of narcotics or trafficking victims being transported through tunnels is disturbing. And I have real…

The suggestion has been made that we depend on volunteer attorneys. We don't ask for physicians to volunteer. We don't depend on volunteer homebuilders or grocers or police officers or teachers. We shouldn't depend on essential services by…

First of all, there is a difference in indigent legal representation in criminal cases and civil cases. The criminal defense, it's required by the Constitution that you have to provide that, and whatever it costs, the defendant is entitled…

Thank you. Detective Kilcoyne, your testimony says the second search of the database produced a match of the son of Lonnie David Franklin, you mean close match, not a match, right?

A familial match which isn't a direct match.

I think it is wise that we have a hearing about this bill and the issue before moving legislation on it.

I commend the Attorney General for taking decisive action after the findings that you have outlined, dismissing the prosecution of Senator Stevens with prejudice upon learning of the misconduct.

It is incumbent upon the criminal justice system to ensure basic fairness to them.

I am not as concerned about the individual prosecutors involved. Their fate will be determined in another forum.

When the government conceals information in a prosecution that could undermine its case against a defendant, such concealment is fundamentally and constitutionally unfair as well as unethical, and it is actually illegal under Brady v…

The covered States are covered the old-fashioned way, they earned it.

The Federal law requires that you have to have a birth certificate or a passport.

If you don't have an ID, you don't even know where to--a lawyer doesn't even know, can't even articulate where you would start.

Somebody showing up multiple times in the same precinct is a problem that needs a focus.