Sen. Feingold to hold hearing on 'Restoring the Rule of Law' RAW STORY

Published: Wednesday September 10, 2008





Print This Email This Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI), Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Constitution Subcommittee, has announced a hearing on how to best prepare the next president to foster an environment of accountability and responsible use of power seen lacking in the years President Bush and Vice President Cheney have been in office.



Next week the Subcommittee will hear testimony from legal and historical experts on what actions the next president and Congress need to take in order to "repair the damage done by the Bush Administration to the rule of law." The purpose of the hearing is to give the next president the "full range" of proper guidance in restoring and maintaining checks and balances in areas such as wiretapping, interrogations, government secrecy, violations of privacy, detention policy, proper use of executive power and efforts to not mislead Congress.



In addition to witnesses at the hearing, Sen. Feingold has called on various experts, law professors, historians and advocates to provide their input as to what actions the next president and Congress need to take.



The hearing will be held on Tuesday, September 16, in room 216 at the Hart Senate Office Building. Witnesses scheduled to testify are: Walter Dellinger

Douglas B. Maggs Professor Emeritus of Law, Duke University School of Law

Solicitor General of the United States 1996-1997

Douglas B. Maggs Professor Emeritus of Law, Duke University School of Law Solicitor General of the United States 1996-1997

Mickey Edwards

Board of Directors, The Constitution Project

Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy, Princeton University

Former Member of Congress (R-OK), 1977-1993

Board of Directors, The Constitution Project Lecturer, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy, Princeton University Former Member of Congress (R-OK), 1977-1993

Harold Koh

Dean and Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law

Yale Law School

Dean and Gerard C. & Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law Yale Law School

Elisa Massimino

Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Human Rights First

Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director, Human Rights First

John D. Podesta

President and CEO, Center for American Progress Action Fund

Chief of Staff to President William J. Clinton, 1998-2001

President and CEO, Center for American Progress Action Fund Chief of Staff to President William J. Clinton, 1998-2001

Frederick A.O Schwarz Jr.

Senior Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law

Senior Counsel, Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law

Suzanne E. Spaulding

Principal, Bingham Consulting Group

Principal, Bingham Consulting Group

Charles J. Cooper

Partner, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC

Partner, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC

Patrick F. Philbin

Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Kyndra Rotunda

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Chapman University School of Law

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, Chapman University School of Law

Robert Turner

Professor, General Faculty,

Associate Director, Center for National Security Law

University of Virginia School of Law







