are not in fact pedophiles or getting getting satisfaction from it? thank you, senator, for allowing me to address what aappears to be a question that i was asking in the context of a hearing on child pornography. you ve provided the entire quote, and it looks as though i was asking that of someone, not taking that position. and the position that i ve taken in all of my sentencings involving child pornography offenders is to ensure that despite the attitude and view of many of the offenders who came before me when i was a trial judge that they were just lookers, that they weren t really harming anyone, that they were curating their collections and they never touched a child, i made sure that they understood that notwithstanding their
0 stems back decades and that is concerning. you wrote your note on the harvard law review on sex crimes. your note is your major academic work on the law review and yours is entitled prevention versus punishment: towards a principled distinction in the restraint of released sex offenders. and in it you argue, and i quote, a recent spate of legislation purports to regulate released sex offenders by requiring them to register with local law enforcement officials, notify community members of their presence, undergo dna testing and submit to civil commitment for an indefinite term. at many courts and commentators herald these laws as valid regulatory measures, others reject them as punitive enactments that violate the rights of individuals who have already been sanctioned for their crimes. under existing doctrine the constitutionality of sex offender statutes depends upon their characterization as essentially preventative rather than punitive. and what you go on to explain is if they
questions about whether donald trump was aware of that trump tower meeting, something he s publicly denied. two days before that june meeting in trump tower, donald trump jr. reportedly had two calls from the son of a russian oligarch who was arranging the logistics for the meeting. according to house democrats, quote, his phone records also show a blocked number at 4:27 p.m. that day between the two calls. trump jr. claimed he did not know who was associated with that blocked number. the democratic report also notes that corey lewandowski it aappears donald trump senior may have been in touch with his son at the very time he was planning to meet with the russians. however house democrats note the majority was unwilling to pursue the matter. ken dilanian, let s talk about this. the lack of appetite for the republicans on the house intelligence committee for digging up the truth is amazing. this paul revere character, nunes, who runs down to the white house to get the talking points b
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that particular plan at the moment it s crafted. right now we have two plans sitting on the desk, that s become nothing more than table dressing and the senate is waking up and aappears ready to do something. the bill we ve got before us is a non-starter, because it takes too many things away that are a litmus test for me and much of my conference. thank you so much for all of your help in understanding what is happening there on capitol hill. appreciate your time, congressman cwomack. the latest live in just minutes. that s about 34 million pounds of mail every day. ever wonder what this costs you as a taxpayer? millions? tens of millions? hundreds of millions? not a single cent. the united states postal service doesn t run on your tax dollars. it s funded solely by stamps and postage. brought to you by the men and women of the american postal workers union.