| | Sen. Feingold to hold hearing on 'Restoring the Rule of Law'
 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
- 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
- Harold Koh
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
- John D. Podesta
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
- Suzanne E. Spaulding
Principal, Bingham Consulting Group
- Charles J. Cooper
Partner, Cooper & Kirk, PLLC
- Patrick F. Philbin
Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
- Kyndra Rotunda
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
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