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Former Rep. Rick Boucher of Abingdon has joined Sidley Austin’s Washington office to lead the firm’s new government strategies practice group.
The Democrat represented southwest Virginia’s 9th District in Congress for 28 years. He was defeated by Republican Morgan Griffith last November.
Boucher said he’ll keep his Congressional travel pattern, with workweeks in Washington and weekends at [...]

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Politico is reporting that Virginia’s congressional delegation has reached a redistricting deal that likely will ensure eight of the state’s 11 seats will remain Republican for the next decade.
You might ask how they can do that when the General Assembly has the final say on redistricting, but the article suggests that state legislators are likely [...]

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Virginia House majority leader Morgan Griffith, R-Salem, is hoping to challenge long-time Rep. Rick Boucher for the 9th District Congressional seat, reports The Roanoke Times .
“It’s going to take a lot of time and money, but I believe it can be done,” Griffith told the paper this afternoon. “I just have to make sure there’s [...]

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Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-6th District, hopes to halt what he calls a “deeply disturbing trend” of judges citing foreign legal sources in U.S. court decisions.
The Roanoke Congressman has again introduced a resolution in the House discouraging judicial interpretations based in any part on foreign judgments, laws or pronouncements.
“The Supreme Court, the highest court in the [...]

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Breaking with the president he supported last year, Rep. Bobby Scott, D-Newport News, has joined other leaders who disagree with the president’s reluctance to prosecute overzealous interrogators.
The Virginian-Pilot reports Scott and 15 other Democratic members of the House Judiciary Committee sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder this week urging appointment of an independent [...]

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Rep. Robert W. Goodlatte, R-Roanoke, next month will become the No. 2 Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.

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The House Judiciary Committee has asked Paul J. McNulty what he knows about why the criminal investigation of General Reinsurance and an officer at Reciprocal of America were dropped earlier this year.
McNulty was the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia during much of the investigation and had been elevated to deputy attorney general [...]

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