Harry Reid

Harry Reid
Born	Harry Mason Reid 1939-12-02 Searchlight, Nevada, U.S.
Alma mater	Southern Utah University, Utah State University
Religion	The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Children	• Lana • Rory • Leif Josh • Key
Spouse	Landra Gould
Member of	Banned from Russia 2015
Party	Democratic
Senate Minority Leader In office January 3, 2015 - January 3, 2017 Preceded by Mitch McConnell Succeeded by Charles Schumer  Senate Minority Leader In office January 3, 2005 - January 3, 2007 Preceded by Tom Daschle Succeeded by Mitch McConnell  United States Senator from Nevada In office January 3, 1987 Serving with Dean Heller - Present Preceded by Paul Laxalt, Harry Reid"strong class="error">Error: Invalid time." contains an extrinsic dash or other characters that are invalid for a date interpretation.Paul Laxalt  Senate Majority Leader In office January 3, 2007 - January 3, 2015 Preceded by Bill Frist Succeeded by Mitch McConnell  Senate Minority Whip In office January 3, 2003 - January 3, 2005  Senate Minority Whip In office January 20, 2001 - June 6, 2001  Senate Minority Whip In office January 3, 1999 - January 3, 2001  Senate Majority Whip In office June 6, 2001 - January 3, 2003  Senate Majority Whip In office January 3, 2001 - January 20, 2001  Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Nevada's 1st district In office January 3, 1983 - January 3, 1987  Lieutenant Governor of Nevada In office January 4, 1971 - January 5, 1975

Gun control

Citing mass shootings, Harry Reid was "pushing for a vote on gun-control measures, including expanded background checks".

 

Legal Case

Name	Plaintiff(s)	Defendant(s)	Start	End	Description
Hedges v. Obama	Daniel Ellsberg Chris Hedges Noam Chomsky Jenifer Bolen Kai Wargalla Birgitta Jónsdóttir Alexa O'Brien	Barack Obama Leon Panetta John McCain John Boehner Harry Reid Eric Cantor Nancy Pelosi US Department of Defense Mitch McConnell United States of America	13 January 2012	28 April 2014	The plaintiffs challenged the 2012 NDAA contending that indefinite detention on "suspicion of providing substantial support" to groups such as al-Qaeda and the Taliban was so vague as to allow unconstitutional, indefinite detention of civilians based on vague allegations. The Court of Appeals struck down an initial agreement, and the US Supreme Court concurred, arguing that the plaintiffs could not prove they would be affected by the law, so had no standing to contest it.

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