Designed to encourage better prosecution of violations of the current system, it would not expand background checks.
"More female leaders, based on my personal experience, always lead to a better prosecution rate of sexual offences".
They said they were not asking for new copyright laws, just better prosecution of the fast-growing number of digital piracy cases.
Republicans have instead proposed legislation that would encourage better prosecution of background check violations but not expand the screening process in any way.
Speaking on MSNBC's Meet the Press programme on Sunday, Murphy wisely said: "I think [focusing on the liberal nature of the Democrats] is a better prosecution for the McCain campaign than these character attacks or these dubious association, you know, background issues and Obama.
To criticize defense attorneys, the chief checks against prosecutorial abuse, is to promote a judicial system of error by stigmatizing a key motivator for better prosecution.
Better prepared prosecution cases also means fewer defendants being encouraged to avoid admitting their criminality.
But he had a counter-proposal: he could train Syrians to collect the type of evidence that would better serve a prosecution, tracing criminal culpability up as high as it went.
If O'Mara's first performance is any indication of his future defense, this case is shaping up to be quite the show and the prosecution better be prepared.
The consultants in the case had conducted surveys that indicated women and Democrats would make defense-friendly jurors, and the religious, those with college degrees, and Reader's Digest subscribers would be better for the prosecution.
It would be better to make such prosecutions less arbitrary by giving them to the international criminal court whose creation America opposes.
