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Of note: one of the co-authors of this article, Patrick Toomey, is a US Senator (R-Pennsylvania). The fact that someone in Congress is involved in this issue increases, however marginally, the odds that it will be addressed.

[edit] It appears I was mistaken, because The Hill website was also mistaken. Same name, different guy.

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Are you sure it's the same Patrick Toomey? The article describes his bio as Senior Staff Attorney with the ACLU's National Security Project and legal Co-Counsel on the case in question. Presumably if the author were also a US Senator they would have mentioned it.

> sure it's the same Patrick Toomey

Same Toomey [1]. Just a different mantel.

[1] https://thehill.com/people/patrick-toomey

They linked to the wrong person.

This is the Pat Toomey that co-wrote the article: https://www.aclu.org/news/by/patrick-toomey/

You can open his bio on the site where it shows his picture and "OCCUPATION: Senator, 2011 - Present"

The Hill site is wrong.

The ACLU Pat Toomey is Patrick C. Toomey. Picture of him here: https://www.justsecurity.org/author/toomeypatrick/

The Senator is Patrick Joseph Toomey Jr.

Maybe the Hill automates scanning the bylines and adds links to bios. Obviously it isn't perfect.

The concept of using the same name for 2 different people, in the same household, has always befuddled me.

I know of a family with three generations of people with same First Middle Last name, but since grandfather goes by First, father goes by First Middle and grandson goes by Middle, there's no actual confusion.

Except where your trying to do some paperwork. Ok

I stopped reading One Hundred Years of Solitude because I had enough of people across generations having the same damn name.

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