The director of the john w hosted the experience of inflated african muslims in the 19th century, and Supreme Court decisions on religious issues after world war ii. The library of congress hosted this event. Study anotherg to that hasublic debate roiled the republic since its earliest days, how religion touches our daily life in washington and around the country. It wasnt that much noted in the media this morning as they were rushing to cover Todays Health Care vote, but its also a day in which President Trump is asking for or issuing an executive order that will relax the socalled johnson amendment, which was a law passed by Lyndon Johnson in 1964 prohibiting religious organizations from overt political activity for fear of tax consequences. That is also changing today. Day night was the National Today is the national day of prayer at the white house. Last night President Trump met with his evangelical advisory board. That is a group of people who only a year ago were not very happy
Take it from there trying to field as many of your questions as possible and you can submit those questions through the event page or over twitter or facebook or youtube using the cato events. First our first guest is our author, he is the james munro distinguished professor at the university of virginia as well as a senior fellow for the study of the presidency and hes one of the nations leading constitutional scholars especially with regard to president ial powers in the author of an equally excellent previous book imperial from the beginning, the constitution of the original executive. Jack goldsmith is the professor of law at harvard and someone who youre probably aware of has seen the executive branch from the inside during a high profile, extremely tense tenure in the Bush Administration office of Legal Counsel during an early. On the war on terror, jack is one of our most thoughtful commentators on the modern presidency in venues like the atlantic on the blog and books like the
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Illegally in the Eastern Mediterranean undermining stability in the region and affecting to Member States of the European Union greece and of course the other one is cyprus in whose exclusive Economic Zone turkey has been conducting drilling in seismic tests as well the question for the greeks now is whether turkey will agree to stop these activities in both greek and cypriots exclusive Economic Zones and agree without further action on the exploration front to sit downs talks which would take place on the basis of un maritime law and would disagree with its sign a statement to the effect that should those talks fail to achieve a file last real compromise between greece and turkey on maritime jurisdictions would turkey agree to settle this through our patrician at the International Coal at the hague the those are broadly speaking the things that greece is looking for in this initial round. Of contacts between the greek and turkish sides through the German Foreign minister the effort th
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