With us on washington journal tomorrow. Now president obamas pick to be the next attorney general Loretta Lynch testifies at her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary committee from earlier today. [indiscernible] good morning. I welcome everyone to this very, very important hearing. Very important hearing. Before we start id like to state a few things. These are some ground rules, pretty much the same as what former chairman and my friend senator leahy and others have done stated in the past. I want everyone to be able to watch the hearing without obstruction. If people stand up and block the view of those behind them, or speak out of turn, its not fair or considerate to others. So officers would then remove those individuals. I know that theres a lot to protest regarding this administrations policies, but this isnt the time or place to do it. Before i turn to our Opening Statements, i wanted to go over a couple of housekeeping items and explain how were going to proceed. Se
The problem with where the Net Neutrality issue has gone is it is not focused on the substance, which there is a lot of consensus around. It is focused on the Legal Authority to drop to adopt rules. Our concern is they are going to undo a regulatory status now for over a decade. On cspan two. The Senate Judiciary committee recently held a confirmation hearing her attorney general nominee Loretta Lynch. She serves as the u. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of new york. She would replace current attorney general eric holder who has been with the Obama Administration since 2009. She would also be the first africanamerican woman to head the Justice Department. At this hearing she answered questions about immigration criminal sentencing, and cyber security, among many other topics. This portion is 4. 5 hours. Good morning. Before we start id like to state a few things. These are some ground rules, pretty much the same as what former chairman and my friend senator leahy and others have d
Sure we are not only providing Law Enforcement the tools it needs, but protecting our citizens privacy. I certainly commit to you to working with you on this important legislation and all the issues that will flow from it. Thank you so much. Trade secrets are among the most valuable assets for American Companies and currently are protected under federal criminal law by the economic espionage act and by an array of state civil laws. Unlike other forms of intellectual property, theres no remedy r for trade secret owners. I will reintroduce the defend trade secrets act in the coming days to provide an official remedy for trade secret owners. Do you agree they should have the same access to a federal remedy as owners of other forms of intellectual property . Senator, i think that the issue of trade secrets, again, particularly as American Technology becomes ever more complex and becomes ever more a target from those both in the u. S. And without who would seek to steal it, is an increasing
Who would like to work and like to be a citizen, to demand that contrary to the laws of the United States . And when congress doesnt pass it is that a right that they are entitled to demand . Sir, i think that citizenship is privilege certainly a right for those of us born here. I think it is a privilege that has to be earned. With the panoply of civil rights recognized by jurisprudence i dont see one that youre describing. I certainly agree. Surprised it took you that long but the attorney general statement was breath taking to me. Peter curseneau commission of civil rights responded to that some sometime ago. He said, quote to equate amnesty for breaking immigration laws with civil rights betrays incoherent and ahistorical understanding of the Civil Rights Movement. Lawabiding, black citizens, of the nights United States were not seeking exemption from law. They were seeking application of such laws in the same manner that was applied to whites. Close quote. Would you agree with his
[indiscernible chatter] i think we are going to go ahead and get started with our second panel of the day. I am not going to give introductions of our speakers because they need no introductions. In thinking through the panel, we were thinking that the idea of this first panel would be to think in terms of the substance in some sense of constitutional political economy. And for this panel to think more in terms of institutional forms. Of course, with the recognition that the two are inseparable fro one another. Mtrying to think in terms of what it means to have a Constitutional Order that is not sure is decried in nature. We are going to begin. Thank you very much. Thank you all for being here. It is great to see such wonderful turnout to talk about constitutional political economy and to talk about the excellent book the antioligarchy constitution. One of the things that i think really comes out in the book is when we are talking about a constitutional political economy, the use of po