And for human equality. But the notice was very much at this moment. Enforces to confront challenges in our society that weve had trouble with in recent years. This is a time that makes us wonder how strong our institutions are going to prove to be. How we are going to rise to the challenge like this. I think you cant help but to see it as a time of crisis. Because it is a time of testing is also time for us to think about what americas strengths are and what were good at is a country and how we can build on that to confront these enormous problems. See 500 we get there. Our country has always tried to strike a balance between the dignity and equality of individuals in one hand and some form of strength of community on the other. Every free Society Faces that in our society think is in the past halfcentury really emphasize the individual. Yuval emphasize liberty and freedom. And also diversity. That is brought some enormous advances and benefits. But there is another side to the coin.
Would begin the first in a series of hearings on the state of the federal judiciary in the 21st century. In this hearing we will investigate ideas for promoting ethics, accountability, and transparency in the federal courts. We focus on these ideas in our first hearing on the judiciary because they flow from two foundational principles of due process. First that no one can be a judge in his own case. Second, to form a Supreme Court Justice Felix frankfurter , justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Both rules embody the understanding that the constitutions implicit promise of equal justice under law depends on at least two things that our court must be fair, independent and impartial and that we must also believe that our courts are fair, independent, and impartial. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice it might take a second but we intuitively understand that. It means that as the Supreme Court recently explained both th
See spent your unfiltered view of politics. The president of the ncaa Charlie Baker joined the commissioner of the big ten tony National Former team gymnast Trinity Thomas and others to testify on compensation for College Athletes. For the use of their name, image and likeness for they testify before the Senate Judiciary committee advocating for a federal standard. And discussing the need for transparency and equity. [background noises] the hearing of the Judiciary Committee is called to order. Please take your seats. And welcome to all of our witnesses. I am very grateful to my colleague senator durbin for giving me this opportunity to chair the hearing. And we wish him a very, very speedy recovery. He evidently had knee surgery. I believe it may have been because of a College Sports injury. And i do not know exactly all of the details of his stork prayer list. Ive seen him in the senate jim. All of you know our colleague senator booker who is truly a College Athlete star and very kno
With live interviews on washington journal. For the next hour, and exclusiven. A for six years, we have traveled to u. S. Cities, bringing that literary scenes and Historic Sites to our viewers. citiestour. Span. Org on our visit to souix falls, south dakota, we spoke with senator john thune. We asked the senator about constituent work, the economy, and what events in the States History most interest him. Raised were you born and where were you born and raised . A small town on interstate 90, a stopping place for people headed to the black hills, Mount Rushmore, yellowstone, points beyond, so a lot of motels, restaurants, filling stations, and all of my siblings, and my parents for that matter worked in one of those types of establishments ready much every summer. What was it like growing up in south dakota . A greatthune background. I love this day. It is very beautiful to me. I love prairie. I like whiteopen spaces. Part of that is because of where i was raised. I am an outdoors pers
Man we must go back along it, many miles and many years. Watch the entire film sunday at 4 00 p. M. Eastern here on American History tv. Only on cspan3. Welcome to sioux falls, on American History tv. The falls of the Big Sioux River, is south dakotas largest city, with a population of about 175,000. With help from our Cable Partners, we will explore the citys rich history. Theng up, here about different groups of people who called the Northern Plains home over the past 300 years. Later, find out why sioux falls was abandoned just a few years after it was first settled. Now, we begin our look at the citys history, as we take you to the home of south dakotas first u. S. Senator. We are in the pettigrew home and museum, the home of u. S. Senator Richard Franklin pettigrew, who served in the senate from 1889 until 1901. He actually lived in the home from 1911, until his death in 1926. In 1880 nine, this was one of the most modern homes that you would have found. It had radiators, indoor a