Live up to here. Well, today i have the privilege of introducing our noted speaker, jack rakove, an exceptional student and teacher of history, a pulleys zero prizewinning author. Hell share his insights on James Madisons ticklish experiment at constitution making and will no doubt have us reflect. Rakove is the William Robertson coprofessor of history of american studies and political law at Stanford University where hes taught since 1980. Hes also taught at Colgate University from 1975 to 80. And has been visiting professor at nyus school of law. Hes a visionary scholar and author. His book original meanings politics and ideas in the making of the constitution won the Pulitzer Prize in history in 1996. He continues to research, write and speak prolifically. His principle areas of research include the origins of the American Revolution and constitution, the political practice and theory of James Madison, and the role of historical knowledge in constitutional litigation. Hes the author
You start seeing them. The trucks come in and this comes in and that. All of a sudden, youre going to see backlash the likes of which you havent seen in many, many years. Because people arent going to take it. You know, a lot of people this is all a left movement, not a right movement. Right. But a lot of the people on the right are watching their television set, looking at kenosha and looking at chicago where they shoot people and kill people by the dozens every week. Right. Its not even believable. Trumps affinity for law and order, foreign dictators and unilateral federal power make the revelations in bob woodward and his threats of National Security all the more clear. He bragged to bob woodward about saving the saudi prince who was accused of ordering the murder of Washington Post column khashoggi and he fawned over kim jongun, calling him far beyond smart. But Donald Trumps rhetoric and admiration for men like these is even more alarming. When longtime Trump Associates like roger
Advancing the nomination of a judge to be 2nd circuit court. And later, a shortterm spending bill to fund the government past september 30th. Senator Chuck Schumer says hell bring a bill on samesex marriage. Will lead the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, lord of hosts, we praise you for choosing to make yourself known to us in the unfolding of your loving providence. Our hearts expand with joy because of your presence. Empower us to keep our minds steadfastly on you. Lord, use our senators to make a better nation and world. Give them an openness of mind and heart that they may receive the fullness of your grace. Consecrate them to the laudable task of permitting your kingdom to flourish in this generation and beyond. Lord, make our lawmakers instruments of your peace. We pray in your strong name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to th
No problem with that. We think those are a lot of good uses for drones in those areas. There might be particular rules that need to be worked out around if a drone is being used to search for somebody and it happens to fly over private peoples houses and the backyard we think there should be rules that govern how those are handled and the sharing of them so people whose houses happened to be flown over the privacy that is dated but were focused on that surveillance, watching everybody all the time. We think drones have technology that has a lot of potential to do good and really it is in everybodys interest to pin down the privacy question, put in place common sense protection and we dont have to worry about privacy, that will free Public Safety agencies to use these technologies without the clout of big brother hanging over us. Did you have something to say on that topic . This year, Boston Police department use an Online System over the marathon to monitor what was going on for secur
Peniel joseph. [applause] good afternoon, everyone. It is my pleasure to welcome you to our third panel of the day. Again the title was 50 years later blacks in the 21st century. The panel is framed around but kind of progress blacks have made since the Civil Rights Movement and the endorsement challenges and quality that these African Americans in the 21st century. The organizers have formulated two major questions for us to talk about. The first is of historical and contemporary factors continue to make racial equality a contested and elusive concept in the 21st century. And second, what kind of knowledge can we mobilize to face the specific challenges of racial inequity in our contemporary moment. I am absolutely thrilled to be able to be in conversation with two and possibly three speakers, dynamic speakers and thinkers today and i would like to introduce you to that before opening the conversation. Joining us is farah griffin, a professor of english, comparative literature and afr