The committee of the judiciary will come to order. Without objection the chair is authorized declare recesses at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on protecting america from assault weapons. I will now recognize myself with an Opening Statement. Assault weapons have been repeatedly used of weapons of deadly violence on our citizens. In the last two years, las vegas, parkland, pittsburgh, midland and odessa have seen Mass Shootings at the hands of an gunman with assault weapons. Last month we added el paso and dayton to the list of communities to experience violence. Todays hearing is about whether america will tolerate weapons of war in our streets and neighborhood. Civilian assault weapons are just semi automatic versions of military weapons. They have no purpose but to kill as many as possible as quickly as possible. By allowing killers to rapidly fire targets without stopping to reload, assault weapons are designed for bloodshed. State laws have proven too easy
Important to conservatives in 2020 and the Republican Partys future agenda. And later the drug policy alliances kassandra joins us to discuss the history of the war on drugs. [video clip] more need more prisons, jails, more courts, more prosecutors. I am requesting altogether 1. 5 billion in drugrelated spending on Law Enforcement. Former president george h. W. Bush on september 5, 1989, what many site as the beginning of the u. S. War on drugs. Good morning, this is washington journal. 30 years later, the fight against drug abuse continues with news yesterday from President Trump of another 2 billion in funding for the Opioid Crisis. The first hour talking about the legacy of the war on drugs. What experience have you had with it . The numbers to call for those in eastern and central time zones, that is 2027488000. The mountain and pacific regions, 2027488001. We also welcome your comments on our facebook page, facebook. Com cspan. And send us a tweet at cspanwj. We will show you mome
To the upper house. We expect that to pass late tomorrow. The second major vote that happened yesterday was called by the Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He wants an early general thinks itsause he the only way to break the deadlock and essentially packed the house of commons with more mps who support him. But none of this delays the october 31 deadline day for brexit, does it . Absolutely not. Are successful in getting the legislation through tomorrow to try to delay no deal, what that law will do is force Boris Johnson to ask to delay brexit. It gives no guarantee that brussels for the 27 e. U. Leaders will actually do that. For ise they have asked the first of january, 2020. The house of commons voted down the pitch to have snapped elections. Does that mean there wont be any elections in the near future in the u. K. . There definitely will be a general election fairly soon and the government here is preparing to try again. The Opposition Party is very keen on a general election. The o
Okay. The Supreme Courts next term starts in a few weeks but we are here to reflect on the past term. I submit the october term 2018 will more likely be remembered for Justice Brett cavanaugh confirmation hearing and for any particular case the court decided. In and its too early to make sweeping statements about the impact of president Donald Trumps nominees to the court though the rapid description of america has yet to occur. This is Brett Kavanaugh and neil gorsuch have lived up to the chief justice declaration that we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. Kavanaugh and gorsuch are their own men, wrecking g expectations of how a trump judge will vote you are not tt cookiecutter republicans but local jurists with independent views of the law and will explore some of that today. This panel will focus on the highlights of past term, the most important cases such as the census Citizenship Question case and the political gerrymandering case and if you
President trump condemns White Supremacy, but fails for acknowledge his own ratist rhetoric t that was echoed in t man necessary owe of the antigunman who killed 22 people in el paso. Trump proposed no new major gun control measures but instead blamed video games and Mental Illness for the spike in Mass Shootings. President trump Mental Illness and hatred pulls the trigger, not the gun. Amy well get response from two leading gun control advocates, plus well speak to manny and Patricia Oliver. Their son joaquin was killed last year in the Mass School Shooting in parkland, florida. They just happened to be in el paso on saturday to unveil a mural near the u. S. Mexico border on what would have been joaquins 19th birthday. And we will get an update on the political crisis in puerto rico. All that and more, coming up. Amy welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. The death toll in saturdays massacre at an El Paso Walmart has gone up to 22 people