Good morning, welcome, judge. Welcome to all my colleagues. It is a long day but i thought a productive day. We have 20 minute rounds and hopefully we can be done in time before dinner tonight and we will plow ahead and have a few breaks along the way. So, a couple observations from yesterday. Theres an opportunity here to thinkinghe nominees to the extent she can share her thoughts without deciding a particular case that comes before her. Senator harris who are respect suggested you were not candid and judge barrett, i could not disagree more. I have been here for a few of these, i have voted for every nominee that has come before the committee. They have one thing in common, all of you are highly qualified, cape will people. I saw that in just a sotomayor and Justice Kagan submitted by president obama. Definitely did not share their legal philosophy, i expected them to be fairly solid votes for the liberal side of the court and generally speaking, they have been, that they have done
Unfiltered view of government. Created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. Nominee amyourt Coney Barrett was back on capitol hill for a third day in a row to answer another round of questions at her confirmation hearing. This time, Committee Members had up to 20 minutes each to question judge merrick on her judge barrett on her legal philosophies and other issues. Good morning, welcome, judge. Welcome to all my colleagues. It is a long day but i thought a productive day. We have 20 minute rounds and hopefully we can be done in time before dinner tonight and we will plow ahead and have a few breaks along the way. So, a couple observations from yesterday. Theres an opportunity here to thinkinghe nominees to the extent she can share her thoughts without deciding a particular case that comes before her. Senator harris who are respect suggested you were not candid and judge barrett, i could not disagree more. I hav
We pray for those who have lost loved ones and for those who are still hospitalized. Even during the weekend when the actual reporting slows down a bit, we continue to see record high case counts. And we continue to be concerned with our percentage of positive tests. And there hospitalizations. We are watching closely to monitor hospital bed capacity. As well as icu bed capacity. Right now, our hospitals do have bed capacity and that is good. But as dr. Cohen will tell you, that can change really quickly. As we see North Carolinas upward trends, we must redouble our work. Detecting and isolating the virus. Our department of health and Human Services team is pushing assistance to local Health Departments, especially in counties experiencing the highest growth. Durham, forsyth, guilford, johnston, lee, mecklenburg, and wake are of particular concern. Over the weekend i talked with Vice President pence about North Carolinas concerning numbers. I asked him and the federal government to hel
And include National Accountability standards that have the support of the fraternal order of police. Jonathan good afternoon. Welcome to Washington Post live. Congresswoman karen bass of california is the chair of the Congressional Black Caucus and in that role, she is leading the charge to implement unprecedented Police Reform to curb Police Brutality and racial profiling and eliminate qualified immunity as part of the justice in policing act, or as it is going to be renamed, the George Floyd Justice in policing act. Now the hard part. Getting these historic changes past. Congresswoman, so great to see you. Thank you for being here. Chairwoman bass thanks for having me on. Jonathan lets talk about atlanta and the shooting of rayshard brooks. Shot twice in the back according to the medical examiner. How does this fit in with george floyd in minneapolis and Breonna Taylor in louisville . Chairwoman bass this was such a tragedy and it leaves everybody distraught. The big difference is,
This morning, the long march for equality for lgbt q americans took a step forward, the Supreme Court handed down a landmark decision that federal employment discrimination protections do in fact extend to lgbt q americans. Believe it or not, before today, it was allowed, the federal government did not say you could prevent let me say that a different way, before today it was not a settled legal matter that you could sue your employer for firing you solely on the basis of Sexual Orientation a sexual identity. In 2020 in america it was still okay to discriminate against people because of the Sexual Orientation and identity. Is that unbelievable, 21stcentury . Still allow . Now it isnt because of the Supreme Court and they deserve credit for that case and one of the cases on the basis of todays ruling originated in my home state of new york where a skydiving instructor was fired for admitting his Sexual Orientation. So today the Supreme Court did the right thing and ruled that Workplace