Was possible to move society to the place where it should be for the better of all of us. Everyone is the beneficiary of ending gender discrimination, women, men, and children. Thats how the old chief was persuaded when he was justice ringquist. This was a story of a man whose wife died in childbirth. He was left as sole caretaker of the child. Wanted Social Security benefits that would help him be able to work only part time while his child was young. Both benefits for mothers, not fathers. So the court decided that case, i think it was in 1975, it was a unanimous judgment. Three sets of opinions. One well of course was the discrimination against the woman as wage earner, her Social Security taxes dont get for her family the same protection, and then a few of them thought it was really discrimination against the male as parent. He would not have the opportunity to render personal care to his child. And ringquist all along said totally arbitrary from the point of view of the baby. Why
Here. Who are your most important mentors in your life. If youre going to ask me what women are my role models. One was real, one was fictional. The real one was amelia earhart, the fictional one was nancy drew. But i never had in many my college years, certainly law school, never had a woman teacher. People asked me, did you always want to be a Supreme Court justice i wanted to get age out of the law. That was my goal. Women werent on the bench in numbers. On the federal bench until jim with my carter became president. He was only in office four years. He took a look at the federal judiciary. He was determined to appoint members of minority groups and women in numbers, not as one at a time curiosities. He pointed at least 25 women to Federal District courts and i was one of the lucky 11 appointed to a court of appeals. During his time. He said in october of 1980, when he had a reception for the women, he had appointed to the federal bench, even though he had no Supreme Court vacancy t
Urban tribal members are kept out of the group of tribal government. Been there, done that and really push for urban tribal members and in your own experience, you mentioned a member of the Navajo Nation. How did you deal with the other urban tribal members who are not numbers of the Navajo Nation . Okay, so the question is asking how the issue of urban tribal members and how you seem not play out with regard to the tribal leadership issues. Thank you for raising this question. Its an important one and we have a lot of work to bridge the relationship between government and those living in urban countries. 77 77 live in urban centers outside of tribal land and mouse as a result of relocation and other policies that try to take us off of our communal tribal lands. The question around how we enter relate with one another because we are an urban center for different tribal nations. The first question is for another donation, one thing we start to talk about is we are talking to organizatio
The reception was held here at this hall on 27th street in san jose and not far from downtown san jose. There were so many people involved in the fight that police a had to be called in. When the officers arrived they found dozens of people fighting at the reception call and pouring on to 26th and 27th streets, and several people covered in blood. It took the officers more than an hour to gain control of the area, ear point, they were thro glass bottles. One person had to be transer ported to a hospital. Employees were surprised to learn of the fight. Never had any issues and several events here. Always pretty calm. The owners are calm, and so this is actually shocking to hear that it is the first time that Something Like that has happened. Reporter he says that the particular hall requires at least one San Jose Police officer off duty to providing security for the event, and even more if you have more than 100 people, and so he was very surprised to hear more about the fight. San jose
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