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Today nomination hearing. This is the tenth nomination hearing the committee has held this year. I want to take a minute to thank Ranking Member and her staff for working diligently. With my staff. And this senator to process these nominees. Filling judicial vacancies, and executive appointments is an important part of committee responsibility. And i know that all members of the committee take this responsibility seriously. Today, well hear from two panels. First well hear from the nominees to the Circuit Court. Noter dame law professor. And Michigan Supreme Court justice. Our second panel will hear from eric. To be head of the Civil Rights Division. And the department of justice will also hear from two nominees to the District Court judges in tennessee. I understand that theres some concern with having two Circuit Court nominees on a hearing agenda. So i thought id explain this. Because its unusual. When the majority leader extended the Senate Schedule in to august. We scheduled a nom
We appreciate everybody being here. I turned it on. Especially welcome the nominees and their families. Today nomination hearing. This is the tenth nomination hearing the committee has held this year. I want to take a minute to thank Ranking Member and her staff for working diligently. With my staff. And this senator to process these nominees. Filling judicial vacancies, and executive appointments is an important part of committee responsibility. And i know that all members of the committee take this responsibility seriously. Today, well hear from two panels. First well hear from the nominees to the Circuit Court. Noter dame law professor. And Michigan Supreme Court justice. Our second panel will hear from eric. To be head of the Civil Rights Division. And the department of justice will also hear from two nominees to the District Court judges in tennessee. I understand that theres some concern with having two Circuit Court nominees on a hearing agenda. So i thought id explain this. Bec
Lutheran church. This particular one encompasses central and Northern California and northern nevada. Almost 200 congregations including a seminary and a bible camp. We connect with all of these agencies as well as congregations. It is big. A lot of territory. I drive about 3000 miles a month to connect with congregations and leaders and the two offices we have. That is a lot of out and about. Yes. I imagine there is joy and frustration with being a bishop. Tell us what it is that makes you particular particularly gratified to be a bishop. What would those tasks to be . One of the things i get to do is travel around and be with congregations. Sometimes sunday morning. It is a great opportunity for me to connect with the congregation, the leaders and the pastor and find out what they are doing in the place where they were planted maybe 60, 75 or 100 years ago, to bring christ into a way of understanding hoping to make a difference in the life of that community. And how they connect with
Mrs. Young is a historian and independent scholar who previously taught at princeton university. [applause]. Scenic good evening and thanks for coming out tonight. I thank you for that introduction, which does a nice job of setting up my talk for today. This project began as a dissertation when i was at columbia. I went to graduate school to be a 19th century southern history historian, so i was a bit surprised to find myself writing about a barely recent historical moment. As i was in graduate school during the george w. Bush years a lot of historians were asking questions about how to explain the bush presidency. In particular, the promise of religious social conservativism and there was kind of a first wave of historiography coming out about the religious right and it tended to make this argument that religious conservatives became a unified political constituency in the 1970s and 80s, basically around these questions of abortion and issues of equal rights in the 70s and so this was