Kissli. President yee all right. Good afternoon and welcome to the august 11, 2020 meeting of the San Francisco board of supervisors. I hope my supervisors had a full week off last week and was able to get some rest. As you know, were going to be doing a lot of work in august. Madam clerk, will you please call the roll. Clerk thank you, mr. President. [roll call] clerk mr. President , all members are present. President yee okay. Thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart, and will you please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance . [pledge of allegiance] president yee okay. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff of sfgovtv, who record the meetings and make them available online. Madam clerk, are there any announcements . Clerk yes. Due to the covid19 pandemic, members of the board are participating to the same extent as if they were present in their chamber. The board knows that the Novel Coronavirus has made participation is more acute. Your w
Not. If you removed all of the parking from this project site and didnt replace it at all, there would be a deficit, assuming nobody switches, like everyone continues to drive. We found that temporary limited deficit would not create substantial physical, Environmental Impacts. And is it that time of year where students are asked to enroll into a class . That they physically be there . Thats my understanding. Weve received comments that faculty are also hauling materials to and from their classrooms. So if you look at the transit piece, did that cause any delay because of this project and, again, what methodology did you use to sort of measure that . Question, presiden yes, president yee, w we used three sources of delay and two deal with, basically, increases in vehicular Traffic Congestion from the project. So theres the sheer number of new vehicle trips, as well as reason industry delay, where the transit vehicle may pull to the side and try to get back into the transit lane if they
Review of the major cases decided in the recently ended u. S. Supreme court term. The judicial nomination and confirmation process. After that, Federalist Society panelists will discuss this terms highprofile opinions. Hello. This is one of the chairs of the colorado federal society. My cochairs are on the wind today but you cannot see them on the screen. I want to thank everyone in our membership and in the audience for coming to todays wonderful presentation. This is one of our Flagship Events of the year. We are honored to have this panel to talk through the 2019 Supreme Court term with you. Im going to introduce our opening speaker then we will turn it over to our moderator who will then throw things off with the panel. We are looking forward to an interesting discussion today with a lot of diverse opinions. We are accepting questions in the q a box. If you have a question, you can open that box and submit a question at any time. We look forward to having a good number of questions
For that. Brief comments about Justice Breyer cant begin to do justice to him, so im going to have to be unjust in light of time constraints that im subject to. Justice breyer has always been remarkably generous with his time in supporting society projects. And indeed, in less than two weeks on june 6th, at our annual meeting, hell be delivering the societys 41st annual lecture. And of course, hes doing these extra projects for the society at a tremendously busy time for him and for all of his colleagues on the court. So Justice Breyer, thank you so much. Some background on Justice Breyer. He was born in san francisco. He eventually, after stanford, came east. Farther east. Hes got a ba from Magdalene College at oxford. He earned his law degree at harvard. He went on to clerk for Justice Arthur goldberg this court. He served with great distinction in the justice department. He served as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee at one point and served in other similar roles durin
Justices earlier years as attorney general and governor of california. Cspan recorded this event at Duke Law School in 2007. Its a tremendous pleasure to introduce a dear friend of mine, jim newton, who is the author of a splendid new biography justice for all, earl warren and the nation he made. Jim is a reporter and a bureau chief at Los Angeles Times, where hes been for over 20 years. I first really became familiar with his writing in the early 1990s when he was the lead reporter for the l. A. Times covering the trial of the officers who beat rodney king and then the o. J. Simpson case. I was always dazzled by his writing, his ability to take a day of complex events in a courtroom and summarize it concisely and clearly. He always wrote with amazing speed and great elegance. I got to know him in another capacity in the late 1990s when he was covering the charter reform process in los angeles as part of covering city government. I was then chairing an elected commission in los angeles