Which is some kind of a rudimentary indicator of the character of our political system and its volatility. Scarcely more than one third of our chief executives, beginning in the 18th century, have been elected to a second term for one reason or another. Eight have died in office. Four have been assassinated. Five have been elected without popular majorities. Three have been impeached, two of those in the lifetime of many people with us here today. Of all of those numbers, the one i want to emphasize the most is simply the number one. By that i mean that the president is simply one of the 536 elected officials in washington, d. C. Strictly speaking, it is 537, 535 members of congress, and im treating the president and Vice President for this purpose as a single political entity. So the president is one of 536 elected officials. When i reflect on that asymmetry between the one president and 535 other federal elected officials, im reminded of a quip by the journalist theodore white, who w
Back to the full scale of march and april the measures that i dont mind the less brutal less restrictive but im afraid from thursday the basic message is the same stay at home protect the n. H. S. And save lives in our protest as in pakistans biggest city have burnt effigies french president Emmanuel Mccall fires angry protests across several muslim countries after mccord defended the right to mock religion and vowed to crack down on what he calls radical islam. Says the ideology is a threat to everybody including muslims the leader sat down with al jazeera saying israel is both to promote calm and protect freedom of speach. Welcome pauli sentiments in a very i understand the sentiments being expressed and i respect them but you must understand my role right now its to do 2 things to promote calm and also to protect these rights. Because of the me what i want to say is very clear that today in the world there are people who distort islam and in the name of this religion that they claim
If you didnt watch, i envy you. There was nothing new, republicans and democrats placed their assigned roles but we are not here to talk about that. We are talking about something more interesting, the Roberts Court. More than any other Supreme Court justice in recent history, john roberts has played a defining role in shaping our free speech block. Hes been more than twice as many majority opinions in this area than any of his colleagues and there is a certain result in 95 of the greek expression cases decided in his tenure, hes been in the majority. Hes taken the lead of nearly 80 of the time so theres Something Special about this, something that speaks to how john roberts sees the court. The first conference of report the roberts report, collins and hudson, each of whom is published more than ten books on free speech examined 56 cases handed down by Roberts Court from 2005 to 2020. He offers i open details looks at the cases and justices different approaches. Here to tell us about i
Supreme Court Nominee judge amy coney barrett. Good afternoon. Good morning. Welcome to the virtual Cato Institute. Im the director of Robert E Lee Center for constitutional studies and author of the new book, supreme disorder judicial nominations and politics of americas highest court and related to that, im glad everyone taking a break from the barrett confirmation hearings this morning. If you didnt watch, i envy you. There was nothing new, republicans and democrats placed their assigned roles but we are not here to talk about that. We are talking about something more interesting, the Roberts Court. More than any other Supreme Court justice in recent history, john roberts has played a defining role in shaping our free speech block. Hes been more than twice as many majority opinions in this area than any of his colleagues and there is a certain result in 95 of the greek expression cases decided in his tenure, hes been in the majority. Hes taken the lead of nearly 80 of the time so th
Feel its impacts for some time to come. The energy and Commerce Committee has been conducting oversight of the trauma administrations response to this crisis in this subcommittee is charged with overseeing the ftcs response is the primary federal agency tasked with overseeing our nations telecommute occasions infrastructure and charged with administrating the universal Service Program at no point has Broadband Service in the work done by the fcc but more important to americans as it is right now. For many of us highspeed broadband has become the means by which we work, live and stay healthy. In the last seven months the internet has become the lifeline we use to buy groceries, see doctors and interact with the outside world. Zoom has become a verb and americans all over the country are connecting over video chat for virtual worship, family reunions and so much more. In so many ways broadband has become the glue holding our society together as our nation and the world weathers this stor