Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 i did want to make that distinction, thats one point. Yes. And making a second point you think at least that in the context of the whole sweep of history, et cetera, Congress Decision not to do this lends some further support to the idea of application of the settled interpretation. Thats absolutely right. Not to draw those infrensz. I will further add to that, at that 96 point, there was also congress was making these choices at a time when there was over 100 years of established meaning and it was aware of that meaning, we know that from the 1952 legislative history and there was so much law on this, including the 99 guidance or not the 99 guidance, but including the a. G. Decisions that congress was adopting the established meaning of public charge, yet again, while making these other affirmative choices about what to do. The next thing is, the 1999 guidance comes out and for two administrations of two parties nobody says,
Congress make clear in 1996 that it sought to ensure that aliens admitted to the country do not rely on Public Benefits. That by making them ineligible for the most part for those benefits . It did of course make them ineligible. Concludedhat congress that after you have been here for a number of years, you are eligible for benefits, that reflects that you cannot predict for total accuracy what they will need. Predictere trying to this regulation. Correct. A difference between saying we did not predict this and saying we will authorize you to use benefits. That is different. They were not eligible before this point. That is right. Did not expect you to use them. Congress had every opportunity to elaborate on the public charge revision. Instead, they ignore that, y had 20tanding that the years before. They chose to deal with the problem in a different way. Understand how you draw from that the fact that congress chose to deal with this. They did not want to create an incentive. By makin
Its ahead of a planned Ground Offensive in the Southern City of rafah, where about 1. 5 Million People are sheltering. It is being reported this morning, not a huge amount of detail what those humanitarian islands would look like. It is right at the very southern end of the gaza strip, where more than half of the population is now sheltering and is a place where israel has said it needs to carry out a military Ground Offensive because it says in order to achieve its aim of fully removing hamas run gaza, the only way to do thatis hamas run gaza, the only way to do that is target hamas s remaining leadership when they are believed to be in and among civilians sheltering in rafa. Of course this remains an operation which has questions attached, certainly the word ireland is interesting because a central part of the gaza strip has been left severely damaged by months of Israeli Ground and air attacks. People who live there have left their homes, been going back to those areas but of course
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May be a real victory for short people. Marys book, in the kirby lobby, thank you for sharing. Thanks very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next, Melvin Urofsky from the bill of rights book festival, talks about the role of dissent and the Supreme Court. He has an extraordinary array of publications in addition to his definitive biography of brandeis, a life. He has written books on american zionism and his latest book which we are here to discuss is so wonderful and so timely, so provocative that i couldnt put it down. Is dissent and the Supreme Court, its role in the courts history and its role in constitutional dialogue and i cant wait to discuss it with you, please join me in welcoming Melvin Urofsky. [applause] you dont need to, this great book, we had a blast, we couldnt resist starting to talk about it. I have to begin with the obvious question. It was a logical step to go from there because brandeis is one of the great dissenters and according to his opinion in the wh