Of the time. The center of the building, what is really the reason the building is here is the audience chamber, where we all argue. As the august nature of that chamber suggests, it has a c ceiling so high you can barely see it from the ground. That is the center of the court, of course. Susan swain lets talk about what goes on in that court and the process of oral argument can you talk about how you use oral argument and why, in fact when there is so much paper before hand on making all of these cases, oral argument is even needed . Justice scalia a lot of people have the impression it is just a pony show. I read a 60 page brief by the petitioner a 60 page brief by , the respondent, a reply brief, some very often, an amicus brief, some very often by the solictor general. A dozen other briefs not all of , which which i will read, and i have seen passages where there is nonsense in the margin what someone can tell me in half an hour will make a difference. The answer is it is probably
Professor rakove the subtitle is myths about the elections and we will go into those. Lets talk about the myths. Madisons role as the agenda maker for the convention, and the particular point i want to make, as madison prepares himself for the convention and the weeks before they are supposed to meet, i think the key item he worked on in his agenda is the idea that a system of federalism based on the voluntary compliance of the state with the recommendations the resolutions, the requisitions came from the Continental Congress, was never going to work. When he reasons this, he does this in an empirical way. He looked at the lessons that americans like him had learned since 1776. Then he takes a step back and then he thinks abstractly, and what we can see, i theoretic framework where he comes up with the idea theres always some incentive to run against washington. To run against National Directives and policies. Even where states have a common interest if you are mistrustful about what o
Headquarters. Hello, im eric shawn. Arthel im arthel neville. Police say the violence began when a pro trump caravan, hundreds of vehicles long, arrived in the city just as a counter protest was getting underway. Police say some fights broke out throughout the two groups throughout the evening, they say shots were fired, about 15 minutes after the trump caravan left the downtown area. The victim has not been publicly identified and the shooter remains at large. Christina coleman is live in los angeles with more on what happened last night as we await the News Conference from merited wheeler. Christina. Reporter this is the third consecutive weekend of tension escalating between competing groups of protesters in portland. A caravan of Trump Supporters was making its way through Downtown Portland when protesters attempted to stop them by standing in the street. Some Trump Supporters fired paint ball pellets and protesters and they threw things at the caravan. The shooting happened after
Some people are without power food or water. Struggle to start the recovery on the gulf coast and the u. S. Open is scheduled to start tomorrow but already one player has tested positive. How that affects the nations tennissh tennis championship in new york city. For the second time this week, a deadly shooting happened amid protests in america. Were waiting the mayor of portland, oregon who is set to speak after President Trump, his supporters and protesters clashed. Man was killed in a shooting there. Its unclear in the shooting is connected to to protest. The victim has not been identified. He was wearing a hat with a far right groups low go on it. President trump put out tweets praising the protrump activists. White house chief of staff echoed that on nbc meet the press. After 94 days, perhaps now were going to act because someone was shot last night. To suggest that somehow its been peaceful in portland is just not looking at facts. Weve had over 200 anarchists and theyre not peac
[ yelling ] i got mayce in my eyes. This happened on a night with clubs from blass living matter activists and protrump supporters. During that time, the president has sought to downplay the racial rockening, portraying himself as the only thing standing between order and chaos, while casting portlands mayor as a fool. In the last few minutes joe biden unequivocally condemning the violence, saying in a statement, quote the deadly violence we saw overnight in portland is unacceptable. Shooting in the streets of a Great American city is unacceptable. I condemn this violence. Unequivocally i condemn violence of any kind by anyone, on the left or the right. I challenge trump to do the same. It doesnt matter if you find the political views of your opponent abhorrent. Any loss of life is a tragedy. We must not become a country at war with ourselves, a country that accepts the killing of fellow americans who do not agree with you, a country that souths vengeance towards one another. We are no