Season and what voters should look for during the Opening Night of the Democratic National convention. This is about five minutes. We are using platforms. You can watch events and catch up on Convention News at the hub on our website, the hill. Com. Is thought, timely and relevant events at 11 00 a. M. Eastern and 1 00 p. M. Eastern. Bigill focus on the questions, questions about the real impact of covid19 on a president ial election, the role of social media and digital targeting, the battle for congress, the pulse of the American Voter and the ticket of joe biden and come along and Kamala Harris. I would like to thank the American Petroleum institute for their support of todays events. Using the thes hill 2020. We are broadcasting live. You could expect occasional trouble with the video. I laughed when we get to that part. Freshening the page should fix the problem. Lets jumpther ado, in with when more. Moore. N moore it is great to see you again. Is it any different being sergeant a
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[applause] president of the society and delighted to welcome the memorial election. This memorial elector started shortly after 9 11. Just like it started, after 9 1 . [applause] the inaugural lecture reminded us of what it means to be an american and have the legal tradition is a critical part of our identity of americans. That reminder is more crucial today and they understood this connection. We want the series to remind lawyers of it so they foster legal principles that advance individual liberty and personal responsibility and the rule of law. Other lectures have included justice scalia, chief justice roberts, Vice President cheney, judges can star, robert, ray randolph, edith jones, doug ginsberg, jeff sodded in judge neil gorsuchs. Also former attorney general and white house counsel, and senators tom and ben. That brings us to todays lecture. It is my privilege to introduce for this years the honorable william barr attorney general of the United States. People serve in governme
My name is robert barnes. I cover the Supreme Court for the washington post. Thanks for coming on this crisp, fall day to hear about the Supreme Court. Id like to thank the federalist society, particularly the Facility Division and practice groups for putting together what we think will be an interesting panel on what looks to be a very interesting term at the Supreme Court. After the trauma of last years confirmation hearings, theres been a thought from those who watched the court that it went out of its way not to look partisan last term, to look for ways to bust up the ideological divide on the court in some cases and to slow walk some controversies to keep them off that years docket. Its been welldocumented that each of the conservative justices at least once joined the four liberals to make up a majority in a case. And it went the other way, too. Each of the liberals at least once abandoned his or her usual voting partners and joined the conservatives in a case. Harmony could be h
Three years of the war between the president s government and opposition forces. The mass exodus has caused tensions in neighboring jordan, turkey, and iraq. Millions more are displaced within syria. The two sides are unable to make progress towards peace during a recent conference in geneva. Thank you very much for joining us for todays discussion. My name is megan bradley, im a fellow here with the Foreign Policy program at brookings. In particular, i work with the brookings l. S. C. Project or internal displacement which works to promote the hueman rights and wellbeing of refugees and internally displaced persons around the world. In particular we work to support the mandate of the u. N. Special repertoire on human rights of internally displaced persons. The codirector of the project had hoped to be here today to moderate todays discussion, but unfortunately due to a family emergency was unable to be with us. Its a real pleasure for me to step in to moderate such an excellent discus