The court. His class is about 75 minutes. All right, today we are going to be looking at is the development of Controversial Supreme Court nominations in the late sixties and early seventies. We are looking at the war in court, this increasing surge of controversial decisions from the court. Theres basically two basic principles. This idea that it was a particular job of the Supreme Court to stand up on behalf of people who may not have majority support, whether it was atheist, Civil Rights Activists, or criminal defendants throughout the 1960s. Second, the emergence of this philosophy that some historians have called rightsrelated liberalism. The idea that liberalism was primarily for the protection of individual rights. As a result, the Supreme Court became an important mechanism for this. One problem, that is if youre going to be governing, you have to be able to appoint Supreme Court justices and as we will see this becomes a froth prospect for liberals. The backdrop, london be joh
Assistant attorney general and the office of Legal Counsel under the bush administration, was a member of the domestic policy staff under president reagan, served in the Central Intelligence agency, and was a law clerk for the u. S. Court of appeals for the d. C. Circuit judge in addition to his he did get public service, he also has ensive Service Plaque to practicing law in the private sector. He received his ma from Kobe University and a jd from George Washington school of law. We welcome the attorney general and we thank him for participating today. If you would please rise, i will begin by swearing you in. If you could raise your right hand, or lefthand. Do you swear or affirm the testimony you are about to give is true and correct to the best of your knowledge, information, and belief, so help you god. Let the record show the witness has answered in the affirmative. Thank you and please be seated. Please note the written statement will be entered into the record in its entirety.
The House Committee on the judiciary will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare recess at any time and we welcome, we welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on oversight for the department of justice. I apologize for getting the hearing late, as many of you know i was in a minor car accident on the way in this morning. Everyone is fine, except perhaps the car. But it did cause significant delay. I think the attorney general and the members for their patience and flexibility and we will now begin. Before we begin, i want to acknowledge and note that we are joined this morning by the distinguished majority leader, the gentleman from maia maryland, leader hoyer, who has long recognized the need for vigorous congressional oversight of the executive branch under both parties and we appreciate his presence today as we question the attorney general. Before we begin, i would like to remind members that we have an established email distribution list dedicated to circulating exhib
Of the department of health services, and national guard. I want to give you the latest update on where we are in arizona. And i want to begin again by just saying thank you to all our healthcare workers, all our nurses and doctors. Ive talked about this month as our maximum challenge to date. We know how hard they are working to want them to know how grateful we are, how much we appreciate what they do for our citizens, and to the citizens i want to say thank you as well. We are going to be able to share some things in terms of the direction arizona is going. It could only be making improvements with your participation, partnership and commitment to your fellow brothers and sisters and neighbors and friends. I want to begin with a thank you to everyone, but specifically to those folks in theto Healthcare Industry today. And i want remind you, ive ive been saying this now for several weeks, you are safer at home. This virus is widespread in our state and in our country. People have bee
Start that again. On july 22, you join the president as he announced they expansion of operation legend to combat crime in cotton kansas city with approximate 61 million in d. O. J. Grants paradigm confused however as to the purpose of logic operation legend at this time for december of last year you announce the department would divert over 70 million in grant of u. S. Cities under initiative called operation pursuit correct . Select thats correct. Somatic operation pursuit targeted a familiar list of cities likear albuquerque, kansas city. Ue correct . So at the same july 22 press conference, you initially claimed that over 200 arrests had been made under operation legend, correct . So correct. But you misspoke. So correct. So therr u. S. Attorneys office later confirmed only a single arrests had been made under operation legend, correct . So i dont know. And the 199 other arrests were made under relentless pursuit or other programs. That was correct. I do think you can be forgiven f