Police fire testers of. The day a local election this year is being held. Thousands of people have staged another huge march to the better russian capital minsk there keeping up the pressure on president oleksandr looking schenker whos responding with increasing force hes refusing to quit weeks after disputed elections and is turning to russia for help to stay in aljazeera spotted smith is monitoring the protests from neighboring lithuania. There are still those tens of thousands descending on the streets of mens and there are protests in other cities across belarus as well the government said it had closed off a couple of main squares to put barbed wire around one of the october. Square square was supposed to be where the protesters were meeting today but that still wasnt enough and people carried on protesting going near again to the president ial palace where there was heavy security to protect from his own people there are still some left in minsk but obviously the government is pu
Include jesse hollands, reporter for the Associated Press and author of marvels the black panther. I do not know if we will have questions about that today. [laughter] dr. Berger where the Vice President and Founding Editor of and a professor of law at Georgetown University law center and executive director of the center on conventional studies at georgetown law. She is chief Legal Counsel for Vice President biden and the legal staff for the Senate Judiciary committee. Thank you. A pleasure to be with you. Thank you for being here. We would like to get started right away by giving an opportunity for one of our panelists to speak to a question that has not come up yet the original purpose, if you will, of government long before we thought of government as making policy. People looked to government for the protection of their rights, and you have written about this. Tell us more about what is meant by that, the original purpose of government. Thank you for letting me be a part of this ev
Host we get to talk about the Supreme Court history for an hour. I want to start by understanding the court today. The way our court is structured and how it has evolved, how does the chief justice in this era wield authority . What tools do they have . Elizabeth the answer to that question is, in this era, as always, the chief justice, first and foremost, is the head and steward of one of our three ranches of government. I think there are some unique spects about that job in the sense that the court is not a political branch. It was deliberately designed not to be. The chief has a difficult job, because, im sure you heard this expression. The chief is chief among equals. They cannot control the other justices. They have the power to cajole, but not control. And there are some Great Stories throughout history that illustrate that very well. Host specifically, does the chief have a role in what cases are heard, and who writes the opinions . Elizabeth those are probably two of the princi
As always, well take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Good morning, its monday, october seventh, 2019. The house and senate are on recess but if peter and inquiry continues this week with hearings in the house intelligence and Foreign Affairs committee. President trump is set to hold to bring Major Campaign rallies this week in minnesota and louisiana. And this morning we will begin by asking for your thoughts about what it means for the country to go through the president ial impeachment. What lessons should be learned from the efforts to impeach residents in and clinton. Phone lines set up differently this morning. If you lived through the nixon impeachment, you can call in at 202 7488000. If you lived through the clinton impeachment, 202 7488001. All others can call in at 202 7488002. You can send us a text message this morning. If you do so, please include your name and where you are from. Thats 202 7488002 th
Grassroots and awaken them to the crisis we believe is recurring in the occurring in the federal judiciary. Probably the longest legacy that donald trump will have will be his Lasting Imprint that he left in terms of the judges he has nominated. He has confirmed 150 federal judges, including two Supreme Court justices quite famously. It is not just the number of the judges at the historic nature of how ideology clean extreme how ideologically extreme they seem. Point is we can win at the ballot box at 2020 and defeat donald trump and win back the senate and yet all of the priorities may well be facing certain power because we have a judiciary that is hostile to the progressive ideas because trump will have any so many trump style judges that will be with us. Host how you activate the grassroots and how are you funded . Lobby andtry to oppose some of trumps most extreme judicial nominees. We were highly involved in the cavanaugh fight last year. We are active right now in trying to defe