Since 19 79, in partnership with the cable industry, cspan has provided complete coverage of the halls of congress from house and Senate Floors to congressional hearings, party briefings, and committee meetings. Cspan gives you a front proceed to how issues are debated and decided, with no commentary, no interruptions, and completely unfiltered. Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Coming up next, the Justice Department discusses disability rights and in the criminal Justice System. At an event commemorating the 33rd anniversary of the americans with disabilities act. Topics included ada violations during arrests, Mental Health, and the relationship between disability discrimination and explicit racial bias. Implicit racial bias. Good afternoon everyone, can you please take your seats so we can get started . Please take your seats, thank you. Good afternoon. My name is kristen park, the assistant attorney general for the department of justice, and i am pleased to be here with all
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classified documents. the special counsel found evidence that president biden, quote, willfully retaineds classified materials found no reason to press criminal charges. drew distinction between the criminal probe of handling of documents and his findings regarding president biden. the long standing justice department priniple that you cannot indict a sitting president does not apply and would not bring charges even if joe biden were no longer president. we ll have more on that later in the program. we begin with a hearing at the nation s highest court. an historic hearing for some very big questions about the constitution. the future of our democracy and at the heart of the case, a request from voters for some accountability for an unprecedented insurrection. first up, jonathan mitchell, the attorney for donald trump, argued among other things, that january 6th was not an insurrection. it was a riot. he also argued that the president is not technically an officer of the unit
distinguished supreme court practitioner, laurence tribe. harvard historian, yell historian, and of course on this important night we are fortunate to hear from to law professors who are also practitioners, andrew weissmann, and neal katyal. neil katyal is of course a distinguished supreme court practitioner, having argued 50 cases before the court, and andrew weissmann is a former federal prosecutor and justice department official. my mission therefore in this hour is to get out of the way so that you can hear from them and not me. but i, want to take a minute to begin with two things that may reside more in the category of pet peeves than scholarly discussion that you are about to hear from our guests. one is that clarence thomas should ve recused himself from this case because everyone on that bench today knew, clarence thomas s wife was there. she was there, she was present when donald trump incited engaged in insurrection. the essence of our case is president trump s o
Judicial independence, this is just over an hour. Thats a very bright light. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is mike hogan, assistant Vice President for development and human relations at jw law school. Its my privilege to welcome you all this afternoon to the fifth and final conversation with Supreme Court Justice Steven bryer, arc of a great career. [applause] Justice Bryer welcome back to gw. I would like to extend welcome to gw alumni and friends and various members of gw alumni Advisory Boards that have joined us from around the country including california, arizona, illinois, new york and, of course, here in washington, d. C. Its now my great pleasure to introduce the dean of the George Washington University Law school please welcome to the stage dean dana boeing matthew. [applause] so excited. Im going stay on script, though. Good afternoon and welcome im dana, my pronouns are she, her and hers. It is my great privilege to welcome you to this the fifth and final installment of thi