Booktv. Tonight, a look at things to be decided in the Supreme Court. In the state of the union speech. Then the federal Communications Commission because of the failure of hawaiis Emergency Alert system. Midway through Supreme Court term, attorneys and court watches at Georgetown University law center discussed some of the key cases to be heard in the coming months. The court will be deciding cases related to congressional gerrymandering, immigration restrictions and taxes of Online Shopping. This is 90 minutes. The people who are getting their food just finish up that and proceed quietly. We will get the program started. I am the executive director [audio lost] our moderator is a georgetown graduate first and most important. She was once the editor of reporter for the and now she is just an independent contractor and a reporter. And amy really, i think, probably knows more about the Supreme Court than any person alive. With that, i will turn the program over to amy. That is a tough i
Started. I am the executive director [audio lost] i ¿i want to welcome you to todays program, a preview of the cases that are set for the second half of this term. The first half of the term had more blockbusters than we have seen in a long time. The second half promises to be even more exciting than the first half. Fortunately, we have an incredible panel today to discuss these cases. Before i get out of the way, i want to thank the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society for cosponsoring this event. I want to thank in man maine, the special events score nader appeared i want to introduce our moderator, amy howe, once the editor of the scotus blog. Now she is just an independent contractor and a reporter for the scotus blog. Amy probably knows more about the Supreme Court than any person alive. With that, i will turn the program over to amy. Amy p that is a tough am. That is a tough introduction to live up to. He also asked me to be very brief in introducing our pane
And we begin with another democrat signaling his opposition to the iran nuclear deal. In anger anger, senator bob menendez signaled that he will vote against it, but it may not be enough to sink the deal. Mike viqueira, what are senator menendezs reasons for voting against the deal . Its interesting, tony, the first democrat to represent president obamas deal comes a month from congress. But though theyre taking a break, its behind the scenes, and today president obama lost one of his own. Its another blow from another senate democrat. New jerseys bob menendez said that hell vote against president obama on the iran deal. At the end of the day, what we appear to have is a rollback of sanctions, and iran only limiting its capability, but not dismantling or rolling it back. His announcement was not completely unexpected, but it does provide a window on the sensitive Politics Around the campaign to win congressional support on the deal. Joining menendez, bob corkish, the chairman of the Fo
Beverly so, we will go ahead and get started since the moment has arrived. Others may trickle in from lunch, but thank you and welcome here to this panel on the Church Committee at 40. My name is beverly gage. I am a history professor at yale. And i will be up here mostly timekeeping and asking some questions. Before i introduce the panelists, i just wanted to say a few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it and some of the issues i hope we are going to be able to address. So this year, 2015, marks the 40th anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees certainly of the 1970s. And i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee which was chaired by Senator Frank Church began its work in the spring of 1975. And for the 16 months between the spring of 1975 and when they delivered 14 volumes of reports in 1976, the Church Committee held hearings, performed investigations, dug into Backgro
Historians hosted this 90minute discussion at their annual meeting in st. Louis. We will go ahead and get started since the moment has arrived and others may trickle in after lunch. My name is beverly gage. Im a history professor at gail and i will be here mostly chairing and timekeeping and asking some questions, but before i introduce the panelists , i just wanted to say a few words about the genesis of this panel, the idea behind it, and some of the issues i hope we will be able to address. This year, 2015, marks the audience anniversary of one of the most important congressional committees, certainly, of the 1970s, and i think arguably of the latter half of the 20th century, and that was the Church Committee. The Church Committee was chaired by idaho Senator Frank Church and the committee began its work in the spring of 1975, and the Church Committee held hearings performed investigations, dug into Background Materials on the American Intelligence Services this was the first mass s