A rebel leader. The impeachment inquiry into donald trump is stepping up again televised hearings starting next week washingtons top diplomat in ukraine William Taylor will be one of the 1st to appear well in earlier testimony taylor said it was his clear understanding trump would withhold Critical Military aid to ukraine unless kiev investigated his political rivals well that testimony also supports what other witnesses have said i think you will see throughout the course of the test when not only their testimony but many others the. Most important facts are largely not contested we are getting an increasing appreciation for just what took place during the course of the last year and the degree to which the president and listed the whole departments of government in the illicit aim of trying to get ukraine to dig up dirt on a political opponent as well as further Conspiracy Theory about the 26000 election that he believed would be beneficial to his reelection campaign. Castro has more
Landslide has to remote village and popcorn you any more than a 100 people of c a dead. And china begins the 2nd day of military trail surrounding taiwan, saying the war games and testing their affility to seize power. The in a few hours, the International Court of justice would vote on whether israel should and military operations in the gulf or in southern gaza. South africa is a choosing israel of carrying out genocide against palestinians. It says israels assault on the profit is the last step and the complete destruction of the Palestinian People. Lawyers for south africa have off the u. Ns Top Court Order as well, and its offensive and besetti withdrawal from that off of crossing and, and show unintended access to humanitarian aid. In january, the u. S. Highest court issued provisional measures ordering as well to do Everything Possible to prevent acts that could amount to genocide. South africa says israel has ignored the voting a whole month. Instead of ahead being the last ref
Guest all i will say is i stand behind the book for geithner you are you emotionally attached. I am not. It is an honest book. I am so pleased to welcome to the store this evening. To launch the book we are doubly pleased to have him. The book is kissinger is a shadow but he is likely known to you for his earlier book which was a finalist for the buck Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award and also the author of the empire of necessity and the blood of guatemala. Hes a professor of history at new york university. His book is on the government sources. To chart kissingers political philosophy one that stems back to the cambodian and asian argued that is responsible for the current militarization of American Foreign policy. Evan thomas rated in the Washington Post this weekend praised the book for its literary flair and the sharp eye for the absurdity of politics. We are so happy to have him here with us this evening please help me welcome greg. [applause] thank you. What a nice turn
Is not to put their self on the side or the other which is what , paul was saying was going on. Susan our guest said there is beginning to be a revisiting of lochner among libertarians. Our final clip is senator rand paul in 2013 on the senate floor talking about lochner. Sen. Paul the lochner case is an 1905. The majority rules 54 that the right to make a contract is part of your due process. Someone cannot deprive you of determining how long your working hours are without due process. So, president obama is a big opponent to this, but i would ask him among the other things i am asking him today to rethink the lochner case. The case in lochner is whether a majority rule, a state legislature, can take away your due process. Your due process to contract. Can it take away your life and liberty without due process . The court rules no. I think it is a wonderful decision. It expands the 14th amendment and says to the people that you have unenumerated rights. Susan as we close, we told folk
Filibuster, he also favored restoring the lost constitution. The presumption of liberty. Our liberty should be presumed to be valid and government should only restrict our liberty if they have a good reason. They have a good reason they aould be able to present reason. They were unable to do that according to five justices with respect to the maximum hours lot. Susan so ends our program on lochner v. New york. This is the fourth in a series of 12. We will do this until the middle of november. If youre learning like we are and you are not a lawyer, we have a book available were selling at cost. Moore, tony written by tony morrow, the 12 cases we selected. If you go to our website, you can see how to order it so you cannot follow along. As we close, let me say thank you to Randy Barnett and paul kens for helping us understand this. Our landmark cases series continues next monday. Justice Oliver Wendell holmes wrote a unanimous opinion that the espionage act of 1917 is constitutional, eve