Their Supreme Court nominee poses a dire threat to Americans Health care. Today the outrage from the republican leader was directed once again at the idea the democrats would attack the nominees religious beliefs. But, of course, in their zeal to uenufacture this issue, republican senators began telegraphing this line of attack even before a nominee had been named. One republican senator wrote me ar letter to warn against anticatholic attacks that happened yet against the nominee who hadnt been named. Thats how transparent this repalin conversion, ruse is. It appears that the republican majority will crank up the outrage machine to any level of absurdity the avoid talking about Americas Health care. The health care so many caericans desperately want and need. In fact, all week the republican leader has mocked the idea that a farright Supreme Court majority might strike down the Affordable Care act and that judge barrett might play a decisive role. Of course President Trump nominated, p
Stevens. My name is ben feuer. Im also the chairman of the appellate section of the Bar Association of the San Francisco which organized this event. I would like to extend a welcome to members of a few groups who are cosponsoring tonights program, the ninth judicial Historical Society and the American Constitution Society bay area chapter. Id like to welcome cspan which is brother aadcasting the discu tonight. In ten years or so that ive been putting on programs like this, this is the first time cspan has come. So weve made it. But truthfully, i think cspan has some of the most interesting programming on all of television, at least when congress is out of session. And so i recommend you check it out, if you dont already. Before we begin, i would like to ask everyone to put their phones on vibrate. The next program that were going to be putting on, on january 28th, is on settling cases in the ninth circuit. If that interests you, be sure to sign up. Were also going to save time at the e
Announcer Senate Democrats also spoke to reporters about the Supreme Court vacancy, expressing their opposition to moving forward with the confirmation before the november elections. This is 20 minutes. Sen. Schumer okay, whoa [indiscernible] good afternoon, everybody. Thank you for being here. I am proud to be joined by my , dickgues in our caucus durbin and patty murray. There, thousands have come to the steps of the highest court to pay tribute to justice ginsburg. Is was an amazing lady and in a male dominated world of legal giants. She was smarter than they were, more persistent, and she accomplished much more than they did. I admire her. I come from her neighborhood. She did so much in our neighborhood. We both went to James Madison high school, brooklyn, new york. So many have paid tribute to come to the steps of the highest to justicey tribute ginsburg. My Senate Colleagues have paid tribute as well, but in words only. Empty words, because their actions havent. Republican major
Review of the major cases decided in the recently ended u. S. Supreme court term. The judicial nomination and confirmation process. After that, Federalist Society panelists will discuss this terms highprofile opinions. Hello. This is one of the chairs of the colorado federal society. My cochairs are on the wind today but you cannot see them on the screen. I want to thank everyone in our membership and in the audience for coming to todays wonderful presentation. This is one of our Flagship Events of the year. We are honored to have this panel to talk through the 2019 Supreme Court term with you. Im going to introduce our opening speaker then we will turn it over to our moderator who will then throw things off with the panel. We are looking forward to an interesting discussion today with a lot of diverse opinions. We are accepting questions in the q a box. If you have a question, you can open that box and submit a question at any time. We look forward to having a good number of questions
Told me january, 2017, i would write a book on donald trump, i would have questioned their sanity. Indeed, a few months in, he wrote an oped in the New York Times entitled executive power run amok. However, upon reflection, he writes boy was i wrong, the campaign, like a populist but governs like a conservative. There are others like harvard law professor who said gays into the trump presidency, i would say that he is crashing through it. The president s detractors have not changed their mind or their rhetoric instead. Like yesterday on cnn representative clyburn compared donald trump to mussolini, puzzled constitutional scholars, but in terms of his actions, not his rhetoric had the president respected the constitution or trampled on it. We are very fortunate today to have with us analysts including john yoo to discuss the constitution has fared during the Trump Administration. They will give brief remarks followed by moderating and then there will be plenty of time for questions from