Christmas million optional museum, here in washington d. C. Its just over an hour. So its absolutely a thrill to see so many people here for this kind of a program, my name is johnny gray, and i have the wonderful privilege of being the director of your National Museum of American History. Particularly on nights like tonight, and which we really can look at American History in unique and unusual ways. We are really honored to be joined by tonight panel Supreme Court justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg applause Supreme Court Justice Sonia sotomayor, applause catherine fit, applause and Supreme Court Society Publications director claire kushner, applause it is now my privilege to introduce the 13th secretary of the smithsonian institution, doctor david horton. Hes on Board Certified cardiologist a jazz musician, and doctor scorching with most recently the president of cornell university, and previously served as president of the university of iowa. Doctor gordon has interest in learning as wide
The breaking news out of pakistan this hour is the former president Pervez Musharraf sentenced to death in connection with a treason case musharraf was in office for 999. 00 to 2008 after seizing power in a military coup this case relates to the nationwide emergency he imposed after suspending the constitution in november of 2007 weve got come out harder on the line from islamabad for more on this just take us through the the Court Process today. Well that particular work day was already created and was due to be announced and then by. The pakistani government led by imran khan Prime Minister for the further mind of the announcement. The core. Of the high court to create a church be cared for and today went back announcement was made it was a work day 2. 00 to 1. 00 they were teaching to dealing with that special case was english and their high creed didnt gaze under article 50 out the pakistani constitution and the fact that gates kaitlin gone for 6 years was also partly due to the fa
The chances do you think of a breakthrough. Well it depends what you mean by a breakthrough its quite possible although were not expecting a press conference that there will be some sort of agreement in the next few hours on what we believe president mccraw is going to suggest some months allowing certain countries for a limited time to purchase Iranian Crude Oil because at the moment those purchases are under those u. S. Sanctions so they want theyre suggesting that there are waivers brought in at least for a just for a limited time so that discussions with the iranian government can begin in earnest of course theyre well aware also of the tensions in the gulf with the seizure of those tankers they want something the french government wants something that they can bring to the table at the g. 7 meeting this week a. Its micro himself admits that there are divisions within the g 7 over iran but whats not clear right now is whether such proposals will get any headway with President Trump
Would begin the first in a series of hearings on the state of the federal judiciary in the 21st century. In this hearing we will investigate ideas for promoting ethics, accountability, and transparency in the federal courts. We focus on these ideas in our first hearing on the judiciary because they flow from two foundational principles of due process. First that no one can be a judge in his own case. Second, to form a Supreme Court Justice Felix frankfurter , justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Both rules embody the understanding that the constitutions implicit promise of equal justice under law depends on at least two things that our court must be fair, independent and impartial and that we must also believe that our courts are fair, independent, and impartial. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice it might take a second but we intuitively understand that. It means that as the Supreme Court recently explained both th
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