Screeria nigeria. Visits phoenix to talk about Home Ownership followed by a discussion about religion and the free market. On january 20th the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in a case challenging restrictions on judicial candidates directly soliciting Campaign Contributions. Legal analysts discuss the pending case and judicial elections at the National Press club in washington, d. C. This is an hour and ten minutes. Good morning, everyone. The timetable this morning is pretty tight. We want to be able to give a lot of time for questions. And so were going to begin our presentation to you this morning. My name is andrew coen. Im a fellow at the Brennan Center and a journalist with cbs news and the marshal project. And im delighted to be here in sunny, warm washington. To be part of this interesting presentation. In a moment, im going to introduce this distinguished panel each of whom knows a great deal more about this important Supreme Court case than i do. A couple of points. T
Or down, we were winning. We had no other way to explain it. This isnt to suggest we werent seceding intermission. Border patrol had to have consistent and reliable data. Not simply data on what we were catching, we also had to report data on what we were not catching and the unknown. Today the Border Patrol does not describe the borders as controlled or uncontrolled. Instead it uses a variety of indicators, capability assessments, commander judgment to assign areas of risk category of high, medium and low. The Border Patrol also evaluates these risks to ensure they are based on current risk. In closing, i will leave you with a few thoughts here that became evident as we wrote these articles and i spoke with dozens of agents representing thousands of years of Border Patrol experience. Border security is not an end state to be achieved and revisited every five or ten years. Rather, its a constant battle we fight every day and one which we must be vigorously engaged. There is also no pan
Regulating what judges and lawyers can talk about. That is a basic overview of the case, and we can get into more at question time. Thanks. Tracy, youre up. Im happy to be here today. Turns out it is very cold in nashville. But in nashville, we just close. All the public schools, private schools, everything is closed today in nashville, the temperatures that are slightly warmer than the temperatures in d. C. Today. My role today is principally as an empirical legal scholar. I ask questions about the decisions, courts and judges make and why they make those decisions and i answer the questions by using statistical empirical methods, right . So thats what i do. Im one of the members of one of the amici in a brief filed by empirical scholars and law Political Science and economics. And Political Science. Two of those are my field of law, and Political Science. But i also teach law. As andrew mentioned. All law School Classrooms are fantastic. At least the ones i teach in our fantastic. An
History. Women in our communities who are courageous leaders since 1996 the San Francisco commission and department on the status of women has recognized the vital role and contributions of woman in our communities so at this time before we begin to recognize some of the amazing women that are here in the audience today, i want to acknowledge emily the executive director welcome to the board of supervisors chamber. Thank you president breed im very pleased to be here for womens History Month were here to celebrate and recognize women in our communities working to improve the lives of all San Francisco i san franciscans. It is the 11th consecutive year. The National Theme this year is weaving the stories of the womens lives. Before we begin i just wanted to share with the board some very exciting news. As you all know San Francisco was the first city in the world enacting a local ordinance for all forms of discrimination against best of my women and this was made possible by San Francis
Is un undeniable that we need to do more. Here in San Francisco our office has been working with senator gilabrand to brainstorm what we can do here locally and weve learned that San Francisco is at the forefront of survivor centered approach in which survivors take priority and campuses such as u. S. F are considered role models yet when we talk to students they still feel with even our model approaches we can do more to encourage more women to come out and report and im kicking off a series of actions by introducing a resolution today. Last year a Bipartisan Group of senators introduced this legislation aiming to turn the tied on how Sexual Assaults on College Campuses are handled and the legislation failed to pass and the bill has been reintroduced this past month. We cant wait any longer and we can not allow Sexual Assaults to simply be an accepted part of our Higher Education experience. Students will have a place to confidentially access and work with advisors to have training an