To almost 10 years worth of its annual energy. Prime minister just in your journey enjoys a landslide election victory is New Zealanders reward her for curbing qubit 90. Sports News English Premier League leaders everton play out a thrilling 22. 00 draw with local rivals liverpool. So the protesters are gathering in lebanon to mark one year since mass antigovernment protests theyve been rejecting corruption and the ruling class lebanon has been experiencing its worst economic crisis since the civil war which is only deepened since the pandemic lets take a look at how we got here in october last year a newly announced tax on calls made through the whatsapp application triggered protests across lebanon and then it turned into a broader call to end government corruption unemployment and poor public. It led to the resignation of Prime Minister saad hariri and a political deadlock to replace him and then in early august a powerful explosion ripped through central beirut killing more than 20
Criticism and as i am barked on my own legal career i resolved to maintain that same perspective theres a tendency in our profession to treat the practice of law as all consuming while losing sight of Everything Else but that makes for a shallow and unfulfilling life i worked hard as a lawyer and as a professor i owed that to my clients to my students and to myself but i never let the law define my identity or crowd out the rest of my life a similar principle applies to the role of court courts have a vital responsibility to the rule of law which is critical to a free society but courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life the policy decisions and value judgments of government must be made. The people the public should not expect courts to do so and courts should not try that is the approach that i have strived to follow as a judge on the 7th circuit and every case i have carefully considered the arguments presented by the parties discussed th
A place at the negotiating table. When more and more migrants are risking a dangerous new atlantic route from africa to europe via the Canary Islands. And a planet transformed into an uninhabitable hell a un report says World Leaders are failing in their duty to stop climate disaster. We start in the United States where a divided senate is pressing ahead with the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Kearney Barrett just 3 weeks before the president ial election she was nominated by President Trump and her confirmation would increase the conservative majority in the Supreme Court alan fisher has been following events on capitol hill in washington d. C. The goal to have amy quiney bennett on the u. S. Supreme court before the president ial election the 1st step the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing 16 days after her formal nomination from the Committee Chair a lament that politics plays such a big part in nominations now the bottom line is Justice Ginsberg when asked abou
90. The high cost of war families mourn loved ones while on the diplomatic front a cease fire between a surprise on and on media. That hunky against argentinas government protesters angry about the worsening economic crisis handling of the pandemic and you dish over for. So u. S. President on a trump has just walked out on stage in florida in his 1st rally since being infected with covert 19 this is a see right now in sanford in florida his speech comes after the white house doctor confirmed he had tested negative but it is. His plans for a new Supremes Court judge that is dominating the policy in american politics republicans have begun pushing ahead with their plans to confirm any a macone barrett as a replacement for Ruth Bader Ginsburg who died last month alone fisher has been following events on capitol hill in washington d. C. The goal to have him equally bonneton the u. S. Supreme court before the president ial election the 1st step the Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing 16 days
All backgrounds deserve an independent Supreme Court that interprets our constitution and laws as they are written and i believe i can serve my country by playing that role helen fisher has more from capitol hill. Shes saying that she will judge the law as its written and that judges should not interpret the law in the way that they would like to see it written she will stick essentially to what is in the constitution she also said that any time she makes a ruling when she writes a very big she does so thinking of how it will impact those who will be in the wrong side of that those who would lose and not just that but how would that impact if it was our son or daughter on the other side that didnt stop both sides making their political points early on a Lindsey Graham who is the republican chairman of the Committee Said he expected the nomination to go through the committee very much on party lines lamenting the fact that in the past someone like Ruth Bader Ginsburg was confirmed by th