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We are now lucky enough to be joined by scott nelson and Robert Mcnamara. Nelson filed the brief in support of the president of the United States who is a petitioner in the second case we which is bar versus American Association of political consultants. He filed his brief on behalf of Public Citizen in the public foundation. Scott nelson is an attorney at the Public Citizen Litigation Group in washington. Hes been there since 2001. He is a former lawyer for Justice Byron white on the u. S. Supreme court and we are honored to have them today. Is senioramara attorney with the institute for justice and he has filed a brief in support of the state of pennsylvania who is the respondent on behalf of the institute for justice. Since 2006 with them and litigates constitutional cases to protect free speech, Property Rights and economic liberty and we are honored to have him as well. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Thanks. With the basic argument in this case about robo
Thank you mr. Chief justice and may i please the court. The basic prescription on automated calls to cell phones in the years that followed dave field the constitutionality in the content of natural restriction on the use of calling technologies consumers found particularly intrusive and annoying. Congress enacted the exception in 2015 did not introduce any constitutional infirmity into the statutory scheme that exception is limited to the category of calls that intrude less severely on Consumer Privacy than does the typical automated call into the countervailing interest in protecting. Theres been a good deal of back and forth about whether respondents challenge the exception or the general automated call restriction and in circumstances because therere isnt a right or wrong way. There is simply here we think both challenges could have been both but would fail. Id like to focus first on the challenge the respondent is asserting that is a challenge to the automated restriction into the
Pittsburgh sanitation workers thats right pittsburgh once had sanitation workers in 50 restaurants across florida chicago arbys employees dallas postal workers carlsbad nurses san diego transit workers crack dealers in cleveland and black market baby baby salesmen in black sea the workers are fighting back thats just a small portion of the list of workers who have gone on strike or halted work in order to have their demands met over the past 2 months we have learned something we have learned that the the lowest paid workers in a company are often the most essential even if they arent the most celebrated is kind of like at a wedding the bridesmaids in the groomsmen get all kinds of attention all the pomp and circumstance but they arent the most essential they arent the essential of all the guys cooking up the pork chops and then delivering them to your tables are the truly essential workers without them the wedding gas would begin killing and eating the slowest and weakest amongst them