Good morning, welcome, judge. Welcome to all my colleagues. It is a long day but i thought a productive day. We have 20 minute rounds and hopefully we can be done in time before dinner tonight and we will plow ahead and have a few breaks along the way. So, a couple observations from yesterday. Theres an opportunity here to thinkinghe nominees to the extent she can share her thoughts without deciding a particular case that comes before her. Senator harris who are respect suggested you were not candid and judge barrett, i could not disagree more. I have been here for a few of these, i have voted for every nominee that has come before the committee. They have one thing in common, all of you are highly qualified, cape will people. I saw that in just a sotomayor and Justice Kagan submitted by president obama. Definitely did not share their legal philosophy, i expected them to be fairly solid votes for the liberal side of the court and generally speaking, they have been, that they have done
Disagree more. I have been here for a few of these, i have voted for every nominee that has come before the committee. They have one thing in common, all of you are highly qualified, cape will people. I saw that in just a sotomayor and Justice Kagan submitted by president obama. Definitely did not share their legal philosophy, i expected them to be fairly solid votes for the liberal side of the court and generally speaking, they have been, that they have done so honorably. I think they have kept their commitment to be fair and impartial, but we do understand judicial philosophy matters. Theres difference is, i think, everybody in america can get three hours of credit for if the most detailed explanation of a legal philosophy any nominee has provided to the senate and i appreciate that. Senator harris mentioned about how much more candid Justice Ginsburg was. With all due respect, senator harris, i dont agree with that. I think Justice Ginsburg established the ginsburg rule for a reason
Thank you. That passes. Item three is the directors report. Commissioners, grant colfax, the health director. A few things in the directors report. We had the pleasure of participating in an announcement with senator scott wiener and mayor breed with reintroducing the Safe Injection Sites. The senator plans to reintroduce this bill in december. As you know that Safe Injection Sites have been a priority for the department and in alignment with mayor breeds priorities. We need these evidencebased proven interventions more than ever as fentanyl continues its uncrease in San Francisco and we have estimated that weve had more than 470 Overdose Deaths in the first month of 2020. And so this is a muchneeded intervention and it remains a priority and able to participate with the senator and the mayor in announcing the fact that that the bill will be reintroduced. We continue to encourage everyone in the city to get a flu shot now more than ever. This is certainly not the year to skip on a flu
Between armenia and azerbaijan. And a major ruling today from the European Unions top court against france the u. K. And belgium the mass surveillance of phone and Internet Data is against the law. 2 men have been found guilty over their role in a Shopping Center attack in kenya 7 years ago a 3rd man was acquitted the suspects have been charged with helping alshabaab fighters carry out the attack at the westgate Shopping Mall in nairobi 67 people were killed during the attack in 20130 Catherine Sawyer joins us live now from nairobi katherine when will we get the sentencing. While the magistrate gives his sentence on the 22nd of october he said the defense lawyers and the prosecutors all agreed to this the prosecutors say that they want the survivors and some of the families that lost their lost loved ones to give their testimonies ahead of that sentencing and the defense lawyers say that they want a presentencing report from the different security organizations now the prosecution case
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