The federalism values are promoted by our interpretation because if that is, indeed, what a state thought, if a state really would have preferred that not to have the State Government participate in the implementation of this act, for reasons that your honor identified, the structure of the act that congress put in place and that were advocating for today fully vindicates that concern. They can decide not to participate without having any adverse consequences visited upon the citizens of the state. And thats why our reading is the profederalism reading. Its their reading that seems to me that is the antifederalism reading, and thats a powerful reason to reject it. And if i could go to the second statutory point, which is related to what were talking about, Justice Kennedy, which is section 1321, says that this statute is designed to afford state flexibility. State flexibility. It would be an orwellian sense of the word flexibility to use it in the manner that petitioners say the statut
Legislature can do, which Means Congress can also give this power to the commission. The only difference between my friends scenario and mine is that in my friends scenario the state legislature would retain the authority to override what the commission has done but that is always the consequence of state legislation over federal legislation. Its not something that a state legislature can override and it is simply a consequence of congress superseding authority and congress authority under the elections clause. Scalia the second clause is being used to revise the first clause. That is what we are talking about. The second clause can congress can do something on its own. But can congress use the second clause to revise what the first clause says . Feigin one thing i want to emphasize is i think the court settle this issue in hildebrandt when it said it was simply doing something that the constitution expressly gave the right to do. I dont think the right way to think about this is congr
Selma will not forget. President obama reflecting on that days events in selma, alabama. We want to start with your thoughts on Race Relations in america. By the way, events continued today in selma, alabama on cspan 3. Our phone lines are open with your comments. 202 is the area code. 202 7488000, democrats. 202 7488001, republicans. 202 7458002 independents. You can also send us a tweet cspanwj. Or send us an email journal cspan. Org. It is 7 00, daylight savings time as we move our clocks ahead one hour. The president s speech, as he honors the courage of americans the 50th anniversary of the margin in selma, alabama. Then your times the New York Times has a speecn article. On one side of the side was the protesters who knew they could end the day as martyrs, on the other side, Alabama State troopers, eager to play the role assigned to them by history. Many of the moments of National Reckoning have been accept lease brutality or failures of the criminal justice system. 50 years on,
Preview on this weekss action in the senate. We turn to neil, a frequent guest at the washington journal joining us. Good morning to you. John i want to talk about the iran deal that is going on and the bill that was expected to be on the floor this week in the senate and then got pulled. What is going on there . Niels what has happened with the floor schedule was we had anticipated that on tuesday, the senate would attempt to hold a vote on picking up a measure sponsored by the Foreign Relations chairman bob corker of tennessee that would require the administration to send any sort of agreement that may be reached with the iranians over their Nuclear Program to capitol hill for a sixtyday period to allow congress to weigh in on any sort of agreement. What happened was, a number of Democratic Senators who had supported the legislation indicated to the majority leader in the senate that they would not vote for their own bill until after a march 24 deadline for some sort of resolution in
Nadler gavelled out, the vote will happen this morning. What happened . We went into the day thinking we were going to vote yesterday also, but the republican my republican colleagues offered amendment after amendment and it was clear that this was going to go well into the night, and this is the most consequential vote most members of congress will ever cast. The American People deserve to see it. It ought to take place in the light of day. And what we heard over and over is that there should be no rush. This is the most important thing were going to do in the committee. Of course we shouldnt rush it. So we decided to go home, take a break and come back and actually have this vote today after everyone has had an opportunity to think about what they heard over the past two days about the president s abuse of power and then the obstruction of congress that led us to this moment to begin with. You say to think about everything that you heard. And you need to have a vote in the light of d