Cspan three. The Supreme Court has this amount of power and with that comes greater responsibility that you have individual sitting on the court for 30 or 35 years, it just doesnt pass the smell test when it comes to modern democracy. Sunday night on q a, gay broth talks about changes youd like to see at the Supreme Court. Including opening up oral arguments to the cameras and imposing term limits on the justices. Requiring justices to hear to the same code of ethics that other judges follow. The Supreme Court decisions affect all americans. All americans are aware of the third branch of government and in the last ten or 15 years of that branch has become so powerful. The idea and issues on voting, marriage, healthcare, immigration, womens rights, i could go on and on, issues that may be 20 or 30 years ago congress and the executive branch would figure out a compromise and put together a bill. That doesnt happen anymore. The buck stops with the Supreme Court in a way that is unpreceden
Constitutional content aware hosting. Ladies and gentlemen without further ado please join me in welcoming our great guests to the show. [applause] thank you all for coming. We really appreciate it. Its a great honor to be here tonight and to have two Extraordinary People and scholars share with us their expertise and insights into whats cooking. I have to confess at the outset we wont be able to share food tonight that we will perhaps more importantly talk about the quality food and particularly the reasons why the federal government regulates food and some of the major issues that are rising right now with respect to food regulation. Without wasting time i wanted jumper to jacob and have them talk to us about once a federal move government involved in recruiting food. To start with the federal government regulates food because the law is almost always been involved. The bible has a lot in the law. If you look at roman times, the roman times have a lot in the law and basic rovlin are
Disempowers places like vermont, oregon, oregon, california that want to do more. That i think is unfortunate. Unfortunately we are out of time. I hope youll allow me a minute or two to say it is rare opportunity for a moderator to say and be completely truthful, when he says, we have been so lucky tonight to have the two best experts in the country, two of two of the finest people in the country to talk about in credible issues. I want to thank you both for sharing your time and expertise with us. [applause]. On the next washington journal. An update on afghanistan operations with Major General bird and davis, in kabul. Then brendan duke of the senate for American Progress and stan bowyer, of the American Enterprise institute on the state of the u. S. Economy. That is followed by a look at the working congress to update the no child left behind legislation. Our guest is Allison Klein of education week. Washington journal, live every morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern, you can join the conv
And so, in the wake of oregon, the president said to his team, look, were losing 30,000 people a year. So it isnt just the mass murders that we see but each day on the streets of towns and cities, large and small, people are dying. Fernando now, theres a lot of polling out there that shows that theres, in some cases, a supermajority of americans supporting these kinds of measures, specifically expanded background checks. Why the controversy then . Valerie well, there shouldnt be one. There really shouldnt be one. But what we have recognized in washington, all too often, is that special interests have a stranglehold on certain members of congress, and in this case its the nra. And they spend a great deal of time, money and energy trying to ensure that we dont take reasonable steps that, quite frankly, they supported several years ago. When you ask your average lawabiding citizen who has a gun, who went through a background check, well, wont you want to make sure everyone goes through th
From the east room of the white house on tuesday and reignited the debate over guns with much emotion. But will his passion be enough to sway a Skeptical Congress . I asked the president s senior advisor, valerie jarrett. Valerie we think they will be effective tools. Of course, the best solution would be for congress to act. And, as you know, three years ago, in the wake of newtown, there was a very ambitious effort to try to get congress to act. 90 of the American People supported the sensible steps that were embedded in that legislation, but unfortunately they didn t. And so, in the wake of oregon, the president said to his team, look, we re losing 30,000 people a year. So it isn t just the mass murders that we see but each day on the streets of towns and cities, large and small, people are dying. Fernando now, there s a lot of polling out there that shows that there s, in some cases, a supermajority of americans supporting these kinds of measures, specifically expanded background c