Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess of his committee at any time. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning, i thank all of you for being here today. Good morning, today we are examining our nations history of Voter Suppression as well as the obstacles that many minority communities continue to face to this day. In exercising their fundamental right to vote. Tomorrow we will be holding a ceremony to honor our dear friend and colleague and a former chairman Elijah Cummings. We will be renaming this hearing room after him and commending everything he stood for. Todays hearing is part of our efforts to honor his legacy. Protecting the right to vote was one of the most important issues if not the most important issue he fought for during his decades of service. We are holding this hearing in a gory during black History Month with black americans whose voices were stifled, blocks and silenced for centuries. It is black americans who are still being
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Good morning everyone. Without objection the chairs authorized to declare recess of his committee at any time. I now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning, i thank all of you for being here today. Good morning, today we are examining our nations history of Voter Suppression as well as the obstacles that many minority communities continue to face to this day. In exercising their fundamental right to vote. Tomorrow we will be holding a ceremony to honor our dear friend and colleague and a former chairman Elijah Cummings. We will be renaming this hearing room after him and commending everything he stood for. Todays hearing is part of our efforts to honor his legacy. Protecting the right to vote was one of the most important issues if not the most important issue he fought for during his decades of service. We are holding this hearing in a gory during black History Month with black americans whose voices were stifled, blocks and silenced for centuries. It is black america
And now we are in almost every chapter, in every law School Across the country, we have a chapter. I encourage you to talk to my colleagues who are here. If you are not already involved, please get engaged. We need you more than ever. I want to introduce our interim president. To tee up this panel discussion, this year as the nation heads into a president ial election season, we felt compelled to pick up on the theme of this whole conference, pillars of democracy, to ask questions about how our structures of government, and the components thereof and our values and commitments are working together, or not. So we asked the question, our democracy and federalism friends or foes . To lead us through this discussion, we could not be more pleased to have this panel with us. Adam is a expert on the Supreme Court, he is a professor of law ucla. He is on the acs board of directors. He is the student chapter adviser at ucla. His 2018 book we the corporations, how american businesses won their c
Talk to my colleagues who are here. If you are not already involved, please get engaged. We need you more than ever. I want to introduce our interim president. To tee up this panel discussion, this year as the nation heads into a president ial election season, we felt compelled to pick up on the theme of this whole conference, pillars of democracy, to ask questions about how our structures of government, and the components thereof and our values and commitments are working together, or not. So we asked the question, our democracy and federalism friends or foes . To lead us through this discussion, we could not be more pleased to have this panel with us. Adam is a expert on the Supreme Court, he is a professor of law ucla. He is on the acs board of directors. He is the student chapter adviser at ucla. His 2018 book we the corporations, how american businesses won their civil rights, was a finalist for the National Book award and receive describes award. He is also the author of gun, fig