We confess that we often neglect this opportunity to find power in your presence. Guide our lawmakers with your wisdom, liberating them from doubts and uncertainties as they remember that their times are in your hands. May they seek directions from you as they strive to honor your name. Lord, undergird them with your enabling might and help them to remember that without you, their striving would be losing. Give them a steady faith, a firm hope and a fervent charity so that they will stay within the circle of your will. We pray in your mighty name. Amen. The presiding officer please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to the flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The presiding officer the clerk will read a communication to the senate. The clerk washington d. C, april 18, 2016. To the senate under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of t
Supreme court litigator. You have three excellent panels that i think you will enjoy. The format we tend to use it instead of people giving short speeches we have aa question her, and interview process and people respond to the questions. This is all unscripted. In any case my name is brad smith command i will be a panelist here as well. Now, buckley was decided 40 years ago and has been criticized routine. If the decision has been surprisingly resilient despite being predictions that it will meet its demise at any time. I remember when i 1st began getting into this area there was an insistence that buckley was a wrong tree in the question was which direction it would fall. Now buckley continues to stand in one writer has suggested it is the president of steel. Criticism has been great. Likened it to the dred scott decision spending 2,000 on a political race. I mean, these are the luminaries of americas Legal Academy that have likened the case to lochner which is if you are familiar, y
To me they seem to confine it to being able to have your religious views in church or in temple or wherever you worship on sunday or wherever, whenever you worship, and thats it as opposed to living out your religious views 24 hours a day seven days a week. I think the real assault is on religious liberty. I think the hobby lobby case where the green family was threatened with over a Million Dollars in fines if they didnt want to pay for adortafations was correctly decided. I wish there had been a 90 ruling. This is the latest assault on religious liberty. You see it in the case that was decided with the administration, the case of a lutheran school, went in and tried to argue there was no ministerial exemption that had long been recognized in the employment laws. When you think about that, whats dangerous, they didnt have to claim that in simply deciding that case. They could have gone with a much more narrow argument. Instead the government was claiming there was no protection for ch
Congress should move forward. Give us a call. The numbers are on the screen. You can also catch up with us on social media on twitter, facebook, or email us. And a very good Tuesday Morning to you. The debate last night and the vote last night in the Senate Making the front pages of newspapers around the country today. Here is the front page of the Washington Post. And the front page of the houston chronicle, noting that security and Homeland Security funding left in doubt. The newspaper of capitol hill roll call headline on this topic for more on that plan and we are joined by the scene of belly Christina Helen tony. Guest good morning. Host what was decided last night. Guest it is very procedural but its just standalone bill that its the president separate from the funding for department of Homeland Security. Basically, Mitch Mcconnell said this removes the excuse blaming democrats for blocking the spill. This was bound to happen in the last hour. In the final moments, he was testing
South korea, was attacked by a man with a razor blade following a public forum in seoul. His injuries are not lifethreatening. South korean tv says the suspect is known and has a record. The suspect is said to be against joint u. S. South Korean Military drills. Lippert attended sanford university. New at 6 00 tonight, its the sex discrimination case thats captured the attention of Silicon Valley. The highprofile Venture Capital firm of Kleiner Perkins is being sued by one of its former junior partners. Ellen pow wants 16 million. She says she was repeatedly passed over for promotions because shes a woman. Nbc bay areas Mark Matthews is in San Francisco where the trial is heading into its biggest day so far. Reporter it will be a big day. Ellen pow due to take the stand, an mba from harvard, a lawyer from harvard who also holds an Electronics Engineering degree from princeton who joined the Venture Capital firm pack in 2005 and shes going to be taking the stand tomorrow. On stand today