Series of hearings on the state of the federal judiciary in the 21st century. This hearing we will investigate ideas for promoting ethics, accountability, and transparency in the federal courts. We focus on these ideas and our first hearing on the judiciary because they flow from two foundational principles of due process. First, that no one can be a judge in his own case. Second, to quote former Supreme Court Justice Felix frankfurter, justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Both rules embody the understanding that the constitutions implicit promise of equal justice under law depends on at least two things that our court must be fair, independent and impartial and that we must also believe that our courts are fair, independent, and impartial. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. It might take a second but we intuitively understand that. It means that as the Supreme Court recently explained, both the appearance and reality of impartial justice are necessary to the pu
There is a good deal of complicated scheduling going on in the senate, which is particularly busy right now. So we may or may not be joined by Ranking Member, kennedy, i see as other obligations. But ive been cleared by his team to proceed with the hearing, if you can make it here i will give him the chance to make an Opening Statement at a convenient juncture. But, in the meantime, the witnesses are ready and im cleared to proceed. So we will go forward. Two weeks ago, in a speech to the american law institute, chief justice, roberts, said he wanted to assure people he was committed to making certain that the Supreme Court would adhere to the highest standards of conduct, more important, the chief justice acknowledged the court has more to do, that justices are continuing to look at things they can do to give practical effect to that ethics commitment, and that he is confident that there are ways to do that. Ways to do more. The chief justice is right. There are plenty of ways. The co
Welcome to equal a work in progress defining, the ideal citizen. My name is warren, and i serve as one of the managers of engagement at the Indiana Historical society. My role tonight is to get us introduced to the program on zoom as as provide Additional Information in, the chat and q a. Throughout our time together at the Indiana Historical society. We are indiana storyteller connecting people to the past. It is our mission to collect preserve indianas unique stories bring hoosiers together in remembering sharing the past and inspire future grounded in our states, uniting and principles with fulfill this mission by collecting millions of paper based objects, including letters, photographs, more, as well as other story based mediums such as oral histories, videos and born digital content. The Indiana Historical society is a smithsonian affiliate and a member of the International Coalition of sites of conscious, the only Global Network historic sites, museums and, memory initiatives th
Welcome to equal a work in progress defining, the ideal citizen. My name is warren, and i serve as one of the managers of engagement at the Indiana Historical society. My role tonight is to get us introduced to the program on zoom as as provide Additional Information in, the chat and q a. Throughout our time together at the Indiana Historical society. We are indiana storyteller connecting people to the past. It is our mission to collect preserve indianas unique stories bring hoosiers together in remembering sharing the past and inspire future grounded in our states, uniting and principles with fulfill this mission by collecting millions of paper based objects, including letters, photographs, more, as well as other story based mediums such as oral histories, videos and born digital content. The Indiana Historical society is a smithsonian affiliate and a member of the International Coalition of sites of conscious, the only Global Network historic sites, museums and, memory initiatives th
Welcome to equal a work in progress defining, the ideal citizen. My name is warren, and i serve as one of the managers of engagement at the Indiana Historical society. My role tonight is to get us introduced to the program on zoom as as provide Additional Information in, the chat and q a. Throughout our time together at the Indiana Historical society. We are indiana storyteller connecting people to the past. It is our mission to collect preserve indianas unique stories bring hoosiers together in remembering sharing the past and inspire future grounded in our states, uniting and principles with fulfill this mission by collecting millions of paper based objects, including letters, photographs, more, as well as other story based mediums such as oral histories, videos and born digital content. The Indiana Historical society is a smithsonian affiliate and a member of the International Coalition of sites of conscious, the only Global Network historic sites, museums and, memory initiatives th