Supreme Court Justice clarence thomas. He joined the court in 1991. He talks about his life and career. The event was hosted by library of congress and the Supreme Court Fellows Program. Good afternoon. Justice thomas who is in the room downstairs, distinguished guests, and congress. Thank you for joining the law library of congress and the United States Supreme Court today for the 2018 Supreme Court Fellows Program annual lecture. My name is jane sanchez, and i have the honor of serving as the 25th law librarian of congress. A little bit about the library the law library serves as the nations custodian of a legal and legislative collection of nearly three million items from all countries and Legal Systems of the world. Our foreign Law Specialists are a Diverse Group of foreigntrained attorneys who provide information and analysis on over 270 jurisdictions in the world. Our skilled law excuse me our skilled law library staff, both americantrained attorneys and law librarians, also prov
Four mr. Galston let me try to call this full house to order, if i may. Welcome to brookings. My name is bill galston, senior fellow in governance studies. Thanks so much for coming and welcome also to the people who are watching this event live on cspan. Todays topic is the past, the present, and possible future of the u. S. Senate. The occasion of this discussion is the publication of ira shapiros second book on the senate, this one is titled, broken can the senate save itself and the country . Those of you that read his first book on the senate will know how passionately he reveres the senate as an institution and will not be surprised to learn how distressed he is by what he describes as its precipitous decline. This topic could not be more timely. We are just days from the expiration of another short term continuing budget resolution, and perhaps even more pertinently from a promised open Senate Debate on u. S. Immigration policy. Will the promise be kept . And if it is, will toda
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Coming defense review or Budget Planning team. Barry, welcome to the team. Thank you, vag go. Congratulations for your slot on the defense news top 100 most influential people. That was the biggest thrill of the year. So lets start off with the report. Each report begins with assumptions about threats to the United States to be facing and whats going to be needed to meet them what. Are those threats and whats the right strategy to address those threats as cost efficiently as possible . The group was more optimistic than many people in looking at the world. They see russia as a country that doesnt pose any threats now and really wont, cant for many years. They see china as a potential threat in the future but recognize we have common interests in china which would ease that threat. And they see the great instability in the middle east as posing specific threats to us such as the chemical weapons in syria which could fall in the hands of terrorists, but see these threats as threats to be
Its a obviously tough time for him. He did a very good job when he was in the white house, and we hope he has a wonderful career and hopefully he will have a great career ahead of him. But it was very sad when we heard about it, and certainly hes also very sad. Now, he also, as you probably know, he says hes innocent. And i think you have to remember that. He said very strongly yesterday that hes innocent. So youll have to talk to him about that, but we absolutely wish him well. Did a very good job while he was at the white house. Notice what President Trump never mentioned. Not one single word about either of the women accusing rob porter of abuse. One of his exwives Jennifer Willoughby was on the today show this morning and recounted one violent episode. Lets watch. We had been fighting, and rob followed me to the shower and pulled me out of the shower to continue the rage and immediately saw how scared i was and recognized what he was doing and released it, but that was a moment whe