Fulton versus city of philadelphia. The honorable chief justice and associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Oye, oye, oye. All persons having business honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to get their attention for the court is now sitting. God save the United States and this honorable court. Roberts we will hear argument this morning in case number 19120 three, fulton versus city of philadelphia. Ms. Windham . Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. The courts below made a civil error. They fail to understand where smith controls and where does not. Smith does not control where a government uses individual exemptions or makes other exceptions that undermine rules or when it changes rules to prohibit a religious practice. Philadelphia made all three errors here. The city cannot identify a neutral, generally applicable law after six attempt. Attempts. It now acknowledges its decisions are subjective and individualized. Yet the cou
Served on the Supreme Court for 35 years, hear a panel of judges and attorneys, all former Supreme Court law clerks talk about his legacy. The Bar Association of San Francisco hosted the event. High everyone, good evening, thank you so much for coming to a nice program the impact of Justice John Paul stevens. I am an appellate lawyer here in thefrancisco, i am also chairman of the appellate section of the Bar Association of San Francisco which organized this event. I would like to extend a warm welcome to members of a few groups who are cosponsoring tonights program, the ninth judicial the federal Bar Association, Northern District of california chapter and the American Constitution Society bay area chapter. I would also like to welcome cspan which is broadcasting the discussion tonight. I find that exciting, because in 10 years or so but i have been putting on programs like this, this is the first time cspan has come, so i have made it. It is some of the most awful programming when co
Can make the big prize of the night as always is california with 55 Electoral College votes joe biden has got those further north the state of washington with 12 goes to the blue column as well and oregon as well all of these west coast blue states another 7 which we can add to joe bidens tally there and well put in idaho as well which is also closing the south thats a red state that goes to dont trump with 4 so as i said this gives us some shape now because weve now managing to fill in the states which we knew so 209112 right now that looks very strong in favor of joe biden but lets think about this texas 38 florida 29 pennsylvania which we havent talked about for a while will do that in maybe will 10 or 15 minutes well have a little talk about pennsylvania. Not even in the too close to call of the moment but this 20. Heigho a chain North Carolina 16 there are a lot of states and its all the ones which we thought it would come down to of course so whilst that number all just pop out t
May have different goals but they all share the same primary objectives and the confidence in our democracy and they are thrilled when the disinformation causes us to point fingers at each other rather than at them. The good news is we spent the last four years gearing up for this unlike the Obama Biden Administration on whose watch even democrats admit we were called. The Trump Administration workede with congress and others to get us ready. The white house has imposed sanctions on russians who interfered in 2016. The department of justice, the department of Homeland Security and the Intelligence Community led efforts to strengthen and coordinate our defenses. And here in the senate the Intelligence Committee spent years studying whatha went wrong in 2016 and published a 1300 page report with recommendations. In the last two years alone we passed more than 800 million to fund and support secure elections. They described last night they are being combated by the federal government and
They announced that iran and russia exploited voter information to send misleading emails. This is just another reminder that multiple different adversaries with multiple different objectives want to fuel division among americans and create chaos. Iran, china, russia, and other adversaries may have different goals, but they all share the same primary objective of undermining americas confidence in our democracy and they are thrill thrill they are thrilled when their disinformation causes us to point fingers at each other rather than at them. The good news is that we spent the last four years gearing up for this. Unlike the obamabiden information on whose watch even democrats admit we were caught flatfooted, the Trump Administration worked overtime with congress and other actors to get us ready. The white house has imposed harsh new sanctions on russians to interfered in 2016. The department of justice, the department of homeland security, and the Intelligence Community have led efforts