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
Family members went to cash in on joe bidens name. It is worse than anyone realizes. It shows why Senate Homeland security chair ron johnson whose panel put out this report with Senate Finance, this evidence is why joe biden is not somebody we should be elected president of the United States. Tonight we break down the bombshells, including this. Millions of dollars paid to accounts connected to hunter biden from foreign nationals the Billionaire Wife of the former mayor of moscow when his father was working on ukraine issues. Allegations of suspicious payments by hunter biden to foreign nationals from russia and ukraine involved in possible criminal activity like prostitution and sex trafficking. We will dig into the revelation the oligarch who hired hunter biden to sit on the board of his Ukraine Energy company was allegedly trying to give 7 milliondollars in bribes to ukraine officials while joe biden oversaw ukraine for the Obama Administration. The report also says these issues did
Impassioned dissents, her lifes work will not only continue to shape jurisprudence but also enlighten scholars and students for generations. By all accounts Justice Ginsburg loved her work because she loved the law. In a more ordinary life story, her courage and continued excellence in the face of multiple serious illnesses would itself be the heroic climax rather than just one more remarkable chapter among so many. On the court Justice Ginsburg was a universe yale admired colleague. Its no wonder Many Americans have taken particular comfort these past days in remembering her famous friendship with her ideological opposite, the late Justice Scalia. Together they made sure the halls of justice also rang with laughter and comedy. They rarely sat on the same side of a high profile decision but still sat together at the opera and most any other time they could manage to be together. So the legal world is mounting the legal world is mourning a giant but Justice Ginsburgs fellow justices, a