From the Federalist Society, this is 90 minutes. Good afternoon and welcome to the federal Society Event on fen citizenship and the census. Im Vice President general counsel and director of groups of the Federalist Society and pleased to welcome you here today. I want to thank the panel and especially the moderator stuart taylor. Before we begin i do want to let you know we had a bit of a medical emergency in the room. A gentle man received assistance and we are told hes going to be fine but if you would like an update coming i, if we get an um the hospital, we will certainly let you know. But our thoughts are with him of course. I mentioned the moderator stuart taylor, an author, journalist here in the washington, d. C. , somewhat of a federal society regular. Youve seen him before, hes wellknown to us. I will introduce halflength but i do want to introduce him for the role of the moderator today. [applause] thank you very much, dean, for coming. Welcome to the Panel Discussion titled
Course. I mentioned the moderator stuart taylor, an author, journalist here in the washington, d. C. , somewhat of a federal society regular. Youve seen him before, hes wellknown to us. I will introduce halflength but i do want to introduce him for the role of the moderator today. [applause] thank you very much, dean, for coming. Welcome to the Panel Discussion titled citizenship the road ahead on issues entitled to citizenship and i said yeah, what else. Its no citizenship the road ahead on issues surrounding the Trump Administration efforts to make publicly available more information about the numbers of citizens, non citizens and Illegal Immigrants in the country. This includes the administrations plan to include a question of citizenship and the census now starting in the year 2030, that is because the Supreme Courts decision in the department of commerce versus new york made it logistically impossible and the attorney generals words to include a question in the 2020 census. We hav
Argument in a case involving the taxation of earnings de by americans from a foreign company. The ca focuses on an indiabased company with more than half of its ownership held by americans. It was brought forward by a plaintiff who objected to a clause in a 2017 change in tax law that would have required a onetime repatriation test. This is about two hours. The court squarely held us much just a few years following adoption of the amendment. The it is undpud that the petitioners realedothing froms are stock investment. They were taxed not because they have no income but because in 17hey happened to owe shares in a corporation carrying retained earnings on its bks this is a tax on the ownership of property and therefore must be apportioned. The government cannot identify a single thing congress could not tax income underts position that reazation is unnecessary. Thout realization there is no limiting principle. Excepting the governments position on income would make a hash of the curren
weapons of death also tonight, michael cohen joins me to talk about what weaponization of government really looks like. as jim jordan plays make believe on the issue in an embarrassing field hearing of the once respected house judiciary committee. plus, justice clarence thomas is promising to fix his financial irregularities as a whole new set of questions come to light and we begin tonight with more young americans fighting for their lives at this country s massacre epidemic rages on following a spate otmass shootings less than three weeks since the children of nashville were buried, this is a feeling of an accelerating gun culture and the carnage and death that comes with it. the fear, the violence, they can feel unstoppable, even all consuming at times and it isn t just because of america s indifference to gun violence it feels like parts of this country are engaged in a celebration of gun violence. a veneration and devotion that has turned america into the most heav
What a term it has been. Both inside and outside the court. I wont even attempt to give you a summary. You are not here to hear from me and there is too much to talk about but we have four excellent panelists. Each of them i do not have time to give them the introductions they deserve, i will give them short introductions. What in response, my promise to them as i build keep my own questions very short. It is to maximize their time and the audiences time for questions. We are joined first by professor joel era cf, assistant professor at the Catholic University of america where he specializes in constitutional theory. He also cooper and kirk, codirector of the project on constitutional regionalism and the catholic intellectual physician and a nonresident fellow at the American Enterprise institute. He graduated from princeton and harvard law and clerked for judge scanlon on the ninth and samuel alito at the Supreme Court. We also have sarah harris. She has argued and won three cases at