7488003. Or you can join us on twitter, cspanwj, or facebook. Com cspan. We will get your thoughts here in just a minute, but first joining us on the phone here is lawrence hurley, a Supreme Court correspondent. What was the question put to the courts and what did they decide . Guest thanks. The question is whether sex discrimination within the title vii, which is the federal law that bars employment discrimination, whether sex discrimination applied to Sexual Orientation and gender identity. The court in the ruling ,esterday said that it does which was surprising to some because you had chief Justice Roberts and justice and neil gorsuch joining the four liberals, as you mentioned, in that ruling. The court basically said that any kind of discrimination on the basis of sex is kind of a broad concept and that can include elements of discrimination that concern Sexual Orientation or gender identity. It reads prohibits employment through discrimination based on color, sex, andigion, natio
Country superwealthy have added a further 368800000000. 00 to their already a norm its fortunes and besides this ridiculous state of inequality the rich are also not paying their fair share in taxes they got a giant tax cut for donald trump and the super rich hold 32. 00 trillion dollars in offshore tax havens meanwhile for average americans its. Not as good. A record 36000000. 00 americans have filed for Unemployment Insurance with millions more losing their employer based Health Care Plans and around a 3rd of the country not paying its rent so how does our society not collapsing how is it i wonder why why is the stock market not so low we can see up my skirt well one of the reasons is that we now have a plutonic me citi Group Analysts have used the term plutonic me to describe an economy in which the rich are the driving forces and main beneficiaries of Economic Growth basically it only matters what the rich do what they buy what they invest in you and i dont matter we matter as much
Good news good news folks i know youre worried that everyone is suffering during this pandemic were lonely were scared and if i have to teach my mother how to use zoom one more time im going to throw her out a window not the real her but the laptop with her on it so she sees it as it goes down and smashes into the ground and maybe that will stick with her for a bit but no is not true not everybody is having a rough time some people are doing room only well americas billionaires have seen their wealth increase by 12. 5 percent during the lockdown period the institute for policy studies released a study thursday showing that in the 8 weeks between march 18th and may 14th the country superwealthy have added a further 368800000000. 00 to their already a norm its fortunes and besides this ridiculous state of inequality the rich are also not paying their fair share in taxes they got a giant tax cut for donald trump and the super rich hold 32. 00 trillion dollars in offshore tax havens meanwh
We will hire argument next in case 19 518, the Colorado Department of state versus michael baca. I noted at the outset that Justice Sotomayor is recused in this case. General weiser. Thank you mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. The constitution authorizes states to use their authority to whove a bribed elector, one engages in rebellion or one who would perpetrate a bait and switch on the people of their state by voting contrary to a binding pledge. By contrast, if a state wishes to treat electors as free agents rather than as proxy voters, it is free to do so. In short, states determine how to select electors and ensure that they meet the relative requirements and perform their duties as assigned. This means under green that states can oversee bribery as an incident as a power to appoint. This must include the power to remove and elector without requiring a full criminal trial. Under my friend mr. Lessigs position, as a practicality bribed electors would cast ballots and il
Good morning, everyone. That poster of the everyone. That poster of the women members of congress. Thank you for being with us today. It is a very special day in the history of our country. 101 years ago today, the house of representatives voted to pass the 19th amendment. As you know, that is the amendment that gives women the right to vote. They werent given because they fought very hard for it but that success was achieved. Pass thenother year to process of ratification. In august, we will observe the 100th anniversary of women having the right to vote, but today, we are honoring what happened in the house of representatives on this very day. We are very proud of the fact that we have over 100 women in congress now, over 90 women on the democratic side. We made a decision about that a long time ago. Carolyn maloney who could not be with us, but she has been a champion on all of these issues whether it is a womens museum, equal rights amendment, you name it. Wanted to salute her as w