The subcommittee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on the federal judiciary and the 21st centuryideas for promoting ethics, accountability and transparency. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning and welcome. Today we begin the first in a series of hearings on the state of the federal judiciary in the 21st century. This hearing we will investigate ideas for promoting ethics, accountability, and transparency in the federal courts. We focus on these ideas and our first hearing on the judiciary because they flow from two foundational principles of due process. First, that no one can be a judge in his own case. Second, to quote former Supreme Court Justice Felix frankfurter, justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Both rules embody the understanding that the constitutions implicit promise of equal justice under law depends on at least two things that our court must be
Living with parkinsons disease. Richard lewis was 76 years old and thank you for watching news night. Laura coates live starts right now with a democracy. Well, the jury i mean the Supreme Court is still out on that one tonight on laura coates why well, its morning in london and they will woke up with the king, will guess what america you could be going to bed with one thats if the Supreme Court hands donald trump a get out of jail free card. After all, what is akin, someone who answers to no one can do what he wants it . Well, whos going to check them . Boo in a democracy . The answer is supposed to be the other two branches of government, right . You coequal branches, the whole checks and balances thing is all coming back to us now, right . I mean, its easy to forget these days when the Supreme Court Just Announced its going to take up the question of whether a president has absolute immunity no theyre not treating that as some kind of rhetorical question. Theyre actually going to he
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