Democrat who remained loyal to the union during the civil war. In 1864, Abraham Lincoln at a johnson as Vice President to his take it to bolster his reelection chances and johnson ascended to the presidency following lincolns assassination in april 1865. The radical republicans in Congress Found johnsons reconstruction policies too lenient. As a response, they put forth the sweeping 14th amendment which included provisions to ensure former slave citizenship and equal protection and due process of law. Good morning. This is constitutional history of the United States. Today we will be talking about Andrew Johnson, reconstruction and the origins of the 14th amendment. The 14th amendment is an amendment to the constitution, one of the three civil war amendments that is so important and so scrutinized because of the role it played place in deciding whether the federal government has the right to protect individual rights, economic rights, corporate rights. That even judges and scholars who
3 years ago i came from germany to what make merry at that time the only thing i knew about the place was that it is the biggest industrial project and the 3rd Largest Oil Reserves on the planet. All the Major Oil Companies i hear. People from all over the world cliff and work in fort mcnair to extract the oil from the sand. I came to this place to understand who these people were and why they had decided to be here. Thank you and the sixtys fought mary was a sleepy place with a population of just 2000 people and one years later it had grown to 100000. For me it was a very lonely place. Thanks to. The heart of the city is in your minds but everyone works 12 hour shifts and returns home only for eating and sleeping. Why do people stay so long here. The air smells like chemicals and on some days it can take your breath d. I stayed because i met michael who worked for the theatre he was different from the outer people i met here michael thought i was a crazy german who wanted to make an i
Down multiple nagel fires burning millions of acres have been destroyed millions of residents have to live in toxic air me to california farmer in l. Dealing with the aftermath of an unprecedented catastrophe. Im brian thomas good to have you with us today israel has become the 1st country to announce a 2nd National Lockdown to combat the coronavirus this comes after a surge in new infections Prime Minister netanyahu said the new lockdown which begins friday will restrict movement and last for 3 weeks. As israels outbreak threatened to race out of control Benjamin Netanyahu announced the unpopular but perhaps unavoidable decision look you know you wont be today we decided on a Strict Lockdown plan for 3 weeks with an option to extend but as of now weve decided that the lockdown will last until the end of the holiday. Door prelims lot of Health Ministry executives and hospital managers have warned us that death rates are forcing the application of immediate measures. A part of the medic
Sovereignty should be respected around the possibility of Russian Forces intervening she said she hopes such a force would not need to intervene also stressed that she had tried to speak to me. On the phone but that he had declined so far im going to call emphasized that she believes it is important not only to talk to the russian president how about belarus but to other leaders as well but that so far mr has declined her offer to speak on the phone about the situation in that country. Of commons russias involvement looks likely to worsen the already tense times between the e. U. And moscow and between germany and moscow merkel also had a few words to say about russias general behavior in the region lets have a quick listen. Well you know its. The annexation of crimea our attempts to have a couple of days at least without any fatalities in ukraine the attack on mr scrip all these issues do look like a common thread. And that is a constant strain on the german russian relations and also
Iam not i am not asking this court to say whether the Prime Ministers assessment is correct or incorrect. The relevance is that they are strong evidence to be added to the material referred to by the inner house as to the Prime Ministers motive in trying to close parliament for five weeks during this negotiating period. The other point i want to make on the facts is that it is, we say, a remarkable feature of these proceedings that the Prime Minister has not made a witness statement explaining why he decided to advise her majesty to Prorogue Parliament for a period as long as five weeks. And that is even though we made very clear in commencing these proceedings that an important pa rt of these proceedings that an important part of our case is that the Prime Ministers advice to her majesty was motivated, or at least strongly influenced, by the Prime Ministers desire to prevent the risk, as he saw it, of parliament damaging government policy. And we set that out in our statement of facts