The fisa court and how they could improve that but courts generally. I think the down side of courts generally is they are not often well equipped to handle classified cases. Aside from standing issues, the process of handling classified materials, stamped with clearances is a challenge with the courts and they have shown timidity when taking on the government and they defer to the government or rather than challenge the government or look for the least intrusive for the rights with Civil Liberties. So make a pitch for the krif liberties oversight board, we complement the judicial. We can meet with the nsa and cia and fbi informally and confer with congress informally without rules of evidence and standing requirements and have a review not limited to lelt review, although we did a legal review in the and i was pleased the Second Circuit adopted our legal analysis and we can do policy review and make recommendations to the president and to congress, not only on whether something is con
Kochs belief in a free and Prosperous Society. And going back to some of the last panel which i thought was excellent as well talking about removing obstacles for opportunity talking about disadvantaged, the poor. If you want to help the poor, as we do, i think probably everybody in this room does, everybody on this panel does. Theres no better way than to reform our criminal Justice System because they are the most adversely impacted by that system that is so broken. So thats one part of it. The other part is we had some negative experiences ourselves with the criminal Justice System. Back in the mid90s. That we learned from. And we wanted to see whatever we learned and how the process went for us. If its happening to a big company with a lot of resources like us whats happening to the Small Business owners whats happening to the average citizen, whats happened to the average joe in the street out there, and so that got us involved working with the nacdl, National Association of crimi
Branches of former representative Mickey Edwards and former chief assistant new york u. S. Attorney andrew mccarthy. They outline the constitutional war powers for each branch of government cover limitations of the power and whether congress should be more involved in the authorization for use of military force. By my clock we are at 12 15. Good afternoon. My name is nick has merit, Deputy Director of the Federalist Societys article i initiative. The initiative is dedicated to the development of a series of rolling practical goals of congress that stemmed directly from poor constitutional principles. Todays luncheon dish is one of the many that the Federalist Society is playing here on capitol hill and across the country. On behalf of the initiative, i want to thank you all for joining us. At the outset, and also like to thank senator ron johnson and his staff were sponsoring the room for todays event. As you may have noticed from your program and from our panel appear, we are playing
This being as secretive. It is very hard for us to give good advice to refugees or Asylum Seekers about the best way to manage this travel. Thats why and then ill stop, we focused on the need for states to introduce structures. Transparent, predictable structures that address the needs of Asylum Seekers and to give them legal alternatives through creative and flexible visa arrangements settlement programs, humanitarian admission programs in order to be able or safe points of departure in order to be able to address their protection needs. Megan, external reconciliation . Thank you for a really interesting question. You know it is certainly true that historically reconciliation process, transitional processes are nationally bound, so havent taken into account the regional cross border dynamics of refugee flows and the ways in which refugees can be as we say in Political Science spoilers in the context of peace processes, which is to say if their needs are not met they can potentially un
Visa arrangements settlement programs, humanitarian admission programs in order to be able or safe points of departure in order to be able to address their protection needs. Megan, external reconciliation . Thank you for a really interesting question. You know it is certainly true that historically reconciliation process, transitional processes are nationally bound, so havent taken into account the regional cross border dynamics of refugee flows and the ways in which refugees can be as we say in Political Science spoilers in the context of peace processes, which is to say if their needs are not met they can potentially undercut those processes and jeopardize their success. That said there have been interesting developments on this front. One of the report coauthors has done Extensive Research on reconciliation and dialogue processes in the arab spring countries which in some cases have had an International Dimension to them. In libya in that case particularly there have been individual