Thank you. Thank you and. Like many women on death row china for no longer has contact with her family. Her brothers and sisters want nothing to do with her and even her own mother testified against her trial. In 6 years she has not had one single visit from her family. The only one who continues to write to her daughter jasmine. She was 17 years old when her mother was sentenced to death. Events of her any sense nightmare hons for a day and night. After being harassed she had to change her name and moved out of state. You often think of her mother. All the time. Goes by i dont think. I wish i had a magical time machine that i can go back in time. And tire and put her in my closet. That none of this would happen that she wanted to end it. Over there when she got framed for she did. I was a kid i had a pretty decent life. To nothing. To lower than nothing you were 17 at the time youre a student you might have the stock. Dropped out. My family turned their back on me. I lived in a tent i
Now, president bush. About 30 seconds we will be going on the air. In about 30 seconds we will be going on the air. Good evening, welcome to the first of three debates among the major candidates for president of the United States, sponsored by the commission on president ial debates. The candidates are independent candidate ross perot, governor bill clinton, the democratic nominee, and president george bush, republican nominee. I am jim lehrer and i will be the moderator for this 98 minute event, taking place before an audience here in the Athletic Complex on the campus of Washington University in st. Louis, missouri. Three journalists will be asking questions tonight. They are john mack she of the boston globe, and compton, and sandra van ocher. A format agreed to by representatives of the clinton and bush campaigns. That agreement contains no restrictions on the content or subject matter of the questions. Each candidate will have up to two minutes for a closing statement. The order o
Bader ginsburg who died friday night. She died on the eve of the jewish new year, the first jewish woman on the Supreme Court and a very interesting thing about individuals who die right before the new year. They say they suggest very righteous people die at the very end of the year because they were needed until the very end. Under jewish tradition those who die on the new year holiday, a title given to the righteous and saintly. Certainly Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg was entitled to this honor, being righteous and saintly. At her confirmation hearing she talked about her immigrant experience was her father was a jewish immigrant, her mother was a secondgeneration american, she talked about American Values and then she said what has happened over me could only happen in america and then she spent her entire career protecting those values that make america a great nation it is in the reason people come here in order to reach their full potential. It guided her well in her public service
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Mr. Coons i ask proceedings under the quorum call be vitiated. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Coons mr. President , on this past friday evening, on rosh hashanah, our nation lost a giant on the Supreme Court. We lost a trailblazer for womens equality, a woman who although diminutive in size was a giant and a force for justice. For my daughter, for all americans. I am so grateful for the work and the service and the life of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. Having passed on rosh hashanah, the tradition of the jewish people teaches that she is especially blessed, particularly righteous. Its heart breaking that her dying wish dictated to her granddaughter was that the voters should choose the next president and that next president , her successor, and that already there are some who are racing to undo that wish. This was her wish because she understood the consequences of this decision for the senate, for the American People, and for the Supreme Court to which she d