Welcome everybody thank you for taking the time to be here with us for this extraordinary book i hope you get a book before you leave and Immigration Reform and the lessons learned. This is what we are obliged to do so this book means a lot. It is historical but contemporaneous. And adhere to both of you. And with a small nonprofit. And then also with that initiative. And from some different angles and publishing a book like the Immigration Reform book so thank you for being here. I would like to share one piece of information and with my minority offer. In the big social democracy about 30 or 40 percent so those that hold such a beautiful democracy and fundraising frontlines publishing this issue that are yet with transitional mainstream. It is important so thank you for your support to buy the book. Here is mark. I first saw the invitation and i thought charles will hates this. [laughter] but he has written this from his heart and to do the press tours in the spotlight for someone th
Japans National Treasures the 500 year old. Im melissa chan youre watching news asia thank you for joining us india officially changes the status of kashmir today thursday it is now no longer in autonomous state and instead has been split into 2 federally controlled territories one is called jadwin kashmir and the other is a dock. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi made the decision back in august since that announcement the regions been under lockdown with no internet local politicians arrested and limited information filtering out some of what we know is coming unexpectedly from european visitors. Indian administered kashmir news of the european lawmakers imminent arrival sparked angry protests across the region 3 months into delhi security lock down tensions remain at boiling point. More than 80 days of protests but no ones paying attention people are getting killed slaughtered everythings closed theres a communications lockdown. In delhi the any peace will welcome personally by Pr
We will now proceed with Opening Statements. I wish you all a good morning and welcome to the fourth hearing in the economic Emergency Management subcommittee. One of the purposes of this committee is to protect taxpayer dollars by ensuring they are spent effectively, efficiently and with transparency. That brings us to todays hearing which is entitled landlord and tenant. You can tell from the title that today we will be investigating fairly unprecedented situation. The federal government owns the building that houses President Trumps d. C. Hotel hotel. Since President Trump has declined, he is essentially acting as both the landlord and the tenant. Before i was elected to congress , over three decades Teaching College students about American Government and politics. Serious discussions about the legislature holding the executive Branch Accountable to the highest legal and ethical standards and that is exactly what we hope to do today. First lets start with some facts. All federal wor
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
Kind of a quiet interlude to what might come . And then maybe talk about very much your area of expertise, the gerrymandering case. And does it portend other future decisions that we should be aware of . So i can but else i just want to say like mickey rooney, im just happy to be in the show. I think kannon is right, that the term mischaracterized in part by the cases the court took them by the case the court postponed taking. To make very high cases that were key to pry the beginning of the term and i think one set of them were actually on the summer from last year were cases about the scope of title vii, whether it covers discrimination based on Sexual Orientation or an gender identity. The court could have taken those cases last september and it didnt. It held off on those until april. It once again dodged a question that it had up in front of it in Masterpiece Cakeshop by sending the flowers case back in light of Masterpiece Cake shop which i think it of interest because Masterpiec