Originally given seven years for ratification. Congress reported to change the rules. I filed the first lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of that change of process on behalf of Washington State legislatures more than 30 years ago. We won that case. The rule was, you cant change the rules in the middle of the stream. If you have to have an agreement on the subject matter to start with and you cant change the rules in the middle of the stream, this fearmongering going from the extreme left and right is just nonsense. The power of the convention is no different than congress. You can call a convention for a particular purpose. Congress could propose amendments for a particular purpose. Just because Congress Proposes an amendment on minimum wage, doesnt mean the whole constitution suffers. You are a constitutional lawyer. How many times have you argued before the Supreme Court . Just once. I have filed lots of briefs but only argued one time. You ever think about why the founders pu
We have been here for over two years and we are very excited to be here on the Upper West Side supporting these great importance works and i am so happy to have Peter Moscowitz here i loved this book and i think you will all love it, too mac. We do not charge admission so we would ask you to keep supporting great people and great work. For those of you that dont know his work, he is a freelance journalist whos covered a wide variety of issues from disasters to the racist urban planning. A former staff writer at Al Jazeera America hes written for the guardian, New York Times, others. He is a graduate at the school of journalism and joining him in moderating the discussion will be the host of the difficult to name reading series that brings together journalists and others. He is a writer and currently working on a novel. If you noticed booktv is here from cspan and they will be recording. After the talking portion if you could wait for me to come and find you and give you a microphone so
Today, we will address a very important question is there a student debt crisis . In many of us are well aware of the everexpanding student loan market and the latest estimates are that nearly 40 million americans are laden with 1. 3 trillion worth of student ebt. One in four of the borrowers is either in delinquency or default. Last years graduating class had an average of 35,000 in student ebt. Those are striking numbers. The Obama Administration recently announced two policy changes and president ial candidates have focused on a variety of alternatives of ways to lower the debt burdens. Todays speakers are two leading voices on student debt. Rohit chopra was recently named special adviser to the u. S. Department of education. He previously served as the assistant director of the Consumer Financial protection bureau. He led that agencys work on behalf of students and young consumers. The secretary of treasury named im as the agencies First Student loan ombudsman. He has frequently te
French muslims in british muslims need to more forcefully condemn terrorism, benefit from that solidarity that is created. A couple of books i have read from women, i cant think of her last name. She was part of the Dutch Parliament for a while. These two authors i am thinking very vividly describe what it is like for women in islamic ,ountries, general mutilation all of that, really tough to read, and i think the start of an underground group of women that are tuning into this then extrapolate to islam broadly, and i think that has not been, at least im not aware of it being countered or if it could be countered. Women the attacks against by how harshly islam in their expense treats women. I should say i am not an expert in islam abroad. Cases, suchf many as saudi arabia and iran, where there is clear evidence of discrimination against women. It is also worth noting that many of the heads of state in the world are muslim women. Certainly one hears of these egregious, particular he amo
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