Good afternoon. Welcome to the december 1 meeting of the board of supervisors. This will be one of the three meetings in december. And the third to the last, i believe, that i will be on. So madam clerk, please call the roll. [roll call] supervisor safai, were you able to join us . Mr. President , you have a quorum. Supervisor yee thank you. Please place your right hand over your heart. Will you please join me in reciteling the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. On behalf of the board, i would like to acknowledge the staff at sfgtv who record each of our meetings and make the transcripts available to the public online. Madam clerk, are there any communications . Clerk yes, mr. President. The Meeting Minutes will reflect that Board Members participated in this proceeding remotely through Video Conference to the same extent as though p
Americans should vote twice. Absentees are fine. Well get to your 7 30 headlines. You go to vote there is new concern this if they havent counted it, you happen again can vote you know, sometimes, we just roll these numbers off of our tongue, and we really dont think about it thats the way i view it. But 186,000 people have now died the backlash immediate. The president s attorney general of the coronavirus thats approaching the population of huntsville, morning among Health Experts that the Holiday Weekend could attempting to defend him lead to another spike in it seems to me, what hes saying is, hes trying to make coronavirus cases. The u. S. Saw a jump in cases after memorial day and the the point that the ability to fourth of july. Big crowds at beaches and pool parties likely contributing to monitor this system is not good. This morning, both the president and his rival, joe biden, focusing on key battleground states, with just two months to go until election the spike. The u. S.
Do you remember what the significance of that year was . I know you know but for those who dont, that was the introduction of the iphone which literally changed the way we use devices with those multimedia functions and enabled and opened up several doors of opportunity for us to have this conversation today but on a regulatory front which is more in line with your questions in the 1980s the sec launched its first cell phone spectrum van and through a series of those decisions, based on that, we are now seeing that launch this Global Mobile revolution. Of course, revolutions often happen in different phases and different stages so now in terms of mobile revolution or evolution we are talking about the fifth stage in some ways but not in all communities and that is another topic for another time but the fifth wave or evolution when it comes to mobile phones and what we saw around the third wave or so is these devices becoming smaller, more nimble, less expensive and more ubiquitous so y
Quite often and many of our most greatest decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go to a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believed in a rule of law. Cspan and the National Constitution center. Welcome you to the land more cases. Our 12 part history series. Exploring the people and the stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most famous dissidents. Tonight, we will be learning more about the dred scott case of 1857. Let me introduce you to our two guests to tell us about the history and impact of this case. Chris bracey is at George Washington University Law school professor. He is also the coeditor of a book called the dreads caught case and contemporary perspectives. Welcome. Martha jones is at the university of michigan. She is a history professor there and also the chair of afro american and codirector of the race line his
Gov. Murphy good afternoon, everybody. Just to remind folks what our plan is for the next couple of days, obviously, we are together right now and i, as i mentioned, unless there is a very meaningful material development, in which case we will change plans, tomorrow will be an email, paper release in terms of the overnight numbers and any other news we have to report, because of the white house vtc on monday, we will do a press conference at 2 00 instead of the usual 1 00 timeframe here. So, i am honored to be joined today, as i am every day, by the woman to my right who needs no introduction. The commissioner of the department of health. Persichilli. To her right, another name well known to most, the state epidemiologist. To my far left, the state police superintendent. And to my immediate left represent the department of workforce development, the commissioner. I mentioned as yesterday that i asked rob to give us an update on the department of labor efforts to ensure every new n in n