Morning and case number 19123, fulton v. The city of philadelphia. Ms. Windham. Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court. The courts below made a simple error. They failed to understand where Employment Division versus smith controls and what doesnt. Smith doesnt control when the government uses a system of individualized exemptions or when it makes other exceptions that undermined its rules or when it changes the rules to prohibit a religious practice. Philadelphia made all three of those errors here. The city still cant identify a neutral, generally applicable attempts. Fter six it now acknowledges its decisions are subjective and individualized. Yet the courts below still applied smith. Even set Smith Wouldve be a dead letter if petitioners prevail. That. That demonstrates the confusion and instability smith has caused. Respondents, rather than defend smith, asked the court for new limited constitutional standard thats even less protective of religious exercise. That approach
As we now face a battle over the vacancy in the u. S. Supreme court, we want to focus on what senator joe biden said back in 1992 on the senate floor. Senator biden it is my view that particularly if the reality of a divided government during the time of great change at the Court Continues in the next administration, future confirmations must be conducted differently than the preceding ones. Mr. President , the president s intentions on the existing process which exploded during the thomas nomination fight make restoration of what came before judge thomas nomination even if it was desirable, a practical impossibility. Having said that, mr. President , we face one immediate question, can our Supreme Court confirmation process sow discord and bitterness in an Election Year . Mr. President , history teaches us this is extremely unlikely. Some of our nations most bitter and heated confirmation fights have come in president ial Election Years. A bruising confirmation fight over roger taunys
Theyre capable of helping us with business, education, personal relations and sheer entertainment. Young pea, especially, we like to say, live on their devices. Our guests today is samantha yee a writer editor and adept in this realm, a catholic writer and speaker who said if that is where young people are living, that is where we have to reach them. Reach them with what . Samantha will show we reach them with art, beauty and soul. After the brief break, join us as we talk with San Franciscos own samantha yee about young digital catholics today. Hello, thank you for joining us on mosaic. Today is samantha ye, say native San Francisco, a young woman, as you can see, i believe shes 24 years old. We have just met and i am so overwhelmed by your resume. I am not sure what your main activity is . Youre a writer, editor and a professional digital entrepreneur. Youre a student at uc berkley. Can you give me a picture of what youre doing . Yeah. And well, first and foremost, i am a student at
Washing up on mediterranean beaches. And refugees have been in the news for the past few years, particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other wartorn regions. Especially in the past a couple of years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. And Refugee Resettlement, like so many other topics today, has become a polarizing topic. On one hand, opposition to refugees has been fierce and even hostile. Politicians at the local, state, and federal level have linked refugees to terrorism and have pursued antirefugee policies in the name of National Security. The most famous of these measures is president Donald Trumps executive orders which ground the federal Refugee Program virtually to a halt in january 2017. His imposition of what is widely known as the refugee ban shortly after taking office initiated one of the sharpe
Heavy rain, very strong winds, but equally along the south coast of the country. But today part two of the weekend is looking much better. We will see later winds, some sunshine, but light winds and the forecast. I will have all the details later on. Good morning. Its sunday, november 3. Our top story as the general Election Campaign gets into full swing, labour and the conservatives are making big spending pledges. Borisjohnson has promised to end the benefits freeze in place since 2016, whileJeremy Corbyn is proposing to insulate almost every home in the uk, which labour say will create hundreds of thousands ofjobs. Heres our political correspondent, nick eardley. Over the next few weeks we are going to hear a lot from our politicians about what they would do with power and big spending pledges are starting already. Today the government is saying it will end the benefits freeze in april next year. Its been in place since 2016 and has meant things like universal credit and allowance h