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
Sockof course is momentum that of course is the momentum behind this rally. Rally seems to be fading, and another interesting piece, we have the Canadian Dollar soaring against the u. S. Dollar with the oil rally. You were mentioning that everything is rallying, and that is true too for bonds. The two year yield carving out a record low and that tells you that bonds are rallying in a big way. While stocks are rallying you have investors going towards the bonds, suggesting they have their eye on the economic picture. The jobs data and nonforeign payrolls coming out tomorrow which will be devastating, not just from an economic standpoint, that from a human standpoint. The question is will we see more of a connection between stocks and the Economic Data or not . Or will we have investors look past the data towards the liquidity that the fed has been providing . Certainly a risk on day. David that is what they have been doing so far. Few mckee got to talk a minutes ago with mary daly, the
Booktv Monthly Program with bestselling author naomi klein. Her books on economics and Public Policy include no logo, the shock doctrine and the recently published on fire, the case for the Green New Deal. Thanks for joining us in our studios in new york on booktv. We are in midtown manhattan were branding and marketing is a big business. Let me begin with your first book. What did you learn about nike, microsoft, starbucks . Guest its great to be with you and have this time. It came out at the very beginning of 2000, so almost exactly 20yearsold. I was researching it for years before that. It was a period a lot was changing in the corporate world and you had the first kind of fullblown lifestyle brand which is an idea that we all take for granted now but these were companiesco that for the first time were declaring that their Business Model wasnt to sell products but so ideas and the lifestyle of belonging that they could then extend into kind of selfimposed branded cocoons and they c
Her Covert Affairs team have no influence or insight into the resourcing over all. I cant comment that we can get back to you. Thank you for your comments, congressman. So thats exactly why we are here. I speak for a section of the pharmaceutical industry that few people actually appreciate, especially given the statistics that i referenced that two out of every three new drugs approved by the fda last year actually originated in companies that are small biopharmaceutical emerging companies. We dont have a voice in washington. Excelixis is not a member of pharma. Where a number of bio. We dont hear the realities, the pains and challenges that are faced to bring an important new drug to market, represent and the debates because i think a lot of people take for granted that its all great Big Companies with huge budgets and throwing a lot of money at problems. You may be an example of someone who is at a competitive disadvantage because you dont have the same resources to deploy into thos
Greetings from berlin and a warm welcome to our arts and culture news and before we get dazzled by some cutting edge of light art heres what else is coming up. In our continuing series 100 german must reads a personal account of the wrong realities of trench warfare in world war one. Our new series underground europe explores whats going on below the surface of the continents many must see locations this time in poland. And some exciting news in film as the latest from Marvel Studios and ventures and skate has become the highest grossing film of all time. Oh yes sociate light with bright ideas and at the worlds 1st Museum Dedicated entirely to light art there are certainly plenty of those housed deep in the belly of a former brewery in western germany the center for International Light art opened in 2001 when addition to its Permanent Collection its currently showing the finalists for the 3rd International Light art award with some brilliant explorations of a material that of course is