58 . In Eastern Ukraine where theyre likely uncomfortable with what happened in kiev, how the government left and how that crimea is a bigger shock and may have the unintended consequence, perhaps of helping the country unite. And the last point, they have to be very careful how they handle nato. I think i hear what mike is saying and i guess i would just disagree. My guess is that over the next ten years youre not going to see ukraine seriously consider joining nato, and i say this as somebody in 2008 who testified to congress that ukraine was ready. They checked all the boxes but in the last five years i would reassess that. Even when you had a pronato government, the Popular Support never got above 28 , and nato is never going to seriously consider a country for membership when you bring in a country where the population is not comfortable with that and its difficult for me to see that changing. So on the one sense the russians ought to be assured theres in the a realistic prospect
And hope that as that is happening, other americans are getting more informed about what their money is doing and what their government is doing. I dont think it is solely up to arabamericans by any means at all. I guess that is it. Thank you very much. [applause] today we have live coverage of this years final day of the conservative Political Action conf conference scheduled speakers include former House Speaker newt gingrich, conservative columnist and coulter and former Alaska Governor sarah palin among others. Watch them all live at 12 40 p. M. On eastern and let us know what you think that facebook. Com cspan or tweet us withtag cspan chat. This week the Supreme Court heard oral argument in hall v. Florida, a case testing the limits on the court at the ban against executing the intellectually disabled. The issue rests on how states define intellectual disability when using iq tests. Florida has an iq cut off of 74 determining intellectual disability. The court will decide if this
Determined ability. The court will decide if the cutoff is so rigid its unconstitutional vote. In 2002 the Supreme Court ruled that executing those who are quote mentally is quote cruel and unusual punishment. The court decided at that time to leave it to the states to determine the criteria for meeting the standard. This is an hour. We will have argument this morning in case 12, paul versus florida. Mr. Waxman. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. In atkins versus virginia this court held that the constitution bars executing persons with mental retardation. That is persons with significantly sub average intellectual function concurrent with deficits in Adaptive Behavior with an onset before the age of 18. Because of the standard error of measurement that is inherent in the iq test it is universally accepted that worsens with obtained scores of 71 to 75 can and often do have mental retardation when those three prongs are met. The statistical error of measurement or saddam is.
To leave it to the states to determine the criteria for meeting the standard. This is an hour. We will have argument this morning in case 12, paul versus florida. Mr. Waxman. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. In atkins versus virginia this court held that the constitution bars executing persons with mental retardation. That is persons with significantly sub average intellectual function concurrent with deficits in Adaptive Behavior with an onset before the age of 18. Because of the standard error of measurement that is inherent in the iq test it is universally accepted that worsens with obtained scores of 71 to 75 can and often do have mental retardation when those three prongs are met. The statistical error of measurement or saddam is. A line has to be drawn somewhere. And we did say in atkins that we would leave it up to the states to determine the standards for this issue. So what is the rule being announced today . Are we saying that 70 is not okay and that 75 wood the