Members please turn off yourself comes at this time if he thinks you have please double check to make sure it is actually off. With that i am very pleased to introduce the founding dean of the university of California School of law which the six short years as one of the finest law schools in the country. A prolific scholar a legendary teacher of constitutional law and related subjects he himself argued many cases before the United States federal courts including the Supreme Court. A frequent public commentator on issues and perhaps the most gifted translator legalese into plain english. [laughter] which the public oppose him a huge debt of gratitude. Caller. Thank you. Let me start by thanking the tucson festival of books for having me and for all of you for coming it is enormously gratifying for me as an author but to see so many people on a beautiful afternoon coming to hear about the Supreme Court and the constitution is wonderful. [applause] thankyou. I will tell a story that the
Every weekend, booktv brings you 48 hours of nonfiction authors and books, on cspan 2 keep watching for more television for serious readers. Booktv is live this weekend from the tucson festival of books. Start agent 1 00 p. M. Eastern 10 00 a. M. Pacific well be covering several author panel on topics such as race and politics, Supreme Court, environment, immigration, and more. All this live from the university of arizona the site of the seventh annual tucson festival of books. I give an example in god, guns, grits and gravy of this guy who is heading green peace in europe, and so he is all about wanting to reduce co2 emissions. But in all of an audit of green peace shows he is flying from his home to lux. Boring a couple of times a month, and the output of co2 he is expending because of his jet travel is like 100 times that of the average person. And so when confronted about it, here was his answer. He said well, the train trip would take 12 hours and that would be time away from my f
They are promulgated and released and finalized by executive branch bureaucracies. These are laws. These are laws that are binding on the American People and yet they are passed by men or women who were never elected. As wellintentioned, welltrained specializes they may be they never stood. The other stack, the stack but just a few inches tall or laws passed by Congress Last year and they were passed by people who are elected but there are great many of them. So this is a big rovlin. Congress has delegated its lawmaking power. Its delegated to the point that most of our laws are now made by people who never stand for election. This gets to the question of delegation and our constitution was quite explicit that congress had the authority to pass laws and get we have all these faceless bureaucrats making decisions. You call out george w. Bush on Campaign Finance reform for willfully signing something that he said explicitly i dont think this is constitutional. Why is this trend happening
Murder. Reporter covering the news in europe. Including the angry response to the european chiefs visit to lamedusa where hundreds of my grants were killed. I do not really think that these elections are free or fair. Reporter claims of vote rigging as azerbaijans president sets for reelection. The head of the Global Chemical weapons watch daughter has called for a ceasefire to meet the deadlines. We have more from the hague. Reporter in the hague, the head of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons, this is the first progression report from syria. Its we are at the beginning at a difficult process. There are significant challenges. Can you tell us something about the interaction between your officials and those of the Syrian Government . What is the nature of the dialogue and the contact that youre having for the Syrian Government . Reporter the corporation has been quite cooperative. Reporter the inspectors are being reinforced by a further 12. Its a small team and w
Think history will record, is that you were not fully functioning until may of 2013. That is about 8. 5 years lost of a very critical mission. Let me just say that a goal in the law, certainly my personal goal was to have in the law certainty that liberty and security were reinforcing values in the policies and practices that we established under the law. Is if ever that function were needed, it is right now. Me that youunate to were one of the best kept secrets in washington. I know you are making a massive effort to get out there and i commend you for it. Urgenthink the need is and you, uniquely among the different groups in looking at arepolicies and practices, able to make sure from the inside that we are doing the right things. Let me make two other points. Germanyas in berlin, a week ago today, at , dinner for top policy types think tank leaders, and business people. All of whom were shocked and horrified by the revolution europeanns revealed in newspapers. When i told them that