Contribution to make to the welfare of our nation, and to our nations standing in the world, that is a calling that is important to heed. Meanwhile the question over mr trump separating himself from his business interests became even murkier after an interview with the new york times, in which he said quote the president cant have a conflict of interest. Indicating he may continue to mix his Public Service and business roles nats trump a federal statues, mr. Trump may run afoul of the constitution. Dan abrams that one probably does apply to the president. But as a practical matter the thing that id be most worried about with regard to these conflicts is the possibility that if he stays involved in any way, hes then subject to lawsuits lana zak tag there is also a battle over secretary of state playing out today frmr gen David Patreaus indicating publicly he would take the job mitt romney and Rudy Giuliani also said to be under consideration for the top post. Lana zak abc newwashington.
Prison population. Does that show, as Iowa Supreme Court chief Justice Mark Cady says, significant Racial Disparities in our system . If so, what can be done . What is the purpose of prison anyway, punishment, rehabilitation, the protection of society . What kinds of principles should guide us as we work toward criminal Justice Reform . We have a great panel today to discus sentencing reform in criminal justice. To my left, jerry Vander Sanden, a linn county attorney. Thanks for being on again, gerry. Jerry good morning. Its great to be here. Scott sara riley, an attorney at tom riley law firm. Sara, thanks for being on. Sara thank you for having me. Scott at the end, justin lightfoot, an assistant us attorney. Thanks for being on, justin. Justin good morning. Scott well, okay, jerry, maybe we can start with you. For, now decades now, weve been getting tough on crime. Have we gotten too tough . Are our sentencing procedures too much . Jerry well, youre right, we have gotten tough on cr
I know and i said under the marijuana licenses we needed to do a better job. I will do a better job on that. The Health Connector is on its way to being fixed. That was an error and we need to do better with technology. Moderator thank you. Falchuk is easy to describe the things have gone wrong and said i wouldve handled it perfectly, differently if i were the governor. Limited powers and we have been following a model of intrusive Big Government that is doomed to failure. Doesnt matter who is at the top. I am running because the system is broken and i have create jobs that solve the problems. We dont have the technology within the state to do this. We know how to use technology to create efficiency and we would have avoided the website integration issue. There is so much we can do if we break from the status go and we are not doing that. That is why we needed an independent voice. Here we sit a year into this and we have no visibility into what went wrong, what could be done to fix it
Demographically so they dont feel threatened, then you actually stand a chance of rain taken beyondeing face value. I think many of us are aware of this, but this is not simply moral question although it is a moral question. It is really a strategic one. Andandidates and parties political actors want to succeed , we will have to reckon this in a serious way. Our localcontrol system are the ones that do if you want to engage the electorate, that means to vote for you, we need to start turning out a different crop of candidates gloria hinted at this. If you want the policy outcomes that many of us want, more progressive policies on a range of topics, this is one very clear path to getting it. But thank you all so much. You were wonderful. Thank you all for coming. [applause] you will be able to watch this program again later today. Congress is out until november 12, but news from capitol hill today. The federal government budget deficit has fallen to 486 billion, the smallest pool of red
Vagrants standard for sentencing than a statement whether a crime is at the outset . I dont believe it deserves a lesser scrutiny because it is both mandatory and onerous. I am not talking about some other aspects but for that question. And frankly, it suggests that criminal statutes deserve greater scrutiny even though the licensing that gave rise to that statement of every application, they deserve greater scrutiny and this is one of the most onerous penalties we face in practice. I understand your argument. To add to the list of crimes or to have an element of a crime. That is the only thing nothing else. No, your no your honor, i do not mean to suggest that at all. It is a better congressional function. One move congress to take is to list every requirement they think. Another is to say the statute has to have as an element a serious risk of injury to others. But sort of those two. Your honor, i dont think listing them is that difficult. They list a large number of things. Listing