I am Nicole Austin hillary. Friends atthank our nyu for coke hosting this event and being a partner. We are pleased you are joining us this afternoon for interesting and exciting conversation on president ial ethics law. This is a good moment to have the discussion. The Brennan Center is a nonpartisan institute that seeks to improve our broken system of justice and democracy. We work on what we think our cuttingedge issues, such as voting rights, money, and politics. Make our democracy and Justice System stronger. Follow the Brennan Center if you do not already on facebook and twitter. Heck our videos and podcasts i am introducing kimberly. Tony and introducing to relate. [applause]. [applause] kimberly thank you. Trump ethical controversies making headlines thats Inauguration Day a year what can be done to shore up federal ethics laws to give the Public Confidence there leaders will put the interests of the American People first . What are the most significant federalsting in our ethi
Particularly good moment to have this discussion. The Brennan Center, for those of you who do not know, is a nonpartisan law and policy institute that seeks to improve our broken systems of justice d democrac and we ke t use the tools of advocacy, strategic negotiations to do just that. We work on what we think are very cutting edge issues, such as voting rights, money in politics, ethics, criminal justice reform, racial justice, fair courts, and a host of other issues to, again, do just that, make our democracy and justice systems stronger and more effective for all americans. Please follow the Brennan Center if you dont already on facebook and twitter. Be sure to check out our videos and podcasts on itunes, youtube, and in the multimedia section of brennancenter. Org. And with that said, i am pleased to introduce our moderator for todays program, kimberly atkins, who is the chief washington reporter and columnist for the boston herald. Please join me in welcoming kimberly. [applause]
We are so happy to see you here this afternoon. I am nicole austinhillery, director of the Brennan Center for office. We want to thank our friends here for cohosting this event with us this afternoon and being such a great partner for the Brennan Center for justice. On behalf of the Brennan Center we are pleased you joined us this afternoon for what we know will be an exciting and interesting conversation on president ial ethics law and this is a particularly good moment to have that discussion. The Brennan Center for those who dont know is a nonpartisan policy institute that seeks to improve our broken system of justice and democracy and we like to use the tools of advocacy, research, litigation and Strategic Communication to do just that. We work on what we think are very cutting edge issues like voting rights, money and politics, ethics, criminal justice reform, racial justice, fair courts and a host of other issues to do just that. Make our democracy and Justice System stronger and
The fisa court and how they could improve that but courts generally. I think the down side of courts generally is they are not often well equipped to handle classified cases. Aside from standing issues, the process of handling classified materials, stamped with clearances is a challenge with the courts and they have shown timidity when taking on the government and they defer to the government or rather than challenge the government or look for the least intrusive for the rights with Civil Liberties. So make a pitch for the krif liberties oversight board, we complement the judicial. We can meet with the nsa and cia and fbi informally and confer with congress informally without rules of evidence and standing requirements and have a review not limited to lelt review, although we did a legal review in the and i was pleased the Second Circuit adopted our legal analysis and we can do policy review and make recommendations to the president and to congress, not only on whether something is con
Supervisors supervisor peskin has been asked to be appointed by mr. Coaker any initial comments supervisor peskin recovered to the clerk of the board survey on march first stating healed to serve on the commission do either of you have questions or statements as to the folks to make about that seeing none, lets hear from Public Comment any Public Comment on this item . Good afternoon david pilpal im in support of supervisor peskin i think hell do an excellent job representing the city an bcdc got lots of experience i happened to be in conversation request the clerk about the manner in which these kinds of appointments of Board Members to both sides are handed and suggested it should list as information and bottom one seat one applicant line supervisor peskin in the way that public appointments are made because a member of the public wouldnt know unless we want to the packet that supervisor peskin just read a hearing took place jefferson this will provide more information but on substan