Causal link out of the statute, instructing the jury that it could convict if petitioner obtained United States citizenship and violated at least one law governing naturalization. The instructions didnt require the government to prove that the underlying violation of law had any effect whatsoever on the naturalization decision. Even assuming i thought your argument thats a very broad statement had any effect, how about a natural tendency to affect . Because you could never predict what will actually happen in the end. You can only talk about what might happen. And we would be happy. What weve asked for was a materiality standard which i think is very much along the lines that your honor suggested. What was amazing here, and i think what makes this case so extreme, we are really at one end of the spectrum. The District Court specifically instructed the jury, and here i quote, even if you find that a false statement did not influence the decision to approve a defendants naturalization, t
Causal link out of the statute, instructing the jury that it could convict if petitioner obtained United States citizenship and violated at least one law governing naturalization. The instructions didnt require the government to prove that the underlying violation of law had any effect whatsoever on the naturalization decision. Even assuming i thought your argument thats a very broad statement had any effect, how about a natural tendency to affect . Because you could never predict what will actually happen in the end. You can only talk about what might happen. And we would be happy. What weve asked for was a materiality standard which i think is very much along the lines that your honor suggested. What was amazing here, and i think what makes this case so extreme, we are really at one end of the spectrum. The District Court specifically instructed the jury, and here i quote, even if you find that a false statement did not influence the decision to approve a defendants naturalization, t
Classification scheme to allow for an understanding of ottomans. As turkish, as armenians, as supported jews, and as syrian arabs. One of the sticky notes was that each of these categories was understood as racial category in u. S. Immigration law, so that sort of created a new hierarchy whereby syrians were understood to be fundamentally different from the rest of the ottoman subjects coming to the United States, and this meant that there were certain there was a certain hierarchy, and that guided access to United States citizenship or not. How did the start of world war i impact these groups . The United States did not into the war until april of 1917, and when the United States entered the war they declared , war on germany, but not on germany plus principal ally, the Ottoman Empire, so technically, the ottoman entire and United States were never in a state of war. They were in a state of neutrality, but that still meant that ottoman nationals were sort of marked as a potentially pr
Lawmakers walk through their starting legislative session. We will bring you live coverage here on cspan. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Gracious god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. You have blessed us with all good gifts and with thankful hearts we express our gratitude. You have created us with opportunities to serve other people in their need, to share together in respect and affection
We will get the latest. Trump openly warns special Counsel Robert Mueller about investigating his familys finances. Looking at your finances and your familys finances. A breach i would say yes. Amy we will look at a new expose in the new republic titled married to the mob what trump owes the russia mafia. Plus, we will look at the republican budget, which aims to rewrite the tax code to favor the wealthy and slash from medicare and medicaid. All of that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Republican Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell said wednesday the is senate will vote next week on whether to repeal the Affordable Care act without a replacement, even though the bill currently lacks enough republican support to pass. Mcconnells announcement came after President Trump invited all 52 republican senators to the white house for lunchtime talks aimed at reviving stalled efforts on healthcare. There is large majority in