Come as late as 12 30 a. M. Eastern wednesday. Mr. President , on another matter yesterday the senate advanced nomination of professor amy barrett, President Trumps impressive nominee to be a judge on the seventh Circuit Court of appeals. She is the first of for strong nominees to our nation Circuit Court that the senate will confirm this week. Professor barretts experience as it was law professor at the university of notre dame shows her qualifications to serve our nation on the federal bench. She is going to be an asset to our judiciary. Of course, some on the left have tried to invent any reason to prevent this president nominees from advancing. For an outstanding nominee like professor barrett was not easy. They attacked her credentials which are truly. They cant attack her belief in the rule of law. Her writings and testimony clearly show a nominee who will uphold our prosecution and our nations laws as they are written, asof they are written, not as she wishes they were. Unbeliev
We were certainly lucky to have a professor of his caliber. Professor bibas then took a position on the faculty of the university of Pennsylvania Law School where he has been teaching since. Professor bibas has been prolific in his academic writings, publishing numerous articles on all aspects of criminal law. His Academic Work culminated in the publication of his book entitled the machinery of criminal justice. That book was published 2012. In this book and many of his articles, professor bibas criticized the current model of bureaucratic assemblyline justice and americas high incarceration rate. Much of his work has been devoted to finding solutions to these problems. His Academic Work has certainly had an impact on the law. In fact, professor bibas is one of the most cited law professors in judicial opinions. One study shows he is the 15th most cited legal scholar by total judicial opinions, and he is the fifth most cited in the area of criminal law. Not bad for a relatively young p
Policy alliance and Advocacy Group that works to decriminalize drugs will discuss plans by the Trump Administration to crack down on the growing, selling and use of marijuana. And National Affairs contribue r or university of Pennsylvania Law School professor amy wax will talk about her piece looking at disadvantaged youth in the United States. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on saturday morning. Dr. Kurt newman on his book, healing children, a surgeons story from the frontiers of the pediatric medicine. The conversations i hear are about conduct things like medicaid, and cutting the nih and doing all of these things when were on the cusp of such terrific discoveries. And when you think about half of the, half of the people that are on medicaid, half, of the beneficiaries are children so whos going to get hurt. Why do we want to do that . Were not doing that to the elderly on medicare. We ought to double down and really put more into our children. Watch the entire progra
Policy alliance and Advocacy Group that works to decriminalize drugs will discuss plans by the Trump Administration to crack down on the growing, selling and use of marijuana. And National Affairs contribue r or university of Pennsylvania Law School professor amy wax will talk about her piece looking at disadvantaged youth in the United States. Washington journal, live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern on saturday morning. Dr. Kurt newman on his book, healing children, a surgeons story from the frontiers of the pediatric medicine. The conversations i hear are about conduct things like medicaid, and cutting the nih and doing all of these things when were on the cusp of such terrific discoveries. And when you think about half of the, half of the people that are on medicaid, half, of the beneficiaries are children so whos going to get hurt. Why do we want to do that . Were not doing that to the elderly on medicare. We ought to double down and really put more into our children. Watch the entire progra
Professor of law at stanford law school. His scholarship focuses on Voting Rights, political parties, Campaign Finance, redistricting, and elections administration. He served as special master for expert to craft districting plans for many straight and senior director for the Election Administration and his current work examines changing technology on political communications, campaigns, and Election Administration. Broadly that is what he will be talking about here today. With that, lets welcome nathan. [applause] thank you so much. It is an honor to be here. And it is an honor to be on this panel. We have a lot of people following me. My role is to set the table and they are going to break the china. I will talk about the issues and they will dive deeply into it. Obviously,ig topic dealing with the question of how the internet affects democracy. I want to focus on three questions. Want to focus on three questions. The first is what are the unique challenges that the internet poses fo