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Saturday, Feb. 27 – 6pm – Sustainable Saturday Night – Building Unity for a Just Budget Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/457305152119171
Join the largest number of groups ever to work together on the state budget. Help plan what we need to do over the next four months to overcome major racial and economic inequities. Wisconsin was once the leader for progressive income taxes supporting public education and local infrastructure. But since 2010 this state has almost abandoned family farmers, has increased mass incarceration, has refused to accept expanded Medicaid, and has slashed state aid to public schools.
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John G. Malcolm: Welcome, everybody, to our virtual Joseph Story Lecture. My name is John Malcolm. I’m the Vice President of the Institute for Constitutional Government, but more germane for this event is that I’m also the Director of the Edwin Meese III Center for Legal and Judicial Studies. Because we are in the midst of a pandemic and these are unusual times, I am interviewing General Meese here in his home.
Ed, I have to tell you, this is a particular pleasure for me. I remember when we first met. It was either 1990 or 1991, and I was a baby Assistant U.S. Attorney in Atlanta and was in charge of inviting speakers to come to the national convention for the Federalist Society. I decided to take a flyer and invite you to come speak at a program on the overfederalization of crime, and to my amazement, not only did you accept, but from the first time I met you, you insisted that I call you Ed. I never dreamed that at some point in my career, I would have t
scrapped and to see the progress that s been made in certain parts of the border done away with. let me get to another subject here. victims rights. this is an area of the law that you have shown particularly interest in over your time as a senator. i have with me letters of support for your nomination from various victims groups and advocates. the victims of crime and leniency. victims and friends united op ed by professors paul cassel and steve twist all in support of your nomination. i would ask that these documents be placed for the record. as attorney general, what steps will you take to insure that victims rights are protected? cannot forget victims rights. we have a victim witness legislation that creates within each united states attorney s office a victim witness coordinator and the job of that person is to make sure that concern of the victims are he d
friends and family to gather additional information to help us paint a picture as to the cause of death for mr. byrd. we re searching a storage location owned by mr. byrd in further attempts to try to identify a fact pattern that might help us get to the answers that we all are seeking. the community deserves answers, specifically the family deserves answers, so we re doing everything in our power to be transparent and talk about what s going on. individual pieces of information and bits and rumors we re going to hold off on speaking on those until we can come to a conclusion and the truth that everyone deserves. the things we identify we re going to make sure we talk to the family first. our victims witness coordinator is still with the family now
away with. let me get to another subject here, victims rights. this is an area of the law that you ve shown particularly interest in over your time as a senator. i have with me letters of support for your nomination from various victims groups and advoca advocates. the victims of crime and leniency. victims and friends united op-ed by professors paul caselle and steve twist all in support of your nomination. i d ask these documentsen placed as part of the record. as attorney general, what steps will you take to ensure that victims right are protected? we cannot forget victims right. we have a victim witness legislation that creates within each united states attorney s office a victim witness coordinator, and the job of that person is to make sure that concerns of the victims are heard, if they have to come to court, they help them get there,