part of a three-day holiday weekend of nonfiction books and authors. booktv, television for serious readers. you can keep in touch with current events from the nation s capital with c-span radio audio now. call to hear congressional coverage, public affairs forums, and today s washington journal program. listen for a recap every day on washington today. c-span radio on audio now. call 202-626-8888. long-distance or phone charges might apply. next, a group of women judges discussed the challenges of maintaining their independence in a judicial system that is increasingly subjected to partisan issues. speakers include one of the florida judges involved in the 2000 bush v. gore case and an iowa judge who lost her job due to a ruling on same-sex marriage. this wass co-hosted by the this was cohosted by the national constitution center and the national association of women judges. it s an hour. ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for joining us and welcome to the n
say these things. this say trend unfortunately we see. nominees start out in support. they change their mind. which suggests we can t wait out this issue. it s not an age issue. this is a concern about the public and that we keep hearing this concern that the public won t understand what they re seeing, that they wouldn t understand oral argument is just a part of the process. they won t understand that the justices have to be harsh on both sides. they mied think someone is getting ganged up on. i find this to be concerning because it suggests that more information is actually going to be bad for the public, that the public needs to be shielded from information. it does seem to have an elitism to it that already those of us who do read the transcripts and li listen to the audio or read the reports from the supreme court press corps, that we re the types that can understand where oral argument falls but tv would reach a different kind of audience who wouldn t understand it. i
against isis taking over the bajee refinery. that s a critical moment in history if they re successful in doing that. what can be done, what neis needed. one of the first place they were deployed was around the fire. so that is one example. and as we continue to assess the situation in iraq, we have identified specific strategic site we re concerned about, and we want to make sure iraqi has whatever capability they need to defend them. the kurds are sitting on a reserve of $45 billion a barely. without coordinating those experts in the central authorities in baghdad. and baghdad seems to unhe have. how can we help the iraqi government to better improve its resources and make a system for all iraqis? how can we play a bigger role? well, this is something where we can play a direct role, and it s one reason we had to get through the election and try to get new government reform so we can get traffic on this issue. the their own experts right now, they approach a little less
i either take this commitment at face value or someone is playing a different game here and i hope that s not the fact. coming up on c-span 3 a discussion on judicial independence and politics. then former nba kareem jabbar talks about racism in sports. and president obama s ambassador to russia faces a confirmation hearing. american artifacts on american history tv. this weekend our visit to the national security archives at george washington university reveals declassified documents about the gulf of tonkin in vietnam. american artifacts, sunday at 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern and watch more american history tv next week while congress is in recess american history tv will be in primetime monday through friday at 8:00 p.m. eastern featuring watergate. now women judges talk about some of the challenges of maintaining judicial independence when being subjected to partisan election campaigns. speakers include a judge involved in th
ask for? can you provide more details about that? i am not prepared to write now. we will have an announcement atut this tomorrow and then that point, we will have a lot of details on what exactly is included. you know it is related to our efforts to add additional border,s to our officials and others who can help us more rapidly and across the immigration cases that are currently back lot backlog. with regards to the plan to move for hire more judges to handle the situation along the border, are there concerns of displacing them elsewhere? alreadyresident talked about this a little bit. know is a view that is shared among both democrats and republicans that there is work we can do to continue to secure the border. cases throughse the immigration system is a part of that. it is a part of our administration s commitment to deal with these in a humanitarian way. due process rights. the president believes it is important for those rights to be respected. at the same time,