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Welcome everyone to the brooklyn book festival. Tonight is the seventh day of an eightday festival where we have presented over 100 programs and almost 300 authors. It has been a tremendous week of literary celebration as were very grateful to have his of the wilkerson and Michael Eric Dyson with us tonight. I would like to say one thing, show the love by purchasing their books in the link below. They are authors with books after all and going to turn over now to both of them to continue the conversation. Thank you very much. Thank you very kindly. Im honored to be here today with a woman who is among the 304 greatest writers in america, arguably the finest writer in america today. I am going to make that argument. So it is an extraordinary honor to be with you, ms. Isabel wilkerson, and to have this opportunity to chat with you. Theyre calling it a a conversation but im just going to fan boy out and as as a sayn the hood, ask you some questions. And see if we can stimulate the convers
The honorable, the chief justice and the associate justices of the Supreme Court of the United States. Oh yea oh yea oh yea, all persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States to give their attention with the court is sitting, god save the United States and this honorable court. We will hear arguments first this morning in 19 for 65, the lot below and the others versus the state of washington,. Mr. Chief justice and appease this court, the question in these cases is straightforward to the states have the power to control through law how an elector may vote, they do not, then ordinary expected meaning of the words of the constitution against the backlog of the framers deliberation make it clear that the state has no such power in what is also clear, washington is not like the constitution design, ask this court to read the words elector as agents or maybe better minion and it is clear that the board vote elector is not the constant meaning there vot
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Me. And why Donald Trumps Election Campaign needs point suburban women to vote for him. Well we starts in iraq where thousands of antigovernment protesters are back on the streets of baghdad they had suspended their rallies because of coronavirus restrictions. But the protests against corruption and unemployment began a year ago in the months since hundreds of people have been killed or injured someone a full team is in baghdad with more on how those protests are unfolding. A Prime Minister must follow god to me gave a speech last night in which he urged both Security Forces and protesters to behave in a calm way here urged upon a just to respect the fears of purity forces to not provoke any kind of reaction on their part and he also for the Security Forces would not be using live ammunition he said that they were for begin to use any kind of force and from what may happen at the entrance towards the green zone or the several gates around the city the Security Forces have put up severa