Bader ginsburg who died friday night. She died on the eve of the jewish new year, the first jewish woman on the Supreme Court and a very interesting thing about individuals who die right before the new year. They say they suggest very righteous people die at the very end of the year because they were needed until the very end. Under jewish tradition those who die on the new year holiday, a title given to the righteous and saintly. Certainly Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg was entitled to this honor, being righteous and saintly. At her confirmation hearing she talked about her immigrant experience was her father was a jewish immigrant, her mother was a secondgeneration american, she talked about American Values and then she said what has happened over me could only happen in america and then she spent her entire career protecting those values that make america a great nation it is in the reason people come here in order to reach their full potential. It guided her well in her public service
Achieve, to participate in and contribute to society violates the equal protection clause. 81, massive victory. I thought it was very interesting her points she often made in the dissent. The Supreme Court argued in the 2007 case ledbetter versus Goodyear Tire and rubber company, the majority saitd, you know what . If you have been discriminated against in pay in your job, and you learn about it years later, you can no longer appeal for redress because you had to have come to the court at the moment the discrimination first occurred. Of course, that was a catch22, an impossible situation. If you didnt know about it, you couldnt possibly come to the court. And she addressed this, and she said comprehend she said the majority does not comprehend or is indifferent to the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination. So she called on congress to act to address really this mistaken opinion of the court, and we did in 2009, the first year i came to the senate. And anothe
There will be additional sessions tomorrow and sunday. As you heard from the end of todays very brief session, it is chairman jerry nadler announcing at the end articles of impeachment resolution that days toittee has two file the report. By holding these pro forma sessions today, tomorrow, on sunday it gives them the opportunity to file in the house. The committee will meet on the resolution that will take place at 11 00 a. M. On tuesday ahead of the floor debate expected on wednesday. Some procedural things happening in the house in order to follow the rules by the house of representatives. Look for some brief pro forma sessions tomorrow and sunday. Then the rules Committee Meeting on tuesday. In the meantime, back to your phone calls. We also have one for independents. The president s meeting with the president of paraguay and there is a meeting with reporters in the oval office. We show you that coming up in just a couple minutes. Eric in buffalo, thank you for waiting, good mornin
Grades suffered. But a few months after graduation, president obama created the daca program and victor successfully applied for it. Victor told me that even though he had daca, he was still too afraid to talk about his status with anyone. During the 2016 election, he talked about what losing daca would mean to him. Victor knew there would be an announcement about his future. He put his phone away and cleaned his house to distract him from what was about to happen. Eventually he watched attorney general Jeff Sessions daca announcement. Victor began to cry. In the days that followed victor began having panic attacks, sometimes as many as five to seven per day. He was afraid to get in a car because he didnt want to hurt anyone if he had a panic attack while driving. A few days later victor showed up at his first united dream event in houston. There he met others committed to fighting for him. He told me it was amazing see so many people show up in support of him in solidarity. Victor mad
From africa, sweden, asia. One of the students and i talked about just graduated from william and Mary Law School in the last month and thus became the first dreamer to be a Law School Graduate in virginia. In one of the few dreamers who have obtained a law the United States. I talked about her story but today i decided not to talk about stories of individuals but to put it in context with the message really being the time to make a decision is now. We do not need more information. We just need the will to act and do what i think is the right and fair thing to do. Because we have been at this discussion now, it is hard to believe weve been at this discussion for 16 years. American public, democrats, republicans and independents overwhelmingly supported permanent solution for dreamers. It is not that we need to know anything want to solve this. Weve been talking about this for a very long time and i want to encourage the members of this body and the house that are involved in the negoti