Williams. Sworn in after a confirmation by the United States senate. As assistant attorney general, she serves as the primary and as the chief regulatory officer here at the department. Prior to becoming the assistant ag she was a litigation and pel ant partner where she focused on First Amendment litigation. From 20005 to 2006 severed as special counsel and assisted with a and associate justice sam mall junior to the United States Supreme Court. She graduate from the Harvard College with a degree in history and literature and earned her law degree from harvard law school. As the harvard journal of law and Public Policy and i turn it over to beth williams. Thank you so much patrick. On behalf of ft office of legal policy, i want to thank the attorney general, the and associate attorney general and rachel for their leadership on this t. Im proud to be working with the department to take steps to fight Human Trafficking. Im happy to with here with this panel discussing the department of
We will get started now with our last Panel Discussion of the day. This panel is titled a discussion on the department of justice grant opportunities for fiscal year 18 and identifying gaps for possible fiscal year 19 programs. This is the panel where you all get to hear how the department is putting its money where its mouth is when it comes to Human Trafficking. Our panel will be moderated today by the honorable beth a. Williams. Beth was sworn in as assistant attorney general on august 21st, 2017, after unanimous confirmation by the United States senate. As a assistant attorney general for the office of legal policy, she served as the primary policy adviser to the United States attorney general and the Deputy Attorney general. And as the chief regulatory officer here at the department. Prior to becoming the assistant ag, miss williams is a litigation and appellate partner at a National Law Firm where her practice focused on complex commercial, securities and First Amendment litigati
Host its wonderful to be here today. We have so much to talk about so before we get started i thought it would be useful to share with people our format which is that i want to start a little bit by asking you about how you came to write the book and the experience of being embedded in and step back and talk about the frame of the book and what youre covering here and get back to the particular assertions you make in the book. You talk about. The book is called forcing the spring with the subtitle inside the fight for Marriage Equality and to get inside this fight as you say to fully embedded yourself with the team the activists and the lawyers and plaintiffs who challengechallenged californias proposition 8 which was the course the constitutional amendment that took away the marriage rights for samesex couples in california. For starters im interested in how this came to pass. He said at the end of the book you got interested in the story because you interviewed ted olson and reported
Does not make any sense. You dont think it was justify inside. Absolutely not. It is a justified . Absolutely not. Reporter Bay Area Police shot four suspects. Officer fist San Francisco shot a man who raise aid gun at them. Later that day officers chased a man in the streets of san jose before shooting and killing him. Several hours later, officers in union city killed a gunman. In each case, the police say they felt as if they were under attack. Several officers killed this year. You know, at the end of last year, so, yeah it is it is disturbing to think that this many people want to take on Police Officers and kill them or harm them. Reporter but, some in the Community Think officers fear of the public is leading them to shoot too quickly. The police are supposed to protect and serve and watch over us, now it seems like they are watching us rather than watching over us. They are all justifying it. It is okay. They did it, we can do it. My own daughter is afraid of the police. Later
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