The subcommittee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on the federal judiciary and the 21st centuryideas for promoting ethics, accountability and transparency. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning and welcome. Today we begin the first in a series of hearings on the state of the federal judiciary in the 21st century. This hearing we will investigate ideas for promoting ethics, accountability, and transparency in the federal courts. We focus on these ideas and our first hearing on the judiciary because they flow from two foundational principles of due process. First, that no one can be a judge in his own case. Second, to quote former Supreme Court Justice Felix frankfurter, justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Both rules embody the understanding that the constitutions implicit promise of equal justice under law depends on at least two things that our court must be
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Good evening and welcome to this very special event here at the Gerald R Ford president ial museum. Really proud to see all of you coming out to enjoy, i think, whats going be a very stimulating discussion about. Our home, we dont know enough about. Im gleaves. Im the executive director of the Gerald R Ford president ial foundation. My this evening is jon lauck, whos a writer and researcher hes written many books. Ive got several of them here that he and i have worked on together on, the midwest. And were going to explore that. So im welcoming you, our Live Audience and our cspan viewers everywhere. So, john, i think we ought get right into it. Please tell us about your background and you have real midwestern roots. I mean, you come by all of this honestly raised on a midwestern you know, you went to big colleges, you know, both your ph. D. In history and your law degree, and youve had quite a career in the midwest. So tell us yourself. Well, thank you. And thanks to everyone here in g
ainsley: hi, everyone i m laura ingraham. this is the ingraham angle. great to have you with us. biden s birthday collapse. what? that s the focus of tonight s angle. laura: today it s 81 candles for our 46th president. that s quite a personal accomplishment, i must say. well, the stars of stage and screen have traditionally loved celebrating democrat presidents on their birthdays. happy birthday to you happy birthday, mr. president. [laughter] happy birthday to you everybody, happy birthday. laura: biden was 19 and a half years old when that took place. but this year the affair was a little more subdued. even his pals in the press are having trouble finding something to celebrate. this morning president joe biden is celebrating his 81st birthday and i m sure he would wish for different polling on his birthday. one of the things that the president cannot change is the fact that he is 8 # years old. happy birthday, mr. president. you can t magically b
laura: hi, everyone, i m laura ingraham. this is the ingraham angle, great to have you with us. biden birthday collapse. what? that is the focus of tonight s angle. 81 candles for our 46th president, quite a personal accomplishment, i must say. the stars have loved celebrating democrat presidents on their birthdays. happy birthday to you, happy bir birthday, mr. president, happy birthday to you. . happy birthday! laura: biden was 19 and a half years old when that took place. this year the affair was subdued, his pals in the press having trouble finding something to celebrate. the president is celebrating his 81st birthday. the president is 81 years old, happy birthday, mr. president. you can t magically become younger. he will continue to get older. laura: he will continue to age? many of biden s old constituents are in full-blown revolt. his numbers are dropping more than his words mid-sentence. biden aproof all is record low 40%. among young people, he s at