Exam. You will become licensed attorneys who will be sworn in by judges to be members of the bar. The attorneys oath in our court includes a promise to support and defend the constitution of the United States. Today, instead of focusing on the typical graduation topics of professionalism and ethics and bar associations, i want to focus on the unique role lawyers play in our constitutional form of government. With respect to how lawyers do their work and serve clients with respect to trial by jury, and with respect to an independent judiciary. Awareness of the unique role that a lawyer might inform their approach to a new profession. I have read and heard that the demand for lawyers is down and as a result, law schools are not receiving as many applications for admission and are not accepting as many students. There will be fewer law graduates in the near future. I believe that lawyers play an integral role in our form of government. I will explain why i believe we should be better off
George w. Bush at Southern Methodist university. Commencement addresses begin at noon eastern here on cspan. George bush when i mention the speech through some of my pals they were surprised i was going to give it. I have not given a commencement speech since leaving office. My decision is quite practical. I got a phone call from my landlord. [laughter] gerald turner. Rather than reasoning raising the rent or holding the security deposit, i was surprised to hear him ask if i believe in free speech. [laughter] i said, yes. He said, perfect, this is your chance to get one. I am truly honored to be here. You can see all of george w. Bush plus commencement speech bushs commencement speech tomorrow noon. Sunday night at midnight some provisions of the patriot act require. Mitch mcconnell wants to extend all of the act, but ran call rand paul opposes. To try to come up with a legislative compromise, Mitch Mcconnell has called senate back in one day early on sunday at 4 00 p. M. When the sena
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The cold war. Thee base our position on fact nobody canceled the right of people to selfdetermination. This is one of the main principles of the United Nations charter. We will speak with Dmitri Trenin, his peace and Foreign Policy is headlined, welcome to the cold war two. A proxy war. This may have started off as a Popular Uprising in syria, but by now, it has four or five different conflicts wrapped into one, and you have an opposition which is fragmented and really proxies for foreign powers, qatar. Saudi arabia we will speak with Patrick Cockburn just back from syria. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. Crimea has formally asked to join russia after voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum to secede from ukraine. Crimean Authorities Say 96 point eight percent of voters supported the referendum, but many members of the ethnic ukrainian and muslim tatar minorities stayed home in a boycott. The Obama
It feels like wheels are coming off the bus. What is going on . Whats your take on all of this . In terms of the wheel coming off the bus, i talk to my colleagues about this all the time. Im sure you do. Its existing. Exhausting, we have a president that tweets. We have to turn the page to crowd the stage with more action opinion an i dont think americans know how to make sense of it. One of my greatest worries about this president and the presidency, is the provocations, the acts of indecency, the acts of bad judgment, come at us so quickly. They all blur and no one stands out the way it should. And hes flattening americans. He is numbing them that we cant see as clearly as we should. What an offense. Do you think thats strate c strategic . Or his mind is so kchaotic i think its a convergence of both those things. I often feel the same way you feel. What we were covering last week . He said, you realize that pocahontas was just three days ago. And we were sitting there stunned at how