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bar association. that is a departure from the previous administration's record. i've heard some of my republican colleagues extolling the quality of those nominees in the previous administration as compared to those of president biden, so i want to set the record clearly as straight as i can. for each judicial nominee that comes before this senate, the american bar association conducts a nonpartisan peer review that ranks their qualifications. the qualifications are based on integrity, professional competence, and judicial temperament. during the trump administration, senate republicans confirmed eight trump nominees whom the american bar association found unqualified to serve on the federal bench. compare that to president biden's record. under this administration, not one of the 200 judges we've confirmed received an unqualified rating, not one. when there was a suggestion that one might receive that rating and they asked me whether we should move forward, i said the answer is clearly no. so when i
bar association. that is a departure from the previous administration's record. i've heard some of my republican colleagues extolling the quality of those nominees in the previous administration as compared to those of president biden, so i want to set the record clearly as straight as i can. for each judicial nominee that comes before this senate, the american bar association conducts a nonpartisan peer review that ranks their qualifications. the qualifications are based on integrity,...
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this event was part of the american bar association's conference in washington, d.c. >> i also want to say that it is wonderful to be here with you all. i have already looked out into the audience and i have seen some former senate judiciary colleagues and friends, and i am just delighted that we have this opportunity to engage with these two incredible men to talk about an issue that is so very important to us. i have been getting to know judge ludick who is also distinguished practitioner fill out our institute at uva, and secretary johnson as we overlapped the obama administration. i have had the opportunity to get to know them better in recent months. to say that i am a fan is an understatement. these are two people who are extremely busy and at the same time, are, of public severance whether they are in or out of government at a time when it is so desperately needed. so i want to say publicly, thank you for the work you all are doing and for your leadership on this task force. [applause] mary gave us some of those sobering statistics, and i am going to date myself by saying that h
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bar association abo and legal challees, recent impeachmentmayorkas. this is about 45 minutes. [indiscernible] >> to have jonathan here. as■1 y c resume that you have senate as the sixh security, chief legal officer of our department. the dhs is approximately 3005 hundred attorneys who serve across the country making us one argest law firms in the city. he is also thedh policy ofce ref the rulemaking activity. io to his return torved as theel counsel in 2011 and 2016. he then was a partner at a law firm in d.c. there he counseled clients on federal state government, cybersecurity, homeland security, and congressional oversight. assistant attorney general in the department of legal policy a deputy general counsel at amtrak and counseled senator someone named joseph biden on the senate judiciary committee ironically enough. originally from cincinnati he spent part of his childhood in jerusalem and speaks fluent and french. if anyone would like to pose a question in french, ield it. he has a bachelors degree from harvardudies. i love to see when someone
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he spoke with the american bar association about the department's and legal channels including the against alejandro mayorkas.ngs this is about 45 minutes. [indiscernible] >> i am very happy to have jonathan >> try to make you a star later in the am very happy to have jon here.e was confirmed by the senate as the sixth general counsel department of homeland security, chief legal officer of our department. of o. the dhs is approximately 3005 hundred attorneys who serve of the largest law firms in the city. he is also the policy officer and is responsible for all of the rulemaking activity. prior to his return to dhs he served as the senior general counsel and deputy general counsel in 2011 and 2016. he then was a partner at a law firm in d.c. there he counseled clients on federal state government, cybersecurity, homeland security, and congressional oversight. he served as the deputy assistant attorney general in the department of legal policy a doj and the special deputy general counsel at amtrak counseled senator someone named joseph biden on the senate judiciary committee ironically enoug
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he was given a unanimous rating of well qualified by the american bar association. a long-time american people of the neuman he has argued a00 cases on a broad range of cases. when confirmed, he will be the 198th judge confirmed since president biden took office. and as soon as tomorrow, i expect the senate will reach the significant milestone of 200 judges under senate democrats and under president biden. i salute senator durbin and the judiciary committee for the good work they have done in this regard. it's a figure, 200, that we can all be proud of and shows how intensely focused we are on filling the bench with jurists who will make our democracy stronger and uphold the rule of law. i yield the floor and note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: the clerk: ms. baldwin. for their long-suffering under the rule of the islamic republic i suspect a great many iranians with western admirers stop idolizing a man known as the butcher of china ran for executed political prisoners. he may prefer that they not further
he was given a unanimous rating of well qualified by the american bar association. a long-time american people of the neuman he has argued a00 cases on a broad range of cases. when confirmed, he will be the 198th judge confirmed since president biden took office. and as soon as tomorrow, i expect the senate will reach the significant milestone of 200 judges under senate democrats and under president biden. i salute senator durbin and the judiciary committee for the good work they have done in...
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i was on a commission sponsored by the american bar association that recommended best practices for juries. one of those recommendations was that juries should be allowed to take the instructions into the deliberation room with them, especially in a complicated case like this. i wasn't surprised that just hearing them once, they needed to hear them again. it shows that they are approaching their work with diligence. >> katy, when you were watching all of this from inside the overflow room, what was donald trump looking like? what was the effect of the people -- his supporters and his attorneys? >> let me give you a little detail. it's new york city. you will hear sirens. you are looking at giant monitors. a couple of them in the room that show donald trump. it shows the prosecution sitting at a table. the judge. it does not show the jury. did show s it shows a little bit of the group in the courtroom. it will show in this case the people who were playing witness and questioner up on the witness box. in order to get a really good picture of donald trump when you are in this overflow room, y
i was on a commission sponsored by the american bar association that recommended best practices for juries. one of those recommendations was that juries should be allowed to take the instructions into the deliberation room with them, especially in a complicated case like this. i wasn't surprised that just hearing them once, they needed to hear them again. it shows that they are approaching their work with diligence. >> katy, when you were watching all of this from inside the overflow...
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by 1931, the american bar association has accredited how university school of law two years. that's phenomenal. that's phenomenal. turn it out, lawyers. okay. turning out lawyers making changes. questions. a pause for a second because i talk fast and yes. oh, we got. okay so before they were incredibly before they their accreditation like what did it mean before i, i mean they were still producing language but what exactly does do or for the institution that's an excellent question what does accreditation do for an institution? students? what accreditation for students do for an institution or? funding. that's possible. yeah. okay. what else? what's as proud have you accredited? it is. okay, so you should know. does that matter? would you select a university that was not accredited by some regional body. i'd have to hope that. but what that generally it say that this institution has met certain standards that are recognized within higher education or in this case law school that suggest that this is a legitimate that the degree from this institution meets the standards for tu
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bar association. so, it was essential that we not sit on high in a proverbial ivory tower, and just speak, speak on the truth, that would be useless, especially in this time. so the first thing we decided to do was that we had to go out into the communities, out into the states, and for our purposes today, we had to leverage the organized bar in the united states of america which is 2 million strong, which is to say, without all of you in this room and all of your colleagues across the country, in all 50 states, we can do nothing at all. we depend on you, we need you, and we need, in turn, we the people of the united states of america. so, it is a herculean task, trying to reach 300 million people, as many as possible, but we are not alone in this effort. this is a massive national effort and it is as righteous an effort as this nation could ever know. we are trying to preserve our democracy and the rule of law. there is no higher calling in america than that, the difficulty is just convincing million
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bar association for discussion of the departments priorities. then president biden and vice president kamala harris campaign in philadelphia beginning at 1:30 eastern. later in the afternoon a review of cases pending before the u.s. supreme court, including a few that could redefine presidential immunity, access to abortion estion of american consumers. that gets underway at 3:30 p.m. eastern all live here on c-span, c-span now, or online at c-span.org. >> keep in mind it will take thousands of years at the curd pace to reach treatments for all patients with conditions. that is unacceptable to me and i hope it is unacceptable to all of you. we know the orphan drug act is working. we have seen the great incentives it is providing an ringing novel therapies to patients in need. i urge you all to turn to those instead of extent them and protect our orphan drugs from harmful policies that will restrict innovation and access to the treatments that can help our patients live betthelp our patients live longer lives and help us have more days to spent a
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we also attended the myself and marshal kane and president sue attended the asian american bar association gala, and it was it was another opportunity to, to, have a lot of contact with the asian community and make them aware of the, of our office and, and just it was a lot of fun because there was a lot of good people there. we were also seated at the table with us attorney izzy ramsey. and so it was just it was a great event. and i think that we have to continue to do those kinds of events. and i'm going to end by by, we also think it's important to meet with the leadership of the sheriff's rank and file. and we i had a recent meeting with kim lamba, the president of the sf deputies association. i thought we had a very, very positive meeting, in terms of our discussions and kind of what our role is as the ig and how we can work together to really make the san francisco sheriff's department one of the best in the country. and so i think that we were all on the same page. and then finally, i participated with dreamkeepers, we've allowed some members of dreamkeepers to utilize some of our o
we also attended the myself and marshal kane and president sue attended the asian american bar association gala, and it was it was another opportunity to, to, have a lot of contact with the asian community and make them aware of the, of our office and, and just it was a lot of fun because there was a lot of good people there. we were also seated at the table with us attorney izzy ramsey. and so it was just it was a great event. and i think that we have to continue to do those kinds of events....
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we will move to end all american support for the i c c section your employees and associates and bar. you and your families from the united states. you have been born look in the us, the beach present nixon to effect just it on the beach. it done on pump for the site for all protecting, just double time. yeah. yeah. so is it us tend to go into effect into measurement just is that what they are doing, that's gonna leave the world doing this like this are usually unfairly targeted and you don't have the jurisdiction, but the incentive can not national senate charging i back in the international court for doing something with us with the profit, because the jurisdiction is provided by palestine. nobody's right. under the case they've come on. us is building a port in these in gas app because there is no more than a system coming from a rise. come a how that goes a good night. the problem i'd say, of course, is that go to crime hook. i have friends, international law professors from these right? everyone recognize it. you can not testify. the stop in the my, the, i see the what, the food
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support for the icc sanction your employees and associates and bar you and your families from the united states, you have been warned here's what khan told me in response there's hotheads everywhere in this people that are mature, statesman and states, women and and leaders that are those that have fidelity, something greater than themselves. >> whether it's their constitutions. but ultimately it's the rule of law the good news is i think for the last two-and-a-half years, we've had very positive engagement with the biden administration in the united states, were working across a range of situations, whether it's in ukraine or die for. >> and i've said to distinguish members on the hill and to the administration that rome statute values are quintessential american values against bullying. it's against the untrammeled power against the most vulnerable. it's the rights, the dignity of the individual is the protection of babies. i mean, these are fundamental american values that should engender bipartisan support. now, of course, this situation unfortunately lies on the san andreas fault of
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here is justice marshall in 1988 at the national bar association meeting. he is accepting an award, and he talked a bit about the state of race relations post-brown. [video clip] justice marshall: i don't care about the constitution alone or the declaration of independence or all of the books together. it is not that important. what is important is the goal toward which you are moving, the goal that is the basis of true democracy, which is over and above the law, and is something that won't happen, but you must pray for it, and work for it. and that goal is very simple. that goal is, that if a child, a negro child, is born to a black mother in a state like mississippi or any other state like that, born to the dumbest, poorest, sharecropper, is by merely drawing first breath in a democracy, there and without any more, is born with the exact same rights as a similar child born to a white parent of the wealthiest person in the united states. no, it is not true. [applause] of course, it is not true. it never will be true. but i challenge anybody to take the pos
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associations. mr. werfel: yes, and, look, with respect to the case you raised, we need to do better if we are going to build trust with the american people. we are acknowledging that we should have promptly corrected our representations in court in this case. i've instructed the irs leadership team to take all of the official actions to make sure this never happens again and to the extent appropriate personnel actions with those involved. sen. blackburn: ok. and i think it is important to note this happened during a teleworking time. and without proper supervision. i want to talk with you. have discussed four also that issue of total positive income and the 400,000, what is going to happen with those audits. in the american family plan tax compliance agenda -- and i have that for the record, mr. chairman. treasury pledged that audits would not increase for taxpayers with incomes below $400,000 in actual income, relative to recent levels. and one can assume that actual and taxable income would be th
associations. mr. werfel: yes, and, look, with respect to the case you raised, we need to do better if we are going to build trust with the american people. we are acknowledging that we should have promptly corrected our representations in court in this case. i've instructed the irs leadership team to take all of the official actions to make sure this never happens again and to the extent appropriate personnel actions with those involved. sen. blackburn: ok. and i think it is important to note...