before, they would go to -- the judiciary committee would always submit the name to the american bar association, up or down, tell us what kind of person this is as a judge, up or down. oh, no, we do not want the american bar association, we want the federalist society to choose care that is when we went downhill. host: presidents get to choose their nominees. are you talking about recommendations from that conservative -- caller: they literally chose, for president trump, the names, because he was not a lawyer. he had no clue. they chose them here they did not go to the american bar association, which was the tradition. they literally chose who was to be put on the court. then when you find out that the three people, billionaires putting the money up for the court, i am sorry, i am just dismayed this has been allowed. i do not care whether you are republican or democrat, what your background is, but at least the american bar association was a neutral party. the federalist society is not. host: chuck out of farmington hills, michigan, republican. good morning. caller: good morning, america. than

the case was announced at an american bar association conference in san francisco today. prosecutors accuse ding of taking the files to his home country of china, where he was offered an executive role at a start-up company. prosecutors say he traveled there for months at a time, and then founded his own tech company in china that could replicate google's ai technology. attorney general merrick garland said the theft could put national security at risk. >> we have to worry about the way they accelerate the risk of fraud and extortion from that national security point of view. and the risk that will form that line and that they will use ai to increase the polarizations of this country. and to attack our electorals. >> they face four counts of theft of trade secrets if convicted, he could face up to 40 years in prison and a fine of $250,000 for each count. >>> california attorney general rob bonta calling on meta. this comes as the company is facing an increase in hackers, locking users out of their attorney. preventing lockouts on their platforms. including facebook and in

they chose them here they did not go to the american bar association, which was the itthey literallyhose who was to be put on the court. then when you find out that the three people, billionaires putting the money up forcourt, i am sorry, i am just dismayed this has been allowed. i do not care whetheryour background is, but at least the american bar association was a neutral party. the federalist society is not. host: chuck out of farmington hills, michigan, republican. good caller: good morning, america. call. number one having served in the marine corps for many years and gone to foreign countries, wake up, america. you cannot deny people from being on the ballot that has never been charged wh anng independent. let's look at what the situationwhat will happen is, if you allow this then why shouldn't the republicans close off all the ballots to the democrats? thank you very much. host: what do you think the supreme court is going to say today, less than three hours from now? caller: indeed, if it is the supreme court, and indeed, i think that they're going to have to trump on the ho

bar association at all. uh, i have been endorsed by six different bar associations, including, uh, all of the asian american bar associations, the latinx bar association, bay leaf, the lgbtq. i bar association, and others. um, my opponent has no bar associations endorsing him. i have the san francisco chronicle's endorsement, and i have the endorsement of sing tao daily, uh, which is the only chinese language daily in the bay area. so i am happy and proud to have the support of, uh, people and organizations that i respect. and i hope that i can enjoy your support at the polls as well. thank you, judge baker. well, let's, uh, let's go to the questions. um, i'm going to begin with the first question, and i will we will be moving around the order of candidates will begin with miss rowland for this one, and then we will shift around. uh, miss rowland, i'm wondering if you can share with our audience the reasons. elaborate a little bit more on the reasons that you are running for this seat. so, um, i'm running because i am experienced. i'm qualified. i value public safety. i've been a public servant to san franci

because often what happens is the defenders and others, they experience what american bar association's center for human rights and many others have said is like flagging fatigue. so that is overwhelming. and then also when they are documenting these threats, if there was greater information on how to document threats, what to document, and also across social media platforms and companies, if there was a better kind of, you know, approach where if a defender is attacked including across multiple platforms, is there a way that the reporting process can be streamlined, so that they are not starting from scratch every single time that they may be reporting something to one or the other of a channel? this is also really important because as we all know from both defenders who risk and others, that when something happens off-line, and then if it goes, when it happens online, and if it goes off-line, and if it also leads to the criminalization of defenders, or different types of legal harassment because of these orchestrated campaigns to defame them, discredit them, both in the public eye, wh

laura: president's biden nominee is a veteran lit gator, unanimously well qualified by the american bar associationbut he's faced a barrage of attacks from republican senators which the white house says amounts to an isra ma phobic smear campaign. >> do you believe that zionist settler was a provocation that justified hamas' in the jewish land? >> is there any justification for those atrocities? >> i'll repeat myself, the events of october 7th were a horror. i have no patience, none for any attempts to justify or defend those events. >> and conservative outside groups have basically named him as anti-semitic besides being endorsed by a dozen jewish organization. i'm joined biotomy thy k. lewis house with appointed as manji by george h.w. bush. i want to start by asking you you recently sent a letter to chuck schumer and senate north leader mitch mcconnell in defense of adil shhh manji. why did you feel compelled to send that? >> i feel compelled to accepted that in what i feel like it's a base less attacks on mr. manji's character. i know they were initially routed -- rooted in his religious john.

announced the indictment, attorney general merrick garland spoke about this arrest at the american bar associationcisco. fbi director christopher wray last week talked about the overall china threat. >> we were intensely focused on the threat posed by the ccp, chinese government, that cuts across everything from human operations, different ways of penetrating our critical infrastructure, whether cyber, investments, et cetera. transnational oppression is a huge focus on china and the challenge it presents. >> no response from google but fbi director christopher wray said the intellectual property of the united states of the next decade is from china full, gillian. >> gillian: david spunt in washington for us, thank you, dana. >> dana: i did not consider our relationship to become romac until early 2022. >> it is a mob. i object. and in truth, into people's personal lives. >> dana: conflicting testimony in the investigation of fani willis. the new revelation could mean for her future and george georgia trump election case. enough is enough to roll back laws to criminalize hard drugs. activists say t

attorney general merrick garland announced the arrest during a speech in san francisco at the american bar associationnference. will not tolerate the theft of our trade secrets in the area of artificial intelligence. >> now, during the time that he& worked at google, ding is also accused of working at two chinese tech companies, including one he himself founded. if he is convicted, ding could get ten years in prison and be fined a quarter million dollars for each charge. now, google did release a statement. it reads quickly referred the case to law enforcement. we're grateful to the fbi for helping to protect our information and will continue cooperating with them closely. the first new escalators at a bart station are now up and running in san francisco. >> bart says the montgomery station in the city now has three completely rebuilt escalators connecting the platform and concourse levels. the escalators at the powell street and embarcadero stations are expected to open in the spring. bart has plans to rebuild 41 escalators and install canopies to protect exterior escalators from bad weather. >> time

the american bar association rated him as highly qualified for the bench but the nomination of adeels in peril due to a coordinated campaign by republican senators to smear him as a terrorist and anti-semite despite his endorsements from both the antidefamation league and the american jewish committee. during a senate confirmation hearing, houthi for was faced with aggressive and insulting questions that echo post-9/11 hysteria. the republican senator john kennedy of louisiana for example, asked adeel mangi, do you celebrate 9/11? in response, adeel mangi said, "i don't think anyone can feel more strongly about what happened then someone who was there and saw it with their own eyes smoke billowing from the towers. it was my city that was attacked." adeel mangi was questioned about his stance on hamas. on wednesday, andrew bates called the attacks on adeel mangi islamophobic. adeel mangi who has lived the american dream and proven his integrity, is being targeted by a malicious and debunk smear campaign solely because he would make history as the first muslim to serve as the federal a

. >> last friday i gave a talk at the american bar association of san francisco and i called him an extra essential threat to the rule of law and democracy. but the position of absolute immunity was rejected as recently as george washington. he passed on becoming a king, so i don't think there's any chance the supreme court is going to say there's absolute immunity. the most important thing about the supreme court decision, i don't think it's whether it will hold, i think it's the calendar and the timing of they will come out with a decision in late june or early july and then we will have to look and see whether or not there's any possibility that a federal trial to go before the election. >> emily, i want to ask you from a practical standpoint, when we are trying cases, whether they are civil or criminal but particularly the context of something involving national security, classified information. you think there is a risk in any way that the complexities of this case as we are seeing being fleshed out in these various motions that are being filed in this case, do you think there is a r

nomination to the third circuit court of appeals adeel mangi is rated well qualified by the american bar association he is faced a barrage of attacks from republican senators, which the white house says amounts to in islam a phobic. >> do you believe that zionist settler colonialism was a provocation that justified hamas 's atrocity against jews? >> do you condemn the atrocity of the hamas terrorists? >> yes. >> is there any justification for those atrocities? >> i'll repeat myself. the events of october 7 were a horror. i have no patience, none, for any attempt to justify or defend those events. >> and conservative outside groups have labeled him as anti-semitic despite his nomination being endorsed by more than a dozen jewish organizations. to discuss this, i am joined by a former federal judge, timothy lewis appointed to the same circuit court of appeals by then republican george h w bush. judge louis, thank you for joining. i want to start by asking you, you recently sent a letter to senate majority leader chuck schumer and senate minority leader mitch mcconnell in defense of a-- of adeel mangi.

the american bar association standards on the prosecution function three dash 1.7. but the point is, there can be an actual conflict here the actual conflict requires showing of an adverse impact or some actual prejudice to the proceeding can be here. doesn't matter when he was hired. he was hired before the grand jury met. and so did they have a motive for self and grandizement or financially to put some evidence before the grand jury to ensure prosecution and hold off other this may be theoretical and maybe realistic. the main thing to remember i think is the judge has an independent it role in this while he may not be required to dismiss her based on an appearance of bias, he can he has the authority because ultimately, his role is to ensure the integrity of the process that's why she should withdraw as norm eisen has said i'm sure those attorneys will appreciate you saying that none of them could ask it could question david schoen. thanks so much for joining me >> thank you. and just into >> cnn, we are now getting word of yet another possible spy balloon that w

some of the the afl-cio, the sciu association of federal bar of new jersey asian pacific americanrnyers of new jersey capital area muslim bar association, muslim american advisory council, muslim york new jersey muslim lawyers association, national lgbtq bar association, new jersey state bar association, south be asian bar association of new jersey south asian bar association of north america, former attorneys general, groups of new jerseys sheriffs hispanic law enforcement association, lgbt law enforcement association, the national coalition, noble of new jersey region one, the national association of black women in law enforcement, the association of lawyers and jurists, the american jewish committee, the anti-defamation league the alliance for jewish renewal, bend the arc jewish action jewish community action jewish democratic council of international, national council of jewish women, new york jewish agenda society for humanistic judaism, the torah, rabbinical call for human rights the workers circle zionist, the leadership council of civil and human rights the national women's law center the naacp legal defense fund the of hunterton council, musli

attorney general merrick garland announced the arrest during a speech in san francisco at the american bar associationence. >> the justice department just will not tolerate the theft of our trade secrets in the area of artificial intelligence. >> now, during the time that he worked at google, ding is also accused of working at two chinese tech companies, including one that he himself founded. if he is convicted, ding could get ten years in prison and be fined a quarter million dollars for each charge. now, google released a statement about this. it reads in part, we quickly referred the case to law enforcement. we are grateful to the fbi for helping to protect our information and will continue cooperating with them closely. >> a ten year old is in the hospital after he was hit by a car while riding his bike in dublin. police say it happened yesterday morning near devonia drive and chatham street. the boy suffered significant injuries and is being treated at oaklands, ucsf benioff children's hospital. the driver involved in the accident is cooperating with the investigation. drugs or alcohol do not app

american bar association gave ms. berner its highest rating of well qualified for the position she has been qualified for. her confirmation would mark a significant milestone for the fourth circuit. if confirmed, she would be the first openly gay lgbtq judge to serve on that court. ms. berner'squalifications her values and experience coupled with her notably steady and calm demeanor as exhibited during the committee hearing will make hern exceptional addition to the fourth circuit. she is supported by a host of organizations, includingnizations, the international brotherhood of police officers the national council of women, the national women's law center union presidents 23 of them, the leadership conference on civil rights and human rights the national task force to sexual and domestic violence the national women's law center among many others. mr. president, i know ms. berner would say and she has told us that she has traveled this important journey of her life her family her wife deborah and their sons maton, nava

but very quickly, i want to get your take on this survey that came out last year from the american bar associationabout civility in the united states. it says civility is vanishing and people blame it on the media specifically. 85% saying that civility today is worse than it was 10 years ago. 29% blame social media, 24% blame the media more generally. 19% blame public officials and with all of these different numbers, i wonder what you think of that. who is to blame for the situation with civility? guest: let's think of the word civility. it derives from civilization. we want to embrace advance, perpetuate civil society. whether you want to call it civil society or civilization. i think social media and social media tycoons that basically set up these ideologically rigid platforms of groupthink take a lot of responsibility for this and have not accounted for their irresponsibility, going back to 2016, and the fact that unknown entities contributed to american political parties and candidates and got away with impunity. the media has always been scapegoated. we know that but you are not scapegoatin

but very quickly, i want to get your take on this survey that came out last year from the american bar associationabout civility in the united states. it says civility is vanishing and people blame it on the media specifically. 85% saying that civility today is worse than it was 10 years ago. 29% blame social media, 24% blame the media more generally. 19% blame public officials and with all of these different numbers, i wonder what you think of that. who is to blame for the situation with civility? guest: let's think of the word civility. it derives from civilization. we want to embrace advance, perpetuate civil society. whether you want to call it civil society or civilization. i think social media and social media tycoons that basically set up these ideologically rigid platforms of groupthink take a lot of responsibility for this and have not accounted for their irresponsibility, going back to 2016, and the fact that unknown entities contributed to american political parties and candidates and got away with impunity. the media has always been scapegoated. we know that but you are not scapegoatin

now, you're a member of the asian american bar association of the greater bay area. so i am ending the gala. you were highly requested by the organization and the president to be there, and now you're a member. i'm a member, and i bought a ticket. um, i also wanted to recognize member mango for making sure that our website becomes more user friendly, client friendly in terms of the services and just again, thank her for doing a beautiful highlight and overview of our annual report. and she was too modest to want to take any kind of credit. and so i had to put it in the president's letter as i was introducing the report. but also down the road, if you could keep her informed so that she can actually kind of do her little model and graphics to make it easier for people to. yeah. miss mango also sent us a link to the los angeles, uh, oversight board's website. uh, that i think i've had a great time just looking at it and seeing where where we can pick up some good tips on putting our website together, and also show, uh, the manner in which they outreach to the public, i

one of the take aways is the bar associations are holding up as an american institution. and who would have picked them as the institution? they tried to construct this legal tissue. and the lawyers thus far have been the only ones that have paid. it has been the rioters and the reason the lawyers have paid is because the bar associations have stood up and said we will do our part here. >> that is an important point. what was so insidious about the coup attempt, doing pr more than actual law was that it was, what they said were legal claims. they were trying to cloak this in the language of not open insurrection, an attempt to topple democracy, but in a bunch of procedural mechanics. the bar association, the guild of lawyers is saying these arguments are not just like arguments of the margin that are sort of interesting. they are not doing law. they are doing something else. >> yes. and, people who study the way that democracy has turned into authoritarian systems of government, talk about civil society and professional associations. and the different types of institution

co-director of the professional development for the filipino bar association of northern california, we work on educational programs to help our filipino americancommunity thrive in a very complex and ever changing legal environment. >> she has been practicing law now for 12 years. she says her mission is to create opportunities for young students interested in law through mentorship programs and scholarships as well. >> a winning ticket was sold in tonight's $1.1 billion mega millions drawing. here are those winning numbers seven, 11, 12, 32, 29, 38 and the mega number is the number for now. that winning ticket was sold in the state of new jersey. one ticket worth $1 million was sold here in california, down south in van nuys, the powerball, though that jackpot is still up for grabs. and this is actually the first time both mega millions and powerball have had giant jackpots more than 800 million in the same week. tonight's mega millions jackpot of $1.1 billion, the eighth largest prize in that game's history. last time someone won the prize, december 8th. tomorrow night's powerball drawing will be an estimated $865 million. no one has won tha

american on the appellate court. never one. biden named imangi. he's earned top prize from the bar association as well as a diverse cohort. rank bigotry and islam phobia. >> do you believe that zionist settler settler -- >> the third speaker you invited, mr. hakeem was for palestine. and has publicly called for intifada in the united states. is this the way you celebrate 9/11? >> didn't you have a moral obligation to know about a center you had on a board for years, was calling jewish people, colonialist, violent settlers? >> let him complete his answer. >> he's filibustering and not answering questions. i'm going to ask him to answer the question i asked, instead of giving a speech on a different topic. he knows how to answer the question. when i ask a specific question, he gives a speech because he doesn't want to answer it. my question is simple. do you condemn this event that was celebrating palestinian islamic jihad? >> they responded to acts. saying it is a racist practice with a long history in this country. and that kind of smear that you just saw, from those men there, senate republicans, is par for the course. u

eastman who has been recommended for disbarment by the california bar association for his role in the criminal plot. prior to trying to end american democracy, is been actually had a long legal career does masterminds behind donald trump's potential care. specifically the plan to get congress to reject electors in states that joe biden won. he's been criminally charged in georgia for his role in the plot where he awaits trial. it appears he will lose his license to practice law in the state of california. after a full process including witnesses and testimony, a california judge recommended eastman be disbarred because, quote, the evidence clearly and convincingly proves that eastman and president trump entered into an agreement to obstruct the joint session of congress on january 6th. the judge also added, quote, the scale and degree justness of eastman's unethical actions far surpasses the misconduct at issue. that's a reference to donald sig reddy, former campaign lawyer for richard nixon, best known for coining a theme phrase for political dirty tricks that we cannot repeat on the program. his license was suspended in californ

our writing our future for the future may is asian american & pacific islander heritage good evening everyone. we welcome you all to the bar associationjudicial candidates forum for the march 5th primary election. we've invited all of the candidates to join this forum, and we are very happy to have with us today. judges biggert and thompson and assistant district attorney roland present for this forum. this race has attracted a lot of attention in the press. it's also generated a good degree of voter questions. judicial elections for superior court seats

co-director of the professional development for the filipino bar association of northern california, we work on educational programs to help our filipino americann is to create opportunities for young students interested in law through mentorship programs and scholarships. this comes as the state bar issued its annual diversity report card, highlighting the demographic composition of california's attorneys for the first time. the report shows a record increase of people of color in the last five years. they now make up 55% of attorneys admitted to the state bar in 2023, according to the report. women of color made up 33% of attorneys admitted, despite a major move towards more representation. the report card indicates white attorneys still constitute almost two thirds of attorneys in california. farmworkers and their advocates are celebrating a win. we'll tell you how san mateo county is honoring these essential workers charged with style. the fully-electric audi q4 e-tron. get exceptional offers at your local audi dealer. business. it's not a nine-to-five proposition. it's all day and into the night. it's all the things that keep this world tu