it was the american bar association that said his absence of any significant trial experience disqualified him to serve at the lowest federal court, lifetime appointment, make no mistake, but the lowest federal district court. but it seems justin walker is well connected, well connected by the majority leader having served on the staff, at least as an intern, i'm not sure. maybe other connections. but enough that his nomination has become a priority for the united states senate. it's interesting, besides a, quote, career -- despite the fact that he had no trial experience to take that job, the majority leader, senator mcconnell, wants this man to be elevated to the second-highest court in the land, the d.c. court of appeals. i don't understand it. it's certainly hard to argue that this is part of a response to a national health emergency in america. it has nothing to do with it. it is a political decision to clearly elevate this man of all the members of the federal district court bench across the nation, to be next in line to be considered for the supreme court. i hope he's seen a federal

nominations and right-wing judges including a former protÉge rated unqualified by the american bar association a man who argued against the constitutionality in the midst of the public health crisis someone who probably 80 or 90% would reject if they knew his views but is a protÉge and we are rushing him through. we are not paying attention to covid. now the senate intelligence committee is holding a virtual hearing on the nomination of the representatives. this is an important post to the demands credibility on both sides of the aisle and above all with the ability to speak truth to power. he meets none of these criteria. he's a deeply partisan cheerleader for the senate. he tells the president what he wants to hear. doesn't this sound familiar? right now we are living with the consequences who doesn't want to hear the truth about the virus. his administration bears responsibility. when it comes to the coronavirus is the result of an administration who didn't take it seriously enough and early enough to heed the warnings of the public health officials and scientists for not wanting to hear th

the bar association's role i think has always been to lend a hand to our police department, and to make sure that our d.g.o.s are well researched and become state of the art and modeled throughout the rest of the country. i do have to take a moment to just acknowledge and to appreciate chief scott, who i think made very clear that this particular d.g.o. was very important to him. and he undertook the time and the research and he contributed very wisely, as everyone has already said. he contributed to the bias-by-proxy section which we found to be so important to this work. and also i want to acknowledge the role of the community members and angela jenkins sits on so many of these working groups with me and she has always been such a great contributor and sort of my comrade. rahm jones i think represents some of the younger people on our group, and i feel that we need more like rome. he was the one who brought to our attention the twitter feed from the tenderloin police station with the mugshots. and all of our attention became galvanized on that and the bias-by-proxy and the problems wi

including of the former protÉge of the republican leader who was rated unqualified by the american bar association a man who argued against the constitutionality of our health care law in the midst of a public health crisis, someone who probably 80 or 90% of americanser would reject bute is a protÉge of the leader. we are rushing him through. we are not paying attention to covid. now the senate intelligence committee is holding a virtual hearing on the nomination of representative rack with to serve as the next director of national intelligence. this is an extremely important post that demands a candidate with experience, credibility and both sides of the aisle and above all the ability to speak truth to power. radcliffe meets none of those criteria. he said deeply partisan cheerleader for the president, a yes maam in any sense of the phrase someone who doesn't tell the president, someone who doesn't speak truth to power to the president of the united states. he tells the president what he wants to hear. does this sound familiar? right now, we are living with the consequences of a president who do

will not be able to have a say in implementing all drafting this lol and the chairman of the bar association has called that unprecedented the chairman of the journalists association here in hong kong has also come out with worries about how journalists will be able to operate in hong kong because he says that articles that could be seen as hat will or inciting subversion that could affect how journalists operate in hong kong with the freedom of speech and that he's asra how this little safeguard the rights of journalists here and the other thing that people are talking about which is how this law is going to be enforced because one of the things that has been announced is the possible implementation of mainland agencies in neyland agents in hong kong enforcing this law and how can government says they will be under and subject to hong kong law but how that's actually going to walk in practice many people have raised concerns about that as well are we have seen these protests on the streets of hong kong there is international criticism of this proposed law about the chinese leadership doesn'

the court of appeals, it has nothing to do with covid, and the guy was rated unqualified by the bar association's why he's calling us back. if we're going to come back, we ought to be focusing on covid and making things better? what's he like when the cameras aren't on? >> he, look, i try to get along with everybody, and -- but he's not very talkative. let's put it like that. >> stephen: okay. now, you want the next bill to be like the $2 trillion cares act. >> yeah? what should the united states congress -- how should in t united states congress allocate the next 2 there will trl -- >> right, there are a lot of things we should have in it. we need to make sure our elections in november are fair and safe and free. a lot of people won't want to go to follows. we ought to have mail ballots for everyone, but we ought to allow people who want to go to follows to be there. we need to make sure some to have the barriers, the state of alabama, to vote by absentee mail, you need a notary public to certify. why is that done? to prevent minorities and poor people from voting. three things. the second thi

the american bar association said his absence of any significant trial experience disqualified him to serve at the lowest federal court. lifetime appointment, make no mistake but the lowest federal district court. but he isct well connected and those other connections i am not aware of. that his nomination is a priority for the united states senate and it's interesting despite being career on the federal district court the last six or eight months and despite the fact he had no trial experience to take the job the majority leader mcconnell wants this man to be elevated to the second highest court in i the lan land. the dc court of appeals. i don't understand it, it's hard to argue this is part of a response to a national americamergency in and has nothing to do with it. it is a political decision clearly to elevate this man of all members of the federal district court bench across thehe nation to be next in line considered for the supreme cour court. i hope he sees a federal trial the time he served on the district court we will find out at the hearing called for wednesday of this wee

, the bar association of san francisco. these fine folks panel with the bar, provide pro bono legal services to social equity applicants. to date about 250 hours have been provided. in addition, our partners at the office of economic workforce development have contracted with a law firm to provide additional pro bono legal assistance, which has started in about january/february, about 50 hours to date, for a total of 300 hours. and in addition, although there aren't events at this time, we did issue a permit for cannabis sales, on-site cannabis sales and consumption at the music festival in golden gate park. this is a part of our pilot program which may be extended on a yearly basis through 2021. with that, i'll kick it back to director rodriguez to close us out. >> thank you so much, jeremy. i want to run through this just quickly. there were some questions on the local level for -- with respect to what is sort of happening during the shelter in place. people want to know whether they can have community outreach meetings. t

, the bar association of san francisco. these fine folks panel with the bar, provide pro bono legal services to social equity applicants. to date about 250 hours have been provided. in addition, our partners at the office of economic workforce development have contracted with a law firm to provide additional pro bono legal assistance, which has started in about january/february, about 50 hours to date, for a total of 300 hours. and in addition, although there aren't events at this time, we did issue a permit for cannabis sales, on-site cannabis sales and consumption at the music festival in golden gate park. this is a part of our pilot program which may be extended on a yearly basis through 2021. with that, i'll kick it back to director rodriguez to close us out. >> thank you so much, jeremy. i want to run through this just quickly. there were some questions on the local level for -- with respect to what is sort of happening during the shelter in place. people want to know whether they can have community outreach meetings. t

he was part of the hudson county bar association and west hudson bar association, as well as a -- trusteetee as of a scholarship committee. liz, on the left there, what an incredibly handsome couple, was born to kearny to a -- in kearny to a single mom who worked through the great depression to provide through her daughter -- for her daughter. she is a student at bloomfield high school and made a group of friends with whom she would remain close the remainder of her life. liz would become deeply involved -- civil life in her own life. she was a member of the father washington club, friends of aaron, women club of arlington, and a social member of the arlington players club. paul and dolores found their true calling with each other. they met through mutual friends while paul was a young attorney and liz was a secretary in .rudential i newark their daughter of susan, a kearny councilwoman and leader in her own right, recounts how they love to dance together. susan said, "they were always a couple. always together. it is difficult to picture one without the other." sadly, they remain a couple i

as american bar association that said is absent in any significant trial experience, disqualified him to serve at the lowest federal court. make no mistake, but the lowest federal district court but it seems justin walker is well-connected with majority leader by having service staff at least as an intern, maybe more i'm not sure. in other that i am not aware of. att enough that his nomination has become a priority from the united states senate. and it's interesting despite the career on the federal district court of less than six - eight months. despite the fact that no trial experience to take a job, majority leader senator mcconnell, once his man to be elevated to the second highest court in the land. the dc court of appeals. i don't understand it. certainly hard to argue that this is part of a response to a national health emergency in america. it has nothing to do with it. it is a political decision, clearly to levy this man of all of thedi members of the membersp across the nation, to be met next in line to be considered for the supreme court. i hopis seen a federal trial. that

what you said with integrity and independence and temperament, that goes to why the american bar association gave me the highest rating yesterday. >> i have an idea. might of your public comments would you commit to recuse yourself from any case involving constitutional challenges? >> section 455 outlines when a judge should or should not recuse i pledge to follow that statute to the letter. i would consult with my colleagues on the dc circuit. there is a long tradition of judicial nominees not to recuse because a judge has to take each case by case and that is a decision about the case. >> judge walker after 162 television appearances and all you have written and said it's painful to hear you say you have an open mind. i gave you an opportunity to clear the issue you have chosen not to. i yield. >> thank you judge walker. at the outset it is not only acceptable but appropriate and entirely necessary for us to be here. first responders, doctor responders, doctors, nurses, phs , grocery stores, working seven days a week while managing the task of homeschooling children for the first time and

this was established by judges and the bar association and others, i believe, and the former sheriff was a part of that involvement and this was established to address individuals who are held pretrial on minor offences and it was already san francisco was thinking about ways not to overincarcerate and it was, again, important for the bar association that this be an independent nonprofit and it's been contracting with the sheriff's office since this time and it says work to divert -- at the time it was established to divert mis misdemeanor clients. in 1994, the service and pretrial established supervised pretrial relief program which extended pretrial relief by providing the court with post random case management and supervision alternatives and then supervised pretrial relief is a case management. in layman's terms, this is saying that we are managing now people with higher level charges. and, perhaps, david could speak to that, too. and then in 2003, san francisco pretrial assumed the work that the project became one, merging into an independent agency and services for clients and

even the hong kong bar association had a strongly worded statement yesterday, talking about how the newould be problematic and worrying. diminishedrd from an -- of foreign affairs in hong kong, saying affair -- saying yesterday that hong kong's independent judiciary will remain. but it raises a lot of questions about how far-reaching these new national laws from china could be, given the judiciary and china is tied to the communist party and not an independent judiciary. >> beijing has repeatedly referred to what they describe as foreign forces playing a part in stirring dissent in hong kong. how important is that justification from beijing? stephen: it gives justification for implementing these laws to counter a number of things that of course they say china and hong kong need to be protected from. terrorism, espionage, subversion, secession, and the like. saying that foreign agents were involved helps justify that number and carrie lam did spend much of a press conference today at the executive council slamming foreign politicians that have criticized the new national law, and she say

army solicitor general and deputy attorney general of the state of illinois coo of the american bar association the first woman to hold these positions in conversation tonight is maia a nationally renowned expert on racial justice and equity has litigated and lobbied the us congress and developed programs to transform structural races in the us and south africa. currently a university professor at the nearby university also a legal alyst for nbc news and msnbc i also want to think those in the audience for being in the audience and a big shout out to c-span for being here tonight. [applause] so please join me to welcome to pioneering women jill and maia and the water great on - - watergate girls to the stageg. [applause] >> thank you. good evening nikki for being here. i am so excited to be in this conversation with jill who is my sister-in-law. [applause] that isn't literal in case anybody got excited. in spirit because i hope you all have purchase the book if you haven't, you will. i just want to start with the why you wrote it. i don't mean stories but why did you write it? jill let me know

. -- their bar association which gives rise to speculation the courts could be instructed to act in certain of the communist party. reuters citing identified people saying the new laws would block foreign judges in hong kong from handling national security trials and central and security could be and would be set up in hong kong as part of the legislation. the npc standing committee needs to improve -- approve it first. and in the standing committee has to approve it. it could be fast tracked and in place according to the reuters report in time for the local legislative council of elections in the fall. shery: we will be watching closely. stephen engle, chief with asia correspondent there. all sides of the debate of hong kong's future. we are joined by the former secretary for justice. we also talked to a veteran pro-democracy campaigner and another. theone man tells us how fresh unrest is affecting the hong kong property market already reeling from the virus. here is another check of the markets. we are seeing u.s. futures down .2%. this after we saw that late trade that sent the s&p 500 l

john davis, a famous attorney, infamous in some respects, official spokesman for the american bar association, writes an article he says the federal government is not [indiscernible] ie what is all of this new deal stuff? it is not with the government should be doing. couple that with what you see if you look in the newspapers of the time, january 22, the new york times, communists were pouring into -- boring into me grow labor. october 22, 1926, the banner headlines, san francisco examiner, third [indiscernible] caught, confesses four beaten with hammer in strike riots. one month before whitney, new york times, american legion issued a report. condemning radicalization of the public schools, submitting it is out of place for discussions tending to create disregard for the united states government to be had in an educational be had in an educational institution supported by taxes especially when organizations -- the organization concerned is identified with a parent body. think moscow, whose aims and objects are undermining our form of government. another opinion, the president of the civil l

integrity and independence and judicial temperament, i think that question goes to why the american bar association said they were giving me their highest rating yesterday. >> i've got a way to resolve this problem. let me ask you if you will consider doing this to put our minds at rest when it comes to what you just said and what you would do as a judge. in light of your public comments about the affordable care act, would you commit to recuse yourself from any case involving constitutional challenges to the affordable care act? 455 outlines when a judge should or should not recuse from a case. and i pledge to follow that statute to the letter. i will also consult with my colleagues in the d.c. circuit judge and the ao. there is a long tradition of judicial nominees not making a promise on whether to recuse from particular cases, because a judge has to take every case with an open mind. and the decision on whether to recuse is a decision about the case. after 162alker, television appearances, after all that you've written and all that you've said, it is painful to hear you say you have an open min

this was established by judges and the bar association and others, i believe, and the former sheriff was a part of that involvement and this was established to address individuals who are held pretrial on minor offences and it was already san francisco was thinking about ways not to overincarcerate and it was, again, important for the bar association that this be an independent nonprofit and it's been contracting with the sheriff's office since this time and it says work to divert -- at the time it was established to divert mis misdemeanor clients. in 1994, the service and pretrial established supervised pretrial relief program which extended pretrial relief by providing the court with post random case management and supervision alternatives and then supervised pretrial relief is a case management. in layman's terms, this is saying that we are managing now people with higher level charges. and, perhaps, david could speak to that, too. and then in 2003, san francisco pretrial assumed the work that the project became one, merging into an independent agency and services for clients and

davis, a famous attorney, infamous in some respects, official spokesman for the american bar associationwrites an article where he says, the federal government is not an elimosinary institution. i.e., what is all this new deal stuff? it ain't what the government ought to be doing. couple that with what you see if you look in the newspapers of the time, january 22, 1926, "new york times. ring intos were bo negro labor directed by the communist international in moscow as part of its worldwide labor. october 22, 1926, the banner headline, san francisco examiner, third terror thug caught, confesses four beaten with hammer in strike riots. april 15, 1927, 1 month before whitney, new york times, the american legion had issued a report condemning radicalization in the public schools, "submitting it is entirely out of place for discussions tending to create disregard for the united states government to be had in an educational institution supported by taxes , especially true when there is so great a presumption that organizations -- that the organization concerned is identified with a parent bod

. >> reporter: a day of milestone moves by some states including arkansas where bars associated with restaurants may reopen today. a number of states unveiling new reopening plans including those with some of the highest number of cases like massachusetts, michigan, new york, but in oregon the state supreme court putting a halt to a judge's order from hours earlier that ruled the governor's restrictions were null and void following a lawsuit by 10 churches that said those restrictions were unconstitutional. governor kate brown in a statement celebrating the supreme court move that keeps her emergency stay-at-home orders in place. in new jersey governor phil murphy tweeting that until a proven vaccine is widely available we cannot firmly enter the new normal when light full once again return to all of our workplaces, downtowns and main streets. this on the heels of yesterday's garden state jim reopening in defiance of the governor's lockdown orders. >> understanding the owners were issued a summons for that and the clientele were issued warnings. these are just words. >> a half hour e

the american bar association ruled that walker wasn't qualified for the current judgeship he has, a districtin western kentucky. but on tuesday the ab said he was qualified for the d.c. circuit but they hunt handle fundamentally different things. they said he didn't have enough trial experience for the lower court. walker has mocked the supreme court obamacare ruling and that's something that concerns democrats that came up in hearing this morning. >> in light of your affordable care act's constitutionality, would you commit to recusing yourself? >> a judge has to take every case, case by case with an open mind and the decision on whether to recuse the case is a decision about the case. >> dick durbin called that response "painful" as a district judge ruled against a kentucky mayor barring sunday church gatherings without a hearing. walker told senator as his ruling complied with the first amendment's free exercise clause. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said he needed to call the senate to session but democrats think the senate should focus instead on coronavirus. >> i just think it'

the bar association's role i think has always been to lend a hand to our police department, and to makethat our d.g.o.s are well researched and become state of the art and modeled throughout the rest of the country. i do have to take a moment to just acknowledge and to appreciate chief scott, who i think made very clear that this particular d.g.o. was very important to him. and he undertook the time and the research and he contributed very wisely, as everyone has already said. he contributed to the bias-by-proxy section which we found to be so important to this work. and also i want to acknowledge the role of the community members and angela jenkins sits on so many of these working groups with me and she has always been such a great contributor and sort of my comrade. rahm jones i think represents some of the younger people on our group, and i feel that we need more like rome. he was the one who brought to our attention the twitter feed from the tenderloin police station with the mugshots. and all of our attention became galvanized on that and the bias-by-proxy and the problems with tha

the bar association's role i think has always been to lend a hand to our police department, and to make sure that our d.g.o.s are well researched and become state of the art and modeled throughout the rest of the country. i do have to take a moment to just acknowledge and to appreciate chief scott, who i think made very clear that this particular d.g.o. was very important to him. and he undertook the time and the research and he contributed very wisely, as everyone has already said. he contributed to the bias-by-proxy section which we found to be so important to this work. and also i want to acknowledge the role of the community members and angela jenkins sits on so many of these working groups with me and she has always been such a great contributor and sort of my comrade. rahm jones i think represents some of the younger people on our group, and i feel that we need more like rome. he was the one who brought to our attention the twitter feed from the tenderloin police station with the mugshots. and all of our attention became galvanized on that and the bias-by-proxy and the problems wi

senator durbin and senator schumer to say he's not qualified is funny because even liberal american bar associatione out and said he was well qualified to serve in those senators said that is the gold standard. shannon: something he is taking a lot of heat for, the decision a few weeks ago where he authored a decision in kentucky where number of churches were trying to have drive in services for easter and the mayor said no, not going to happen. he in part in the opinion he wrote set on holy thursday and american mayor criminalize the communal celebration of easter, went on to talk about characters in the bible and scripture in theology and a lot of people thought that was unnecessary. one professor at university of iowa writing on gazette.com judges must never allow their personal feelings or attachments, political party, their religious affiliation to influence their decisions, justin walker cannot meet that high standard. is not fit to serve. critics not happy about the use of all the religious imagery and language he used in making that decision. >> i went to the university of iowa law school.

a key reason hong kong has prospered over the years and theerday, my final point -- hong kong bar associationut out a sharply worded statement saying the new national legislation is incompatible with the basic law and calling it worrying and problematic. -- some ofout that the details in the national security law proposal. in the draft law, they use the term judicial organs. organs being the operative word. that is common terminology that beijing uses. china does not have an independent judiciary. it does what the party says. judicial been using origins in the draft. that basically gives rise to speculation. the judiciary could be instructed to act in certain ways. david i.: speaking of terminology. one phrase we often hear quite a bit is this phrase of foreign forces playing a large part in for minting the stance in hong kong. how important is that type of framing? stephen: it simply makes it easier for the officials to justify this. ,f foreign forces are involved allegedly, this anti-subversion, anti-secession, anti-terrorism, anti-terrorism laws could be easily justified which pro-democrac

, the bar association of san francisco. these fine folks panel with the bar, provide pro bono legal services to social equity applicants. to date about 250 hours have been provided. in addition, our partners at the office of economic workforce development have contracted with a law firm to provide additional pro bono legal assistance, which has started in about january/february, about 50 hours to date, for a total of 300 hours. and in addition, although there aren't events at this time, we did issue a permit for cannabis sales, on-site cannabis sales and consumption at the music festival in golden gate park. this is a part of our pilot program which may be extended on a yearly basis through 2021. with that, i'll kick it back to director rodriguez to close us out. >> thank you so much, jeremy. i want to run through this just quickly. there were some questions on the local level for -- with respect to what is sort of happening during the shelter in place. people want to know whether they can have community outreach meetings. t

hand but one that has been around r a long time but six months after peter died the american bar association came out with a landmark study of 13000 laers across the country and asked about substance abuse and mental health the striking thing about the survey is very high levels of drinking and anxiety d depression the attorneys skipped the questions about drug abuse acting like they were there i call the lead investigator who now has his own consulting firm to help them address mental health and substance abuse issues peter was a one-off and there is no drug abuse he said no i think 75 percent of players gifted because they were afraid to answer is a group of professionals they are very suspicious they are not trusting that's part of their legal training they were going to answer that even on the anonymous survey they didn't believe it was anonymous or they can be found out so they did not answer investigating further there was quite a bit of substance abuse in the research that i did. some of that was prescribed some was not some make it less apparent if you are suffering from symoms of al

the bar association's role i think has always been to lend a hand to our police department, and to make sure that our d.g.o.s are well researched and become state of the art and modeled throughout the rest of the country. i do have to take a moment to just acknowledge and to appreciate chief scott, who i think made very clear that this particular d.g.o. was very important to him. and he undertook the time and the research and he contributed very wisely, as everyone has already said. he contributed to the bias-by-proxy section which we found to be so important to this work. and also i want to acknowledge the role of the community members and angela jenkins sits on so many of these working groups with me and she has always been such a great contributor and sort of my comrade. rahm jones i think represents some of the younger people on our group, and i feel that we need more like rome. he was the one who brought to our attention the twitter feed from the tenderloin police station with the mugshots. and all of our attention became galvanized on that and the bias-by-proxy and the problems wi

the american bar association argued the pandemic has placed severe limitations on barton's representation and ongoing investigations and called on republican governor mike parson to issue a reprieve. there have been no executions in the united states since march 5 as most states have postponed them amid the pandemic. the fbi says it found mobilele phone evidence linking al-qaeda to the deadly shooting at t the naval air station in pensacola, florida, last an audio r recordg december. appears to shohow the group claiming responsilitity r thee attacks according to fbi officials. the shooter, saudi air force officer mohammed alshamrani, killed three sailors and wounded eight others on the base. he had been part of a u.s. navy training program and was killed by law enforcement during the attack.. and california has taken a major step towards eliminating juvenile prisons. governor gavin newsom unveiled last week a state budget to address economic deficits triggered by the coronavirus pandemic that proposes eliminating california's last three state-run juvenile prisons. the proposal also seeks

should tell you justin walker was deemed not qualified for district court judge by the american bar association and now just weeks later, that was his swearing in ceremony to be a district court judge, right? then the pandemic exploded and weeks later mitch mcconnell is trying to put that guy on the appellate court. there is an added wrinkle. mcconnell is said to improperly pressure a judge to ten down to open up that vacancy. the retiring judge denies that but a federal judge asked for a formal investigation, because no amount of human misery and wide spread illness and death and unemployment will stop mitch mcconnell from trying to jam his judges on the federal judiciary. one part to shield republicans from people who do not like what they are doing, one of his toughest enemies in that fight is coming up next. these days staying connected is more important than ever. so we're working 24/7 to maintain a reliable network, to meet your growing internet needs. we're helping customers who are experiencing financial difficulties stay connected. we're increasing internet speeds for low income famili

senator schumer to say he is not qualified this kind of funding, because even the liberal american bar associationut and said that he was more qualified to serve then those three senators saying that it is there golden standard. >> shannon: you know one of the things he is taking a lot of heat for pointing to the decision just a few weeks ago where he authored a decision in kentucky where a number of churches were trying to have drive-in services for easter, and the mayor had said, no, it's not going to happen. he and part in the opinion that he wrote says this, on holy thursday and american criminalize the communal celebration of easter. he went on to talk about characters from the bible and scripture and theology and a lot of people thought that was unnecessary. one professor law professor at of iowa, judges must never allow their personal feelings or attachments, political party, their religious affiliation to influence their decisions. unfortunately justin walker cannot meet that high standard. he is not fit to serve. a lot of his critics not happy about the use of all the religious imagery an

chairman for the washington, d.c., democratic party, an attorney, and former chair of the national bar associationgood to see you, scott. >> scott: good afternoon. >> harris: too heavy but our attorneys on the panel today why does judge sullivan blowing this thing up? we have to hear from this judge gleason to come in and argue against dropping the charges of the former national security advisor. >> jenna: this is an egregious separation of powers problem. the constitution requires, under the separation of powers, that the executive branch is vested solely with the power to execute law enforcement. so the decision whether or not to prosecute criminal charges reside solely with the attorney general. so, this is nothing more than a political stunt by judge sullivan to get politically motivated statements into the record before the case is ultimately dismissed, either by him or on appeal. because we know that's going to happen. there is no other motivation. if he seriously is thinking that he may deny the government's unopposed motion in a criminal case, this would never happen in any other context,

should tell you justin walker was deemed not qualified for district court judge but the american bar association now just weeks later, that was his swearing in ceremony to be a district court judge, right? then the pandemic exploded and weeks later mitch mcconnell is trying to put that guy on the appellate court. mcconnell is said to improperly ask a judge to step down to fill that vacancy. the retiring judge denies that but a federal judge asked for a full investigation because no amount of human misery and wide spread illness and death and unemployment will stop mitch mcconnell from trying to jam his judges on the federal judiciary. one part to shield republicans from people who do not like what they are doing, one of his toughest enemies in that fight is coming up next. toughest enemies in that fight is coming up next. for people living with h-i-v, keep being you. and ask your doctor about biktarvy. biktarvy is a complete, one-pill, once-a-day treatment used for h-i-v in certain adults. it's not a cure, but with one small pill, biktarvy fights h-i-v to help you get to and stay undetectable. t

, the bar association of san francisco. ese fine folks panel with the bar, provide pro bono legal services to social equity applicants. to date about 250 hours have been provided. in addition, our partners at the office of economic workforce development have contracted with a law firm to provide additional pro bono legal assistance, which has started in about january/february, about 50 hours to date, for a total of 300 hours. and in addition, although there aren't events at this time, we did issue a permit for cannabis sales, on-site cannabis sales and consumption at the music festival in golden gate park. this is a part of our pilot program which may be extended on a yearly basis through 2021. with that, i'll kick it back to director rodriguez to close us out. >> thank you so much, jeremy. i want to run through this just quickly. there were some questions on the local level for -- with respect to what is sort of happening during the shelter in place. people want to know whether they can have community outreach meetings. the

however, the bar association monday openly put out a statement saying they are worried about the language used in drafts of the law they have seen already. reuters is citing unidentified people saying the new laws could possibly block foreign judges in hong kong from handling national security trials and that central and security government agencies would set up in hong kong as part of the legislation. there are tentacles that we don't know how far they will reach into hong kong society and the freedoms hong kong enjoys right now, because including carrie lam yesterday not willing to give any details on what is in the drafts of this legislation, which is due to be passed by the national people's congress tomorrow. so it is being fast tracked. shery: our chief north asia correspondent stephen engle with the latest. coming up, we will be joined by hong kong's secretary for justice and also the vice chairwoman of the basic law committee. plus, a veteran pro-democracy member. let's get to first word news. reporter: we started in china were early economic indicators show the country is inching