ninth circuit, we have a favorable circuit court of appeals. and what congress has chosen to do in 2007 and 2008 is propose a structure by which the ninth would be split into the ninth and a new circuit court of appeals. >> i have to ask you to finish. thank you. you can finish your statement if you can and then your time is up. >> very good. the last issue you may wish to consider is appeals would otherwise be considered under another proposal, all to go to the d.c. circuit court of appeals, which has no specialization in immigration. thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker, please? >> geeping, commissioners. my name is bar tholmue murphy. i am the chairman for the year national immigration reform. that brings an irish voice to the immigration reform bedate. as other speakers here, the irish are in real terms a minority in this debate. there are approximately 50,000 undocumented irish throughout the united states. but we are a very vocal minority, and i thought i would share with you some of the things that has wor

francisco's election system has been put under scrutiny and was debated before the 9th circuit court of appeals. it's the same system that propelled jean qan has the surprise winner in the mayoral race in oakland. >>> two of the three judges on the u.s. circuit court of appeals panel are from san francisco. you are familiar with the disputed voting system. since 2004 rank choice system has allowed san francisco voters to pick their top three choices in a race. if no candidate collects a first place ballots the person that comes in last is eliminated and those that chose that candidate had their votes transferred to their second choice or third until someone wins. a recent poll found voert confusion. steven hill the architect of the system, other veas indicate that voters understand. >> that doesn't mean necessarily they could sit down and count the ballots for you, but they understand what they have to do as a voter. that is to rank one, two, three and they feel comfortable doing that. >> ron is trying to outdo rank choice. he was sun unsuccessful candidate for supervisor in 2006. >> i don't be

court of appeal has at its disposal. it would have to be analyzed together with the other factors that we have been highlighting within the court of appeal. it's not judgment day, it is an important try, involving two young people because of some dreadful death of a young woman . it's not judgment day. they have completely different wait, so let's not use these comparisons. her defense counsel said something that was totally legitimate. she lives in the states. unless she is convicted, she will be able to go wherever she wants to. could she leavitt lee immediately if she was acquitted? yes, it is one of her rights. the kerchers have followed the first degree trial, lastly for 10 months. they followed the second degree trial, and i think the trial has been fairer and the kerchers are fully satisfied by what has been done with the judges. i don't think so. i believe that it is a tense time. there are going to be more emotions because they're waiting for the verdict. they have a number of hours to wait for. then the desire i

in 2008 the british columbia court of appeals ruled kelly ellard did not receive a fair trial because of what it called unfair questioning by the prosecution. kelly's latest conviction was overturned allowing the now 25-year-old a fourth trial. her case stands before the supreme court of canada to determine whether another trial is warranted. >> the system is granting her all these options where it's been dragged through the courts

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that we would sue them and we took it all the way to the third district court of appeals in philadelphia. court of appeals in philadelphia reversed the decision and directed it to conduct a do over that do over that the f.c.c. had to hold more public hearings about consolidation they held six between october two thousand and six and november two thousand and seven it was artists google spoke about corporate media popular musicians off the air really is the travesty of it is all these fans and all these people that have grown up in these communities listening to those radio stations it's just gone to me that is just the most anti-american thing i've ever heard of in my life thank you. it's all of. europe. about the demise of independent producers in hollywood however the days of independent producer taking his or her created on a series or movie of the week to completion is a thing of the past in this democrats and republicans joined in opposition to more consolidated media but a competitor can start a local bank or a restaurant you just can't go in and start a radio or t.v. station. beca

. >> reporter: today's decision by the 11th circuit court of appeals in atlanta is temporary. its final decision could be months away. scott, liz betancourt, the woman we interviewed on our story, she was fired by her cleaning company right after she spoke with us. >> pelley: mark, what's coming up next in this court fight. >> well, today's decision conflicts with the ninth circuit court of appeals decision about a similar provision in arizona's law, the provision that focuses on whether a local police agency or state police agency can check the immigration status of someone simply because they're suspected of a crime. because those decisions conflict, legal scholars now say it's much more likely this issue will reach the u.s. supreme court. >> pelley: mark, thanks very much. those protests against wall street are continuing into the weekend all over the country in 103 cities and in 36 states. we have correspondents tonight at three of those protests. first, jim axelrod in new york where a feared confrontation with police today was averted. jim? >> reporter: well, scott, the s

great temperament and is one of the most qualified district court judges in south carolina and will serve the people of the fourth judicial circuit well on the court of appeals. he has the kind of intellect and common sense that i think most people in this part of the country would appreciate having on the circuit court. so i want to thank the obama administration and urge my colleagues to vote for this well-qualified, fine man to go to the first circumstance court of appeals, and he has a lot of bipartisan support at home. everyone that knows judge snrie- judge floyd is a big fan, right, left, center. the issue after this vote is whether or not the senate should proceed to debate legislation that i've offered -- authored with senator schumer and others dealing with the currency exchange practices of the communist dictatorship of china. i've been involved in this now for almost seven years. we've done a sense of the senate resolution back in 2004, i believe it was, urging the chinese to change their currency policy. what does this mean to the average american? the exchange rate today is 6.3 6.38yuan to the dollar. when you look at the dollar to the uro, i do

. >>> today san francisco's ninth circuit court of appeals will hear oral arguments in the case of aan accused of shooting giffords. jared loughner's attorneys are contesting a ruling that would sent him back to a missouri prison facility for more psychological treatment. the 23-year-old has pleaded not guilty to the january rampage, which killed six and injured 13 others. >>> former alaska governor sarah palin says she is getting calls from republican presidential candidates now that she has decided not to run for the white house. she announced her decision yesterday during an interview with conservative radio host mark levin. she cited family considerations and said she can still effectively promote her agenda without that presidential title. >> 4:52 now. within the past hour, a swedish poet has won the nobel prize for literature. the swedish academy made the announcement in stock home. the winner, 80-year-old thomas transtromer. the academy said through his condensed translucent images he gives us fresh access to reality. his work has been translated into more than 50 languages. >

appeal. i guess they will have to wait for some time. >> the procedure now is that the courts have 90 days to draw up its review of the evidence. and the first trial, it was 400 pages. it will probably be less this time. the prosecution will have 45 days in which to appeal. the of party outlined the grounds on which they will appeal. they will -- that have already outlined the grounds on which they will appeal. they will argue that the experts were incompetent. they did not do their work properly. that is one of the arguments they bring up to the supreme court. >> just talking to the author of -- of the "sunday times" journalist. this case is absolutely gripped italy, the u.k., the united states. russian television is even here as well. [shouting] lawyeraele sollecito's [unintelligible] >> he does not speak english. >> he is being insulted by the crowd. >> he is being insulted by the crowd. >> it is a very closed town. it has no interest in this town. the people were very angry with the italian papers. that is the first time i've seen this square filled with people, most of them very angry. >> [inaudible] a bit of a media circus

it has been widely recognized, as justice sotomayor mentioned, by the courts of appeals going back years. so, we can see how the recognition of this exception within -- with certain contours has worked out. and how has it worked out over those past years? have there been a great many cases, a significant number of cases, involving the kinds of things that justice sotomayor is certainly rightly concerned about, instances in which ministers have been fired for reporting criminal violations and that sort of thing? mr. laycock: the only -- i'm not aware of any such case. the one case i am aware of cuts the other way. a minister, a priest accused of sexually abusing children who was fired, sued to get his job back, and the church invoked the ministerial exception, and that case ended. they were able to get rid of him. there's a cert petition pending in which a teacher with a long series of problems in her school called the police about an allegation of sexual abuse that did not happen at the school, did not involve a student of the school, did not involve a parent at the school, someplace els

of u.s. to step out there's nobody else to step and we have three retired. supreme court justices now in all of our courts of appeals and district courts those who devotee of the status can step in and there's been a refusal how would you feel if true about allowing the supreme court justices to step in if there's a recusal? who's going to the former supreme court justice. just to step in. i don't think that would make anybody happy i don't know that don't need anybody happy if it is for-for if we can stumble along the way we are your getting the reaction you don't change anything i haven't really thought that went through. senator lee, thank you very much. >> i don't think it's much of a problem, senator. these are very few cases that we ever by an equally divided, how many? thank you. senator lee petraeus bixby for the justice scalia it is an honor to have you here today. justice scalia i want to follow up on some things you sit in your opening statement. along the lines that it is and probably should be difficult cumbersome time-consuming process in our constitutional republic to enact legislation - the courts ca

of them in federal court. president chiu: final questions to either side of this appeal? seeing none, at this hearing is closed. these matters are in the hands of the board. i understand the house has changed. supervisor mar: i count nine of us in the room. actually, there are 10 of us. i would like us to continue this for one week, until next tuesday, hoping both sides can get together and discuss some of the offers from verizon for an independent third-party analysis of the gap and the necessity, and also to allow our colleague, ross mirkarimi, to vote on this issue as well. president chiu: that motion is seconded by supervisor avalos. can we do that without objection? this is continued to november 1. is that right? >> at 4:00 p.m. president chiu: thank you, ladies and gentlemen. at this time, why don't we go to our adoption without committee reference calendar? >> these items will be acted upon by a single roll call vote unless a member requests discussion of a matter. president chiu: 24. i will also sever item 26. roll-call vote on the balance? >> items 21, 22, and 23

he had worked for vinson when he was a court of appeals judge. he was a court of appeals judge. they persuaded both simpson and rutledge to take the advantage of the opportunity to hire a new clerk, pursuant to the statute. they persuaded them that two northwestern graduates could be well qualified. the two that were qualified were my good friend art and i. they thought both of us were qualified. and so they, later in the spring, they had a meeting with us at northwestern and told us that they thought the two clerks hips were certainly available. they were not sure which one should go for which the job. they suggested they would like us to make that decision. as it turned out, the clerkship with rutledge was available the following year and the one with vinson the following year. we both felt we were ancient citizens because we had experience in the war and we or older than we thought other graduates might have been before the war. we were both anxious to get into the professional world, and the rutledge, we thought it might be better job. we flipped a coin. i won the coin flip.

>> they've been blocked by the court of appeals pending the argumentation of the case on appeal. e district judgeen below allob the provisions to go into effect. effec the court of appeals is temporarily staying it.. they haven't rendered adeci decision. the interesting thing, though, is the argument that the obama administration's justice department is making regardingg the documents. it's been federal law for almosf 60 years that any alien who is in the united states has toes hs carry his documents on him. same thing we have to do. when we go abroad, we have toha carry certain documents with ust saying we're permitted to be ine the country. the justice department argumentt they're trying to find a conflict with federal law because alabama said we'll make it a state misdemeanor if youyo break the federal law. the obama justice department argument is this. r we don't feel like enforcing this federal law. >> they don't say that.la >> they say it in their brief. they say we don't enforce that law vigorously any more, sore therefore, it's inconsistent with -- it's in writing. >> it's