representatives of the fair sex pigtails, now and then, flicker at the faculty of communications and the general litigation's voices can already be heard at the faculty of air defense for a long time women serve on an equal footing with men in almost all specialties. and the fact that the military academy is also increasing recruitment of uh, girls. this is exactly in line with these global trends that are taking place today, i am absolutely sure that our hmm girls who are now undergoing training are only a smaller number have been trained before. now there are a few more of them. they have always shown very high results, and as a rule, they have always been and remain leaders in their studies. yes, i’ll even tell you that it’s always noticeable when a male colleague type comes to a girl’s platoon to study. then the guys begin to behave in a different way, they don’t take care of themselves anymore. and they understand that there is a girl next to them and behave somehow not quite like that. mm. can't be adequate. you must always see and understand that a representative is next to you. female officers from

the circuieloped the rogers tt to protect exessive works generally and it keeps thehrt of litigation from silencing speech that's particularly true when celebrities go after parodies. the solicitor general agrees the multifactor test is usually applied doesn'tork for parodies and the district court must apply the factors here. broadly the test ttas your project speech like holocaust nce or michelob magazine is broken. a test that requires snificant resources to vindicate obvious. he is like al qaeda or holocaust is simply the wrong tool for the job. if the court is inclinedhe solicitor general's position the court should provide more guidance than simply keep that parody in mind. it was a burden of litigating the irrelevant or inverted factors of self. stripping out those factors the lost version would ask three questions. can they see the product's character that's taken from campbell. to what is t proximity of the competitivenes of the parties goods? that is taken from the sndards testing third does the parody otherwise fail the parody mark. whether denying the free pass but fundame

thrust of at least the beginning of the justice department investigation, a lot of that is generated by litigation over his divorce from his wife and the financial information that came out of that whole litigation. they know they're playing with fire here. it is very hard to understand. >> bill: see what the judge says here. i believe turley thinks to do a plea deal might be the best option for him and the family. over the weekend ron johnson was talking about antony blinken. under oath he was asked whether or not he exchanged emails with hunter biden. under oath he denied that and now we have this evidence that they've been in contact for years. here is ron johnson on sunday with maria. >> he said he did not email hunter biden. now we have those emails. we also know his wife using her private email address when she was an employee of the state department was a conduit between her husband and hunter biden as well. i think there is so much more to uncover here. he needs to be subpoena. they must preserve their personal emails. we need to show how corrupt these individuals are. >> bill: what blinke

special offramp at the beginning of litigation because it might be expenseo litigate the defense you would like to rai a i think in general the cost of litigating a trademark infrgent for not a compelling reason to displace the statutory standd with the rogers standard that isn't itse bed on trama law or established first amendment principles. the other thing i would point out on the briefinonhe other side there is a possibility or threat of abusive litigation cts that could have gone confusing us the marks and i think the congress already addressed that by some extent provinfor fee shifting that is itself an unusu fture in federal law in an appropriate case the district court that found a caswabrought in bad faith but shows it's not confusing, you could order attorneys fees into that serves as a detrent to some extent. >> some of the hypotheticals and acal cases are highlighted in the briefing of the case do seem to me to present serious first amendment issues. you seem not to be very concerned about the free speech implications of the positions that you are taking. here's another example, this is a real-life example tha

attorneys generals, many to litigation, but are involved in fighting relegation's for years, but always seem to be -- i don't want to use the word special interest -- it was a particular small subset of folks that were experiencing the thrust f the federal government's regulation. then, covid came along. the average person, all across the country, was suddenly woken up, and found out that wow the federal government can do this, until my kids to do that. i never knew this existed. maybe, general carr you can start. 1 that is -- >> that is why we call him the old guy. >> talk about how the covid shut down and the -- all of the regulations that came pressing down from a high, the litigation that you advocated for friedman, how does that affect the state will even? >> we only shut down 11 subsets of the economy for a short period of time. we opened up early and got a lot of criticism. the approach that we took in the state was this, we wanted to protect people's health and we wanted to protect the economy, recognizing that it certainly would be tragic if anybody got covid and passed away, s

in the matter of anticipated litigation, the board by a vote of 7 yeses, gave direction to the general council. in matter of anticipated litigation, mw verses sf, a vote of six yeses and one recusal from commissioner fisher, the board gives direction to general counsel. with that, that concludes -- that concludes our report from closed session. and we will move into our next item, which is item d. our student delegate farewell. i'll pass it to staff to present. >> hi, everyone. i'm mary kate rossy and i manage and manage the student advisory council and supporting the student delegates and we, i wanted to give, to honor them and give a special farewell since tonight is their last board meeting with us. both isabella hanson and cal kinoshita will be graduating next week and leaving us for college. [applause] and just want to give such a thank you for both of your hard work and all of the input you have given both to the student advisory council and here on the board and we want to, honor what both of you will be doing so i hope i don't get this incorrect. cal will go to the university o

. >> in one matter of anticipated litigation, the board gave direction to general counsel. hold on one moment, please. >> in the matter -- sorry for the pause. in the matter of anticipated litigation, the board gave direction to general counsel. that is going to conclude our report from closed session at this time. thank you so much. we'll transition to our next set of agenda items. >> okay, sorry about the confusion. we will provide an additional report out from closed session on one matter which is student ec versus sfusd and the board by a vote of seven yeses give the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount in that matter. we wanted to make sure we document that as well out of closed session. thank you for that. with that, we will move forward with our agenda to our consent calendar. we will at this time see if there are any public comment on the items that are on the consent calendar. if there are, we will make sure we have those cards and we'll take public comment. one thing i will also just highlight for this special meeting workshop is that we wil

. >> in one matter of anticipated litigation, the board gave direction to general counsel. hold on one moment, please. >> in the matter -- sorry for the pause. in the matter of anticipated litigation, the board gave direction to general counsel. that is going to conclude our report from closed session at this time. thank you so much. we'll transition to our next set of agenda items. >> okay, sorry about the confusion. we will provide an additional report out from closed session on one matter which is student ec versus sfusd and the board by a vote of seven yeses give the authority of the district to pay up to the stipulated amount in that matter. we wanted to make sure we document that as well out of closed session. thank you for that. with that, we will move forward with our agenda to our consent calendar. we will at this time see if there are any public comment on the items that are on the consent calendar. if there are, we will make sure we have those cards and we'll take public comment. one thing i will also just highlight for this special meeting workshop is that we wil

if congress passes this bill, we are going to see a generational landslide of litigation of the concept like critical trading partner, fair and neutral tracking, preferences to a digital product. the mechanism of enforcement is the same as antitrust. we will see these actions brought by agencies moving through the same pace but doing less good. >> 133 years later we are arguing over the meaning of things enacted in 1890. >> we developed over time a sound understanding of what they mean. >> with exploratory litigation it would be good to fund the education of the lawyers everywhere but could create chaos. to take a fraction of the money to support the antitrust enforcement. >> let's talk about the of course banned dominant app stores from using this. would this bring more competition to that space? this is promoting the platform competition so if you take away the power of an app store with market or monopoly power to say to the developers don't offer a better price elsewhere. if you take away their ability to do that then suddenly the developers can sponsor competition against the app s

attorney and required to advise the attorney general of any significant developments in sensitive litigationr a sensitive investigation. and clearly the investigation of a former president is a sensitive investigation. so significant developments would include things like a charging decision. so it's not as though he will go to the grand jury, he'll seek an indictment, he'll return, it'll go to court, and then he'll say, hey, merrick garland i did this thing you've probably already heard about. if he were to think special counsel jack smith's recommendations were so unwarranted and inappropriate, garland could overrule them. if he were to, he'd have to give notice to congress he was going to do that. you made it clear he was going to give jack smith leeway to operate independently just like he gave durham leeway to operate independently. but he will be aware of this, and this may be one reason why trump's lawyers are essentially appealing if that is the case to merrick garland. >> interesting. so there's -- there may be more happening behind the scenes than there -- well, there always is whe

>> well, we're still in litigation with the after-school satan clubs. >> lawrence: just schools in generalls in general what do you seek to do in schools all across america? no, sir specifically in that case. >> i won't speak to the issues what we do in schools if we are going to have a discussion about litigation that nobody wants to have. i have 787.5 million questions for you. but i can speak about the satanic temple in general. >> lawrence: i mean, i saw you guys ripping up the bible, what is your objective with people in general, i assume you would be doing the same thing with children with the consent of their parents? >> this discussion has nothing to do with the after-school satan clubs, just to make clear. i can talk about the overall objectives -- as i said earlier to your producers coming on the show, the after school satan clubs are currently in litigation and i'm not speaking about those. >> lawrence: just tell me about what you believe. >> all right. well we believe in individual liberty and personal autonomy. we believe in real religious liberty and we believe in free expres

general for over three years. before his distinguished career as a litigator, he clerked for justice lauren silverman for the u.s. court of appeals the d.c. circuit and for just an incident scalia and served as chief counsel of the u.s. senate subcommittee on the constitution, federalism, and property rights. the honorable edward meets the third award is told -- bestowed by our organization annually was upheld the rule of law in adverse political challenges was given to paul this year to receive the award because he has twice shown them compliance with a prestigious law firm when the leftist mob demand he dropped a client who no longer deserve his representation. an ethical lawyer would remain loyal to his clients as paul has done but we all know that is not an is a choice to make particularly in today's overheated and vitriolic environment. in 2011, paul resigned from king and spalding when it decided to abandon its representation of the house of representatives as they sought to defend the defense of marriage act. paul wrote to the firm, representation should not be abandoned because a client's legal position i

in the matter of anticipated litigation, the board by a vote of 7 yeses, gave direction to the general council. in matter of anticipated litigation, mw verses sf, a vote of six yeses and one recusal from commissioner fisher, the board gives direction to general counsel. with that, that concludes -- that concludes our report from closed session. and we will move into our next item, which is item d. our student delegate farewell. i'll pass it to staff to present. >> hi, everyone. i'm mary kate rossy and i manage and manage the student advisory council and supporting the student delegates and we, i wanted to give, to honor them and give a special farewell since tonight is their last board meeting with us. both isabella hanson and cal kinoshita will be graduating next week and leaving us for college. [applause] and just want to give such a thank you for both of your hard work and all of the input you have given both to the student advisory council and here on the board and we want to, honor what both of you will be doing so i hope i don't get this incorrect. cal will go to the university o

and initiated litigation where warranted. republican attorney generals are defending americans from these global elites and radical g.s.e. advocates. we appreciation the attention of this committee and members of congress are giving to e.s.g. this conversation and debate is one that must be returned to you, our nation's policymakers. thank you for the time and being here today. >> thank you, general reyes. chairman comer, ranking member, and members of the committee. thank you for letting me testify before you on e.s.g. factors are distorting our fangs systems and harming consumers and working class americans. >> it involves some of the biggest and most powerful players in the global economy forcing costly operational changes on american companies in pursuant of the 2025 pairs -- paris agreement goals. these goals have never been adopted by congress. but contemplate changes to our way of life that are far-reaching and fundamental. these changes involve balancing tradeoffs. how quickly or slowly the government imposes new technologies and how reliable of

we have an opportunity not only through litigation, also through you the you power given to attorneys generalrotect consumers to not only highlight the agenda but make sure congress has the opportunity to be able to act. maria: the wind farms are creating havoc. we'll talk about that tomorrow. we'll talk about what the wind farms are reportedly doing to our whales. jump in here. >> i have a question. i work with college students and college campuses. what we're seeing now is that esg is being taught in business schools and the practiceses are encouraged. what can we do at the university level to show students that there's a lot more to business than just. esg and dei and all these various issues, that he focus on what will divide the country, focus more on the freedoms and constitutional principles of the country. maria: amen. >> we need to ask the question, what's the purpose in a corporation weighing in on controversial social issues of the time. why should they take positions on abortion, gender identity. what we have to look at are fundamentals of the market. we ought to be able to talk a

litigator for public citizen. now i will turn to senator graham. sen. graham: thank you, mr. chairman. we have former attorney general michael mukasey. judge mukasey served as attorney general of the united states from november 2007 to january 2009 and advised on critical issues of domestic and international law. following his time as attorney general, judge mukasey returned to private practice in new york, focusing primarily on internal investigation and independent border abuse and corporate grievance. from '88 to 2006, judge mukasey served in the southern district of new york and as chief judge in 2000. from '72 to '76 he was district attorney for the southern district of new york. he received his law degree from yale in 1967 and his b.a. from columbia college in 1963. mr. thomas dupree is a partner at gibson dunn & crutcher and shares the nationwide appellate and constitutional law practice group. he is a seasoned litigator before the supreme court. he served as the just- -- at the justice department during the bush administration and served as assistant attorney general for the civil division and became the principal deputy assi

million of public money to pay a settlement resolving litigation between your agency and terminated whistleblowers. >> each was fired after reporting general public hearing wednesday lasted more than three hours. >> and you said of nearly every single person that your team interviewed is part of this process, that nearly every single person expressed fear and concern about retaliation from ken paxton? >> reporter: the testimony by a group of attorneys stunning. >> that is absolutely accurate. >> thank you. >> reporter: describing paxton's el alleged misconduct related to a whistleblower lawsuit he settled in february obligating texas taxpayers, not paxton, to pay the $3.3 million settlement as part of the settlement the texas a.g. issued an apology, but that doesn't constitute admission of liability. >> definitely looks like ken paxton trying to deflect his own problems on to the speaker of the house. >> reporter: after the hearing the mudslinging continued. paxton calling the house speaker the "l" word, saying feelin is a liberal. disenfranchising voters. phelan saying the attorney general has abused his powers for personal gain and exhib

litigator before the supreme court. he served at the justice department during the bush administration and served as assistant attorney general for the civil division and became the principal deputy assistant attorney general. he was responsible for managing the government's most significant cases involving constitutional matters, the white house, and senior federal officials. he has testified before congress on constitutional matters numerous times. he is a graduate of williams college and university of chicago law school, where he served as editor of the "university of chicago law review." he clerked for judge jerry smith on the u.s. court of appeals. sen. durbin: after the witnesses are sworn in, they will have five minutes to make a presentation and members will have five minutes to ask, and i ask the witnesses to stand and raise your right hand. do you affirm the testimony you are about to give is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you god? let the record reflect that all five witnesses have answered in the affirmative. the witnesses will be called in the order they are seated. the first will

republican attorney general are fighting back to protect consumers from harm caused by wealth esg policy. commented on pro policy proposals do not violate the law and initiate litigation were warranted. republican attorney general's are projecting from these global elites and activists. we appreciate the attention is committee members of congress are giving to esg this conversation and debate is one that must be returned to you our nation's policymakers. mr. chairman thank you for the time being here today. >> thank you general. texture macomber ranking member basket members of the committee thank you for inviting me too testify before you on this important issue whether environmental social government or esg factors are distorting our financial system and harming consumers and working class americans. esg involves of the biggest and most powerful players in the global economy forcing costly operational changes on american companies in pursuit of the 2015 paris agreement goals. schools have never been adopted as yet by congress to contemplate changes to our way of life that are far-reaching and fundamental, when effective than from how we grow our food and how we powe

litigate? >> neil, now you're really ask ago tough question. this is a really good point. generally of limitations means you have a certain number of years to sue when something has happened thou is a good idea. after a certain amount of time pass, witnesses lose their memories, evidence disappears or was never collected in the first place. so in this case, new york reopened or extended that period for these kinds of sexual harassment cases. that is not i don't think a winnable issue on appeal. because it has happened in the past and the courts have allowed it. on the other hand, we all understood and the judge would have instructed here that that should make it harder for the plaintiff to win their case. that they have an extra burden to bring more witnesses, more evidence to bear because exactly it was so long ago. if the plaintiff wasn't able to do that, the jury is not supposed to find on her behalf. yet, i think here if jury, again, decided unanimously in three hours and giving out $5 million in damages seems to have found her credible and persuasive and was not really swayed a

the one feature alluded to before about the attorney general making a determination of willfulness, i don't know that that has ever been litigatedand if it were ever litigated i think it would be found to be unconstitutional. that is not anything that i believe has ever been -- certainly not on the supreme court level. >> thank you. >> the judicial conference of the right thing by strengthening the disclosure requirements that apply judicial offices including the supreme court recently. the supreme court justices are still not bound to the code of conduct as we have been discussing for united states judges unlike all other federal judges, the code requires that a judge uphold the integrity and independence of the judiciary and avoid impropriety and the appearance of impropriety. how is an enforceable code of conduct help to ensure the rules are consistently applied for every other judge in the federal system? >> who was bound to that for 37 years, both are state court judge and federal judge, it really is your northstar. it is what you look at in terms of the values you want to uphold as a judge. it something that guides your co

in this series of cases, she stated, quote, as director of strategic litigation, my responsibility is to oversee and provide general management for our cases, but it is the subject matter experts in the litigation -- and the litigation team that handle the day-to-day, including the filing of complaints, the briefing and any oral arguments. close quote. in response to my question, she refused to be forthright. she didn't deny her oversight of these cases. she simply refused to admit that she was responsible for the strategic decisions that the three alabama federal district courts found so troubling. for lack of candor and her apparent disregard for the protections built into our legal system, disqualify her for a position on the united states court of a appeals for the eleventh circuit. as i asked her about these, about these cases, pointing out only that the date-to-day -- day-to-day litigation management was handled by other attorneys, which was honest, she avoided a direct line of inquiry, a line of inquiry that was very relevant to her nomination to her confirmation process. but, unfortunately, my concerns with

the attorney-client general making a determination of willfulness, i don't know if that is ever been litigated. that is not anything that has ever been tested. sen klobuchar: do judicial conference did the right thing by strengthening the disclosure requirements. the supreme court justices are still not filing to the code of conduct as we have been discussing for united states judges. they require a judge oppose the integrity very and independence of the judiciary and avoid impropriety. how is a forcible code of conduct help to ensure that the rules are consistently applied for every other judge in the system? >> as someone bound to that for 37 years, your willingness is your norstar as far as the values you want to uphold this a judge. it is something that guides your conduct and is something the public can look to and say this is what we expect from our judges. >> which you agree with that if the supreme court does not subject itself to the highest standards it can depreciate its power? >> i agree with that. i think the supreme court, i hope the court will adopt a formal code of conduct. i t

litigating in this space? how can you rely on the supreme court or the court's interpretation of the constitution to support civil rights and liberty generally? what are the limits of court as the arbiter of such rights in the future? carrie, do you want to start us off? >> i could probably talk about this for several hours as i'm sure many of you in the room can. but some quick observations. one is that despite the court announcing it was sending the issue back to the people's representatives, claiming the constitution, particularly justin cavanaugh claimed it was neutral to abortion. we always do our opponents would never stop trying to overturn roe. if the case many of us have been following this year is the hippocratic medicine case which was filed in texas, not withstanding the fact that abortion is banned in texas. it was in amarillo, texas. the goal is to obtain a nationwide ban on a drug that is used in over half of the abortions in this country. it would impact not much in texas but would ban more than half of the abortions performed in the rest of the country. the goal, our opponents made very quickly, since the case was filed in n

in our 2024 budget with the attorney general, i expressed my dismay that while the department is requesting funds to hire hundreds of new attorneys in the litigating division, in headquarters offices, it is proposing to hire only for new dea special agents. that is incredible to me. and it's particularly puzzling in the context of the drug overdose and poisoning crisis. everybody here has experienced record high numbers of people who have lost their lives in their home state. in maine, it is a record 716 people last year, and 80% of the deaths were linked to fentanyl. so last year, congress provided the dea $40 million of the budget request to support. for more than 120 additional new agents. administrator milligram, did you request more agents than were granted to you? >> senator, if i could start by thanking traditional $40 million last year. it's been incredibly important for transportation at the a. i believe that this year because we have not yet hired those agents, we would be on board 131 agents. 41 intelligence analysts, but certainly we can do more with more. >> thank you. >> thank, you senator peters. director wray, according to reportin

. >> speaker: good afternoon, i'm jeff and i'm the director of housing and litigation at the aids legal panel and our general right to council program. first i want to thank the supervisors for no proposed cuts this year. i want today offer a quick comment in response to the 3.7 million in undesignated cuts this year. the aids and other nonprofits receive a number of grants, these grants fund a number of programs that our organization including employment and immigration and preeviction housing services. if we were to see a cut in these areas, it would severely affect the cuts. if they don't have legal services, they cannot work and pay their rent. so this is tied to keeping people housed. thank you. >> thank you so much for your testimony. next speaker please. >> speaker: good afternoon, i'm janicia and i'm here representing a couple of things. we have a ask within the cho cho budget and. to have an additional 275,000 added to o.c. d added to our work representing veterans in front of legal aids. so the ask is relatively small in that 20 5k a year will leverage about four million dollars for veterans and on

2024 budget hearing with of the attorney general, i express my dismay that while the department is requesting funds to hire hundreds of new attorneys in the litigatingdecisions and trust and headquarters offices it is proposing to hire only for new dea special agents. that is incredible to me and it's particularly in the context of the drug overdose and poisoning crisis that everybody here has experienced record highs in the number of people who've lost their lives in our home states in maine is a record of 716 people last year and 80% of the deaths were linked to fentanyl. so, last year, congress provided $40 million of the president's budget request to support more than 120 additional new agents. administrator, did you request more agents than before that were granted to you? >> if i could start by just thanking you for the additional $40 million last year, it's been incredibly important to our transformation. i believe this year because we have not yet hired to those agents from last year, we would be on boarding 131 agents. fifty day version investigators and 35 intelligence analysts but certainly we can do more with more. >> thank you, senator

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litigation that nobody wants to have. i have seven hundred eighty seven point five million questions for you , but i can speak about the satanithc templi in general. >> yeah, i mean, you i saw you h ripping up the bible. peopl what is your objective with people in general? chmean a, i would assume y'all would be doing the same thing with children with the consent of the parents. nothi >> this discussion has nothingto to do with the after school satan clubs. i just to makecan talk a clear . but i can talk aboutr the overall objectives of this as i as i said earlier to youree producers coming on the show, the afte sr school satan clubs are currently in litigation. and i'm not speaking aboutt those that just just tell me about what you believe. eve >> all right. well, we believe in individual liberty and personal autonomy. we believe in realligious relis liberty and we believe in free expression. and to that end, w we do know that there was before we started this community, we did realize that there was a preexisting community of peoplef pe who felt rejected by traditional religious organizations that are otherwise alienated by them. enatein the emb

generally 24th in january this year i told my wife for two to three year job and i missed that one but when it came out i had a lot of litigation experience which ended up serving pretty well in the office but i didn't know a lot about elections other than voting and turn on the tv and see if you want but i learned quickly running an election is a complicated logistical exercise that requires teamwork top-down from the state of the top of the county all the way down people at the polls and across the whole state whether the state like georgia or california, a conjugated logistic exercise and that's why this is so crucial because it's two things. i want to say voter centric thing to do because it helped make sure when voter shows up to vote, everything is right. you want to show up at the polls and there's wrong information or something because it takes longer for the poll workers, people around it see it and think it's not smooth so the voter centric exercise and a wise man told me this but less maintenance is in franchising because a lot of what you're doing is telling voters hey, here's what we have, it looks like it might be