george mason. elbridge gerry edmund randolph. they were from virginia massachusetts and virginia, by the way, the order that i mentioned them, they to side. and one of the big concerns is a lack of a bill of rights. george mason had written virginia declaration of rights. he'd written the freedoms that the people of his state possessed, that the government take away. and there was not a bill of rights in this case that did not spell one out. some of their fellow delegates, like alexander hamilton, thought that a bill of rights could be unnecessary. maybe even dangerous. hamilton says that, you know, this constitution is we the people, giving powers to, the government, not the other way around. that the government cannot take these rights away because we have not given it the ability to do that. he suggests it could be dangerous to suggest there are limits on this, on a bill of writing, a bill of rights suggests other freedoms might be as important, may not be protected, but people are not swayed. a lot of folks agree with george

it's hosted by the george mason and standing scalia law school -- anniston and scully a law school. you can watch that on c-span, c-span now and on c-span.org. taking your calls for the next 20 minutes until the end of the program, stephen is in kentucky, republican. caller: yes. thank you. yes your former person you had on there, he was talking about the insurrection and he left out very important details. number one, donald trump, before the insurrection happened, told the people in washington, who gathered in washington to protest to go home and to be peaceful. that is on videotape. number two, donald trump contacted nancy pelosi and asked her to send troops to protect the capitol. she did not do it. he contacted the mayor of washington and asked her to request troops, she did not do it. other interesting things that were left out of the insurrection investigation was all of these capitol police men ushering people into the white house and these individuals were never brought before the insurrection committee to testify about their ushering into the white house. i mean into the c

coming up saturday morning, george mason university's professor talks about janet yellen's visit to beijinghe state of u.s.-china economic relations. lillian coming him from "the washington post" discusses her podcast field trip about america's national parks. "washington journal." the conversation live at 7 a.m. eastern saturday morning on c-span, c-span now or online at c-span.org. >>

in history from george mason university. yay. and she worked as a documentary editor for the washington and is the editor of a standalone volume called george barbados. diary 1751 to 1752. she's now an editor, the papers of abraham lincoln. she's also the producer of a forthcoming docu called revolutionary it's about the american revolution. but it the one really cool thing about that is, is the only one on this stage who has an imdb. so you get good walking through. google her to see that and so trying on her experience editing martha washington's papers. she'll be speaking briefly about her research on martha washington and then next to lynne to lynn's right, samantha snyder holds in m.a. in history from can we all say now george mason university. okay. and a master of library studies, the university of wisconsin i heard it said here today, i just love this. i think this is like a t-shirt that sam is the loudest anyone has ever met. that's wrong. and every man is. i just think that's lovely compliment that it is. i think that's

the most underrated is actually drawing on is the virginia declaration of penned primarily by george mason, which happened in june of 1776. it also declared all men equal. it uses the phrase, it uses the word happiness of and they didn't mean like, ha ha, i'm happy to. yeah, they meant happiness as in contentment. yeah, satisfying life. you a satisfying like maybe an equality of opportunity. the chance and i and we don't have debate from the second continental congress about the words all men are created equal. we don't know if people said, oh, that's going too far, but we do have some of that evidence when it was discussed in the virginia legislature. sure. and there was some blowback. there was some discussion about what do we mean, enslave people? i mean, what what are we saying here? yeah. and in that particular debate certainly as virginia did and slavery. but decided that they were going to go with this enlightenment sense of i think that was the same decision made by the the second continental congress. jack cove has argued that the authors meant americans as a people were entitled

the most underrated is actually drawing on is the virginia declaration of penned primarily by george mason, which happened in june of 1776. it also declared all men equal. it uses the phrase, it uses the word happiness of and they didn't mean like, ha ha, i'm happy to. yeah, they meant happiness as in contentment. yeah, satisfying life. you a satisfying like maybe an equality of opportunity. the chance and i and we don't have debate from the second continental congress about the words all men are created equal. we don't know if people said, oh, that's going too far, but we do have some of that evidence when it was discussed in the virginia legislature. sure. and there was some blowback. there was some discussion about what do we mean, enslave people? i mean, what what are we saying here? yeah. and in that particular debate certainly as virginia did and slavery. but decided that they were going to go with this enlightenment sense of i think that was the same decision made by the the second continental congress. jack cove has argued that the authors meant americans as a people were entitled

and in the end, they say, thanks, george mason, but you know, no thanks. and and he's one of the three people who votes now. so so this was a big mistake this gene. it almost dooms ratification when the two biggest objects in the constitution, congress is too small and there's no bill of rights. so how do these geniuses miss it? if you're a small d democrat, as am i, this is about we the people, about ratification, about the of crowds that on some things, a whole bunch of people, none of whom is a genius, may actually outperform albert einstein or ben franklin. small group of people can make a mistake. there's wisdom in the people. maybe not the first time around. you know. and if we keep voting for trump, it's on us. okay, but so. but in the end, the idea is democracy. may make mistakes, but they'll correct them. and there's wisdom in the people. it's called famously the condor says jury theorem, the war people. if you want to figure out how many jellybeans are in a jar or how big a heifer weighs at the county fair, you could ask smartest scientist you kn

washington, dc, jim, a rebirth associate professor of political science and latin american studies at george mason university. you are joining us from washington. as i mentioned a warm welcome to all of you. look, the 1st question may be the hardest. i want to ask all of you just to see where you stand on this. what is the main reason for the dysfunction the level of this function that we are seeing and peru now? and the reason i ask you this is the country is onto its 6 president in 5 years, and the polling tells us the peruvians hate every thing and everyone, the president congress, everything. all right, so let's start with just one. from all of you, the top reasons for this dysfunction follow well, i see a main message in the, in the mouse, in the method of payment of precedent. dino and washer was we have space time to say, i'm goes to 2026 and she fresh uh, i know something darcy, but he's supported by a 9 percent out from susan benson alliance between castell, smarty and bloody names are wrong. the stream left on the stream, right. and, and which is based on an, i mean most, you see, i mean

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so we're going to meet those men that brian talked about, we're going to meet george mason, edmund randolph, elbridge, gerry, these men who really kind of folded their arms, turned up their noses at the constitution and really insisted on that bill of. so join us next week. it's going to be a really fun virtual tour and we're so excited that you you joined in and that you were able to hang out with us today. of course, next week is bill of rights week or bill of rights day falls next week. so you're going to see brian and i again and we're going to have a lot of fun. but again, a huge thank you for all of you tuning in. brian, thank you for sharing your time and expertise. this has been so much fun and everybody give yourselves around applause. you are all bill of rights rock stars so well you good job. thank you so much. thank you for hosting trivia game, madison. i feel like i did pretty i love it. it a good game. all right. we'll see you all time by good afternoon, ladies. gentlemen, welcome to historic st john's church, a national historic landmark and welcome to our liberty or death re

he is a professor of law at george mason university and a beacon of simon chair in constitutional studies at the cato institute. he's authored severales books including free to move. next, kit taintor is a vice president of policy and practice at welcome .us. previously she led colorado's refugee resettlement program as state ready chordata. and finally adam cox on the end is the robert professor of law at nyu, and his recent book with christine rodriguez is the president and immigration law. so first let's please welcome ilya somin. [applause] >> thank you to david and the cato institute for organizing this event, and to all of you for coming, despite the fact it is the last day of the supreme court termre and, therefore, the are lots of is almost equally important stuff going on in various policy areas, but this issue actually is extremely important in terms of its scale, and the issues involved. in the long run it may be even more significant than the $430 billion loan forgiveness plan that then supreme court struck down today, because it involves many hundreds of thousands of people.

i taught constitutional law at george mason. i specifically taught a seminar on the legislative process. hearing her, i actually feel dumber than i did before ever learning anything about the constitution and the supreme court. you do not change the rules of the court system because you are unhappy with the outcome. that is what banana republics do. our founders gave us an independent court so that political pressures had no bearing on their ability to discern what the law actually is and uphold our constitution. >> i want to see aoc issue a subpoena on justice cavanaugh. i want to see how that goes down. are you kidding me? because they don't like the ruling they will issue a subpoena to yank it in front of a political body? she doesn't quite understand how the constitutional thing and separation of powers works. >> i would just say this. bless her heart. you really cannot be this stupid by accident. >> fair enough. stay with me here. i want to move on to the courts of affirmative action which was pivotal. it is causing liberal

first we have a professor of law at george mason university and a chair in constitutional studies athe cato institute. he is the author of several books. next, the vice president of policy and practice at welcome. u.s. she led colorado's refugee program and estate refugee coordinator. finally, adam cox, a professor of law at nyu, and his recent book with christina rodriguez is "the president and immigration law." let's welcome elia. [applause] >> thank you to david and the cato institute for organizing this event and to all of you for coming despite the fact that it is the last day of the supreme court term, and therefore there are lots of other equally important stuff going on in policy areas, but this issue is extremely important in terms of its scale and the issues it evolved -- involved. it would be more significant than the loan forgiveness plan the supreme court struck down today, because it involves many hundreds of thousands of people, so i will very briefly talk about the structure of these programs at the start, because david has largely already covered that. that i will ta

i want to acknowledge rachel, who is in internet george mason. and lindsay is a robbins graduate, works at my senate. give lindsay a big round. [applause] here is a little known secret about virginia. virginia has one of the most active space programs of any state because there is a nasa facility operated by nasa, but also in tandem with the commonwealth of virginia on wallace island. does anybody know where wallace's? it is nourishing configured if you would past will over there. for decades, this has been a site that has been launches into the atmosphere or beyond. it is not know as well as the other facilities because they are not man's branches. they are very frequent watches. i was there 2 fridays ago. they did a lodge of iraq [. i hope you have a chance. the pace of launches is picking up because it is not only nasa missions, but it is a program called the antares program run by -- northern virginia. brockett labs is a new zealand company that uses the launchpad's. there are are the defense and until launches that take place there. if even

mary ellen o'toole, former fbi profiler and director of forensic sciences at george mason university. thank you for joining us. we could be seeing the suspect any moment now in the next hour it is expected this court appearance will happen. what do you believe was the break in this case after all these years? >> my sense is that because this is really such a bold move on the part of the police, a move of confidence, that somehow dna has got to be a part of this, that through some type of dna they were able to link him to one or more of the cases. the confidence level suggests a dna link. >> rich: and police are taking the vehicle away in massapequa park. mary ellen, we have not heard much as far as more victims in more than ten years. is it common for serial killers, if not caught, to go underground for a period of time? >> we are learning more about that since the 1980s when we had most serial killers really active, and we now know that that does happen. used to think that they did not burn out, that there weren't other life experiences that prevented them from killing, and now we se

former senior director of the white house situation room, and director of the hayden center at george masonnelson is also back with us now. i hate to belabor the point, larry, but just the notion that they don't know who brought in something like this, if it had been something else, is cause for concern for many people. but just talk -- to us for a second. walk us through these cubbies, they are talking, about where this was located, even came to be in the white house. >> so, there have always been cubbies, lockers to put phones and electronic devices before you would go into a secure portion of the white house, like the situation room and some of the offices of the national security council. at some point during the trump administration, these cubbies had been inside the doorways of the situation room, some time during the trump administration, they decide to put more cubbies on the outside of the situation room to try to encourage people to not bring them into the scif even accidentally. it was reinforced after omarosa was caught using a recording device in the situation room to record, i

we all receive the same number of emails that push back against coverage. 11% according to george mason that are dismissive. but you are far more likely to write in when you don't approve of something that is happening. i get that. they are the loud minority. but a lot of what they're giving us in return, photoshopped graphs, poorly done at that, and they are quoting self-proclaimed experts that they are an expert in climate change. in reality, that no background in the subject matter but yet they are getting hundreds of retweets because it follows that ideology. it would be like asking airline pilots and talking about your cholesterol because your cardiologist said you have high cholesterol but you're trusting the judgment of a pilot. the logic blows my mind that i can have an eight year college background between my undergraduate degree and masters degree but this person, this self-proclaimed person holds more weight because it follows their beliefs and ideology and not the science data. amy: chris, are not the only one. in 2006, dr. heidi cullen of the weather channel urged other tv

job and owns an expensive car or truck our next guest is fbi senior profiler, mary o'toole at george mason university. it seems like that profile seems to fit the suspect. how common is it for serial killers to have a spouse, to have a family, to have kids? >> we have many cases where the serial killers have families and they have children and they have jobs that they have held down for years. and his disability to live a normal lifestyle when they are not out killing that allows them to fly under the radar screen for years. so we used to have a theory in the unit that if some cases go unsolved for a long time, we are probably looking for someone that is living that pro social life and appears to be a very normal to friends, neighbors, and family members. >> you just heard from the attorney in the press confidence. the suspect compulsively searched for images of victims and their family, was trying to locate members of the family, taunting at least one family member. contacted by someone claiming to be the killer. these were the same person, what drives that sort of compulsion? >> well, th

the new york times wrote an article a couple days ago suggesting that george mason law school was up to an effort to take over the court by lavishing them with trips, influencing their decision-making process by sponsoring trips overseas while they were on break the new york times did not tell us about justice sonia mayer traveling to florence, italy. they did not tell us about efforts justice kennedy took a three-week multi trip to austria, san francisco, as, burn colorado, and the university of the pacific. justice sotomayor and justice ginsburg traveled to florence, italy and new york university. justice jackson was reimbursed by the university of california berkeley in 2016 and 2014 for traveling to that institute. chief justice roberts was reimbursed for traveling to london to teach class on history the supreme court, the students of the new england school law. universities throughout the country have been paying for trips of justices. if he read the new york times, you wouldn't know that, would you? i can't say i read the new republic, this is the headline. democrats need -- th

first we have ilya somin, professor of law at george mason university and a chair of constitutional studies at the cato institute. use the author of several books including free to move. next, kit taintor's vice policy of practice at welcome. us, she led colorado efforts refugee resettlement program as state refugee coordinator. finally, adam cox is the robert h himmler professor of law at nyu and his recent book with christina rodriguez is the president and immigration law. first let's please welcome ilya somin. [applause] >> thank you for organizing this event, and to all of you for coming despite the fact that it's the last day of the supreme court term and almost equally important stuff is going on in various policy areas but this issue actually is extremely important in terms of its scale and the issues involved. in the long run it may be more significant than the $430 billion loan forgiveness plan that the supreme court struck down today because it involves many hundreds of thousands of people. i will very briefly talk about the structure of these programs at the start because david i

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joining us to discuss, former fbi profiler and director of the forensic science program at george mason university, dr. mary ellen o'toole. we also have with us legal analyst joey jackson. dr. o'toole, good to see you again. based on the details of the suspect and details of housewife he allegedly murdered his victims, binding them at the head, midsection, and legs, according to the d.a., as a profiler, what do you think motivated him to commit these heinous acts of violence based on -- i understand that we're just getting the information now. based on what you've heard so far, what do you think his motivation could have been? >> so with a complicated case like this there's never just one motive. this is a serial sexual killer. these crimes were done for sexual purposes. if you break out the elements of the case like the bondage on the victims and then we know after the fact that he would call and -- call the families' he's. -- families' homes. it does seem to be some sadism involved. the autopsy will bring that out during the trial or court proceedings. the acts of how he treated the v

joined now by sherrilyn ifill who leads the law and democracy center at howard university, and george mason university professor jennifer mascott, a former clerk for both clarence thomas and brett kavanaugh. thank you both for being here. big picture looking at this term, this was really a defining moment in some case -- in some sense for the trump court. three trump justices. >> yes, it was. i mean, i think this is what we expected from these justices. we all knew these cases wither coming through the pipeline, and what this court has shown since these justices joined the court is a really aggressive approach to dismantling core and critical issues that have been championed on the progressive left, and that are really part of the infrastructure of our country, our kind of post-civil rights country. they're moving quickly. i think they're moving in some ways, in a manner that actually undercuts their legitimacy, and they are taking steps at a time when our country is deeply divided, that i think will result in further division. i think this affirmative action decision is disastrous, is a mi

coming up saturday morning, george mason university, they will talk about janet yellen's visit to beijing. then in our spotlight segment, lillian cunningham from "the washington post" discusses her podcast "field trip" about america's national parks. join the conversation live on saturday morning on c-span, c-span now or online at c-span.org >> some 1966 until 1976 china experienced a cultural revolution then during that time millions were killed. sunday on q&a the guardian newspaper editorial writer and former china correspondent can branigan shares her book read memory which profiles several people that were targeted during this period. mao had begun to move against the people in the party that he wanted out of the way. he also issued a notification that told people within the top ranks of the party, i believe week -- we have been corrupted and we have revisionists within the rank that we have to root out and this is a problem that goes through society and cultural and there has to be a fundamental change. the red guard which had begun to stand up rather tentatively were given the mark

she received her bachelor's degree from the university of buffalo and a lot degree from george mason. our next witness will be vice chair been hovland who was confirmed in 2019, before joining the commission, he spent several years working here at the rules committee. thank you for that, first four leader schumer, and then for senator klobuchar. and served as deputy counsel for the missouri secretary of state. he received his bachelors degree from central arkansas and from the university of oregon. our third witnesses commissioner tom hicks, who joined the commission in december of 2014. and prior to his current role, commissioner hicks service counsel for the committee on house administration. and work for common cause, and the office of personnel management in the clinton administration. he received his bachelors degree from clark university, and his law degree from catholic university of america. our final witness's commissioner donald palmer, confirmed in january 2019. commissioner palmer previously served as secretary of the virginia state board of elections as the director of el

professor jennifer mascot is an assistant professor of law at the antonin scalia law school, george mason university, and the co-director of the sea board and great center for the study of administrative state. professor mascot writes and teaches in the areas of constitutional, law administers above law, and the separation of powers and federal courts. professor mascot previously -- u.s. justice department and deputy assistant attorney general within the departments office of legal counsel during the trump administration. professor mascot also clerked for justice clarence thomas and before, that then judge, brett kavanaugh. professor james sample is a professor of law at the maurice 18 school of law and huff strut university. professor sample is an expert on the law of judicial, recusal elections, and the internet action of campaign finance and traditional ethics. he's the co-author of a leading text on judicial ethics and has written numerous articles on the history of and issues related to judicial recusal. professor sample previously served as an attorney in the democracy program at th

police germany, but is associate professor of political science unless the american studies at george mason university. she's also the office of political violence and the photos heavy and states improve silencing civil society. she's joining us now from washington d. c. very good to have you with us on audra 0. didn't about the warranty has called for a great national reconciliation. do you think she's going to get it? oh, i do not think she has the legitimacy to achieve such a goal. this is john. unfortunately, i think we've got a few problems. uh technically a weighs uh june but we will of course, try and get it back later on in the program. if we can, in the meantime, we're gonna move on. the russian president vladimir putin says initiatives presented by african leaders in china could be a basis for peace. speaking of moscow, after meeting african hands of state, prudent said some of the steps proposed by them. what already implemented, but others required action from keith. so just now you should control the things that are virtually impossible to implement. it's like a cx 5, but the c

she taught as a professor at the antonin law school at george mason university, and while there started the center for study of the administrative state. now named the c boyden gray center for the study of the administrative state. she is a widely published scholar on the subjects of constitutional law and administrative law. and she may now even be said to be dipping into natural law in her scholarship, which we wholly support. she clerked for both judge justice clarence thomas at the u.s. supreme court and judge harvie wilkinson on the u.s. of appeals for the fourth circuit. she is a graduate of the university of chicago law and yale university. now back to professor arcus, one jurist who read advanced copy of mere natural law remarked that it's professor arcus, quote, most accessible to date, which i'm sure that jurist meant as a compliment and not a knock on his earlier works. mere natural is his first book not published under an academic press. so i think that jurist remark might have more to do with how from the bottom up, this book really is. it takes its readers on a tour demons

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my guess is from the george mason university center, a senior research fellow. welcome to the program. guest: thank you for having me. host: janet yellen is in china right now. what is the objective of the trip. guest: this particular trip, i think the objective change from the the goal has changed from the past. now it is about managing expectations, not getting the worst outcome. host: how did things get this bad with china to begin with? there is a lot happening. the secretary of state went to china. guest: i think things have not looked too good in the last several years now. in the past i thought the u.s. approach to engaging with china is more the romantic version, hoping when we trade with china, things eventually will be fine. china may become a more open society. the united states has been hoping for that for decades since china joined in 2000. it turns out it is not becoming that way. china has had more economic trade activities with more foreign countries, but in terms of how much china is integrated in the global economy, abiding by the rules of inte