the field of bioethics and this year the award is going to the professor , a law professor at george mason university. she will be on hand to receive the prize. all of our fellows will be there. paul ramsey institute scholars will be there. it is a gala event. a great way for people to come and learn . to get to meet some really cool young men and women that will change the world. >> it is a dinner and the public is invited. >> yes. >> they can find your website and register and get a table and a ticket. april 4th , diablo valley country club. we would like to run a slide briefly. it will show how you can get in touch. this is your website. i put below the some colleagues are counterparts. what is that? >> national catholic bioethics center, which i believe is in philadelphia. >> i thought washington. >> maybe they moved . >> it is a center like yours on the other coast. catholic in description, catholic in teaching but doing the same kind of work. that is wonderful. i want to encourage people to support your work and to go to the dinner if that makes sense and i would like you to tell us

from jocialg mason university -- george mason university. since 2020, david has served the department of chair of the leisure, ethics and law department, while also working as an adjunct faculty at the george mason university, at the university of maryland, baltimore county, teaching graduate courses. david was a highly decorated veteran, earning the defense meritorious service medal, three navy commendation medals, two navy achievement medals and numerous unit campaign and service awards. in 2022, david received a nomination by l.e.l. department for the usna military professor teaching award, his second meritorious service medal. and his promotion to associate professor. above all, professionally, david loved foresterring the spirit and leadership -- fostering the spirit and leadership in the navy and throughout his community. outside of his career, david loved to pursue his hobbies of sailing, boating and home improvement with his wife, valerie. last december, david tragically lost his two-year battle with cancer. i am grateful for his ser

constitution he drew on his own as some of british america he also drew on his virginia colleague, george mason's declaration of rights, which the virginia legislature had passed in june and which jefferson had a car of and george george mason's declaration of rights had a phrase in it. that's all most familiar, but not in its total holiday, because mason's draft emphasized the life, liberty and the pursuit of property and that is an interesting change that that that is and it is of great interest of course that jefferson and his colleagues changed pursuit of property to pursuit of happiness. jefferson and, his confederate congress colleagues were on the whole not all of them wealthy landowners and slave owners, gun owners, rich people on whole. and so why the change from. property to happiness? why speculation? not a must, but a may as that the emphasis that they wanted, the emphasis to transcend and the limitations of class and social and wealth so on. they wanted it to be a document that didn't express self, a self-serving a but still given, assumed, but not not explicitly self-serving. owners

edmund randolph of virginia an george mason of virginia, one of the most underappreciated of the founders who refused to sign the constitution along the other three because it didn't contain a bill of rights. why not? because james madison, among others, said a bill of rights would be unnecessary or dangerous. unnecessary because the constitution itself is a bill of rights. it gives congress only enumerated powers. and since congress has no power to infringe speech, for example, there's no reason to fear that congress would abridge free speech. and dangerous, madison said, because people might assume that if a right wasn't written down, it wasn't protected. and the framers believed that our rights are so capacious that they come from god or nature, not from government. and to try to reduce them to a single list would be folly. but in the face of objections from the three anti-federalists and also the state ratifying conventions, madison changed his mind. he was a practical politician. he almost lost a house election in virginia, and he came to support the adoption of additional amendments

george mason of virginia. but we do need a military force. unfortunately, i fear the 13 states will never agree separately to one system. so it seems we must give this power of regulation to the federal government authority over the militia, or by no means be taken away from the states. elbridge garry of massachusetts says, and i might add, they'll never give it up. perhaps as a compromise, a small percentage of the militia could be set aside under federal control, with the remainder to be dealt with at the discretion of the states. i do not see how we can divide them between two authority. the fact is the states at present neglect their militias and their discipline is of national concern. in any case, they should all have the same training and discipline. that can only be attained by federal control. the standard training, regulations and the discipline code could be provided by the federal government and then the actual training could be conducted by the state with officers selected by the state. if indeed we are here in convention to prov

written about an extraordinary range of constitutional issues in particular as a law professor at george mason university. she is really a model of the kind of judge that requires the needs. we are grateful to have it with us tonight. and the american constitution. and after her remarks she and adam white of ai will have a conversation about the subject that will open things up to questions from all of you. those of you watching online you can find right next to the video you are watching the e-mail address or twitter hashtag where you can send questions. and with that help me too welcome [applause] >> thank you for that very kind introduction. it's a pleasure to be here at aei to give this lecture so many remarkable jurists and individuals have given before me. some of my law clerks are here today and i asked them to help me find a joke to start my speech. and they came up with nothing but one of them did try gpt. not sure what they put in, maybe something like constitutional law joke in the style of david gandler and nothing was funny. so i think i will start tonight's lecture without a joke

a 2010 study by george mason university found license plate readers increased the likelihood of findingn cars, but not arrests. and charging suspects only happens in areas with a high concentration of cameras, each one costing thousands of dollars. you have to factor in installation costs, maintenance costs. this stuff's not cheap. and so we have to ask ourselves , do we want to divest our police resources into tools that may or may not help? just months ago, oakland police shut off its license plate readers on dozens of cruisers and acknowledged last year they got no investigative leads from them, but recovered 34 cars. research suggests that fixed cameras may be better for tracking vehicles. oakland has now secured $1.2 million in state funding so that we can get 300 cameras citywide . and this is the same camera system that piedmont is using. but piedmont is a city of 11,000 and hasn't seen a homicide since 1999. ktvu surveyed several other cities to see if the license plate readers work or don't work. vallejo says in two years, it has recovered 113 cars and made 116 arrests. san lea

george mason for the rest of by career pay took a year off to go and work in the senates. the fellowship. and i just loved working in public service. set senate, library of congress, another archives. >> how did you get into this business? did you really say what to be the head of the smithsonian? >> absently not. for me it was happenstance finishing my phd. and was at an american university and living on a teaching assistant salary which meant i was broke. there is a returning students she was so old she was probably 40. she said her husband worked at the smithsonian i should go talk to him about a job. i thought who works at the smithsonian? it's where you take dates it because it's free at. [laughter] that was my notion. i went down he took me too meet the secretary and because i knew i was not going to get a job i had a big afro, i had jeans on, i had an army jacket on. so i am comfortable. i am chatting away the next thing i know he said to me we might like to hire you and i said really? he said i'd love to work in american history and he said oh no we only have a job

a 2010 study by george mason university found while license plate readers increased the likelihood of finding stolen cars, they do not lead to an increase in arrests. the study also concluded those cameras are more effective when many of them are installed. you have to factor in installation costs, maintenance costs. this stuff's not cheap. and so we have to ask ourselves, do we want to divest our police resources into tools that may or may not help? we have to be willing to try something different. we have to be willing to give technology a chance. just months ago, oakland police shut off license plate readers on dozens of cruisers and acknowledged last year they got no investigative leads from the cameras. but they did recover 34 cars in oakland. council member kevin jenkins says he's pushing for license plate readers as well as an increase in staffing for the police department, hoping those two together will help reduce crime. all right, time now, 709 california has the most valuable housing market in the nation and no other state even comes close. that's according to a new report

on similar lines here and heritage foundation found that means dei bureaucracy and in virginia, george masonureaucrats and deep blue states like california and new york. this one's for you, you've got -- you got this stunning findings on baltimore schools, tell me. 33 high schools in baltimore administered the state math exams and in 13 of those 33, not one student tested proficient in math. again, not one. if you look at five best schools in baltimore city, only 11% tested proficient, 11%. so what are they doing with the record funding that they're getting? they got $1.6 billion from taxpayers last year. stuart: baltimore city school, 1 point # billion for baltimore city schools? lauren: not including covid money. needs to be accountability on this. you can't excuse those test scores. jaire they spent $25,000 per student in baltimore. 25,000 taxpayer dollars per student per year. new york is at 25,000 on the state level, 39,000 in the city level. stuart: 39,000 in the city level? per student? >> per student, per year. stuart: in new york city? >> in new york city. stuart: that's astronomica

joining us is an astrophysicist, a visiting professor at george mason university, a author of a quantumge step. tell its why. good morning. thank you so much for having me. one of those things we had science fiction and aspirations. let's go to a planet, go there, use the atmosphere or what we call soil here on earth to produce our old oxygen to breathe and use. now we've illustrated you can actually do that in realtime. right? having an idea that technology is possible is a very different thing from doing it. now it's been done. the reason why it's important, because if we are going to send humans to mars, they need to have a way back, and so you can't take the fuel with you. if you can make it there, out of local materials that would be great, and oxygen is the oxidizer used with oxygen fuel and people need to be able to breathe. many more problems with going to mars, but at least the problem of oxygen now has been illustrated to be feasible. >> moxie is about the size of a micr microwave, might be too big to carry around at this point but portable computers started off at 25 pounds a

a 2010 study by george mason university found license plate readers increased the likelihood of findingnot arrests. and charging suspects only happens in areas with a high concentration of cameras, each one costing thousands of dollars. you have to factor in installation costs, maintenance costs. this stuff's not cheap. and so we have to ask ourselves , do we want to divest our police resources into tools that may or may not help just months ago, oakland police shut off its license plate readers on dozens of cruisers and acknowledged last year they got no investigative leads from them, but recovered 34 cars as research suggests, fixed cameras may be better for tracking vehicles. oakland has now secured $1.2 million in state funding, so that we can get 300 cameras citywide. and this is the same camera system that piedmont is using. but piedmont is a city of 11,000 and hasn't seen a homicide since 1999. ktvu surveyed several other cities to see if the license plate readers work or don't work. vallejo says in two years, it has recovered 113 cars and made 116 arrests. san leandro is convinc

lupe, is a school at -- teacher at george mason diversity, her research includes organized crime and u.s./mexico relations. she is the author of criminal corporation, energy and civil war in mexico. she is working on a book project about human trafficking. she has a ba in economics, her na in political science from the new school for social research. finally, we will hear from jeff singer, my colleague, where he is a senior fellow of health policies. he is the founder of surgical clinics in phoenix, arizona. he is a physician by trade. he has practiced general surgery for more than 40 years. in march, he testified before the house committee on crime and surveillance and the role that prohibition has paid -- played in the fentanyl crisis. he earned a ba at brooklyn college. i think it is probably best to start off by asking brian to talk about -- we have heard from republican presidential candidates, that we will be tough and use the military against the cartels, but not a lot of details and those proposals. we have at least three pieces of legislation wending their way through capito

george mason thought there should have been a bill of rights.ut here they tdefend this constitution even though it did not have a bill of rights. they made some arguments for why a bill of rights was not necessary. they are not the strongest arguments, but they had to say something. ultimately, i think they came up with a good compromise which is we will ratify the constitution and then add the bill of rights. what about the meaning of the second amendment? the second amendment was not added until after the debate over the constitution, so you will not find any discussion of that in the federalist papers. you have to look at other historical sources. >> i was getting the idea that lynn was intimating that state's rights had an issue to play in the bill of rights. >> i am not exactly sure, but it is a good question about the second amendment, what is its meaning? i would leave it to other scholars. whether it is to protect individual rights or if you have standing armies, you need a well-established militia. allen also referred to quartering troo

a 2010 study by george mason university found while license plate readers increase the likelihood of finding stolen cars, they don't lead to an increase in arrests. the study also concluded that cameras are more effective when many of them are installed and you have to factor in installation costs, maintenance costs. this stuff's not cheap. and so we have to ask ourselves, do we want to divest our police resources into tools that may or may not help? we have to be willing to try something different. we have to be willing to give technology a chance. just months ago, oakland police shut off their license plate readers and dozens of cruisers and acknowledged last year they got no investigative leads from them. but they did help them recover 34 cars. oakland council member kevin jenkins says he's pushing for the license plate readers and an increase in staffing, hoping those two things together will help reduce crime. some gas prices around the bay are jumping dramatically. in fact, they jumped dramatically overnight. today's average price in san francisco is $6.04. yesterday was 581 a

a 2010 study by george mason university city found while license plate readers increased the likelihood of finding stolen cars, they do not lead to an increase in arrests. the study also concluded cameras are more effective when many of them are installed. you have to factor in installation costs, maintenance costs. this stuff's not cheap. and so we have to ask ourselves , do we want to divest our police resources into tools that may or may not help? we have to be willing to try something different. we have to be willing to give technology a chance. just months ago, oakland police shut off license plate readers on dozens of cruisers and acknowledged last year they got no investigative leads from them, but did help them recover. 34 cars. oakland council member kevin jenkins says he's pushing for the license plate readers and an increase in police staffing, saying those two together should help reduce crime. new at noon, san jose is celebrating the grand opening of the arena hotel, which will provide housing for people who are homeless. mayor matt mehan and other city leaders joined some

elbridge gerry, edmund randolph, george mason who wrote the virginia bill of rights that became one ofison's model when he got to the federal model. those three jumped up a movement in the states were many state convictions said we were assigned but we recommend you adopt a bill of rights. here are the amendments you adopt. medicine comes the relies a bill of rights would not be a barrier as he recalled, it would be politically necessary and useful. jefferson pushing for a bill of rights from paris. medicine drafts it. he cuts and pace revolution state constitutions he has by his side. you can find these online. many of these states agree on the basic rights. the right of free speech and conscience, the right to bear arms, and medicine cuts and paste the proposals -- madison cuts and paste the proposals. the original first amendment was not the one to do with free speech but says there should be one representative in congress for every 30,000 inhabitants. that when did not pass. -- one did not pass. host: it is positive today. talking to jeffrey rosen. we welcome your calls and comment

elbridge gerry, edmund randolph, george mason who wrote the virginia bill of rights that became one ofison's model when he got to the federal model. those three jumped up a movement in the states were many state convictions said we were assigned but we recommend you adopt a bill of rights. here are the amendments you adopt. medicine comes the relies a bill of rights would not be a barrier as he recalled, it would be politically necessary and useful. jefferson pushing for a bill of rights from paris. medicine drafts it. he cuts and pace revolution state constitutions he has by his side. you can find these online. many of these states agree on the basic rights. the right of free speech and conscience, the right to bear arms, and medicine cuts and paste the proposals -- madison cuts and paste the proposals. the original first amendment was not the one to do with free speech but says there should be one representative in congress for every 30,000 inhabitants. that when did not pass. -- one did not pass. host: it is positive today. talking to jeffrey rosen. we welcome your calls and comment

so i'm reminded of george mason. who said many years ago something to the effect that because individuals can be punished and rewarded in heaven but nations can't, nations need to be held accountable on earth. i am now making an appeal that we hold individuals where we can accountable on earth. and what we have are people who systematically defied the rights of american citizens for no other reason but that they didn't like what was being said. about the administration. they politicized their position. and we're going to hold them accountable. i think the number, the gentleman from ohio can correct me. i thought it was 17 million or something like that, was going to come off their overall budget. maybe i'm off on that. $19 million. sorry, i was pretty close. that does not necessarily impact these people. let me give you another example. somebody was told recently that they will take -- somebody said i will take responsibility for that. for a problem that this administration was doing. i said how did you take responsi

>> george is ready for -- >> i just saw it. it's like perry mason. what is also remarkable and i pose this to both of you guys is the way trump has left -- the government hasn't left things hanging, but trump has left things hanging with some of the people going to be critical to his own defense. i have to ask about rudy giuliani who is being sued by his former lawyer costello for $1.4 million. his new york apartment is up for sale for $6.4 million. he's been ordered to pay $100,000 in court ordered legal fees for the women he supposedly allegedly reportedly defamed, shaye moss and ruby freeman. i mean he's been disbarred, he can't actually work. this person is if you're trump he can't take of them and he's hanging them out to dry. >> he's under criminal indictment, he's awaiting civil trial in the dominion case just like fox. and it's not an allegation with respect to shaye moss and ruby freeman. and he is awaiting an upcoming imminent trial on damages, and that is one where it is hard to see where a jury wouldn't take that unbelievably seriously gi

mason right here. andrew weizmann, co-host of the indispensable msnbc process podcast prosecuting donald trump. it is a pleasure, delay and honor to have you, sir. and george, we're not done with the. hang out for one more segment. we have a lot to get to this evening, including the detroit auto worker rally. donald trump has conveniently scheduled to counter program next week second republican debate. but first, there are a lot of things that people upset accidentally leave things on changing tables in public restrooms. it could be pacifier, spare diapers, myself one on one, but one reporter today says he found something altogether different a bathroom inside the u.s. capitol, and speaker kevin mccarthy's fate may hang on it. we'll explain, that is coming up next. is comin up next. every day, more dog people, and more vets are deciding it's time for a fresh approach to pet food. they're quitting the kibble. and kicking the cans. and feeding their dogs dog food that's actually well, food. developed with vets. made from real meat and veggies. portioned for your dog. and delivered right to your door. it's smarter, healthier pet food. get 50% off your first b

george, over the next course of the next several months. i'm an records saying we're gonna try to do that. it will rolls the dice. it's been a theatrical block between my voice problems in perry mason here. gentlemen, thank you very much. he andrew weissmann, we don't even say the co-host of the independents defensible msnbc broadcasts, prosecuting donald trump, it's delighted pleasure to have you with us sir. and george, we're not done with you yet. hang out for one more segment. we have a lot to get to this evening including the detroit auto workers rally that donald trump is conveniently scheduled to counter program next week's second republican debate. but first, there are a lot of things that people accidentally may be changing cables in public restaurants. could be pacifier, spare diapers, i have myself put on one, but one reporter today said he found something altogether different in a bathroom inside the u.s. capitol and speaker kevin mccarthy's fate may hang on it. we'll explain, coming up next. ain, coming up next. new dove men bodywash gives you 24 hours of nourishing micromoisture. that means your skin still feels healthy and smooth now... now... ...and now too. get hea