common law, criminal law. for 2021 he was a visiting professor at georgetown university law center and executive director of the georgetown center for the constitution. and in the middle of his -- i'm in the middle of his excellent book on the 14th amendment for a future podcast and hopefully that book will be -- i think it will be one of the definitive books on the 14th amendment going forward. so, evan? evan: trevor failed to notice that i was a very obnoxious and annoying cato intern and hopefully less obnoxious and irritating as an academic. although opinions of that are split down the middle. it was hard enough even with the aid of patience and diligent editors to predict the future of abortion in america. if i only had 15 minutes but i'm going to try my best. in dobbs, the supreme court overrule roe v. wade and planned parenthood v. casey. as of this day, before constitution day, abortion has been banned in 16 states. other states are expected to follow suit. a federal ban on abortion after 15 weeks has

law. i went to law school before i knew the answer to that question. i was talking to a group of admitted students and i said something, which is a very standard thing for deans to say, don't come the law school if you don't know why and don't come just because it's a way of keeping options open or don't come because you have ruled out everything else, you are not good with blood or whatever. [laughter] justice kagan: you have to have a reason being here. and i thought, i definitely failed that test when i went to law school. i went to law school because i wasn't sure i wanted to do and wanted to keep my options open. my father was a lawyer. at that time, we have immature times in our lives and i didn't understand -- he loved being a lawyer, but i wasn't quite sure i understood why. nothing that he did struck me as particularly interesting. i was at law school for the wrong reasons. but i'm here to say and i hope i'm talking to a lot of first years, people who are here in their first week,

. >> next, a review of the supreme court's most recent term, which included decisions on gun laws laws, prescription drugs and abortion. this is from the cato institute's 21st annual constitution day symposium in washington dc. >> one minute warning. please reconvene. ok, we are back for the most subdued and noncontroversial panel of the day. i am sure nobody spent any part of june debating relatives over any certain opinions. where is dave? dave gets opioids. i will introduce them before they speak. we will start off with abortion. and we will start off with evan, who i first met when he was an intern and he has gone on to bigger and greater things. a professor of law at northern illinois. he was a visiting person -- professor at georgetown law school. i am in the middle of his excellent book and hopefully that book will be one of the definitive books going forward. >> trevor failed to notice that i was a very obnoxious cato intern. it was hard enough even with the aid of people to predict dobbs. supreme court overruled roe v. wade. as of this state come abortion has been banned in 16

from columbia law school. and in 1946 and when she went to apply for jobs with law firms, new york city law was the most sector of legal profession. she had the closed in her face because she was a woman and, also because she was african american. and this a common experience. it just happen to her. in fact, this continued to happen years later when ruth bader ginsburg came along and sandra day o'connor. so this was the fate of women even those who performed well in law school and who went to these brilliant careers as lawyers. motley did not let it discourage her that that being shut out of the law firm? in fact, it created an opportunity for her in public interest law in 1945. well she even graduated from law school. she went to the icp legal defense fund, asked thurgood marshall for a job. she hired her on the spot. it was her dream job because. she had been a person with strong social consciousness from, a very young age, and she was delighted to work at the fund. marshall was a mentor to her and she learn

on media, the law on media - these norms fall out.hat is, she is actually not included in the list of prohibitions, and this means that when the current law on television and radio broadcasting is replaced by a law on media, it means that it will be allowed , in fact, for the majority of russian singers to spin own songs is unacceptable and there is also a real problem with quotas, the quotas do not decrease by themselves, but the responsibility for violating the song quotas on the radio is greatly reduced, that is, a very simple mechanism has been in effect for seven years. violates the quota of a ukrainian song. yes, she spins fewer of them than this quota. it is now a 35% quota, so she is fined if during monitoring it was recorded on the council under the law on media, she will not be fined if the violation of the quota reaches up to 10% and she will only be warned once, warned a second time, and there will be five such warnings after which well, these five warnings will not be understood every day. they still need to be caught, an

professor in law and the caddell a chapman of law at the university of virginia school of law. she teaches about privacy, for he asked russian, civil rights, and she serves as the inaugural director of the school center which focuses on pressing to questions on technology. she focuses on civil rights initiatives. her latest book -- privacy protecting identity and love in the current age will be out in october 2022. her first crimes in cyberspace in -- was wildly praised in public reviews. she has essays including the yale law journal and many others for the past decade she has worked with lawmakers and law enforcement and tech companies to combat online abuse of tech intimate privacy. our moderator today will be paul rosen's pretty. he is a writer and speaker with a national reputation in bible -- in cybersecurity and homeland security. -- he is part of the homeland consulting company that homeland security consulting company. -- he is our professed oriole -- and law at george university and a senior fellow in the tech program at american university of college of law. -- he is

on the lawful regulation thereof. not consistent with that tradition are notar constitutional. one week after it was announced, the court vacated three decisions from lower federal courtsl of appeals that it uphd bands uncommon rifles or magazines and allows for maryland, connecticut, new jersey per the court remanded those cases back to the courts of appeals to reconsider in light of bruin. and then just a few weeks later in colorado, the united states district court judge raymond amore was appointed by president obama and unanimously confirmedn by the senate issued a temporary restraining order against a gun and magazine band that had been enacted by the town of superior, colorado which was in boulder county. and soon, similar laws and bands other in boulder municipalities in the county itself were also brought under temporary restraining order's. this tro's will remain in effect until january when there is going to beng a hearing on a preliminary injunction motion. u.s. district courts in other states also issued s

she is a professor of law at the chicago-kent college of law. she is the founder and codirector of chicago-kent -- from 2014 through 2016, she served as illinois solicitor general while on leave from the law school and is a former law clerk to justice stephen breyer. her scholarship is focused largely on the supreme court, its relationship to other courts , institutions and its role in our constitutional democracy. she teaches classes, constitutional law, employment law and policy. council with the brennan center for justice where she focuses on voting rights and elections. she recently co-authored an article examining the history and original intent of the constitution's elections clause. she was a litigation associate in private practice and served as a law clerk to the honorable christina snyder of the u.s. district court of the central district of california. she received her j.d. from harvard law. you are now recognized for five minutes for your testimony. >> thank you. for the opportunity to testify. >> i will address two issues in my open

it is not unusual for people to argue, to resist arrest rate lawful orders, lawful commands for that's when they get super important to collect the data per your proposed legislation so it can better inform the public and our training. but also that we again speak with that voice the place to fight criminal charges or the police is in a courtroom. everyone seems to think it's okay these days to argue or fight on the street. there is no good outcome that comes from that. >> sgt penny, you spoke about the online radicalization of individuals who target the police and organize targeting of a police. what is the relationship between defend the police movement and the targeted violence against law enforcement? >> think a center for the question. you could have something as benign as defend the police, like it was just a logo. once you take that on social media, the message of proliferates with the #. i thanks that's we have lost so much discussion because we think of it being benign. but the reality is it radical, individuals use the same content to incite violence against police rivets thi

law. not in the united states, and that is part of the glory. it is unpleasant, especially not fun for those wrapped up in it, and for president clinton and hillary and chelsea, this is a horrible episode to go through. on a personal level, yes, lost of -- lots of cough, but in terms of who we are as a free people, isn't it reassuring to know that truly no one is above the law? that is the goal. no one is above the law. mr. beed: that is a statement you have made publicly and also in a book frequently. it is a bedrock principle for you. the other thing that is interesting in the book are some things that come out that maybe people are not familiar with about yourself. did you know ken started as a democrat? he was a big admirer of john kennedy and still is. mr. starr: i am still in admirer of john kennedy. [laughter] mr. beed: we have a song. i saw the light. this is a polite audience so there is no booing or hissing. thank you for restraining yourself. i tell that story briefly, and a gre

into law. -- and be signed into law. i feel, quite honestly -- i don't know what the chair feels about this -- we have a sense of urgency here. as soon as we turned the corner into january or into another lengthy two-year presidential election, my personal feeling is we need to button this up before the end of the year. that will set the clarity to move forward for this next election. so i know i might get the answer that none of you think that you can tell congress on they should and how they should pass things but since you are here in your personal capacities i would like to know if you have an opinion on the urgency to get this wrapped up by the end of the year. mr. gore, i'll start with you. mr. gore: thank you, senator. i presume to tell congress but i certainly agree now is the time to act. it is a beneficial piece of legislation. it's pending before the congress now and the moment is here for congress to act. >> i would like to say it's a personal privilege i enjoyed visiting you when you were the ambassador. inc

law enforcement is our essential line of defense in maintaining law and order. they deserve america's and congress' full support. house republicans are grateful to our law enforcement officers, for their service to our communities and understand the incredible commitment they make in choosing to wear the uniform. we will always stand with our men and women in blue and their families. house democrats would like to use these bills to convince the american people of the same, but americans know and understand. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: thank you, madam speaker. first of all, i want to -- i want to thank the gentlelady from minnesota for conceding that three -- that the text of three of the bills were -- was available for a month. so i'm glad we could set that -- the record straight on that. the second thing i want to say is that at least two of these bills have bipartisan co-sponsorship. the victim act has four republican co-sponsors. the invest to protect act has 24 r

johns school of law. she holds a bachelor degree from and why you, lot agree from the university of california los angeles. senator blunt. >> thank you, senator klobuchar. i want to thank all our witnesses for being here today. i have two witnesses that i'm able to introduce. first is jon gore, mr. gore is currently a partner in the -- at jones day, in washington, where he practices we voting elections, regulatory litigation. he has broad experience in litigating numerous voting and election cases in 16 different states and at all levels of the state and federal judiciary, including the united states supreme court. he previously served as the acting assistant attorney general and deputy assistant the attorney general for the civil rights division of the united states department of justice from 2017 to 2019. that role, he left -- of the federal civil rights laws nationwide. next, we have professor derrick miller, a professor of law at the university of iowa college of law. he is nationally recognized as a

is not perfect, we must do everything possible to comply with the law and make the law work and i would say that first of all there are two international courts that are already considering the issue of russian aggression against ukraine, well at least some aspects of this aggression, the international court is there ukraine's lawsuit against russia not for a war crime, not for a crime of aggressive war but for a misinterpretation of the genocide convention well, it sounds quite strange, somewhat strange, but this is an example of how to work with an international court latvia joined the ukrainian lawsuit and recently, a few days ago, the united states joined it. can you explain something to me? because it seems to me that this is quite a technological issue, and the misinterpretation of the convention on genetics does this mean that they blame russia here, it is really a conditional thing and it is about a really strong interpretation, but this is a way in which ukraine can get the international court to start considering these different aspects of the war . if there was time, i would

state law matters. state law over rides city. am we are now hourless to the state. >> thank you. >> okay. thank you. we will hear, you have 6 minutes. president swig you asked mr. [inaudible] [inaudible] not a paid reason will to the folks that stay thered in the past. so -- it was -- i'm sorry this the audience you can't hear? okay. can't hear. >> is that better? i'm not sure we hear it. >> what should i do? . how about fitalk louder >> okay. i said not been rented for monnet past. and it as we stated not inhabited for 10 or 12 years and the variances remember, they are from 25 years ago. but people are making really good argument busy mid block open space i get it i'm a land use attorney and represented neighbors trying to preserve mid block open space. world changed. will and state law for better or worse i could share my person opinions with you but local control over local zoning and planning regulations in concern case. and whether that is good or bad, projects sponsors have the right to rely on the law and propose a projec

enforcement officers is the spirit of the law and the letter of the law an article that appeared at the end of march was called illegal actions with humanitarian aid for the purpose of obtaining profit, and in the text of the law there is the phrase sale and here the law enforcement officers from general legal relations literally extract a small strip from otaku using it at the moment of declaration at the border and until the moment of handing over this car, as svyatoslav e correctly showed, the main thing is that the word for funds, what happened, how was the person provoked, how was he involved in this story, the law enforcement officers are not interested in such cases, there are a lot of them, i talked to a lot of by people who act in the interests of specific e-e detained volunteers and they are screaming and shouting, please explain. please understand the whole mechanism, well, svyatoslav, there is one story in them, many people collected funds, some collected others drove them. five thousand dollars, and for that $5,000, i have already crossed the border 10 or 20 times. i ta

this could be fixed through laws like anton's law. anton's law didn't just repeal the law enforcement bill of rights. it made police disciplinary records publicly available. 75% of states restrict access to police disciplinary records. >> this just makes it, literally, as he drove 25 miles across state lines, he is a brand new person. >> right. >> in a brand new state. >> exactly. sometimes this is in an intrastate problem. ohio, which is where tamir rice was killed, the officer came from a department where the chief says this this man should not police because of how he trained in firearms training. >> would the simplest reform be a federal registry for cops, basically one person described it as a social security for cops? >> absolutely. they should have unique identifiers. right now they do not. >> across the board, if you're in greensboro, maryland, or new york city? >> absolutely. to properly put information into the index you need to make sure that the records are publicly available. we saw in this instance 32 complaints people w

caroline shapiro is a professor of law at the chicago college of law. she is the founder and co-director a chicago institute on the supreme court of the united states. from 2014 through 2016, she served as illinois solicitor general well on leave from the law school and is a former law clerk to justin justice stephen breyer. she is largely focused on the supreme court, its relationship to other courts, and institutions and its role in our constitutional democracy. she teaches classes and legislation in statutory interpretation, constitutional law, employment law, public interest law, and finally eliza warren becker is a council where she focuses on voting rights and elections. she recently coauthored an article examining the historian original intent of the constitution's elections cause. prior to joining the center, she was a litigation associate in private practice and served as a law clerk to the honorable christina a snyder at the united states district court for the central district of california. she received her ged from harvard law and a masters

or a separate law, because not everything is legislative yet regulated.aine is facing such a situation for the first time, that is why the national guard and the national police need to enter that territory now. oblasts of ukraine, this is the testimony of operatives, whose task is to first go in and establish who stayed there unambiguously . communicating with the local population, it is a very difficult question regarding those who betrayed the state. collaborators need to be installed together with them, the state emergency service comes in regarding the expansion of the territory, this is also a very complicated process, and then the ukrainian authorities are installed, those who actually left the territory are returned, this means local authorities and military-civilian administrations are being created, and now there is a discussion if simply military administrations in order to actually establish ukrainian or restore ukrainian state power there is also a serious challenge that many there are still agents of the fsb in that territory , and the secur

law enforcement agency. we had the resources to go after federal grants, to help keep our communities safe. to bring those federal dollars back home to protect my community. and i know that many agencies that i worked with did not have that benefit. and that's why on many of the projects that came from federal participation, we often partnered with much smaller agencies to help them out. and so this bill is all about helping those agencies with 125 officers or less to be able to access those federal grants that they cannot access right now for training, for retention, for hiring, and that is the -- what we should be doing, mr. speaker. and that's why i worked with my good friend across the aisle, josh gottheimer. i appreciate you working on this, getting to the language that we can all agree with. it's been back and forth quite a bit, but we got it here to the floor. and i congratulate you on that. because i -- this is a bipartisan issue. this is for our law enforcement men and women. these are for those sma

particular emphasis, again, on the adoption of laws in the field of state building.he main thing is to ensure the inviolability of the constitutional order, peace and harmony in society and a clear legal field for political parties public associations of civil society will work on these tasks, said the speaker of the lower house of parliament, i propose to listen right now. it is necessary to work on the formation of a healthy political climate in the country. what should be the timely adoption of the law on political parties and public associations of civil society, as well as the adjustment of the electoral code? it is necessary to create conditions under which the elements of the political system involved in the process decision-making would not conflict with each other, but act in solidarity. in line with a single course approved by the people, hasty social and political experiments. people are too expensive, therefore, when determining the paths of the party for the construction and development of other public institutions. it co. should not rush from life to ou

>> i think between the summer of 2020 which a lot of law enforcement not just fps but a lot of law enforcement officers and agencies were dealing with large-scale demonstrations and in some cases some violence, you all experienced that on january 6. we experienced it out in portland. so i think we have done well working with our partner agencies and the federal government and the city county state, to share the information. we've all learned our lessons so that we all need to work better together sharing information to make sure we are aware of incidents that pop up and that has really increased over the last year. >> thanks for your outstanding service and testimony mister chairman . >> now i call on gentle lady from nevada miss titus for five minutes of questions, welcome. >> thank you very much mister chairman and the previous member of this committee was in portland being an unprecedented event. let'stalk about another unprecedented event and that was the storming of the capital on january 6 . nobody could have anticipated it would be as terrible as it was but there were certainly warning

k-9 handlers all trained as federal law complexity. fps relies on the team thousand contract guard staff will protective service officers are pso's conduct security screenings at more than 9000 federal buildings across the country. they are the backbone of the fps operation without the help of his guard that this would make real the transmission perfection of her federal buildings and properties about of utmost importance. violence against federal government buildings property and personnel is not in the norman has become more prevent in recently years and it's disheartening that we must worry about things and we must and therefore conversation today is added importance and relevance. we need to ensure that he is has the tools and authority to operate as effectively as possible. if not it ps in jail the government accountability high-risk list since 2003 j. ellis found it's not assessing risk at federal buildings consist with standards under the protection plant recommended in the free market yes plan. this is worrisome because failure

the law is clear. why does the department of justice pick and choose which laws to enforce and why does it seem to exactly follow the pattern of the partisan preferences of the biden white house? >> again, senator, politics should not and does not play any role in our prosecutor -- our prosecutorial decisions. >> why have they not been prosecuted under section 1507? does the department believe the law is unconstitutional? and if not, why are you refusing to enforce it? >> i disagree that we have chosen not to enforce it. there has been one prosecution -- >> out of hundreds. what about the rest? >> senator, again, i cannot comment on the current status of potential investigations in this area. >> was the prosecution you referenced a 15 hundred seven prosecution or something else? >> i do not believe it was under that statute. >> so you have not brought a single one. >> i believe the conduct itself was the focus of the prosecution. >> i think you need to follow the law. >> there are no further senators s

in lieu of law enforcement and operating independently of law enforcement. that is a policy that will endanger the mental health professional, the suspect, the person experiencing a mental health crisis, and the person who called 911. a crime scene or a home experiencing a edmontonistic violence -- a domestic violence dispute is not the setting to provide mental health care. in the first half of 2022, the leading circumstance of law enforcement officers killed with firearms was in response to domestic violence calls. nobody can confidently tell us they know in advance which domestic violence call should get a mental health response instead of a law enforcement responls -- responls. mental health -- response. mental health professionals are not trained for these confrontations that occur in these situations. the priority in an emergency situation is to secure the scene and all individuals involved. which is a law enforcement function. once the scene is secure, i will be the first one calling for mem health services -- mental health services, whether it's an a

he just wants it to be a democratic law that conforms to european directives, by the way, this law doeseractives, and the european commission has already given its comments. it is said that the independence of the interests is too weakly spelled out . as far as we are concerned, there are a number of anti-ukrainian clauses, for example, they are being cancelled

above the law, yes. but no one is beneath the law. doesn't matter how poor you are. doesn't matter what kind of job you have. whether are you a janitor. doesn't matter whether you are a sanitation worker. doesn't matter. you're not beneath the law in this country. even if you are an asylee coming here from another country, you are not beneath the law. i'm so proud, mr. i'm so proud mr. speaker, mr. speaker, to announce to my colleagues that the d.c. council will vote on a migrant bill today. seems on tuesday there would be an emergency bill to establish an office of migrant services for the thousands who are being brought here by the governors of texas and florida. these persons in washington, d.c., they are doing the righteous thing. they're trying to help lawful asylees as they traverse their destiny. the governors of florida and texas, they would have derailed the underground railroad. they would have been the persons who were out looking those who a were out seeking freedom. i'm proud of the mayor of washington, d.c. i don't know the efficacy of the program but a

human rights law. half identify the use of the so-called filtration centers. further, based on the analysis of the satellite images the humanitarian research lab has identified 21 sites in the region affiliated with filtration operations. these are not mere checkpoints. these are makeshift prisons, another face of russia's brutal war in ukraine. mr. president, anyone who has studied history would not fail to notice filtration camps are rooted in soviet and russian history from world war ii through the wars in the 1990's. world-renowned journalists gather testimony from thousands of citizens detained in similar centers, revealing brutal interrogation methods, torture and human rights violations. the aim remains the same. identify civilians they believe can assimilate into russian culture and punish or remove those who won't. it is black and white. you should pay allegiance to the occupier and you are free. if not, you are detained and made to disappear. this is what is happening to countless ukrainian c

real estate under inheritance laws and heirs must receive legal square meters.econdly, this is a purchase using mother capital. families do not always have enough money for spacious housing, and parents are required to allocate a share. and the third exception is privatization. here, too, it is necessary to share what is available on all real estate as a result of privatization, or with the help of maternity capital the acquisition of such micro-shares, or, uh, when receiving an inheritance. this is by no means difficult. will fraudsters organize such a scheme, therefore, the law is indicated, it will stop first of all, and most of those machine schemes that existed earlier is another important point, the law also amends the family code. now the court has the right to change the ratio of the shares of the spouses in their joint property, if one of them made , without the consent of the other, required by law , transactions for the sale of common property at unprofitable in simpler terms, if during the divorce it turns out that one spouse sold property in tanya f

pressed the law. you thought people were being whipped under a bridge in texas. what you have corralled in somek way, would that make it better, do you think that they would comeec there? just because not everyone is invited to the barbecue. but also i would say and i know you know this if we rely solely on the momentum from just black and brown people that are impacted, we wouldn't have as much as we had. if youdo look at the mug shots from the freedom riders i hope you see white people there as well. i hope you realize that they were jewish allies that were also in and we see this happening with the risent of the sentiment and the trail of tears in every facet of the identity we see a historical kinship. so it's difficult to occupyna those spaces, but what is the alternative? you're not there and you hope there will be allies? let's go back to the profession of careers you have eluded to and doing great voting rights. it wasn't until you've got to they' united states attorney's office that you say t

of those responding, 54% favored such a law and only 41% opposed. disregarding the will of the american people. the only thing the democrats are offering to this country are more babies killed by abortion. the findings in this legislation clearly footnoted provide detailed information about the development of the unborn child and the ability of that child to feel pain. i encourage all legislators, republican and democrats, to support this very modest, very humane proposal. thank you. >> good morning. i'm president and ceo of american's united statessed for life. we work with advocates and lawmakers to advance the human right to life in culture, law and policy. the supreme court has finally reversed roe v wade and we celebrate that important step. but it is only a step. we were at an inflection step in american history and we're at the turning point of the human right to life and the supreme court righted a historic wrong in roe and the tragic effects and deadly consequences of the supreme court juries prudence remain with us today. in 1947, no one b

bush ran on passing a law like this. changes happened with the law. we will get into that. how it was received at the time in terms of the policy changes it made. mr. hess: it was modeled on what they did in texas. it was a bipartisan effort over 10 or 12 years. no child left behind, think of it as the high point of this school reform coalition that took shape in the early 1980's. it really came to fruition in the clinton, bush, and obama years and has largely unraveled. no child left behind did a lot of different stuff. it is one of those big fat laws with 100 pages but it did three main things. back in the late 1960's after that initial clip of them talking about it, at the time they referenced lyndon b. johnson's great society. back in the late 1960's, robert kennedy, a senator from new york, asked the commissioner of education how will we know if this stuff is doing any good. he shrugged and said, we do not have any way to know. the big thing that no child left behind did was it said that if states wanted their title i dollars, they had to have standards and test kids r

he writes criminal law legislation. he was a visiting professor at georgia county law center, executive director of the georgetown constitution and i'm in the middle of his excellent book with randy burnett on the 14th amend and hopefully that book will be one of the definitive books going forward so. >> so trevor generously failed to add that i was a noxious and irritating intern although the opinions of that matter slightly. so it was hard enough even with the aid of patient and diligent editors to summarize and critique dobbs and secure abortion inamerica in 44 pages .i' i'm going to try my best. in dobbs the supreme court overruled rowe versus wade and planned parenthood versus casey . as of this date abortion has been banned in 15 states. other states are expected to follow suit. the federal ban on abortion after 15 weeks has been proposed. no supreme court decision as so quickly resulted in the criminalization of so much conduct that was once afforded the highest ec constitutional protection. now in one sense dobb

this law is off the agenda., what is the actual bill the parliament tried to vote and the committee actually voted on monday and had today's agenda er-e day serious threats to the competition for the director nabu in general for the future director because he, among other things, regulated the grounds for dismissal. and actually as a consequence for our processes of european integration after these initiatives and after the decision of the committee, the following seven seriously criticized this initiative. the initiatives of the ukrainian authorities, after which exactly this draft law disappeared from the agenda of the parliament, but it must be understood that it exists in nature, it originated already in the committee, the threat has completely disappeared we also would really like it not to continue to be considered, but we must understand that at any moment it can emerge, and since the work of the parliament is not public at the moment, it is very difficult to track such activities and the agenda, so we mu

law, previously -- university law school in detroit. maggie toulouse oliver, new mexico's 26th secretary of state, before 2016 election, she served for more than a decade as county clerk in new mexico. amy cohen, executive director of nased, the national association of state election directors, professional organization representing non partisan officials who administer elections. matt crane, executive director of the county clerks association. he's republican, so served as election -- 21 years, including serving for 2013 to 2018, as the elected clerk and recorder for -- and i now turn to senator grassley to introduce his witnesses. >> mike hearst served as u.s. attorney for the southern district of mississippi, 2017 to 2021. he was unanimously confirmed. previously, he served eight years as an assistant u.s. attorneya and the director of the mississippi justice institute in general counsel, that the mississippi -- for public policy, as u.s. attorney's mr. hearst increased prosecutions and the district by 178%. he launched project eject

we are a nation of laws. try to respect a nation of laws. the bipartisan legislation the presidential election reform act provides the clarity necessary. it reaffirms, as former vice president mike pence correctly concluded, which is why those incidents were calling for the death of the vice president with a noose hanging out in front of the capitol and why they were calling for the life of the speaker of the house in that incident. that vice president concluded he did not have and does not have the authority to delay or reject the counting of electoral votes. why? because we're a nation of laws. a nation of the constitution. that principle was established in both the constitution and the electoral count act of 1887. not only would this legislation raise the threshold required to object to a state's slate of electors from the ridiculously low one of one house member and one senator, to one third of the membership. at least 152 million people ought to be given that respect who voted in that election. that at least a third of us would have to