t infamous ledbetter decision, for inance, the louisville and seattle integration cases. the first limitation on roe . wade that oright disregards the woman's healt and safety, and the d.c. heller dision discovering a constutional ght to own guns that t cot hanot previously niced in 220 yrs. somballs and strikes. over andver news reporting discusses fuamental changes in the law brought by the robert -- roberts' court's right wing flank. the robes court has not kept epromises of modesty or humility made when e bush administratiominated justis roberts andalito. i'd like to avoid code words and look for a simpleroblem for you during these arings, that you wi respect the role of congress as representatives of the america people, that you will decide cases based onhe law and the cts, that youwill notprejudge y case,but listen every party that comes before you, and that youill respect reside and limit yourself to the ises that the cot must decide. in shart -- short that yo will use theroad disction of a supreme court justice wisely. t me emphasize that broad discretion. justice

the infamous ledbetter decision, for instance, the louisville and seal integration cases. the first limitation on "roe v. wade," that outright disregards the woman's health and safety, and the d.c.hellor decision, discovering a constitutional right to own guns that the court had not previously noted in 220 years. some balls and strikes. over and over news reporting discusses fundamental changes in the law brought by the roberts' courts right wing flank. the roberts' court has not kept the promises of modesty or humility made when president bush nominated justices roberts and alito. so judge sotomayor, i would like to avoid code words and look for a simple pledge from you during these hearings, that you will respect the role of congress as representatives of the american people, that you will decide cases based on the law and the facts, that you will not pre-judge any case but listen to every party that comes before you and that you will respect precedent and limit yourself to the issues that the court must decide, in short, that you will use the broad discretion of a supre

they said lilly ledbetter filed her discrimination complaint to lake. the sedar complaint chevette been filed with 1180 days of the first discriminatory paycheck. the realities of the workplace were fewer employees know what their fellow employees are being paid contradicted the decade of the past president and in stafford versus redding, 13-year-old girl strip searched at her school because of a false rumor that she was hiding ibuprofen pills. the oral argument ask questions about the case that unfortunately revealed a stunning lack of sympathy about the eighth grade victum. one of the justices even suggested being strip search was no different than changing clothes for jim class. although justice ruth bader ginsburg help tariff eight colleagues understand why this trip search of a 13-year-old girl was humiliating enough to violate her rights, the majority of the justice ruled the school officials were immune from liability. 5-4 case in 2007, gonzalez versus carhart the primm cordy gannett overturned the last president and rule for the first time it is

they said lily ledbetter filed her discrimination complaint too late.said her complaint should have been filed within 180 days of the first discriminatory paycheck. that decision defied common sense. and the realities of the workplace, where few employees know what their fellow employees are being paid, it contradicted the decades of past precedent. in the sanford versus united school district verse us redding, 13-year-old girl strip-searched at her school because of a false rumor she was hiding ibuprofen pills, but an argument in april, several supreme court justices asked questions about the case that unfortunately revealed the stunning lack of empathy about the eighth grade victim. one of the justices even suggested that being strip-searched was no different than changing clothes for gym class. although justice ruth bader ginsburg helped her eight male colleagues understand why the strip search of a 13-year-old girl was humiliating enough to violate her constitutional rights, the majority of the justices ruled that the school officials were immune fr

more people know the ledbetter case that have actually read it, so just refresh your recollection. the question was how to apply title vii 180 day statute of limitations in the context of the claim of pay discrimination. what was the discriminatory act? the unlawful employment practice, was that the initial pacesetting decision? or was it the issue of the subsequent paycheck that reflected or more to the point perpetuated the initial discrimination? the equal employment opportunities provision long-standing paycheck recruit rule provide the latter definition that this policy was repudiated in the supreme court by the bush administration which entered the case on behalf of the employer. the company won by a vote of imac-4. the court held that her court was time-barred because she showed up while the charge and not during the year she left the company which is when she became aware that her monthly pay was as much as 40% lower than the men she worked with, but many years earlier when her pay and out of her coworkers begin to diverge. she was by the way the only woman of her rank at t

lilly ledbetter were there at the tire plant -- worked at the tire plant for several years.he jury awarded her a verdict . they said the cheaper -- she filed her discrimination complaint to light. they said that it should have been filed within 100 days of the discriminatory paycheck. that decision defied common sense. the realities of the workplace is that few employees know what their fellow employees are being paid. a 14-year-old girl was stripped searched because of a false rumor that she was hiding ibuprofen pills. the oral argument revealed a stunning lack of empathy about the eighth grade victim. one of the justices even suggested that being strip search was no different than changing clothes for gym class. although justice ruth bader ginsburg helped her eight male colleagues understand why this research of a 13-year-old girl was humiliating enough to violate her constitutional rights, the majority of the justices ruled that the school officials were immune from liability. the supreme court again overturned a past president and voted for the first time it was permissi

we've had from thelilly ledbetter bill. >> fair pay for won. >> exactl kekeeping schools in the simulu fall we hope to finalal get thi 100 1 disrity whicic pple get carriried for this very carry ack. blblk pple are 13% of the cracusers but almost90 of ththpeople that get lockeked up for cacaying ack, which i crazy. andd people b busted for kraerg crack get 11 timemes stiffer penaltltieshan carrying powd anand it's the same druug. we'r're in busess to go out of business b b we aren'n't there yet. richa, your thouts. >> preredent oma made times as sthor for naacp. made tripips out of washington all the national events. yet on thehe campapaign where w would ask hi what are you going to o do specifically to hp african-amamerican he said say, you ow, african-americanss want the same thing as white folk betterealth care, better jobs. is thatenough? shshld doomething specificalally? >> if he takeses care of at, yeyes. we're the canaries s the c coa mine. you te care of allhe mine, things get better for us, , oo. if he can fix thee schools. he can make sure the justice system is truly fairn th

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so you ledbetter motes apply every month 150,004 hour burn long it takes us to get back up deposited jobs. if you really want to know the magnitude of the job problem that we have in this country, the job creation problem. we are not talking about creating 6 million jobs. we are not talking about creating 7 million jobs. we are talking about having to create 13 are 14 million jobs over the next years. just to be able to take care of what we have lost, and the new entrants into the workplace. every month that goes by there are 150,000 in the numbers to get from the government do not include those people and the numbers to get in the government, in the unemployment rates don't include the people who have given up looking for work which is that a record high and don't include the part-timers which is that the record high. dig has 23,000 employees. we don't like anybody africa we are incurring over $100 million of additional cost not to lay people off and in our 40 plus history have never laid anybody off. it costs money to do that. [applause] the reason i emphasize that is today those p

now, on the clock, judge, one need look no further than lilly ledbetter or the diana levine case, the woman from vermont to understand the impact each supreme court case has on the lives and freedoms of countless americans. in lilly ledbetter's case, five justices on the supreme court struck a severe blow to the right of working families across our country. it required the congress to pass legislation, basically overruling the supreme court case to say yes, women should be paid the same as men. justice ginsberg's dissent in that case criticized the narrow majority for making a cramped interpretation of our civil rights law. a different context on the three-suj panel involve strip searches of girls in a juvenile detention senter. the parents of two girls challenged the policy strip searching all those admitted to juvenile detention centers as a violation of fourth amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches. two of the male colleagues upheld that search. in a dissent you cite a controlling circuit precedent. describe what's involved in the strip search of these girls without in

equal pay for women during delhi ledbetter act which had been a dream of a lot of people and kept getting tripped up has been passed, is signed, and now women are guaranteed by law equal pay for equal work and it was way overdue. that has been done, that is in the rearview mirror, that is law. [applause] here is one that i love that hardly got any notice because there have been so many issues -- an historic deal to dramatically increase the cafe standards for vehicles so that they will be lower emissions and use less oil going forward. that is one that got announced one day and celebrated for five men's and we got on to the next issue. that is such a huge environmental well, good for economy, good for our workers. we are turning a new face to the world. this is one of the ways that man as the most to me. i've spent time abroad and watched our relations with the world get torn, even nations that we were friends with. it is so good to see america back understanding that strength is a function of three things -- military strength, absolutely. i have assigned training to be a marine officer.

and in ledbetter v. goodyear the court made it impossible for many plaintiffs to recover for unequal pay based on intentional sex you'll script nation. intention -- intentional sex you'll discrimination. congress has made sure to overturn the ledbetter decision as the first bill and legislation is pending to overturn more. congress should not have to pass every bill twice. it is essential for economic recovery that congress respects the intent of congress when it acts to regulates the markets. make no mistake, we must reform our financial markets. mr. president, the last two years have given the final grade on an economic theory that is deeply suspicious of regulation and trusts the markets to police themselves. the grade was an "f." america can no longer stand to permit financial institutions to gain from risky bets that go bad. decades of deregulation have gone few far with the greedy getting rich at the expense of the taxpayer must be stopped. congress can and will enact dramatically improved regulato

lilly ledbetter act. she alleged she was discriminated against and statute of limitations on that bill and on the legislation that sought to sue her employers under, her statute of limitations had long past and they argued that even the supreme court upheld the statute that they thought it just wasn't fair. the old it ain't fair brothers at it again. i'm all ok with changing the rules after the fact as long as it doesn't affect the people living during the time. this was like double jeopardy for the taxpayers and the lilly ledbetter act rammed through this congress. the pay check fairness act rammed through congress. omnibus appropriations act of 2009, the big stacked bill that runs the government for one year, afraid to do appropriations in a legitimate way, rammed through. no amendments either by the way. then to impose an additional tax on bonuses received from the a.i.g. bonuses. so we had to ram through tarp and then when the rules weren't written on oversight, a.i.g. paid millions of dollars of bonu

so many bills to come back year after year even since barack obama was elected he got the lilly ledbetter act signed which gives more opportunity for pay discrimination he got the genetic nondiscrimination act he was fighting that 10 years produce very good at picking his moments and working with republicans with a very close relationship with a senator had to does not drink or smoke and one of the most conservative human beings. [laughter] and they work really well together they have an odd relationship but they work well. >> it is striking with all of the partisanship to look again at their readers' comments, you see the villagization, the hostility some strong disagreement and condemnation at the same time it all has built up since the early 90's left over from chappaquiddick but especially he has been more effective than ever dealing with people in the senate. >> he is very well respected and hard work is respected by everybody no matter who it is. hillary clinton had not issues of personal behavior but people wondering if she was trading on her name and she hunkered down and he knows

comments regarding the strip search of a 13-year-old girl indicate, as well as her dissent in the lily ledbetter equal pay case, being a justice for all of us may mean bringing real world practical experience into the courthouse. as we consider your nomination, we know that you are more than a sum of your professional experiences. still, you bring one of the most wide-ranging legal resumes to this position. local prosecutor, civil litigator. trial judge. appellate judge. straight out of law school, you went to work as a prosecutor in the manhattan d.a.'s office and you ended up staying there for five years. when you're a prosecutor, the law ceases to be an abstract subject. it's not just a dusty book in the basement. it's real and it has an impact on real people's lives. whether it's victims and their families, defendants and their families or the neighborhood where you live. it also has a big impact on the individual prosecutor. you never forget the big and difficult cases. i know in your case, one of those is the serial burglar turned murderer, the tarzan murder case. in my case it was a littl

we passed the lilly ledbetter pay equity act bill. yesterday we passed a food safety bill.e did all of this in spite of resistance and in spite of obstructionism by many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle. but i think it's an indication that this is a congress that has accomplished a great deal. let me just say finally, mr. speaker, with regard to the underlying legislation, that if you like the status quo, if you want to embrace the same old same old when it comes to corporate misbehavior, then vote against the rule and vote against the bill. if you want things to change, if you want to ensure corporate responsibility, then please support the underlying bill championed by chairman frank. with that, mr. speaker, i urge a yes vote on the previous question and on the rule, and i yield back the balance of my time and i move the previous question on the rule. -- on the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. without objection, the previous question is ordered. the question is on the adoption of the resolution. all tho

the infamous ledbetter decision for instance, at the louisville and seattle integrate-- immigration cases, the first limitation on roe versus wade that out right disregards the women's health and safety. and the d.c. heller decision discovering a constitutional right to own guns that the court had not previously noticed in 220 years. some balls and strikes. over and over news reporting discusses fundamental changes in the law brought by the roberts court said right wing flank. the roberts court has not kept the promises of modesty or humility made when president bush nominated justices roberts and alito. so, judge sotomayor i would like to avoid code words and look for a simple pledge from you during his hearings, that you will respect the role of congress as a representative of the american people, that he will decide cases based on the law and the facts, that you will not prejudge any case but listen to every party that comes before you and that you will respect president and limit yourself to the issues the court must decide. in short, that you will use the broad discretion of the supr

consider -- when you consider that there are still a tremendous glass ceiling, when you consider lily ledbetter and you go on and on and on about the appropriateness of women standing up for women. if a woman doesn't stand up for women i wouldn't think much of her, and -- and senator durbin had a poetic sequence of questions about women's insights that are sdincht from men's insights, and believe me as a senator who came here with one come senator, senator kassebaum and the second was added, it's a very different place today with 17 women and a much better place, and there was a book out "nine women and growing why the "and now it's 17 that will grow even more to the benefit of this institution, and when she refers to being a latino, it's a little ethnic pride. i think that's a pretty healthy thing to have a little ethnic pride. so i not only found -- i didn't find fault with a wise latina woman i thought it was commendable, and then the business of empathy. there is no doubt about the history of the constitution in our country responding to empat empathy. the life of the law section appearance

consider -- when you consider that there are still a tremendous glass ceiling, when you consider lily ledbetter and you go on and on and on about the appropriateness of women standing up for women. if a woman doesn't stand up for women i wouldn't think much of her, and -- and senator durbin had a poetic sequence of questions about women's insights that are sdincht from men's insights, and believe me as a senator who came here with one come senator, senator kassebaum and the second was added, it's a very different place today with 17 women and a much better place, and there was a book out "nine women and growing why the "and now it's 17 that will grow even more to the benefit of this institution, and when she refers to being a latino, it's a little ethnic pride. i think that's a pretty healthy thing to have a little ethnic pride. so i not only found -- i didn't find fault with a wise latina woman i thought it was commendable, and then the business of empathy. there is no doubt about the history of the constitution in our country responding to empat empathy. the life of the law section appearance

so egregious was the they ledbetter decision that the congress major legislation overturning it was the first bill to reach president obama's tusk. legislation is pending that would overturn legion as well. congress should nafta passed every bill twice. it is essential for economic recovery that the congress respects the intent of congress when it acts to regulate the markets. make no mistakes, we must reform our financial markets. mr. president the last two years of give and as the final grade on an economic theory that is deeply suspicious of regulation entrusts the markets to police themselves. the grade was an f. the americans can no longer stand for institutions to profit from risky bets and then beg the taxpayer for a bailout when those bets go bad. three decades of the regulations have gone too far. the ability of the greedy and the powerful to rid themselves at the expense of the taxpayer must be stopped. congress can and will enact a dramatically improved regulatory system. the president can and will make sure that the role of an enforcement agencies are populated with smart mo

feinstein, when you consider that there is still a tremendous glass ceiling when you consider lily ledbetter that go on and on about the appropriateness of a woman standing up for women. the woman didn't stand up for women i would not think much of her. and senator durbin had a poetic sequence of questions about women's insights that are different from men's insights and believe me, from a senate to came here with one woman senator, senator kassebaum, and the second was added senator paula hawkins, is a very different place. today with 70 women and a bit much better place. there was a book out, nine women and growing, and now it is 17 and will grow even more to the benefits of this institution. and when she refers to being a latina, that is a little of ethnic pride. i think that is a pretty healthy thing. two have a little of ethnic pride. so i not only found, i did not find fault with the wise latino woman, i thought that was commendable. and then the business of empathy. there is no doubt about the history of the constitution and our country responding to empathy. the life of the laws expe

so you ledbetter motes apply every month 150,004 hour burn long it takes us to get back up deposited jobs. if you really want to know the magnitude of the job problem that we have in this country, the job creation problem. we are not talking about creating 6 million jobs. we are not talking about creating 7 million jobs. we are talking about having to create 13 are 14 million jobs over the next years. just to be able to take care of what we have lost, and the new entrants into the workplace. every month that goes by there are 150,000 in the numbers to get from the government do not include those people and the numbers to get in the government, in the unemployment rates don't include the people who have given up looking for work which is that a record high and don't include the part-timers which is that the record high. dig has 23,000 employees. we don't like anybody africa we are incurring over $100 million of additional cost not to lay people off and in our 40 plus history have never laid anybody off. it costs money to do that. [applause] the reason i emphasize that is today those p

the lilly ledbetter act which had been getting tripped up in congress has been passed. women are guaranteed by law and equal pay for equal work. it was way overdue, but that has been done. that is in the rearview mirror, and that is the law. [applause] here is one that i love that hardly got any notice, because there have been so many issues. the president brokered adrial -- a deal to dramatically increase the standards for vehicles so that there would be lower emissions and use less oil. that one got celebrated for five minutes. that is a huge environmental win, but for the economy and good for the workers. we have shown that we are turning a new face to the world. this is one of the ones that matters most to me, having spent time abroad and having watched our relations with the world get torn, even nations we are friend with. it is so good to see america back, understanding that strength is a function of three things, military strength -- i have a son who is training to be a marine officer. we also have to have diplomatic strength, which we had let atrophy. most impor

the infinite -- the infamous ledbetter decision, for instance, the louisville and seattle integration cases. the first limitation on roe v wade that out right disregards the woman's health and safety. and the d.c./heller discretion discovered a constitutional right to own guns at the court had not previously noticed in 220 years. some balls and strikes. over and over, news reporting discusses fundamental changes in the law brought by the roberts courts right-wing flank. the roberts court has not kept the promises of modesty or humility made when president bush nominated justices roberts and alito. judge sotomayor or, i'd like to avoid coleworts and look for simple pledge from you. that you will respect the role of congress as representatives of the american people, that you'll decide cases based on the law and the facts. did you not prejudge any case but listen to every party that comes before you and that you will expect -- respect president and limit yourself of the issues the court must find. in short, you'll use the broad discretion of the supreme court justice wisely. net me emph