i would like to thank samuel williams and james smith for staffing this meeting. do we have a motion to excuse supervisor brown? >> so moved. >> mr. clerk. mr. clerk that motion is adopted without objection. >> please make sure to silence cell phones. documents should be submitted to the clerk. items will appear on the april 2 board of supervisors agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, mr. clerk. please call item one. >> resolution affirming the board of supervisors per visor commitment to addvensment of racial equity and in the city and county programs policies and veryises in the city programs and policies and services. >> due to supervisor brown's absence i make a motion to continue to the call of the chair. we will take public comment. are there any members of the public who wish to testify? seeing none, public comment is closed. can we continue this item to the call of the chair without objection? thank you. please call item two. >> item two a hearing to inquire into the circumstances surrounding the retroactive nature of the board of supervisors' appr

i would like to thank samuel williams and james smith for staffing this meeting. do we have

i want to thank samuel williams for staffing the meeting. mr. clerk, do you have any announcements? >> yes, thank you, mr. chair. please ensure you have silenced your cell phones and other electronic items. and any documents you have should be submitted to the clerk. >> chairman: thank you. mr. clerk, please call the first item. >> a hearing to discuss city policies to reduce homelessness in residential neighborhoods. >> chairman: great. thank you. so we have a somewhat tricky situation this morning, colleagues, in that we have all of us who want to participate, the members of the committee, a sponsor and co-sponsor of this hearing, and supervisor haney, who all want to participate in this. now, in addition to that, supervisors brown, peskin -- brown and peskin also would like to at least be able to make statements. i would like to make a preliminary statement, for all of us to make any statements with want to make, and either supervisor brown or peskin can be able to speak, so somebody has to get up and let them come into the room. so i'm hoping that either supervisor haney or rone

taking questions from reporters are defense secretary dick cheney, samuel skinner and william reilly carried this portion is a -- william reilly. this portion is about 25 minutes. statement and will be glad to take a few questions and then refer them to our experts here. virtually every american is familiar with the tragic environmental disaster in alaskan waters. and more than ten million gallons of oil have been spilled with deadly results for wildlife and hardship for local citizens. we all share the sorrow and

taking questions from reporters are defense secretary dick cheney, samuel skinner and william reilly carried this portion is a -- william reilly. this portion is about 25 minutes. statement and will be glad to take a few questions and then refer them to our experts here. virtually every american is familiar with the tragic environmental disaster in alaskan waters. and more than ten million gallons of oil have been spilled with deadly results for wildlife and hardship for local citizens. we all share the sorrow and concern of alaskans and its determination to mount a sustained cleanup effort. our ultimate goal must be the complete restoration of the ecology and the economy of prince william sound. including all of its fish, marine mammals, birds and other wildlife. the exxon corporation has acknowledged responsibility for this spill and its liability for the damages. exxon should remain responsible for both damages and for employing civilian personnel. necessary to control further damage. however, exxon's efforts standing alone are not enough. and after consulting with the congression

taking questions from supporters is dick cheney, samuel skinner, and william riley. this portion is about 25 minutes. i have a statement and then i will be glad to take questions and refer them to our experts. virtually, every american is familiar with the tragic environmental disaster in alaska waters. more than 10 million gallons of oil have been spilled with deadly results for wildlife and hardship for local citizens. we all share the sorrow and concern of alaskans and the determination to mount a sustained cleanup effort. our ultimate goal must be the complete restoration of the ecology and the economy of prince william sound. including all of its fish, marine mammals birds and other wildlife. the exxon corporation has acknowledged responsibility for this spill. and its liability for the damages. exxon should remain responsible for both damages. and for employing civilian personnel. necessary to control further damage. however,

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william rehnquist in the 1980's and what he had done. that reinforces what i said about how he came with an agenda. i would say, for better or for worse, samuellito came with an agenda. i think he approaches a law with clear-cut ideas about how to read a statute, how to read a constitution, and he bases it on precedents to be sure. opposed to retired justice anthony kennedy, has a very consistent outlook that is ideological. for better or for worse. i am not using the word ideological as negative. if you were republican and had been either eisenhower, or name your president, and you had william brennan, then you had john paul stevens, than you had david souter, when you tighten things up if you were republicans and he saw what they did on the court? strains to are many republicanism. i would say that is what happened. rich h dubya bush pushed it back, george w. bush did that and certainly donald trump. george h w bush did that, george w. bush did that and certainly donald trump. they have very strong outside advisement will handle a lot of vetting. brett kavanaugh and neil gorsuch were heavily vetted. more so than john roberts. john roberts w

william seward, he was governor and senator from new york. and everybody thought he was a shoo in. leonard sweat was a good buddy of linchingon's. samuel parks from illinois and each of these towns. they wpt delegates but they stayed at the hotel, fancy hotel in which davis arranged that. and they fanned out. and he sent them out to everybody in those days came from somewhere else because illinois was very new. sweat from massachusetts or from maine to the maine delegation and all of this came to pass. in the had a goal of convention, they knew sew arch rd was the favorite and had to stop him. there were a wheel bunch of guys running and wanted lincoln to be the best of the rest. simple goal on the first ballot and sure enough, they got it done. second ballot, linchingon prepped up and so did davis in terms of the ballot count. >> wops he was in politics, how did linchingon look back on his career as a lawyer? >> he never had a period that he wasn't a lawyer. that's another thing that i love to emphasize about this story. most of the guys who were politicians, being a lawyer is kind of a cover. this guy was a working stiff. and he hand