you were actually a candidate for the supreme council of justice, but did not pass the competition. sed by that. well, it seemed that if we have an example of such a principled judge who was not afraid to go into conflict with the judicial system with his colleagues, but for the sake of justice, then this was your example, we admired it and said a lot about him. how did it happen that you did not pass the selection to the supreme council of justice well, of course, it was a very unexpected decision for me, and even more so when i saw the text of the decision itself, why was i recognized as such? it just meets the requirements of professional ethics. i was very critical of economic self-governance in the very judge to whom i was bullied, and so it is worth the second such facts, uh, we know that we have certain uh, in such changes, parents who use against certain famous persons as for such and such as well harassing and persecuting some e-e information. some strange children embodied that kind of thing. well, after all, it became some kind of opportunity to accuse a sufficient public

year, that the head of sap will be appointed, you need to see to appoint members of the supreme supreme council of justiceis is also one of the points that western societies are concerned about. if this structure is created but it does not work, even the excuses that we have there is a war going on, they are not working , our constitutional court has also been working for several years, they cannot determine its status, therefore, there are certain reasons for the concern of our western partners , and therefore the best best answer will be no assurance that we have this anti-corruption structure was created, and indeed its effective work even in war conditions. well, what is happening in europe itself?

judges of the constitutional court, complete the selection of candidates for members of the supreme council of justice, the selection of candidates to the higher qualification commission of judges of ukraine to strengthen the fight against corruption, here is a long-standing issue, to appoint new heads of the special anti-corruption prosecutor's office and to acquire legislation on the fight against the payment of money according to the standards of the anti-oligarchic law. he must implement the law on mass media according to european standards. well, the reform of the legislation on the protection of national minorities is actually quite an unprecedented case, it was even called by the candidates with an asterisk, but at the same time, the decision is strong a signal, including to russia, of its military invasion, at least this is what french president macron said, let's listen, everything has already been said, i just wanted to emphasize how important this historic moment in the context that we are currently experiencing a war that russia started on ukrainian soil, a war against ukraine and its citi

serious claims of the public in the media about the integrity of the candidates to the supreme council of justice to the high qualification commission of judges, and it will depend on these bodies how it will be functioning of the judicial system in ukraine, and without a transparent judicial system, no reforms are possible, no welfare is possible, and no accession to the european union will be possible even in the foreseeable future no one has any prospects for negotiations with a country that does not have a fair trial. turkey has been building a candidate for 23 years. the members of the european union are waiting for negotiations to continue. they don't have them. at the same time, turkish courts very often issue verdicts that the authorities need. and about no european union. such situations are unthinkable, there are two more tasks related to the fight against corruption, the first is the completion of the appointment of the head of the specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's office, this head has already won the competition, but uh, in connection with the well-known processes in the ukrai

to the completion of reforms in our judicial system, this constitutional court and the supreme council of justicelementation of our oligarchical legislation, which provides for the impossibility of the influence of the oligarchs on various processes taking place in the state and the independence of the media regulator, that is, in fact, these are all such processes that are connected with the completion of our anti-corruption and judicial reforms and, in fact, the most important work must be completed by the end of this year. this year, i think that we have every chance to do a lot of things from this list, because they will know that we have advanced far but it is not finished and will make their assessment . how did we progress until the end of this year at the end of the 22nd? well, considering that these reforms have not yet been completed in our country, even though the european commission said that 70% of the requirements, in principle, have already been fulfilled, 30 of them are obviously the most difficult, so it has not been for many years managed to do it, and here you are in six months

extremely simple to clean the water , meanwhile, and experts even say that the cleaning of the supreme council of justice and the appointment of an independent procedure of members according to an independent procedure of members it takes several months for the highest quality commission of judges to do this, but in fact the previous president and the current president paid little attention to this process, which in fact can now take only a few months. you can now honestly say why this happened and why we are now ready for this path as with which we willingly called, we are ready. 3 months have already passed, that is, in fact, the candidacy works like krut, or , um, there was simply no time to complete these processes. but again, the question is why, why, until this moment , what is the cornerstone of existence has not happened ukrainian society, well, this is some kind of uh, it's probably such a curse of ukrainians, uh, that we constantly have to give some kind of foam. i remember uh, visa-free uh, just the conditions of the visa-free regime, uh, visa liberalization for ukraine, and then a lot of such

serious claims of the public in the media about the integrity of the candidates to the supreme council of justiceest qualification commission of judges, and how the judicial system will function in ukraine will depend on these bodies, and without a transparent judicial system, no reforms are possible, no prosperity is possible, and no accession to the european union will be possible even in the foreseeable future, because no one will conduct negotiations with a country in which there is no fair trial, turkey will be a candidate for 23 years, members of the european union are waiting for negotiations to continue victory, they are not there with this turkish people very often pass judgments that are needed by the authorities. well, there are no such situations in the european union. there are two more tasks related to the fight against corruption. the first is the completion of the appointment of the head of the specialized anti-corruption prosecutor's office . known processes in the ukrainian government in that there are officials who are not interested in ukraine's continuation of the anti-corrup

well, of course, the supreme council of justice is currently blocked and, work is therefore necessaryo complete this staff as soon as possible, of course, work is proceeding at an extremely fast pace, but still, russian aggression and other factors have a detrimental effect on the pace of judicial reform, which we desperately need now, therefore, we just need to speed up the pace , and in accordance with the changes that took place last year, we need to move with regard to the criteria for the selection of all members for the corresponding positions, again, if we are talking about the vrp, then the created auxiliary let's put it this way, a shark who is supposed to prevent unscrupulous and unscrupulous elements from entering, the ethics council in particular, and just a few days ago, in closed mode, she recommended two obviously unscrupulous candidates to the vrp and at the same time rejected larisa golnik. has already become a symbol of judicial integrity and, of course, professionalism there. i am now referring to the mykhailo zhornykova foundation de jure, so even the ethics counci

be the appointment of the head of sap, look, it is necessary to appoint members of the supreme council of justice, and this is also one of the points that western societies are worried about. if this structure is created but it does not work, well er, even those denials that we are currently at war er, they do not work, our constitutional court has also not been working for several years, they cannot determine its status, therefore, er, there are certain reasons for the concern of our western partners, and therefore the best best answer will not be an assurance that we have created this anti-corruption structure, but really its effective work even in war conditions. well, what is happening in europe itself? here is the latest information from the bloomberg publication, how they support ukraine and the military and economically, german chancellor olafsholz blocked the nationalization of the former subsidiary of the russian energy giant gazprom germany, which is under the temporary management of the country's energy regulator , the publication notes that schultz is concerned about that such a decis

institutions to check prosecutors, now the focus should be on the selection of members of the supreme council of justicefight corruption ukraine has also come a long way in creating the necessary anti-corruption bodies, so the focus now should be on the appointment of a new chairman , take these comments into account and actually correct this the question is almost rhetorical, because you rightly pointed out that we are already fighting these demons of ours. well, i won't say a year, i won't say two, it's a long enough time, and what can help us deal with them now much faster. obviously, this is really closer cooperation with our european partners, a more frank dialogue with them and a more qualitative assessment of what is happening in us, how the relevant reforms are progressing, it all comes to us and with the status of a candidate, secondly, it is rather a sociopolitical factor, but we understand that russia's war against ukraine in many aspects changed the perception of the population of our leadership, our processes in society and actually made unacceptable a lot of, let's say, anti-state practiti

well, now they didn’t actually accept it , they didn’t pass the selection to the supreme council of justicethat she was too conflicted, a potentially very interesting story about conflict i think we'll talk about it, it's interesting to me, i'm just going to fight corruption so that there are no conflicts, so that i don't offend anyone, so, so, so that i never offend volodymyr molchanov, a political scientist we are joined by uh good day mr. volodymyr good day yes, mr. volodymyr left kherson alone at the beginning of the war and i know the story was not easy , in fact, how you got out of kherson with the report was actually not easy, i understand how to get out of kherson because there, well this window when it was possible to leave in the first days, it literally lasted for hours. as far as i understand, because the bridge was immediately taken and the main exit was cut. that's how it was, of course, only that after that there was still a certain time of the gray zone when there was no stable the front line and it was possible to go around and bypass it somehow and i used it, but sooner or

, it would also be possible to restore the judicial reform by appointing members of the supreme council of justiceratify the long-suffering long-suffering istanbul convention on the prevention of domestic violence, turn on the air, e-e, turn off digital tv channels, such as espresso e direct fifth - this is something that can be done right now in order to demonstrate our readiness quote from a member of the european union, why are we going further and to italy, well, of course, now our conversation is structured in such a way that we actually need to talk about the diplomatic phase of the war, especially since there is for this and the important reasons are what is happening at the international level right now regarding the intensification of actual diplomatic efforts to stop the war. cnn reports that the usa and its allies emphasize the merits of negotiations to end the russian-ukrainian war because , in the opinion of the west the conflict can reach a dead end where neither side expects a clear victory in ownership nn says that in the last few weeks, officials of the united states of america ha

we continue to fulfill for example, the law on the reform of the supreme council of justice .hout postponing these processes, many conclusions have already been made and are clear without an official document. at the same time, today there are several skeptical countries that are trying to postpone the adoption of this decision for various reasons . to name some main ones, not the main ones , they are in principle several equal. it is either some prerequisites that should be presented to ukraine or the desire to throw ukraine into the basket in general by all countries on the european continent, yes or delaying this discussion or the general lack of political will to make a decision, because it is much easier to say no to ukraine than to take political responsibility and say yes to ukraine , but i am positive for several reasons . first, i am sure and i can confirm that the decision will be made directly. on the 24th, that is, it will not be a pre-prepared decision that we will not know about, this is important because it will be the individual political responsibility of each

procedure for selecting judges of the constitutional court, resolving issues of the high council of justice of the supremeking out the legislation on the fight against money laundering, a comprehensive planner for reforming the law enforcement sector, implementing the law on oligarchs, and before the legislation on snakes, the reform of legislation for national minorities, this is a very short summary, so to speak , we add to our conversation vadym halychuk, people's deputy of ukraine, first deputy chairman of the committee on ukraine's integration into the eu, mr. vadim, we congratulate you, glory to ukraine, but i can't hear you very well , can you hear me, we can hear you, we can hear you we hear you, mr. volodymy, but now our editors promise to help with information, and for now, the question is addressed to ms. maria, well, there seemed to be seven points, and in fact, they are uh-uh real to be implemented, but it’s almost here and now you can just get down to it and start uh-uh it is normal to carry them out well and leading to this. ok then, after all, mr. vadym will have a question. thank you, we

of points he raised requests that i meet with his campaign council, mr. giuliani. at one point he raised the -- whether the justice department would file a lawsuit in the supreme court. a couple of junctures there were questions about making public statements or about holding a press conference. one of the latest junctures was the issue of sending a letter to state legislatures in georgia. >> on december 13th an organization called the allied security group issued a report that the dominion machines had a 68% error rate. >> you noted that mr. roz ebb said to mr. trump, quote, doj can't and won't snap its fingers and change the outcome of the election. how did the president respond to that, sir. >> he responded very quickly and said essentially, that is not what i'm asking to you do. what i'm just asking you to do is say it was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressman. >> just say the investigation was corrupt and leave it to me and the republican congressman. that is an exact quote from the president? >> that is an exact quote from the president, yes. >> the next note shows that even that the president kept pressing and told there was no evide

of points, he raised requests that i meet with his campaign council, mr. giuliani. at one point, he raised the, whether the justice department would file a lawsuit in the supreme court. at a couple of junctures, there were questions of making public statements, or about holding a press conference. one of the later junctures was this issue of sending a letter to state legislatures in georgia or other states. i will say that the justice department declined all of those requests that i was just referencing because we did not think that they were appropriate, based on facts and the law as we understood them. >> the president said just say the election was corrupt, and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. so mr. donoghue, that's a direct quote from president trump, correct? >> that's an exact quote from the president, yes. >> the next note shows that even the president kept pressing, even though he had been told that there was no evidence of fraud, the president keeps saying that the department was quote obligated to tell people that this was an illegal, corrupt election. >> that's also an exact quote from the president. >> wow. former attorney general er

justice in us supreme court history. we are kicking off the evening celebration of the justices jurisprudence with a very special award presentation by our sinner's namesake former ambassador and white house council steve. boyden gray. in honor of justice thomas's 30 years and his role as one of the leading jurists of the 20th and 21st centuries this year. the grace center is awarding for the first time will become an annual award named after the justice justice to honor his ongoing legacy? the justice clearance time is first principles of war will be given out each year in october to an individual who has shown exemplary dedication to principled application of the rule of law humility and strength of character. the award is inscribed with the quote from justice thomas from a 2001 speech titled be not afraid that embodies the justices approach to life and the law a warning to never surrender to the understandably attractive impulse towards creative but unwarranted alterations of first principles. justice thomas's story rising from childhood in the segregated south and poverty to a seat on the supreme court is a poignant personification of the american story of liberty and optimism. justice thomas

republicans if he had a list of judges that he would promise to pick the supreme court justice from he grasped it. it was a mcconnell idea. it was don mcgann the white. council it was a federalist society and the heritage foundation, but he got it. and he got it and it and it worked for him. number two though, i think. the the trump versus hillary clinton race was so astonishing overall that i think anyone issue got subsumed by it, you know you could talk about the supreme court, but you came back to it's either trump or hillary etc. so mcconnell actually didn't expect trump to win from what we can tell. but he wanted to keep the seed just in case and he came up a winner. okay, so going back to mcconnell and and more current events. reading what he said in private about trump's impeachable offense from the insurrection, which was that he's tired of the guy. and i forget the exact words. i'm sick of the guy the dems are going to take care of them. meaning that he would be impeached and then his vote to acquit and his public criticism followed by his public criticism of trump and his comments on the narrow grounds that he justified his vote on. do you can you

of points he raised requests that i meet with his campaign council, mr. giuliani. at one point he raised whether the justice department would file a lawsuit in the supreme court. re, about public statements or about holding a press conference. at one of the later junctures was the issue of sending a letter to state legislatures in georgia or other states. i will say that the justice department declined all of those requests that i was just referencing because we did not think that they were appropriate based on the facts and the law as we understood them. >> the president said just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congressmen. so mr. donoghue, that's a direct quote from president trump, correct? >> that's an exact quote from the president, yes. >> the next note shows that even the president kept pressing, even though he had been told there was no evidence of fraud, the president keeps saying that the department was quote obligated to tell people that this was an illegal, corrupt election? >> that's also an exact quote from the president. >> john, let's go back to this quote. he responded very quickly, the president of the

of you clerked for justice roberts. aaron, he wrote a beautiful op-ed for fox news called why supreme court abortion decision empowers women. to serve the councils this case. tells about that story and why you say her crying in the middle of one of the meetings was a loud reminder of how this issue is. >> absolutely paid we had soup flown down to mississippi, phone all day, navigated the connecting flight and abigail was exhausted. we didn't have time to check-in so we were running to the meeting room. thankfully she fell asleep on the way. not also so long after we sat down to dive entities complex legal discussions on strategy and how to approach a case she up screaming. just sort of awkward and uncomfortable as it was trying to comfort a baby while also contributing to discussions, she was just a real, tangible reminder of why this case matters. she was this curly headed loud chubby cheeked infant who was absolutely precious and absolutely unique. thing is, ainsley, she is not any more pressures are unique than any other baby at whatever age. they are all deserving protection and deserving of life. >> ainsley: you will have to read it it's g