let's stop playing politics with the federal judiciary. this hurts the country by engaging in more obstruction. instead of exacerbating the conflict and this destructive conflict that's hurting the federal courts so much, senate republicans should reconsider their tactics, moderate their use of filibusters and stalling. the president has reached out to work with senators from both parties with respect to judicial nominations. every one of the 19 judicial nominations awaiting final senate action has the support of his or her home state senators, republicans as well as democratic. there's no use for continuing to stall president obama's consensus judicial nominees. courts and the country can't afford another year of across-the-board delays of president obama's judicial nominations. mr. president, i think as senators know, i've worked with both republicans and democrats to help them get their nominees through. they'vedom mean and said they had a nominee they wanted to get through from their state. we've done it. it's a sorry precedent not only

his nomination was also reported by the judiciary committee by a bipartisan voice vote. yet he nomination has been waiting for a vote on the floor for nearly four months. all of this unnecessary. they could go through by unanimous consent. now, i understand that some of my republican colleagues believe that president obama's recent recess appointments are a reason to delay needed confirmations, to overburdened courts around the country. and by simply remind my colleagues of a bit of history and ask them to think carefully about whether they want to go down this very dangerous path. many will recall that president bush made two controversial recess appointments to the 11th circuit and the sixth circuit in early 2004. like republicans now, democrats were upset about the president's appointments. nevertheless, in the three months that followed, democrats permitted numerous circuit court and district court nominees to be confirmed. the senate continued to act on such nominees until september of 2004, two months before the presidential election. so i say to my colleagues -- an

your wife has been appointed head of the national judiciary office. she has been appointed for nine years. very difficult to remove her. we have a whole stack of judges who have to retire. she is going to have the power to appoint judges who are very close -- not alone -- but she is married to you and you are very close -- is that -- >> i resigned when she was appointed to this position. i resigned all of my political positions. >> you are no longer an ally of the prime minister? >> i am supporting him -- >> that is what i need. >> but my wife is a judge for 25 years. she was the president of the labour court of budapest and is an excellent lawyer. i did not think it will then should sacrifice career because her husband is a member of the european parliament. >> thank you. after living there. stay with us here on bbc world news. plenty more to come. the freeman foundation of new newman's own foundation, and union bank. >> at union bank, our relationship managers work hard to understand the industry you operate in, working to nurture new ventures and he

in addition, the appointments to the federal judiciary that eisenhower made shaped it for decades. the most obvious example of this was the chief justice of the supreme court, earl warren, who spearheaded the judiciary's dismantling of jim crow. in addition, judges like elbert tuttle, john brown, john minor wisdom and frank johnson jr. were appointed to lower federal courts and played key roles in desegregating the south in the 1960s. to screen candidates for such posts, eisenhower relied on his attorney general brownell, who was instructed not to place a known segregationist on the list of judicial candidates, so true to greenstein's thesis, eisenhower gave considerable power to a man he trusted, who could make the president's objectives a reality. nichols also reminded readers of the other accomplishments of the administration that have received scant notice over the years. eisenhower was able to use his credibility as a general to generate compliance on military desegregation so that in less than two years all combat units were desegregated. he also desegregated schools on milita

what's known as an organizational conflict of interest they run the system they don't control the judiciary they don't control the prosecutors have someone who doesn't they don't even enter surveillances the laws so they don't even interface when people go through this system no one even interfaces for there is not even for them to have go through the system but there's not a four imposed citizens united there's not a for profit corporation in this country that doesn't have. influence over the law making process while they're allowed to have participation the political process and the in many instances have a first amendment right to be able to have freedom of speech in part let's remind let's have just a man in their own right and not have them run our prisons but in this environment where we have absolutely these states and the federal government are not just broke there were added arizona dea privatized one of the prisons just last month because that is the king a trend that over the last twenty five years over a dozen states have continued to increase the privatization of prison c.c.a.

. >> i just hope that the judiciary committee takes this seriously. >> last year, after they testified in annapolis, the bill was killed by members of the judiciary >> it was a big committee. it wasn't four or five people. there must have been 10 or 15 people around that table. >> and you are hoping this year they will pass it. >> please. yes. for the good of citizens of the whole area. >> the proposed legislation would change the classification of a home invasion robbery to a county. certainly a violent crime. today, opening statements up and the murder trial of george huguely. there are two theories how yeardley love died in 2010. the prosecution says she suffered massive injuries when huguely burst into her apartment, grabbed love by the network banged her head against the wall. love suffocated in her pillow after the a night of drinking. the jury could be considering premaid -- charged with a felony. beth parker has that story. >> police say 55-year-old richard cruise pretended to a doctor and colonel in the united states army. >> was he either of those things? >> no, not that we f

they were able to reform the judiciary, they were able to eliminate huge amounts of bureaucracy, to reform police--they have a much more transparent policing system than any other former soviet republic, outside of the baltics, let's say. really an astonishing accomplishment, and that was done because libertarians in georgia were very active in helping to drive that reform process. - and, of course, they were nearly clobbered by mr. putin, and i'm just wondering, when you see somebody like that-- saakashvili, or even the dalai lama, who's really in a whole different world and fighting for very different things than what you're fighting for, but fighting very bravely--when you see all of that, leaders like that, do you think that they will eventually prevail? - that's a question of a timeframe. i do think that authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, they always present this image that they're eternal. it turns out they're not. they tend to be rather brittle, and we've seen this in various regimes. this certainly was the case in egypt, where there was an authoritarian regime of mubarak, tota

. >> and the stop the online prior si act, i understand that we are starting over in the judiciary committee, and i have benefited greatly by the people in your department about the impact of the original proposal over there in the judiciary committee. on dns sect which i happen to think is essential for us to ensure the integrity of the internet. and i would just ask your permission to work with your people as we work in other committees to try and get an appropriate fix, and once we establish what the public policy ought to be, we did not do a good enough job i think not understanding the technology, and you have expertise in the department, and i would hope that we could work with them in attempting to come up with the fix that is necessary to protect against intellectual property theft, but at the same time not do unintended damage to the internet and the internet security. >> yes, yes, we would be happy to provide technical assistance in that regard. >> my last subject is the area of ts, and the screening partnership program. we've had the head of the tsa up here a couple of times, and

. >> reporter: egypt's foreign minister said his government cannot interfere in the work of the judiciary. >> the idea is that this is happening after the elections, after the muslim brotherhood took off parliament. so the military council seemed to be operating a military operation to push the ngos outside the country so the next government doesn't have to do it. >> reporter: meanwhile egypt's military rulers face mounting pressure on another front with violent protests. the clashes sparked by inability to control riots after a soccer match last week left 74 people dead. a date hasn't been set for the start of the trial. >>> with tensions between iran and israel at an all time high iran is issuing more threats and launching a new round of war games. they're warning countries anyone who helps launch an attack on iran would become a target. some predict a new level of crisis while others discount their threats. >> iran continues to make progress toward getting nuclear weapon capability. sanctions are failing. diplomacy has failed. we're coming to a very difficult point here i think in the

ross, who is an active member of the judiciary committee. e speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for two minutes. mr. ross: thank you, madam speaker. mr. chairman, i rise in support of the stock act today and in support of extending its reach to the executive branch. all of us who have been honored by our fellow citizens with the enormous responsibility of protecting the liberties of this republic have a duty to hold ourselves to the highest of standards. you know it's ironic that in 2012 we are here debating a bill th would prevent public officials from enriching themselves through our positions. it's ironic because one of the great causes that impels the separation from great britain was the common practice of public officials using their office to increase their personal wealth. madam speaker,36 years ago those patriots said enough. that spirit is in america's d.n.a. and we would do a disservice to all who came before us if we failed to act. i know that a vast majority of my friends on the other side of the aisle s

arlen specter as chairman of the judiciary committee, we had a conversation. e to support him. i said, will you support the president's nominees? we had a 51-49 majority in the senate. he said, i'll support the preside president's nominees as chairman. former senator arlen specter joins me now and of course switched parties to be a democrat in 2009 and lost a bid for re-election as a democrat. senator specter, thanks for joining me this morning. >> glad to be with you, chuck. >>> well let's start with just walk me through your relationship with senator santorum going back to the days that he first ran for congress, first ran for senate. what kind of political relationship would you describe, would you ascribe that you had with senator santorum? >> we had an excellent relationship. when his campaign for the senate was in the doldrums in august of 1994, i put my whole campaign apparatus at his disposal. pat mahan was my executive director in philadelphia and now a congressman from suburban philadelphia. i campaigned for him and i think i was very helpful, perhaps

there is still some sort of minor disagreements between the chairman and ranking member of the judiciary committee that we really ought to be able to work out. i'm hopeful we can add that piece and the additional pieces on the law enforcement side. i that i is very important. >> and we can lead by example. get your own house in order. >> both of our bills have provisions that allow the sharing of threat information that pertains to a crime that is happening, about to happening or happened to law enforcement. and that's obviously a delicate balance. that is something we want to continue to work on. but i believe, kevin, you were the same. you had similar provisions. >> we have similar provision. not exactly the same. but the house process is a bit more fragmented than that chosen by the senate. again, the speaker and i started the task force and that included members from i think -- i want to say nine different committees. and so tom and i only represent two of those committees. and so there will be other action by other committees. we're anticipating something from the judiciary committe

ross, who is an active member of the judiciary committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for two minutes. mr. ross: thank you, madam speaker. mr. chairman, i rise in support of the stock act today and in support of extending its reach to the executive branch. all of us who have been honored by our fellow citizens with the enormous responsibility of protecting the liberties of this republic have a duty to hold ourselves to the highest of standards. you know it's ironic that in 2012 we are here debating a bill that would prevent public officials from enriching themselves through our positions. it's ironic because one of the great causes that impels the separation from great britain was the common practice of public officials using their office to increase their personal wealth. madam speaker, 236 years ago those patriots said enough. that spirit is in america's d.n.a. and we would do a disservice to all who came before us if we failed to act. i know that a vast majority of my friends on the other side of the a

the senate judiciary subcommittee heard about the issue from the general counsel of netflix, online privacy advocates and scholars. this is about an hour and 30 minutes. >> this hearing will come to order. it's my pleasure to well you come you to the third hearing on the subcommittee of privacy, technology and the law. now before we start, i just want to applaud the supreme court for its decision in the jones case. it was, i believe, the right result, but it was also call to action to congress because while law enforcement now needs a warrant to track your location, all of the companies that get your location information almost every day, your smartphone company, your in-car navigation company and even the apps on your phone are still in most cases free to give out your location whomever they want as long as it isn't the government. i have a bill to fix that, and i think we need to take action on it right away. but today's hearing is -- will focus on the video privacy protection act. a powerful privacy law that was written and passed by chairman leahy and grassley. i want to use this hearin

ross, who is an active member of the judiciary committee. e speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for two minutes. mr. ross: thank you, madam speaker. mr. chairman, i rise in support of the stock act today and in support of extending its reach to the executive branch. all of us who have been honored by our fellow citizens with the enormous responsibility of protecting the liberties of this republic have a duty to hold ourselves to the highest of standards. you know it's ironic that in 2012 we are here debating a bill that would prevent public officials from enriching themselves through our positions. it's ironic because one of the great causes that impels the separation from great britain was the common practice of public officials using their office to increase their personal wealth. madam speaker, 236 years ago those patriots said enough. that spirit is in america's d.n.a. and we would do a disservice to all who came before us if we failed to act. i know that a vast majority of my friends on the other side of the ais

the dirkeson senate office building for the senate judiciary committee. they're meeting to mark up legislation that would permit, require televising u.s. supreme court proceedings. senator grassley there in the middle of your screen of iowa the cosponsor of the legislation s-1945 along with democrat dick durbin of illinois. the markup session should get under way in just a little bit. also on capitol hill today the senate's in session and later today we'ill take a vote on whether to work on the surface transportation bill. in the house meanwhile they're voting on the stock act. a slightly different version than what the senate passed last week and that is under way now. votes should be imminent in the u.s. house. you can follow that on c-span. >>> senate judiciary committee member chuck grassley of iowa one of the cosponsors of legislation that would require televising supreme court proceedings, this ahead of a major court case in march, the health caremedi organizations including c-span have asked the court to cover all five and a half hours of that court

. >> the senate judiciary committee voted on a bill that would put -- allow the justices to ban cameras in certain instances. the vote was 11-7. we're going to watch that judiciary commission session which is about 40 minutes. >>> a moment ago, two, three, four -- we have six in the room, a couple of others out in the anteroom, so i think we'll check, if you have no objection, we'll get started. >> usually once we get started people will show. today the committee can move forward for judicial nominees for the confirmation hearing we held last month, three with no judicial emergency vacancies in illinois and maryland. but also on today's agenda, we have an important transparency measure. senator derbin and senator grassley have asked to proceed on their bipartisan bill to televise the united states supreme court proceedings. now we have the power to use technology to allow greater access to public proceedings of the government so all americans can witness the quality of justice in this country, not just those of us who had the opportunity to be physically at one of the hearings or which

as deputy, white charmed the senate judiciary committee when he presented his judicial nominees. his confirmation hearing lasted only 90 minutes. and he was confirmed by voice vote that afternoon. compare and contrast, as we say in higher education. the hearing produced a telling moment to those paying attention. a senator asked white whether the supreme court legislates. he replied, "i think it is clear under the constitution that the legislative power is not invested in the supreme court. it is invested in the congress. and i feel the major instrument for change to the laws in this country is the congress of the united states. the business of the congress is that of changing the law." afterward, a reporter asked white to define the constitutional role of the court. his reply was chilly. to decide cases. a bystander later recalled his statement was both a brush-off and a statement of philosophy. you could tell by the way he said it that it carried a fundamental belief for him. byron white cleaved to the view he possessed which spans 31 years, one the longest in the history of the

whatever the outcome, this does pit the judiciary against the government. >> pakistan's supreme court, where a beleaguered government is facing an emboldened judiciary. today, amid high security, another twist in a long-running legal drama. judges decided to charge the prime and mr., yousaf raza gilani -- charge the prime minister, yousaf raza gilani, with contempt, for failing to bring a corruption case against the president. the charges will be brought up on february 13th. mr. gilani had his first day in the dock at a preliminary hearing last month. he insisted that the president had immunity from prosecution as head of state. the case against the president goes back more than a decade. he and his late wife, the former prime and mr., benazir bhutto, or convicted in switzerland for laundering millions of dollars in kickbacks. the conviction was set aside on appeal and the case was later dropped at the request of the pakistani authorities. the prime minister has been under pressure on several fronts in recent weeks. tensions with pakistan's military appear to be abating. but critics h

act has been recently debated at a senate hearing of the judiciary subcommittee on privacy technology and the law after netflix and a few other internet based companies started calling for that logic change so that your video history can be shared now why would they want that information share well it's all about the money of course so netflix would like to share your video history with a third party site and social media sites just like websites that you use every day which are logging tons of information about you to share with advertisers take for example facebook everybody and their mother has a profile which is their favorite music movies if your favorite styles your favorite happy hour hang out and guess what social networking site is learning everything if there is to know about you so it's all for the sake of gathering that information to sell to third parties so let's say that you announce on facebook they are engaged. well expect to see advertisements for wedding dresses and photographers are you pregnant well discounted baby clothes will also be just a click away the wildly

>> it's not the role of the judiciary. >> i would do the same thing of roe v. wade. i would seek to overturn it. we need judges who respect the peoples' voice. let the people decide with respect to what the constitution says if in fact they are going to go through a constitutional amendment process which is what they did, and the judges should respect that. >> and there's other issues, and you have written about, and you have been scrutinized for, and maybe not everybody is aware of what you said. you have been asked about women in combat which is an issue that came up this week. you also talked about your view of feminnism, and it's something you wrote about. the radical feminist succeeded in undermining the traditional family and happiness. everything that i learned about feminnism is that it's about respecting the choice of working or not working, not somehow the choice of working undermining the traditional family. >> well, i would agree with that, if that's what it was about. but i can tell you -- i had a working mother, too, and she made more money than my dad

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while i am the ranking member of the house judiciary committee's subcommittee on intellectual property, competition and the internet, the views i expressed here today are my individual views and i do not speak for the committee or the subcommittee. i believe there are countless reasons to oppose hr-2471 which relate both to what the bill does and what it does not do. and how that fits into the broader debate about how best to protect individual privacy in the volatile online environment. it is particularly timely that the subcommittee holds this hearing today,al online privacy has been at the forefront of discussion for the past few years. has been a recent flurry of more intense discussion that i believe make your hearing timely. business leaders, consumer advocates, state and local elected representatives and officials from each branch of the federal government have all weighed in with a variety of concerns and proposed solutions to address the absence of a uniform framework or approach to safeguard individual information in the thriving online environment. attention has appropriatel

this time from the judiciary. >> in indonesia the trial has begun of a key suspect alds to be responsible for the 2002 bali bombings that killed more than 00 people. the islamic mill tant arrived at a jakarta courthouse amid heavy security on monday. he faces six charges including murder, bomb making and possession of illegal firearms. it's believed he was a bomb maker for a southeast asian terrorist network. 202 people died, most of them foreign tourists in the bombing of a nightclub on bali. he is accused of making the explosives used in the blast. the 45-year-old spent nine years on the run before he was captured in 2011 in the same pakistani town where osama bin laden was later killed by american special forces. local media say prosecutors plan to call 86 witnesses and will push for the death sentence for patek. with valentine's day on tuesday, love is in the air. let's turn to some flash news from around the region that called make your heart skip a beat. here in thailand seven couples gathered in a resort city on sunday to keep those lips locked. they're trying to beat the guiness w

it is applying pressure from the judiciary as he faces strained ties with the military. the court said on thursday that the prime minister will be indicted on february 13th. it had ordered him to reopen a corruption investigation against president al-dal. he told the court last month that in his opinion, the president had immunity from prosecution. he did not comply with the order to reinvestigate the case. if he continues to refuse and is found guilty of contempt, he will be disqualified from parliament and ejected from power. his latest troubles come on top of tensions with the military after rumors surfaced in october that president al-dari sent a memo to the united states asking for help to divert a possible military coup. >>> in vietnam, a woman has died of bird flu. she was the second to succomb to the virus. health ministry officials say the 26-year-old in soc trang province died on saturday. the representative in ho chi minh city said she was infected with a lethal strain of the virus. the woman may have slaughtered and eaten infected chickens raised by her famil

the case seeks further pressure on the prime minister from the judiciary at the same time as he faces strained ties with the military. the court said on thursday that the prime minister will be indicted on february 13th. it had ordered him to reopen a corruption investigation against the president dating back to the 1990's. but he told the court last month that in his opinion, the president had immunity from prosecution. he did not comply with the order to reinvestigate the case. if he continues to refuse and is found guilty of contempt, he will be disqualified from parliament and ejected from power. his latest troubles come on top of tensions with the military after rumors surfaced in october that the president had sent a memo to the united states asking for help to avert a possible military coup. in vietnam a woman has died of bird flu. she was the second person in the country to succumb to the virus so far this year following the death of an 18-year-old man last month. health ministry officials say the 26-year-old in soc trang province died saturday after being hospitalized with a

i just want to make sure this is also the first time before our committee. so judiciary, quite frankly, particularly in the house has not taken the lead the way this committee has on both sides of the aisle. >> if i could just correct the record. >> of course. >> i certainly did speak in those other -- the number five and six is, in fact, correct. >> the times you were askeou w answer questions. >> whether it was senate appropriation, senate judiciary, i was asked questions about fast and furious and answered those questions. with that, the next gentleman will be the gentleman from michigan for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, mr. attorney for being here today. i would -- i'm tempted to ask your opinion on former penn state coach joe paterno. he didn't want to jeopardize university procedure. jason weinstein, a senior official in the criminal division knew about gun walking as early as 2010. after single meeting with atf about it, he then failed to paterno, a legend in his sport, and yet he was unceremoniously fired. weinstein continues on in his curr

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