. >> i think it's very evidence that the law is unenforceable. i think if you had a policeman under every bed in the state of connecticut, they still could not prove anything. we are continuing, maybe illegally, but we are continuing our program. >> the case went to the supreme court and made birth control legal, finally, for married couples only, and it was several years later that, in fact, birth control became legal for all women. >> it was very, very important because it both decriminalized contraception and established the right to privacy.

with an important prevision, the ordinance is unenforcible. that further eroded open government and the commissions -- i believe the commission has to ask itself if this new reality is what it wants as a sole policy power. i'll go over the five minutes, about 20 seconds. in any event, the commission must decide to either refute the directors action and takes steps through the effected revision or amend its two bylaws to reflect the fact that it will no longer enforce the ordinance or actively enforce all ethics laws and rules including open government laws. in some, at a cost of $150,000 to the tax payers, mr. sancrow with deny znswer of the city attorney went off on his own and left the mess that you now need to fix. thank you. speaker: any questions for mr. grossman. speaker: i have a question. mr. grossman, can you argue somehow or another that mr. sancrow violated the open government ordinances when the courts specifically ruled against you on that question. speaker: i'm conceding that the privileges no longer -- the aggregation of the pri

from these conservative elements in the house, do they not realize this is unenforceable?eve any kind of immigration. let's remember. to show you how sad this is one year ago, if you were interviewing you, we would be talking about headlines in the press as they go off, right, and talk about positive things they're going to do around immigration. remember all their new priorities for immigration and how they were going to have all these new priorities for immigration and they were going to go into their retreat? it was in all the headlines one year ago. one year late the extremist segment, i don't like any immigrants, i don't want any immigration policy, that's the really sad case. deport them all. when they asked me, you can, in one word, deportation. that is the key, the fantasy, that somehow you can resolve this kriscrippling immigration system by deporting everybody. look, it may win them the next election in their corner of the world, but this will be re repugnant to the people. >> with me now is jeremy peters. jeremy after all this hue and cry, is the theme that's go

. >> i think it's very evidence that the law is unenforceable.a policeman under every bed in the state of connecticut, they still could not prove anything. we are continuing, maybe illegally, but we are continuing our program. >> the case went to the supreme court and made birth control legal, finally, for married couples only, and it was several years later that, in fact, birth control became legal for all women. >> it was very, very important because it both decriminalized contraception and established the right to privacy. >> how many states repealed their law against birth control just in this past year? >> ten states changed or repealed their laws against birth control, but if i can add, the end of 1964 to that, it makes it 13. so that's kind of a national movement. >> nearly 7 million american women are now taking oral contraceptives, and they are said to be almost 100% effective. >> the birth control pill meant suddenly women could finish their education, they could go in the workforce. and that is what radically changed, i think, life for

which can be enforced by the law, but must rise to the majestic heights of being obedient to the unenforceablebut after saying all of that, i must go on to the other side. this is where i must leave mr. goldwater and others who believe the legislation has no place. it may be true you cannot legislate integration, but you can legislate desegregation. it may be true that morality cannot be legislated, but the heavier can be regulated. it may be true that the law can't change the heart but it can restrain the heartless. it may be true that the law can make a man love me -- can't make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me. i think that is pretty important come also. >> martin luther king, jr. speaking in london december 7 1964. we will return to that speech after this break. ♪ [music break] >> this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in this democracy now! exclusive, we return to martin luther king, jr. in his own words from a recording recently discovered by the pacifica radio archive. the speech given in london, december 7 1964, just

but if a law is vague as you know, if the law's ambiguous it's going to be unenforceable.fort to somebody if they actually do get arrested. i think it should be a civil penalty, a fine. >> what about when i'm watching tv i'm starving and i see the domino's -- >> that has to be written, so that's not a menu. >> a diet coke on the side do they have to put it on there? am i going to think twice, pepperoni's 450 calories? >> absolutely. the question is did they write the statute narrowly enough, or is it too broad? if they're going to have to include it in the commercials that's never going to happen. >> that'll be the fine print at the -- >> what about those commercials that say if you've got an elbow that hurts take this. but don't take it -- and there's this long list of things. >> sure. domino's pizza meat special more calories than you could possibly eat in a week. >> the problem is it's written so broadly and so business owners are saying rather than focus on doing what we're supposed to be doing, which is sending people pizza especially now during the super bowl, we're

the statute remains on the book but unenforceable. were adopting since 2012. >> a little birdie tells me you might be from the carolinas and not a florida native. do you feel the atmosphere, sort of the vibe about this issue, about gay and lesbians is change negotiate south or do you feel it's still difficult just to do the day-to-day work of not really activism but getting people to understand that your relationships are really no different? >> so, joy, i'm from mississippi. strat's from south carolina. absolutely. things are changing over the last decade or so. particularly in young people. i think it's much easier much more normal it should be. >> yeah. and, stratton -- no go on. >> i think the climate is improving worldwide, particularly in young people. because love truly is love. and i fell in love with this boy 21 years ago. people that know us see that. we -- i left mississippi when i was a boy. and so i live in the bubble of miami, but all of our friends here know and it's rael great to be out and be open and to be authentic

in this case they seem to be saying we want the court to enforce something that's really almost unenforceableuld enforce the alcohol restrictions on anyone with a dui for a set period of time as a deterrent. their license or their identification would indicate that they could not drink. >>> all right. new jersey governor chris christie is buzzing once again on social media. >> once again key phrase here. a lot of people talking about the governor and his beloved dallas cowboys. now this is why. tv cameras from last night's cowboys detroit lions game show the governor celebrateing big time with dallas owner jerry jones. governor christie hugging jones after the cowboys clinched the play off win. the governor's brother to do christie took to facebook last night to defend him. he wrote to all of those non-cowboys fans who have their panties in a ringer, because the governor of nj is a cowboys fan get a life. he goes on to add eagles fans, possibly you should worry more about the fact that you're sorry beep team has never won a super bowl and less about whose rooting for which team. huh. them the

so you can say they have, you know, one of the unenforceable regulations but the thing is the whole country has their eye on this because this is the first in the nation law that a lot of people are thinking about implementing. >> exactly and what is interesting, i talked with mayor tom baits a couple of months back on how to implement it. they said we'll have to hire somebody to draw up a plan for it. we'll see what is there but a lot of this was about a statement being made as much as it was about the poll saech. it was the politics itself and -- policy. it was the politics of it and bringing attention to sugary drinks. how it works out remains to be seen. how berkeley can you get. >>> on tuesday san jose's new mayor sam licardo will be holding the inauguration. he did a ride along with the police officers in the first hours of his term after midnight on new year's eve. it was a move to bridge the gap with the police officers who have been united agains. >> it never hurts certainly to be able to take a look and see for yourself what our officers are dealing with on a daily basis. i'll con

provided mandatory restitution for trafficking victims, a provision that is unfortunately more unenforced than enforced. in fact, rarely enforced, i think, to provide for restitutions a recent study by the human trafficking pro bono legal center took a look at how the requirement works in practice and found that only about 36.6% of the cases did prosecutors bostonner to request restitution. so my question is really two-fold. number one, do the statutes need to be strengthened and number two, can you and would you do more to make sure that restitution is provided to victims of human trafficing? >> certainly senator. the issue of restitution for the victims of human trafficing is an important one particularly as we do increase the number of cases that we bring. certainly sometimes there are situations where a court may not impose restitution because the funds are not there or for other legal reasons, but where we can, we always do seek a restitution order for the victims. we in particular have worked with other governments to provide them information where we have found, for example, that c

provided mandatory restitution for trafficking victims, a provision that is unfortunately more unenforced than enforced. in fact, rarely enforced, i think, to provide for restitutions a recent study by the human trafficking pro bono legal center took a look at how the requirement works in practice and found that only about 36.6% of the cases did prosecutors bostonner to request restitution. so my question is really two-fold. number one, do the statutes need to be strengthened and number two, can you and would you do more to make sure that restitution is provided to victims of human trafficing? >> certainly senator. the issue of restitution for the victims of human trafficing is an important one particularly as we do increase the number of cases that we bring. certainly sometimes there are situations where a court may not impose restitution because the funds are not there or for other legal reasons, but where we can, we always do seek a restitution order for the victims. we in particular have worked with other governments to provide them information where we have found, for example, that c

many of them have been there 20, 30 years and they say you're asking us to unenforce the law. and they've challenged it in court. i've never heard of anything like that before. the people in charge with enforcing the law having to go to court to keep from being told not to enforce the law. it's just amazing. now, this bill will not deny a penny of funding. it will not deny any funding for any program activity or action that's authorized by law. it does not deny funding for any of those programs that are actually authorized by the laws of the united states. in fact, it says, spend the money, mr. president. on enforcing and following the law. you cannot spend money unconstitutionally to advocate and create a system of law congress rejected, an unlawful activity. now, the congress of the united states is not helpless whether it confronts the president. colleagues, we've got to get out from under our desks here. are you afraid to say to the president of the united states we don't agree with there and we're not going to fund this? is that the world we're in? are we hiding under our