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f justice roberts: justice kagan? justice kagan: you'vered couple of times to the necessity defense, so could you tell me how that would work? ms. evangelis: yes. so there -- under oregon law, if a person says at- it's effectively the lesser of two evils. if they say, i had no alternative to -- no legal alternative other than what did here that broke the law, then i had no choice and i therefore had to break the law and it was in some sense involuntary, to e term that -- that many have been discussing. so, there, you -- it would be very narrow. it is ve narrow defense. so it would be in that moment of -- justickagan: so -- so suppose at there is a person who is homeless and there are no shelter beds availablendhe person has no place to go, and the person, ofoue, has to sleep. and the person -- it's cold outside. the person has a blanket. so that's the minimum conduct that the law prohibits. so the person sleeps outside with a blanket, and a police officer comes, and in the --ut the person says, well, i had no place el
f justice roberts: justice kagan? justice kagan: you'vered couple of times to the necessity defense, so could you tell me how that would work? ms. evangelis: yes. so there -- under oregon law, if a person says at- it's effectively the lesser of two evils. if they say, i had no alternative to -- no legal alternative other than what did here that broke the law, then i had no choice and i therefore had to break the law and it was in some sense involuntary, to e term that -- that many have been...
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i'm the seventh child of robert and ethel kennedy. i am joined here today with my sisters, kathleen, joe, chris, and max. [applause] >> and with my hero, president joe biden. [cheers and applause] >> president biden has said very moving believe that his long career in public service was prompted by a speech my father, robert kennedy, gave in indianapolis on april 4, 1968, the night martin luther king was murdered. two days later, along with my parents and siblings, i said in the den of our home in northern virginia and watched in horror as washington burned. daddy left the room and got in his car. 15 minutes later, we were all still glued to the tv, suddenly daddy was on the news. in the midst of the mayhem, trying to put out the flames of loss and pain, fear and rage in the wake of doctor king's death, that was an incredible listen to me as an 8-year-old child. he showed us that when everyone else was running away from the flames of anguish and despair, leaders run towards them, that is who joe biden is. [applause] >> he is the first
i'm the seventh child of robert and ethel kennedy. i am joined here today with my sisters, kathleen, joe, chris, and max. [applause] >> and with my hero, president joe biden. [cheers and applause] >> president biden has said very moving believe that his long career in public service was prompted by a speech my father, robert kennedy, gave in indianapolis on april 4, 1968, the night martin luther king was murdered. two days later, along with my parents and siblings, i said in the den...
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i talking about robert e lee. that robert e the one whose claim to fame to have led the military insurrection objective. it was to literally destroy the united states of america. the robert e lee, whose military genius was immense and yet was not able succeed at that most important of his military goals, and yet he failed. but he didn't. he failed only after having taken the lives of quarters of a million people in the civil. and as robert robert lee, like many other high members of the confederate states of america, he disowned his citizenship in the united when he sided with the confederacy. and then after lee surrenders to ulysses grant the battlefield in appomattox virginia, the country which he had pledged his allegiance was no longer exists, leaving stateless. and lee is a prominent example. but there were others in the confederacy who had sided with the confederacy, who also can no longer claim u.s. can, no longer claim citizenship in that country. then the country that they wished still existed. and so and
i talking about robert e lee. that robert e the one whose claim to fame to have led the military insurrection objective. it was to literally destroy the united states of america. the robert e lee, whose military genius was immense and yet was not able succeed at that most important of his military goals, and yet he failed. but he didn't. he failed only after having taken the lives of quarters of a million people in the civil. and as robert robert lee, like many other high members of the...
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and when robert went to wake father up, the father had passed away. so saturday there monaco and he alerts authorities and they say, well, the the undertaker is out of until monday. you can you can just him there in the room and the hotel is not conditioned either and so robert carlo eh explained in this letter he had sent to the library that he decided walk now, walk to the american consulate and see if he could get any help. and as he was walking across the city, he walked past a cafe and, happened to notice his former commander, chief and his wife having coffee just there in monaco. and so he stopped and himself and explained the situation. to two former president truman. and harry said, you have a notebook or pen, a paper or something. and so carlo knew gave him a paper pad. and this is the note that truman wrote. honorable harold mosley. he was the us consul. this will captain robert de carlo, his father just passed away. he needs some doors opened. please help him. harry truman to 40th. yes, that's pretty cool. i mean, it's a terrible, tragic li
and when robert went to wake father up, the father had passed away. so saturday there monaco and he alerts authorities and they say, well, the the undertaker is out of until monday. you can you can just him there in the room and the hotel is not conditioned either and so robert carlo eh explained in this letter he had sent to the library that he decided walk now, walk to the american consulate and see if he could get any help. and as he was walking across the city, he walked past a cafe and,...
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next question for robert jones. robert, you've written in your book that in order to understand history of discrimination and racism in our country, we have to go back further than the new york times series, which many of you have read. i'm sure 1619, which was when slaves were first brought to america. your date robert is 1514. and why is that. actually i go back little further. the date is 1493. oh. and the book and that that date may sound familiar to many of you. right. because it's a to a date that we all learned about in school. right. in 1492, columbus sailed the ocean. right. i haven't quite come with the right rhyme. jingle like that for 1493, but i'm sure some of you could come up with it and let me know afterward. but it's 1493 and. and what was what i'm doing in the book and in many ways like to kind of connect it up to my case conversation with romney is trying to you know so yes we have like a republican party that's introspective and some of its leaders trying to figure out what happened and how did w
next question for robert jones. robert, you've written in your book that in order to understand history of discrimination and racism in our country, we have to go back further than the new york times series, which many of you have read. i'm sure 1619, which was when slaves were first brought to america. your date robert is 1514. and why is that. actually i go back little further. the date is 1493. oh. and the book and that that date may sound familiar to many of you. right. because it's a to a...
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robert and kitty, come down. go to berkeley to teach in september and has to tell kitty's husband a small thing friend. i got your wife pregnant the summer. oops kitty got and robert married the very next day. now they may have been married and he stayed married to kitty his entire life, but oppenheimer also carried on extramarital affairs with other women. if you've seen the oppenheimer film, he carries on with with gene matlock, the woman he really to marry. he also has a long affair with another woman, at least one other woman that we know well, bob. so this is family side not so great. but let's zoom out for a minute here. 1939 is a very eventful year for oppenheimer. he meets his soon to be wife. he's still sleeping with gene. log on the side and earlier that year, in january, scientists figure how to success fully split the atom get it to effectively have a controlled of its energy and less than 15 minutes after oppenheimer learned they had done this he had figured out how they did. within a week, someone w
robert and kitty, come down. go to berkeley to teach in september and has to tell kitty's husband a small thing friend. i got your wife pregnant the summer. oops kitty got and robert married the very next day. now they may have been married and he stayed married to kitty his entire life, but oppenheimer also carried on extramarital affairs with other women. if you've seen the oppenheimer film, he carries on with with gene matlock, the woman he really to marry. he also has a long affair with...
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and democracy chief justice roberts, quote from an arizona public finance of election case. democracy does not depend a level playing field. so, you know again, i mean, i think it's worth but but i mean, this is this is why i think it's so helpful to talk about the court holistically. i mean, right. the the lawyers can break individual opinions and why they or are not so convince them but a world in which the court is actually about congress is world in which it's going to have a much harder time dismantling statutory regimes congress has created. and that's true not just in the election and voting rights base. that's true in the environmental law space. it's true in the dare i say, loan financing case. i mean, it's there are any number of respects in which the less that congress and i don't mean this in a particular just the the more quiescent congress period, the more court will and necessarily is free to be, more adventurous and maybe some those adventures are to our liking and maybe of them are not. but that adventurousness in general is a problem. and that's really the
and democracy chief justice roberts, quote from an arizona public finance of election case. democracy does not depend a level playing field. so, you know again, i mean, i think it's worth but but i mean, this is this is why i think it's so helpful to talk about the court holistically. i mean, right. the the lawyers can break individual opinions and why they or are not so convince them but a world in which the court is actually about congress is world in which it's going to have a much harder...
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and robert kennedy. robert kennedy was also hired to be assistant counsel on the permanent subcommittee at about the same time in 1953. of course, he was a scion of the massachusetts kennedy family, the democrats and he was an ardent anti-crime. and so were really the kennedy family. the kennedys were very ardent. andy communists and and the patriarch of the kennedy family, joseph kennedy, admired senator mccarthy. so it was not a complete surprise that robert kennedy would would join this effort. but he did not last very long. he began having problems with with roy cohn. they they had very intense conflicts and ultimately had even a fistfight, after which robert kennedy resigned from from a committee staff. okay. with the mccarthy hearings lasting a little over a year, jim townsend. how many hearings were held? were they closed? were they open to the press, etc.? well, there are hundreds and hundreds of hearings, something like 690 hearings. incredible number of hearings were held during this period. th
and robert kennedy. robert kennedy was also hired to be assistant counsel on the permanent subcommittee at about the same time in 1953. of course, he was a scion of the massachusetts kennedy family, the democrats and he was an ardent anti-crime. and so were really the kennedy family. the kennedys were very ardent. andy communists and and the patriarch of the kennedy family, joseph kennedy, admired senator mccarthy. so it was not a complete surprise that robert kennedy would would join this...
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so robert jeffress. for those who don't, is the pastor of baptist church of dallas. it's one of the country's really historic megachurches. and it's a position of enormous influence and and religious authority, really. and robert jeffress is, best known for being probably trump's most outspoken evangelical little ally, someone who is, you know, stood by his side through thick and, thin. and i've gotten to know pastor jeffress very well over the years. and i must that i rather like him. i find him to be just a a very kind individual and someone i've prodded and, prompted to try to be a little more introspective thinking about these things, as you alluded to a moment ago, professor what was most striking to me in the time i've spent talking with pastor jeffress was he brought me into his office at the church in dallas and his secretary had pointed out this corner of his and had called it a shrine. she was sort of being tongue in cheek. but it truly is a to donald j. trump, it is unlike anything i'd ever seen anywhere much less inside of a church. i mean, we're dozens,
so robert jeffress. for those who don't, is the pastor of baptist church of dallas. it's one of the country's really historic megachurches. and it's a position of enormous influence and and religious authority, really. and robert jeffress is, best known for being probably trump's most outspoken evangelical little ally, someone who is, you know, stood by his side through thick and, thin. and i've gotten to know pastor jeffress very well over the years. and i must that i rather like him. i find...
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some of what robert has written about. i'll be interested, hear him sort of build on this. but a feeling that this country was becoming unrecognizable to them, that its judeo-christian heritage and values were under systematic attack, that and to be clear some of this rhetoric, some of this thinking is not new. this goes back several in fact, much of sort of modern evangelical as we know it today was sort of built this same persecution complex, jerry falwell senior and some of his allies in the 1970s onward. this idea that christiane was under assault in america. but i think that those have intensified and have scaled in a way that we may not fully appreciate. we are not in that world. just to give a brief example, to help sort of put some meat on the there, i think it's important to recognize how quickly some of this social cultural change has happened and to understand that historically do tend to see a backlash. there is that sort of condense that social cultural change. so, for example, when barack obama runs for president in 2008, he is opposed to same sex marriage. he
some of what robert has written about. i'll be interested, hear him sort of build on this. but a feeling that this country was becoming unrecognizable to them, that its judeo-christian heritage and values were under systematic attack, that and to be clear some of this rhetoric, some of this thinking is not new. this goes back several in fact, much of sort of modern evangelical as we know it today was sort of built this same persecution complex, jerry falwell senior and some of his allies in the...
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and robert luke picked this guy through over a shoulder and ran to the helicopter. truman and jumped in. we didn't know that initially. when he jumped out, hit, knocked himself unconscious of that day robert luke gets a silver star. that's december the seventh. january i am promoted with more responsibility. become an aircraft commander to where i can participate as a commander of a ship to do combat assaults. down here at the bottom, you see a sitting on the ground on standby and when we got another mission during the day, the guns had combined call up the leadership. the leadership would throw smoke out. we'd all crank come, would go do the extra mission in january. i've been aircraft commander about three weeks and as an air firebase and so run this is all vietnamese with a couple american advisors and then they were awarded some medals for going in and picking these guys up. and we found out that day that the vietnamese, when we went to a place where they'd been overrun, we didn't get their wounded first like we do the americans. when you pick up a wounded ameri
and robert luke picked this guy through over a shoulder and ran to the helicopter. truman and jumped in. we didn't know that initially. when he jumped out, hit, knocked himself unconscious of that day robert luke gets a silver star. that's december the seventh. january i am promoted with more responsibility. become an aircraft commander to where i can participate as a commander of a ship to do combat assaults. down here at the bottom, you see a sitting on the ground on standby and when we got...
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the author robert kuttner. he's a award winning and bestselling author who covers the intersection of economics politics and social justice. you've seen his writings everywhere from the new york times, new york book review to the atlantic harper's new yorker, dissent, foreign affairs, columbia journalism review, political science quarterly, and, of course, the harvard business review. bob is co-founder and coeditor of the american prospect magazine, co-founder of the economic policy institute, which, believe me, a major, major player in the economics scene in washington. he currently serves on their board as a long time columnist for business week and the boston globe. he's academic post at boston university, harvard, among other institutions. he currently teaches at brandeis university. bob was also a staff writer and a columnist for the washington post. chief investigator for the senate banking committee. executive director of president carter's national commission on neighborhoods. and economics editor of th
the author robert kuttner. he's a award winning and bestselling author who covers the intersection of economics politics and social justice. you've seen his writings everywhere from the new york times, new york book review to the atlantic harper's new yorker, dissent, foreign affairs, columbia journalism review, political science quarterly, and, of course, the harvard business review. bob is co-founder and coeditor of the american prospect magazine, co-founder of the economic policy institute,...
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robert. robert stone, known to bull connor as dynamite. bob. the man who bombed the 16th street church in birmingham. yeah. now, suppose someone might say there is a resurgence to white racism spilling out around country and that it may be encouraged by one of the leading presidential candidates. someone might say, are there any similarities between sixties alabama and 2020s america in that you probably just made declaration a moment ago. well, i want to elaborate to this degree, but by accident of the timing of my birth, i wound starting my career, covering the most gifted political demagogue in the south in the late 20th century. george wallace. right now, in my golden years, i'm watching the rise of the most sinisterly political demagogue of the new century. right. and to me, the case here is commonality. the political demagogue is able get otherwise is smart, worthy people of good principles to believe and endorse practice, since they would not otherwise support. that's and to me right now, the obvious fact of the current landscape is we ha
robert. robert stone, known to bull connor as dynamite. bob. the man who bombed the 16th street church in birmingham. yeah. now, suppose someone might say there is a resurgence to white racism spilling out around country and that it may be encouraged by one of the leading presidential candidates. someone might say, are there any similarities between sixties alabama and 2020s america in that you probably just made declaration a moment ago. well, i want to elaborate to this degree, but by...
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and robert was holding the first gender sage justice award. and president biden's like is the high rate the threat of like there is hope once we start having the president asking some of these questions and that a long way off from coding in a white mass and i would say in terms of words of encouragement tech needs us it's not the other way around the perspectives that you bring what you care is important. and i had to find that for myself when i first wanted to do this research. people are like, how good your math skills? are you sure really want to tell that i had a bit of discouragement from very well-meaning people, you know, they just had to look for me to make sure i don't get hurt and all of that right. so what helped me was having people like dr. timnit gabriel, she was finishing up her phd while i was finishing my master's. and then you're saying that i look to who are inspiring. deb raji reached out on facebook, right, saying, hey, i saw this can i do an internship with you? she didn't know we'd be going toe to toe with amazon. so th
and robert was holding the first gender sage justice award. and president biden's like is the high rate the threat of like there is hope once we start having the president asking some of these questions and that a long way off from coding in a white mass and i would say in terms of words of encouragement tech needs us it's not the other way around the perspectives that you bring what you care is important. and i had to find that for myself when i first wanted to do this research. people are...
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robert jones book. robert jones book. thank you. is the hidden roots of white supremacy and the path to a shared future. robbie holds a ph.d. in and a master of divinity. he's the founder and ceo of the public religion research foundation, the author of many books about the interplay of religion, culture and politics. he has written that while mainline practiced may espouse racial justice, they have not addressed the existence of systemic racism. ravi, tell us about your thank you all. give me a second. here we go. all right. well, greetings. this is my first time here. this is amazing. let me just say so. right. and martin just want to say i'm a washington, so let me. well, i'm a maryland resident, but we straddle the line between, maryland. and let me just say thank you for what you did at the washington post over those years. i can think of nothing much more important and a civic duty and service to the country. so i genuinely want to say thank you for the work you did there at the post and the work at the post continues to do fo
robert jones book. robert jones book. thank you. is the hidden roots of white supremacy and the path to a shared future. robbie holds a ph.d. in and a master of divinity. he's the founder and ceo of the public religion research foundation, the author of many books about the interplay of religion, culture and politics. he has written that while mainline practiced may espouse racial justice, they have not addressed the existence of systemic racism. ravi, tell us about your thank you all. give me...
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and by the way robert byrd did believe in the type of no effort filibuster we have now i mean this is not people having to work hard to block something at great effort it is not public accountability you're in front of the public and they can weigh in on whether you're heroes or bums. since 1975, reform that backfired. it takes no effort to block legislation and there's no public accountable. so using the robert template was the goal and had we had 50 votes to adopt that template, then we would have had a a debate focused solely on final passage of the bill and it would have been on interrupted by quorum calls uninterrupted by motions, and it would continued night and day until either there was a break in debate in which point the chair could call the question, and that goes as a pillar goes back to the very founding of this of, the senate or until everyone exhausted their ability to speak twice to the issue for as long as they wanted and the issue to speak twice to an issue goes back to the original rules of. the senate and it's in the senate rules today. so we were founding this kin
and by the way robert byrd did believe in the type of no effort filibuster we have now i mean this is not people having to work hard to block something at great effort it is not public accountability you're in front of the public and they can weigh in on whether you're heroes or bums. since 1975, reform that backfired. it takes no effort to block legislation and there's no public accountable. so using the robert template was the goal and had we had 50 votes to adopt that template, then we would...
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robert j. white, of michigan, to be united states district judge for the eastern district of michigan, signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of robert j. white, of michigan, to be united states district judge for michigan, shall be brought to a close? the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rules. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the clerk: ms. baldwin. mr. barrasso. mr. bennet. mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal. mr. booker. mr. boozman. mr. braun. mrs. britt. mr. brown. mr. budd. ms. butler. ms. cantwell. mrs. capito. mr. cardin. mr. carper. mr. casey. mr. cassidy. ms. collins. mr. coons. mr. cornyn. ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton. mr. cramer. mr. crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlo
robert j. white, of michigan, to be united states district judge for the eastern district of michigan, signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of robert j. white, of michigan, to be united states district judge for michigan, shall be brought to a close? the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rules. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the clerk:...
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yes, robert kelly had surrendered at appomattox. joe johnston still had his army north carolina. kirby smith had his army in texas. so the war was by no means over or one. and then stanton had to organize the wonderful and majestic funeral procession for abraham lincoln that, took him through all the major cities of the north and the journey back to springfield. so stanton had to hunt the lincoln assassins, get john wilkes booth, find the conspirators, fight and win the civil war, and organize the national tribute to abraham lincoln. so stanton is a great american hero, so overlooked. one of the best things about the show is stan is finally given his due in american history. it's emmy award winning actor tobias menzies, as you said, who portrays edwin stanton. yeah. here's a little bit of how he portrays stanton, but if you're a war secretary, how come you don't assign a task like this to a clerk? you've got a little brother and we let him solve your problems. my lady says i never met a challenge. i could delegate. why was it up to edwin stanton? do all these things? lead the sea
yes, robert kelly had surrendered at appomattox. joe johnston still had his army north carolina. kirby smith had his army in texas. so the war was by no means over or one. and then stanton had to organize the wonderful and majestic funeral procession for abraham lincoln that, took him through all the major cities of the north and the journey back to springfield. so stanton had to hunt the lincoln assassins, get john wilkes booth, find the conspirators, fight and win the civil war, and organize...
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robert f kennedy. robert, thank you for that kind introduction, those brief remarks. we're so grateful to a are for opening their doors to. my name is t w shannon and i am from oklahoma. greetings from the red state. and i. i am a former speaker of the house of the state of oklahoma and currently the vice chair for. and it is an honor for me to be to discuss this very important topic about the state of black progress. this is a ongoing journey where we are chronicling the absolute success and challenges that face a particular minority group here in america that is part of kira's mission. our founder, star parker, is with us. and i'm going to begin with some opening remarks to introduce to you, those that sit on our panel today who you will be hearing. our number one we have in row your eyes and we get those. and he is the founder of vertex partnership academies and a senior fellow at the american enterprise institute and served ten years as ceo of public prep and has held leadership positions at. teach for america. the bill and melinda gates foundation, the white hous
robert f kennedy. robert, thank you for that kind introduction, those brief remarks. we're so grateful to a are for opening their doors to. my name is t w shannon and i am from oklahoma. greetings from the red state. and i. i am a former speaker of the house of the state of oklahoma and currently the vice chair for. and it is an honor for me to be to discuss this very important topic about the state of black progress. this is a ongoing journey where we are chronicling the absolute success and...