Kimberly robinson, she covers the Supreme Court am here to fisher versus united states. Mr. Green . Mr. Chief justice, may it please the court. Congress enacted 1512 c in 2002 in the wake of the largescale destruction of enrons documents. It prohibits the impairment of the integrity or availability of information and evidence to be used in a proceeding. In 2002 congress hedged and added section c2 to cover other forms of impairment, the known unknowns. It was the dawn of the information age. Until the january 6 prosecutions, 1512 c to the otherwise provision, had never been used to prosecute anything other than evidence tampering. This cortez said when otherwise used in the criminal statute, means to do similar conduct in a similar way. The government would have you ignore all that or disregard all of that and instead convert c 2 from a catchall provision to a dragnet. One of the things that would cover his section c 1 that leaves c1 and c2 to do independent work. The january 6 prosecu
[ banging gavel ] this hearing will come to order. Good morning. We are meeting today to consider the nomination of kirstjen m. Nielsen to be the next secretary of the United States in Homeland Security. I want to thank her, her family. Our senators making introductions later on. I certainly want to call out mrs. Karen kelly, general kellys wife. Shes here also. Showing her support for the nominee. And i know ms. Nielsen will introduce her family in her Opening Statement. Americas facing enormous challenges. Our National Debt exceeds 20 trillion and theres no serious effort being made by either party to significantly reduce the 30year projected deficits that are currently expected to exceed over 100 trillion. Our enemies are on the rise. Russia continues to destabilize its neighbors and is partnering with iran to increase both countries influence in the middle east. The Iranian Nuclear agreement did modify irans behavior. For the worse. North Korea Remains determined to develop the cap
Good afternoon. Welcome, and thank you for joining our obstruction of justice briefing. This event is sponsored by a project uncoordinated for the American Constitution Society, and citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington called the president ial investigation education project. We are grateful to senator whitehouse and his staff for graciously hosting us in this lovely meeting room. And were glad that the senator is planning to join the event a little later on to share his perspective. I want to start with a few brief thoughts about the joint project and the program today, then i will turn things over to our moderator to kick off the discussion. The president ial investigation education project is a joint Nonpartisan Initiative of the American Constitution Society and citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington to promote informed public evaluation of the investigation by special Counsel Robert Mueller into russian interference in the 2016 election, and related c
That means. Legal experts and scholars talk about how prosecutors build an obstruction of justice case. The laws governing investigation interference and how those laws might apply differently to the president and other Top Administration officials. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon. Welcome and thank you for joining our obstruction of justice briefing. Im christian amorling. This is brought to you by a project im coordinating, citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington called the president ial investigation education project. We are grateful to senator whitehouse and his staff for graciously hosting us in this lovely meeting room and we are glad that the senator is planning to join the event a little later on to share his perspective. I want to start with a few brief thoughts about the joint acs crew project and the program today, and then ill turn things over to our moderator to kick off the discussion. The president ial investigation education project is a joint N
Society for law and policy hosted a discussion about what that means. Legal experts and scholars talk about how prosecutors build an obstruction of justice case. The laws governing investigation interference and how those laws might apply differently to the president and other Top Administration officials. This is an hour and a half. Good afternoon. Welcome and thank you for joining our obstruction of justice briefing. Im christian amorling. This is brought to you by a project im coordinating, citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington called the president ial investigation education project. We are grateful to senator whitehouse and his staff for graciously hosting us in this lovely meeting room and we are glad that the senator is planning to join the event a little later on to share his perspective. I want to start with a few brief thoughts about the joint acs crew project and the program today, and then ill turn things over to our moderator to kick off the discussion. The