That case out of colorado for a religious baker asked to bake a cake for a samesex wedding. That takes place today. We will show you audio of that later this week. Two guests joining us to talk about that details of the case and the importance, carrie severino, the chief policy director. Elizabeth wydra of the Constitutional Accountability Center to both of you, thanks for joining on. Ms. Carrie severino, can you explain the context of the case from the point of the baker . Guest he was a baker in colorado, and he started as an artist. He has a lot of different cakes he thinks he cannot make for religious reasons, with the devil on it for halloween, happy divorce cakes. He had a samesex wedding come in, and he said im happy to make other kinds of cakes, but i cant do that because i do not believe in my expression. Colorado says that violates their antidiscrimination law. Now he has had to drop 40 of his business because he cannot make any wedding cake whatsoever. Host let me get the pe
Are rich and can hire fancy accountants and lawyers and lobbyists to help create special tax statuses. Im talking about americans dependent on Government Programs many im not talking about disability or Social Security or medicare, programs they made into. Im talking about programs that assist antipoverty programs. Something else we should talk about again. Some are not working in terms of helping people escape poverty. Im talking about people who work and make just enough not to qualify for any of that stuff but not enough to afford the cost of living. Not just them. You add to that the cost of raising children. Its more expensive to raise children more than ever. There is nothing we can do in tax reform by itself that solves all of those problems, but there is no way we can do tax reform without addressing the millions of americans who feel every time there is a debate in washington its about helping everybody else except for them. So take, for example, the issue of the Child Tax Cre
We take you live to Georgetown Law School in washington, d. C. For the nomination of neil gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Its just getting under way. Ill introduce our moderator who is the Supreme Court correspondent for what i like to call the New York Times purviewer of genuine news. He will introduce other panelists. Take it away. Thank you all for being here. Thank you. So i see in our flyer that we promised you an engaging roundtable of experts. Im going to introduce the panelists and then talk a little bit about the formatting and get under way. To my right is a partner from jones day where he wanders the empty hallways. Hes a graduate of law school and a former law clerk to Justice Scalia. To hit right is the president of the american constitution society. Shes a graduate of Columbia Law School and works at the aclu. Then christine lucias who is a graduate of georgetown law and has served as chief counsel of the Judiciary Committee working for senator Patrick Lahey in a variety of
So i guess well get started as folks continue to wander this from class in from class. Im joy bernstein, i direct the Supreme Court institute here at georgetown, and on behalf of our executive director and assistant director, we are, were happy to welcome all of you here to what promises to be a very interesting discussion of the pending nomination to the u. S. Supreme court. Ill introduce our moderator, adam liptak, who is a Supreme Court correspondent for what i like to call the new york times, purveyor of genuine news. [laughter] and he will introduce our other panelists ask take it away. Thank you, i just call it the failing new york times. [laughter] so we promised you an engaging round table of experts. The expertise real and the engaging, well find out. [laughter] im going to introduce the panelists and then talk a little bit about the format and then get underway. To my right is shay def relates sky whos a partner be at jones day where im guessing he now wanders the hallways. H
Senator Amy Klobuchar is expected to kick off a farm on legalic equality and principles. She is a member of the Judiciary Committee which is scheduled to hear from President Trump spec for the Supreme Court neil gorsuch next tuesday. The senate is scheduled to gavel in later today, 2 00 eastern ofe, debating the nomination the head of medicaid and are services. The house changing it scheduled for the week because of the snowstorm expected in washington, d. C. They gambled in for a brief pro forma session and they will be out tomorrow. Center forto the American Progress, i am the executive Vice President of external affairs. Im so delighted that you could join us today. In our recent report reviving it highlighted the idea that the economy has grown more consolidated with more power be good time concentrated in the largest firms in america. This is in no small part of the conservative assault on both government and the middle class. This assault has played out not just in the courts, bu