Right now when it comes to criminaljustice reform republican governors are better on this issue than democrats. Where do you stand on the issue . Charlie crist was a republican. At this time. I know what the hell he is now. [laughter] good evening how can the National Urban league support elected officials . They can. You cannot support them you can support positions or issues but not an actual candidate is against our covered. So can you clarify how to offset that . We have the keys deal. Create the 501 c 4 that allows you to run ads. And what you could do as an individual. We can volunteer and throat and donate. Money is key. Ive not just saying that because i am elected. Yes you are. [laughter] we give time then we give nothing else but it is essential because your and have our voice heard. God rest his soul all the white folks got together to say we want you to run for mayor. How much trading to Police Officers did your community received . And those with Mental Health issues . We
Sure that there was outside contractors or not. We developed it all in house. Thats helpful. Justice breyer, i noted and was intrigue of your comments discussing her design and really the courts desire to get the work of the court court out to dinner can people and to engage them in this. Is there a designated effort, a continued effort . To the extent youre familiar with come and by the way, i thought it would be some of your staff would actually go i see they are here with us but you see the two of you actually engaging the committee i think is laudable. I respect and appreciate that. You may not be dialed in on all of the nuances of it at the effort to revisit the website to keep it fresh and perhaps use the term that is often being used now to develop an app for the Supreme Court, maybe there is what managers need to be educated about it but this idea of engaging the American Public i applaud you for this. It needs to be done because we only have a healthy republic if our fellow ci
Well, this hearing will come to order. First of all, let me welcome Justice Breyer and Justice Kennedy. Thank you for being here today. I know both of you have testified before our subcommittee in times past and we appreciate you coming back and being with us here again today. We all look forward to this time to have an exchange. Not often does the legislative branch and Judicial Branch get to talk to each other, so we look forward to that. I think all of us know that a fair and impartial judiciary is very much a cornerstone to our democratic system of government. And so the fact that youre here today, i think is important. I think the work that you do is obviously very, very important. And not only you resolve disputes between individuals, but also between the executive branch of the federal government as well as legislative branch. And to do that, you need the respect of the citizens. And i think you have that. I think you also give respect to the citizens and their view of whats rig
Things electronically. Which is hopeful to the lawyers and helpful to the public because they can get it instantaneously. Lets take some time. I think its going along satisfactorily, and i think that most of the other Court Systems you have this already in many forms, so we can plug into ours without too much trouble the third is a little more open ended and i put more weight on it, can we use our technology to inform the public about what were doing particularly through our website. I was talking to people they do the same kind of thing, and thats not so easy to do. And we put in a website. But the question is, will they use it. Will people find out . Will School Children find out . I want to know about this case, i know how to do it i get on the web and i tell my class fabulous, if we can do that. I got some figures its hard to calculate what it is. We had according to this, we have in a year 271 million hits. I wasnt sure what that meant. I mean, is that a lot or a little . It sound
To talk about and anything that the chamber or the members can be doing more with your team . Commissioner the burdenen falls on us quite a bit. Like brend and, todd and maria but i havent seen them take the opportunity to attend one of your conferences to have some of the smart people like steve and others to be able to brief and we do that a lot. We spent a lot of time and effort on that and its time and effort that is well spent. So you should not be and i dont think you have been you shouldnt be the least hesitant in asking and demanding of us that we should do more. Thank you. [applause] on this weekends newsmakers a look at the upcoming 20s acting president ial race with New Hampshire Republican Party chair jennifer born and just kaufman. They discuss some of the potential candidates and the role each of their state has in the early stages of a president ial election. Actually interview tomorrow at 10 00 a. M. And 6 00 p. M. You turn on cspan. One of those candidates, marco rubio