And one that cowers in fear of its apparently extremist base. The sad truth is that democrats in congress had to discipline Margie Q Greene because House Minority leader Kevin Mccarthy was unwilling to do so himself. Mccarthy was willing to hold a Secret Ballot on the fate of republican congresswoman liz cheney, his own third in command who received a resounding if anonymous show of support to remain in Republican Leadership last night but he couldnt muster the courage to reject the qanon congresswoman. With this vote tonight, house republicans, many of whom stood up and gave Greene A Standing Ovation in a caucus meeting yesterday will now be defined as supporting someone who backed calls for assassinating Speaker Nancy Pelosi and threatened the nonwhite Women Members of the squad in social media ads. She promoted an antisemetic and Islam Mow Phobic video that had been reportedly circulating among neonazis. It claimed a, quote, unholy alliance of leftists, capitalists and zionist supre
Welcome 2 of americas leading election law scholars for a discussion about the constitution and the electoral system. We advertised this as a show about how to fix americas elections and several of you noted maybe thats not the best verb. Our goal is precisely the opposite, to figure out how to vent American Elections from being fixed theres a wide ranging discussion of the two books that both of our panelists have written and about constitutional issues in the news relating to the coronavirus and the electoral system. Please join us next week for a super discussion of another book that is by you all 11 and its on his new book about how to restore trust in the american institutions. Thats next tuesday and you can learn more about that program at Constitution Center. Org live and we will be taking questions throughout the program you can put your questions in the q a thoughts and i will just offer them to our panelists when it seems right or the discussion so please be interactive. Thes
And now we are in almost every chapter, in every law School Across the country, we have a chapter. I encourage you to talk to my colleagues who are here. If you are not already involved, please get engaged. We need you more than ever. I want to introduce our interim president. To tee up this panel discussion, this year as the nation heads into a president ial election season, we felt compelled to pick up on the theme of this whole conference, pillars of democracy, to ask questions about how our structures of government, and the components thereof and our values and commitments are working together, or not. So we asked the question, our democracy and federalism friends or foes . To lead us through this discussion, we could not be more pleased to have this panel with us. Adam is a expert on the Supreme Court, he is a professor of law ucla. He is on the acs board of directors. He is the student chapter adviser at ucla. His 2018 book we the corporations, how american businesses won their c
Talk to my colleagues who are here. If you are not already involved, please get engaged. We need you more than ever. I want to introduce our interim president. To tee up this panel discussion, this year as the nation heads into a president ial election season, we felt compelled to pick up on the theme of this whole conference, pillars of democracy, to ask questions about how our structures of government, and the components thereof and our values and commitments are working together, or not. So we asked the question, our democracy and federalism friends or foes . To lead us through this discussion, we could not be more pleased to have this panel with us. Adam is a expert on the Supreme Court, he is a professor of law ucla. He is on the acs board of directors. He is the student chapter adviser at ucla. His 2018 book we the corporations, how american businesses won their civil rights, was a finalist for the National Book award and receive describes award. He is also the author of gun, fig
Elected officials, and industry executives discuss during a series of panels hosted by the panels moderator was steve clemons. Im one of those people who admit to going to davos. And this is not to be nice to one of our later speakers, cisco has the chalet on the promenade that you can go win, and i get obsessed with it because you can watch in realtime what they are tracking nefarious activities on the global web. In the internet. Im fascinated by the sources and i am also fascinated at how the sun moves, and how cybernefarious activities move and i always thought connectivity created this problem between trust and fear. Do you trust the connectivity or should you fear it . And im interested to hear how you look at that equilibrium point of how you deal with risk and resilience and what you should be worried about and whether or not we are getting it wrong. Such a great question. I think its a mistake to trust. r it, but i think we should manage it. I think we need to have our eyes op