Lectures about upholding our institutions and protecting democracy, but just as often, they find a way to undertake some new reckless attack against the courts and rule of law. Im proud of how our nations highest court has weathered these latest baseless attempts to attack its authority. I believe in the integrity and honesty of all nine justices all nine of them. They should pay the partisan grandstanding no mind at all. This meeting of the Senate Judiciary committee will come to order. Today, the Senate Judiciary Committee Considers the topic of Supreme Court Ethics Reform. Being a federal judge is a position of great honor and power, but above all, it is Public Service. We entrust judges with administering equal justice under the law. It is critical to our democracy that the American People have confidence that judges cannot be bought or influenced and that they are serving the public interest, not their own personal interests. Over the course of several decades, congress and the Ju
Value of the work of the m. T. A. And the work of kate and the work of john and i really appreciate genuinely the work theyve done on this important issue and our members never, ever said that this wasnt a critical issue that needed to be addressed and we just had a fundamental disagreement on strategy and how we go about getting this done and most notably our members were concerned about the issue around payment, specifically, and forcing people with disabilities to pay and we had concerns but were definitely open to conversations around time limits as well. We actually went to the state Democratic Party and got the party to pass a resolution in opposition to this plan which was passed unanimously. And, actually, the executive board of the state party starts meeting, actually, this evening in anaheim or in burlingham and ill have conversations with folks there. But we really want to we want to figure out a way to carve, you know, carve this issue out and figure out how do we move this
Efforts that ill highlight that you may be familiar with, and so the image on the left is something that the city of San Francisco put out and i want to say like in 2014, and as the guidelines for accessible Building Blocks for bicycle facilities and it was to be this document that was dynamic i think, that when it came to bike infrastructure and our street design would set th guidelines whether policies or dimensions or policies to make sure that the new bike infrastructure that came in would actually be accessible for all users regardless of people including for people with disabilities. Sorry. And then on the right is something that actually just came out quite recently, just earlier this year at the city of vancouver called their triple a guidelines. All ages and abilities of cycling groups is similar to the Building Blocks but the problem i see with a lot of these is that when were talking about biking the way that we talk about accessibility doesnt often either include people wit
More welcoming for everyone who is biking there, everyone using those streets. Were often partnering with local neighborhood associations, were working with city agencies, with elected officials, with merchant groups, whoever it is and even if they love the project or hate the project. But that is really the bread and the butter of our advocacy work. Next slide is to push for policy on Street Safety and i know that after may youll get a presentation from megan weir around vision zero so vision zero is one of our key policies that were pushing for, zero fatalities or serious injuries by 2024 and you also heard from kate breen today and we work with the legislative affairs on pushing for policies at the state level even, like automated speed enforcement. So were really trying to find larger and more macro policies that make San Francisco streets more welcoming for everyone. For the next slide i want to highlight our youth and family biking work and we are partners in the safe routes to S
Officials, with merchant groups, whoever it is and even if they love the project or hate the project. But that is really the bread and the butter of our advocacy work. Next slide is to push for policy on Street Safety and i know that after may youll get a presentation from megan weir around vision zero so vision zero is one of our key policies that were pushing for, zero fatalities or serious injuries by 2024 and you also heard from kate breen today and we work with the legislative affairs on pushing for policies at the state level even, like automated speed enforcement. So were really trying to find larger and more macro policies that make San Francisco streets more welcoming for everyone. For the next slide i want to highlight our youth and family biking work and we are partners in the safe routes to School Partnership where we engage parents and teachers and students at Elementary Schools and were in 30, 35 Elementary Schools and the Public Schools throughout the city. The two photo