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
Investigators criticizes a parallel Justice Department probe. Why dont you have your own damn files . What interviews will we see this week . Ill speak to adam schiff in moments. First, look whos talking . Two former tennessee governors on opposite sides of the aisle say theyre ready to bridge the gap. Thats ahead. Hello, im jake tapper in washington, where the state of our union is watching International Crises build. One thing that was clear, as World Leaders garded, The Western World is fighting battles, on two fronts. With its forceful recap purse of its own land, and second against Global Economic peril, with inflation continuing to soar and recession looming, people Around The World struggling to keep up with Energy Prices and other costs. One leader facing a particularly stiff challenges is liz truss. She officially took on the role just days before the nations month narc,e 2k50id, after ten or 12 days of mourning, in trusss first major move as the nations leader, she announced
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[gavel] good afternoon everybody and welcome to the San Francisco board of supervisors meeting for tuesday, july 12. 2016. Mdm. Clerk please call the roll. Supervisor avalos be present breed, present. Campos, present. Cohen, present. Farrell, present. Kim, present. Mar not present peskin, present. Tang, present. Weiner, present. Yee, present. You have a quorum thank you. Ladies and gentlemen please join us for the pledge of allegiance. [pleage of allegiance] thank you. Mdm. Clerk are there any communications . There are no communications to report colleagues, any changes to the june 7, 2016 for the Meeting Minutes were the june 8 special budget and finance committee Meeting Minutes . Seeing none, is there a motion to approve those minutes . Moved and seconded. Colleagues can we take that without objection . Without objection those Meeting Minutes will be passed after Public Comment. [gavel] mdm. Clerk please read the Consent Agenda items 16 [reading code] mdm. Clerk, please pull item n
Collies can we take this amendment without objection . Without objection dont passes unanimously [gavel] supervisor cohen thank you. I want to inject my voice. Supervisor peskin think the continuing this item. I think the resolution reflected comments did i do also think its important we after the recall history and also help jane kim as the 2014 winter legislation it i realize you are not here. There were earlier iterations was here for. That student may been earlier iterations were talking bout 2014, beatty and supervisor kim and i did that with you with incredible coalition. Was a beautiful momentous moment and important that our citywide legislation be consistent with a resolution that youre putting forward. When i first read it i was not in a position to support it because is very concerned that poor people and particular people of color would be often at the bottom would be excluded wrongfully. So, im grateful to see these men. I think we are going in the right direction and im a