As you can see, were live outside of the u. S. Supreme court where the high court is expected to hand down decisions into key cases. One deals with the case involving the craft store chain, hobby lobby, at a Furniture Store in pennsylvania. They are in opposition to certain types of contraception for their employees because it violates their religious beliefs. Hobby lobby say they have a number of factors in their favor. They cite the tone of the oral argument that took place in march and the Court Decision last week, finding that the president overstepped his bounds when he made recess appointments. Key Court Decision being released today is when dealing with the requirements of Company Employees who are not members of unions to pay union dues. Home healthcare workers fill it is unfair for them to collect fees from workers who are not union members. Aey feel that they negotiate contract for all employees, so they should share the cost. These are live pictures outside of the Supreme Co
Should be applied uniformly across all employers. Heres, respectfully, why i dont think that that works, which is i think the question whenever there are exemptions in the statute is to ask yourself, do the exemptions undermine the compelling interest that the government asserts. Theres nothing inconsistent with an interest in prohibiting employment discrimination to say were going to focus on the people who actually employ the most people and therefore can engage in the most discrimination. Its quite a different matter, and i dont think anybody would think that congress would pass a title vii that said, hey, as long as you have a preexisting discriminatory policy, youre allowed to keep it. That doesnt seem like it would be consistent. Counsel, your attorney, one of the attorneys below, on behalf of your clients admitted that the grandfathered policies werent going to be around very long because any change to an existing policy and he said these changes happen on a yearly basis. And we
Unstable. We are seeing extremism. We are seeing a major shift in this region. We are not dealing with iran in a vacuum. The decisions we make have to be decisions for the region. We are dealing with a United States that is tired of war. It has not gone well in the two big wars it conducted in the middle east. It spent trillions of dollars, a lot of mud and blood and treasure. It is very clear that the americans are more interested in nationbuilding at home. These are important context to bear in mind. Hopefully the Iranian Regime will change. Hopefully, the administration will take diplomacy very seriously. Or that sanctions really change the koran and governments mind and they change course the iranian governments mind and they change course. It is quite likely and possible that iran may go nuclear before any of these things take effect. Before sanctions, as rigorous as they are, produce a result, or before there is a democracy movement. Then, we are really left with two choices. We
Forth. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding to the measure . Without objection. Ms. Heitkamp i ask further that the committeereported amendment be agreed to, the bill as amended be read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid on the table with no intervening action or debate. The presiding officer without objection. Ms. Heitkamp i ask unanimous consent that the Energy Committee be discharged from further consideration of s. 2440 and the senate proceed to its consideration. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk s. 2440 a bill to expand and extend the program to improve coordination by the bureau of lefthand management and for other bureau of Land Management and for other purposes. The presiding officer is there objection to proceeding to the measure . Without objection the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. Ms. Heitkamp i ask unanimous consent that udall new mexico amendment whic
Influencing machine. She sat down recently at fort university. This is an hour and 20 minutes fordham university. This is an hour and 20 minutes. Our moderator is the author of four books on cultural programming and for 15 years, he was the head of special projects at the directors guild. He frequently moderates and events around the city for bafta, the screen actors guild, the producers guild, the academy of Motion Picture arts and sciences. Please welcome brian rose. [applause] next, but could not be more delighted to have Brooke Gladstone here tonight. She is the managing editor and cohost of nprs on the media and author of a highly acclaimed book the influencing machine. we will be doing a signing of her book. She has been at npr for many years, including a threeyear stint in moscow where she covered the last turbinate years of president yeltsin. I know all of you die hard groupies out there will agree there is something about brooke that pulls you in. Each week, even at 7 00 a. M.