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Housepassed government funding bill. Now, live Senate Coverage here on cspan2. The president pro tempore the senate will come to order. The chaplain, dr. Black, will open the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Almighty god, help us. Turn us back to the paths of integrity and faith. Be for our lawmakers a protecting rock of safety, rescuing them from the powers of evil. Help them to fix their hearts on you, trusting your guidance and wisdom. May love for you be reflected in the ordering of their priorities, as they seek to give you first place in every important decision. Lord, make th...

We worked together on a number of projects and the discussion of Judicial Independence in the role of judiciary in our society was missing a piece, a lot of focus on constitutional vision powers and the role of judges and all that. What has been missing is who are judges . What is the human side of judging . What we are trying to do this evening is begin that conversation and shed some light on it. I will introduce the panelists and jeff will introduce our comoderator. Here on stage, we have judge breyer from the Northern District of california and has been a judge on that bench since 1998. To...

Screeching of the metal ripping off of it. The girl in the back was crying. Shaun with this crash, an abrupt ending to their weekend tour of boston. Pieces of metal torn off as this duck boat crumpled under a Storrow Drive overpass. We went under the first part, it was kinda close. Then the second half of the bridge, it just cut. Just chopped off the back half. Luckily, it all fell backwards. There was a big metal crashing sound that hit the road behind us with the piece falling off. Passengers then moved debris out of the road. Everyone was safe, but shaken. Some of the kids in the back got a...

The Texas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state comptroller wrongly denied payments to a man who was declared innocent last year after spending 12 years in prison — including nine on death row. A trial judge declared Alfred Dewayne Brown innocent of the 2003 shooting death of a Houston police officer after the judge found the prosecuting attorney withheld and suppressed exculpatory evidence that showed Brown was not at the crime scene. Like many wrongly convicted Texans, Brown applied for compensation from a state fund that pays $80,000 for every year spent in prison. For Brown, that...

On Friday, the Texas Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Alfred Dewayne Brown is entitled to monetary compensation from the Texas Comptroller’s Office due to his near decade on death row for a crime investigators later found he did not commit. Back in 2005, Brown was convicted of murdering Houston Police Officer Charles Clark and sentenced to death. But in 2014, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals threw out Brown’s conviction after a Harris County detective found phone records that corroborated Brown’s alibi, which Harris County prosecutors were aware of but never shared with Brown’s...