Would begin the first in a series of hearings on the state of the federal judiciary in the 21st century. In this hearing we will investigate ideas for promoting ethics, accountability, and transparency in the federal courts. We focus on these ideas in our first hearing on the judiciary because they flow from two foundational principles of due process. First that no one can be a judge in his own case. Second, to form a Supreme Court Justice Felix frankfurter , justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Both rules embody the understanding that the constitutions implicit promise of equal justice under law depends on at least two things that our court must be fair, independent and impartial and that we must also believe that our courts are fair, independent, and impartial. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice it might take a second but we intuitively understand that. It means that as the Supreme Court recently explained both th
The subcommittee will come to order. The chair is authorized to declare a recess at any time. We welcome everyone to this mornings hearing on the federal judiciary and the 21st centuryideas for promoting ethics, accountability and transparency. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. Good morning and welcome. Today we begin the first in a series of hearings on the state of the federal judiciary in the 21st century. This hearing we will investigate ideas for promoting ethics, accountability, and transparency in the federal courts. We focus on these ideas and our first hearing on the judiciary because they flow from two foundational principles of due process. First, that no one can be a judge in his own case. Second, to quote former Supreme Court Justice Felix frankfurter, justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Both rules embody the understanding that the constitutions implicit promise of equal justice under law depends on at least two things that our court must be
[applause] good morning, my brothers and sisters. That not good enough. Good morning and my brothers and sisters. The faith that they past has brought us. We will, we will, we will, march on. Until victory is won. Blog i welcome you on behalf of the Congressional Black Caucus foundation, youre at the legislative conference, conference that you could not afford to miss, and be reminded and still i rise. Welcome you again and delighted you have come for the focus of todays discussion is fighting the systemic destruction of our civil rights. It is very timely, it is urgent, and im confident that well have a productive discussion. Early this mark i was at the time onof our missions for homeless men here in washington, dc, along with the Congressional Black Caucus foundation spouses. I said to them, we must live with hope, but when you see individuals, where the system has fail them, where there is no future, then you know that we have to stand in the gap. I did not leave them with that tho
Hill to save obamacare eamon javers is in d. C. With more reporter hi, melissa the white house is trying to work through whether or not its going to endorse this deal that we saw on capitol hill, its the Alexander Murray deal named after the two senators who sponsored it the key is it would extend those cost sharing reduction payments for two years. Those are the payments that the president blocked last week, saying that Insurance Companies were getting an unfair deal, a political payout under obamacare. He blocked those payments. This deal would put those back in for two years the president was asked about that in the rose garden earlier today. He appeared to suggest that he liked the deal, at least thats the way many people took it. Listen to what the president said lamar has been working very, very hard with the democratic his colleagues on the other side, patty murray is one of them in particular, and theyre coming up and theyre fairly close to a short Term Solution the solution wi
Just a few hours after the event david Vice President mike pence also slamming Media Coverage of the president s response. Take a listen to that. We in the National Media spend more time criticizing president s word than criticizing those who perpetrated the violence to begin with. We should be putting the attention where it belongs, and that is on these extremeist groups that need to be pushed out of the public debate entirely. David so, is the medias reaction to the president s statement overblown . Trump 20 to Advisory Board member. We have Brunell Donald shea, former d. C. Democratic party chair scott bolden. Good to see you all. Good afternoon. David good afternoon. When i first heard the president , that was after, i was glued to the television, i was not in charlottesville, but i watched from stem to stern all the fox news coverage. I saw a lot of helmets on the atright people, nazis, i saw a lot of helmets on i dont know what they call themselves. Whatever it is, weve seen them