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Turley Testimony In Senate Confirmation Hearing Of Loretta Lynch

Loretta_LynchI will have the honor of appearing today as part of the confirmation hearings in the Senate Judiciary Committee for Loretta Lynch, nominee to serve as United States Attorney General. Below is my written testimony for the hearing today.


Here is the full list of witnesses appearing today:

Sharyl Attkisson
Investigative Journalist

David Barlow
Partner
Sidley Austin LLP

David A. Clarke, Jr.
Sheriff
Milwaukee County, Wisconsin

Catherine Engelbrecht
Founder
True The Vote

Janice K. Fedarcyk
Fedarcyk Consulting LLC

Stephen H. Legomsky
John S. Lehmann University Professor
School of Law at Washington University

The Reverend Doctor Clarence Newsome
Cincinnati , OH

Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz
Professor Of Law, Georgetown University Law Center
Senior Fellow in Constitutional Studies Cato Institute

Jonathan Turley
Professor, J.B. And Maurice C. Shapiro Chair Of Public Interest Law
George Washington University Law School
Washington , DC

The full committee hearing resumes this morning at 10 a.m. in Committee Room 216 in the Hart Senate Office Building.

Here is my testimony: Statement.Lynch Nomination.Turley Testimony.Senate

561 thoughts on “Turley Testimony In Senate Confirmation Hearing Of Loretta Lynch”

  2. Sandi, first of all one would have to agree with you that all public schools do not teach history properly and that it is “slanted”. I don’t think Paul meant slanted in the same way you used it. Who knows. You are concerned that it is slanted in a liberal way, no? Or which sort of slant do you object to? You mentioned you didn’t like it that schools taught lessons about the KKK and the not so nice aspects of the the old south and racism. I WANT my grandchildren to hear BOTH sides of the story, not just the side that conservatives would want to teach. No whitewashing. Anyway, you started out giving me unsolicited advice about my grandchildren’s education, again AS IF you knew better than I what to be careful of and look out for. That is all well and good that you are doing this with YOUR family, I ALREADY HAVE with my own family. Obviously you just are not getting my meaning about condescension, because you are still doing it. I think your “mission” is fine with your own family. With my family it’s my call.

    1. Inga wrote: “You mentioned you didn’t like it that schools taught lessons about the KKK and the not so nice aspects of the the old south and racism. I WANT my grandchildren to hear BOTH sides of the story…”

      Does that mean you want their curriculum to include the fact that it was primarily the Democratic Party that supported slavery, racism, the KKK, etc., and that the Republican Party was created to fight these injustices?

        1. Inga wrote: “Yes indeed, if accurate.”

          What do you mean by, “if accurate”? Do you think it is possible that the Democratic Party did not favor slavery and racism?

          This is an example of “slanted history.” For the most part, children are taught about slavery, racism, and the KKK without any reference to the Democratic Party. If anything, the modern Republican party is falsely associated with being behind these issues.

  3. Sandi, She’s a drama queen. Don’t waste another second on it. Just seeking attention.

  4. That has been my point. Yet Inga thinks I’m condecsending. That I was assuming she didn’t know something.

    I thought I had made it clear that I’ve given myself a mission. I’ve told others my concerns and our plan to, as a family, have a discussion about the history we lived through and correct the “slanted” history. Usually I get a positive reaction. But not Inga.

    I’ve never read “de Tocqueville” completely. So that’s one I plan to read. George Will gave high praise to Johnson’s “History….” (Don’t remember the title” and The Federalists. I never finished the “John Adams” McCullough? And one about Sam Adams.

    It seems the longer our Republic goes on, the shorter the beginnings become. I happen to think the first 50 years the best.

    Too bad I wasn’t as interested in school

  7. Later, separation of church and state was so the government cannot declare the country under one religion. There have been many misguided interpretations.

    One of the reasons they came here was freedom of religion. Separation of church and state means the government can’t decide the country is one religion and everyone is free to practice their religion.

    You never did tell me what fascism means. You use the word without meaning.

  11. Darren,
    I went looking for Sandi’s missing comment earlier and couldn’t find it. As you know, I have not been online very much recently and am out of the loop on a number of things. I did find a whole raft of deleted comments marked as “Heuristics indicate previously banned user.” Not sure what that means, since heuristics is a term of art in AI that in reality is a fancy term for “educated guess.” You are the computer guy, so is there something I don’t know about this? Analytical program of some kind or ipse dixit? Forensic linguistics is one of my interests, so just wondering if somebody knows something I don’t.

    Backchannel reply is fine if this needs to be kept private.

  13. You must have obtained the purported fact of “80% want in our goverment” from the same polls Lameblah gets all his other B.S.

    Even the framers wanted separation of church n state.

    If you’re polling Gush,s audiences

    thats the only way to contrive such capricious hogwash

  14. My husband’s youngest daughter went to a women’s college (her mother’s choice). She went in a good conservative girl. She came out liberal. Not intensely and she’s back on the straight and narrow.

    That’s when I decided to discuss with both daughters the history we had lived. The oldest went to Notre Dame, so she was OK. Though as I talked about events even she had been taught differently. And it isn’t just correcting, it’s bringing up things they never heard of. So I ask people to share the history you grew up in.

    There are history books being used now with lots of pages about the Klu Klux Klan. About evil whites keeping slaves. They slide by the civil war. These books are rewriting history and everyone of us should tell your representatives to have hearings with the D of Education. My granddaughters read nothing without one parent reading it first until around 12.

    So do your kids and grandkids a good deed. Read history books that tell it as you lived it and talk about it. The school only has a few hours a day; you have their lives.

    1. Sandi – the standards that they teach to are slanted and the textbooks are slanted to meet the standards.

  15. Sandi

    Dying to learn where the 2nd Amendment is found in the Ten Commandments. Also the part about coveting your neighbor’s wife. Or how about keep the Sabbath day holy. Or how about the idols? Or how about take the Lord’s name in vain?

    Let me know when the lessons begin.

  16. Inga, It was not meant to be condescending, and I’m sorry you felt that.

    My friends could tell you that this is a mission I have given myself. When I retired both of our mothers lived with us, so I spent a lot of time at home. And discovered CSPAN! One day I watched Rush Limbaugh (yes, I am a Rushie) introduce President Bush 41. I watched the speech and listened to the crowd, the camera turned and there were lots of people in a square and people in the streets entering the square. They loved Rush and they loved Bush. Great day for a Rush fan and firm believer in being Republican.

    That evening we watched Peter Jennings, our habit. During the broadcast he commented on Bush’s speech and showed a picture of the crowd. The angle of the camera was a side view showing Bush and an empty street full of official cars. So you saw few people. They showed a few clips that stopped the moment the crowd would be responding.

    Then he told the citizens what the speech was about and it’s meaning. I
    turned to my husband and said “he’s talking about a different speech”! His characterization was no where near the actual speech! I was so disgusted.
    I thought Jennings was the least political of the big three.

    I checked CSPAN’s schedule and found they were running it again at 3 AM. So I recorded it and my husband watched it after dinner. He didn’t remember much of what Jennings said, but the crowd was incredible. So I quit watching news from the big three.

    That’s when I realized the media were making up what would one day be history. Cuddling Clinton, Bashing Bush, Ooooowing about Obama.

  17. We, the wee liddle peoples, always argue semantics juxtaposed. Most here never knew the Jesuit Oath, how it was imbedded into Congressional record, in 1913. Or about how the fed goverment, via USPS, seized AT&T as a publuc utility (only to immediately cough it back up when the power perceived was achieved).

    Or that maritime law rules U.S. via our life long fiction..ALL CAPS NAME, that we freely get duped into subjugation on.

    Then there,s the Vatican lord of U.S. all

    so named as U.C.C.1

    ——————–

    Did you think the Pope was kidding when he said the laxity in the law is no.longer permitted.

    Can you grasp Accommodation Endorsement

    Apostile triple notary

    Do.you own a maritime bond?

    I do!

  18. Paul C. Schulte
    pete – that is because Thursday was Thorsday.
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    that was the joke, paul. i was afraid oden and wodensday=wednesday might be to much of a stretch.
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    po

    only if we do this far from the ocean.

    1. Sandi,

      One method you can use as a defensive manner to wordpress hiccups is to copy the text you have written in the comment text box just before you hit the (Post Comment) button. That is highlight the text and copy it. That way if it fails to post for some inexplicable reason then you still have it to try again.

      If you have a long comment it might be a good idea to type it in another program such as Word or another text editor and then cut-and-paste it into the wordpress comment text box.

      A quick way to copy the text in the wordpress comment textbox is to perform the following keystrokes using the windows version of Internet Explorer:

      1) Complete typing out your comment
      2) Perform the following key strokes: [Alt] + [E], [A], [Control] + [C], [→]
      3) Click the (Post Comment) button.

      I will explain item two:

      First hold the [Alt] key down and then touch [E], release the keys. Next type [A] This will highlight all the text in the box. Next hold down the [Control] button and hit the [C] key: this copies the highlighted contents to your clipboard. The [→] (left arrow key) will have the effect of un-highlighting the text for safety reasons. Now, you can click (Post Comment) and it will post.

      If the post fails, you can select another text editor such as Word and hit [Control] [V] to paste it to that program or back into another wordpress comment text box.

      Hope this helps.

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