I 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
Happy
I do cringe when I see the Pope, Jesus or any religious figure made fun of. Just as I do cringe when I hear someone be disrespectful to their parents of their elders. It is not religious, just normal awareness of those traditional mores that demand respect to everyone.
I thought quite funny that we teach our children, in schools and at homes, civility and goodwill. We teach them not call people bad names, not to hurt their feelings, to speak politely about others and to others…even this blog has civility rules that all of us enforce and subscribe to, to some extent.
So the hypocrisy of poking the sacred of the other for the sake of expressing one’s freedom to do so goes against everything society has striven to do, since the first 2 human beings came together.
But, I have a sense of humor, and I can find the funny (even if it usually is incredulity, really) in anything, including drawings of the Prophet, as I would defend everyone’s right to draw him. Perhaps says something about some depravity within me too…:)
David, am not sure why you think Inga would have an issue with that? It is history, ain’t it?
Paul brings that up quite often too, as if this current democratic party is forever tainted by that, and this republican party is forever enobled by that.
Wadewilliams,
Name-calling does not advance your arguments; it stymies them.
po,
“By conservatives, I actually meant that extremist fringe of the conservative movement that isn’t satisfied with live and let live, but that is,rather, spurred by either religion or bias, not the entirety of the conservative realm across race, social class and religion.”
We are in agreement. 🙂 Extremists drive wedges between groups. Darned fringes causing problems left and right! 🙂
United States set up a Trust Fund as recompense to the Indians for their land. First pay out (interest only) was 2004.
We are currently assisting those seeking federal investigation of Scott Romney nixing an April 2008 sale of Greek Town casino for $800 million.
Then Scott Romney’s law firm getting involved in the bankruptcy just one month later (May 2008) that may have been a result of Romney’s brother’s actions.
Money being bilked.. now…from Indian Trust funds
on 1, February 1, 2015 at 6:23 am LaserDLiquidator
United States set up a Trust Fund as recompense to the Indians for their land. First pay out (interest only) was 2004.
We are currently assisting those seeking federal investigation of Scott Romney nixing an April 2008 sale of Greek Town casino for $800 million.
Then Scott Romney’s law firm getting involved in the bankruptcy just one month later (May 2008) that may have been a result of Romney’s brother’s actions.
Money being bilked.. now…from Indian Trust funds
LaserDLiquidator
It’s Like Nick said
This is so inaccurate I don’t even know where to begin so I am going to resort to cutting and pasting
http://www.saulttribe.com/7-history-a-culture/41-story-of-a-people
The Natives wrote this themselves and it is heartrending. Most of these Liberals here think I am a hard line Conservative so I must once again remind them I am a Classical Liberal and besides that probably Post Modern Socially.
Of course on a side note, I think Obama is crazy in his handling of Israel but then so was George HW but he was not blatant. He just was conservative with money and lost the AIPAC vote.
Getting back to the blatant lie about Scott Romney.
The Chippewa lost Greektown during the bankruptcy as ownership passed to a consortium of mostly out-of-state investors. The casino, which remained open during the bankruptcy, shed about $500 million in debt.
The tribe estimated it spent close to $100 million of its own money plugging Greektown’s losses.
“They did over $300 million a year in revenues. But they just had too many expenses and too much debt,” said Jacob Miklojcik, a Lansing-based gaming consultant and former Greektown Casino board member.
Quicken Loans founder and Ohio casino owner Dan Gilbert bought Greektown from the investors last year. Since leaving bankruptcy in 2010, it has yet to turn a profit.
A Chippewa representative reached Friday afternoon was not able to answer questions regarding the tribe’s plans for a new southeast Michigan casino.
If the property is built, it would compete with casinos in Detroit and Windsor as well as the new Hollywood Casino Toledo.
Gambling experts have blamed the region’s increasingly crowded casino market for pushing down revenues at each Detroit casino.
The three properties brought in $1.35 billion in gambling revenues last year, down 4.7% from 2012. And revenues this year were down 5.2% through May, compared with the same time period last year.
While the tribe has eyed the Lansing and Huron Township sites for several years, it’s only now moving forward following a U.S. Supreme Court decision last month that sided with another Michigan tribe over an off-reservation casino that the State of Michigan was trying to close.
The 5-4 ruling determined that the Bay Mills Indian Community, as a domestic sovereign entity, is protected from being sued by the state.
The state also opposes the Chippewa’s plans, and Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette has an active lawsuit that seeks to stop them from opening in Lansing. Attorney General spokeswoman Joy Yearout said Friday that the lawsuit is in U.S. District Court, Western District of Michigan, waiting to be heard.
The lawsuit contends that the casino can’t be built because, among other reasons, the tribe hasn’t secured a revenue sharing agreement with other Michigan tribes, in violation of a state gaming agreement, Yearout said. “State law doesn’t allow them to go the road they are traveling.”
Misguided?
The woman is a moron.
Wadewilliams we can surely do without your brilliance. You are lucky I am not a whining Liberal and call you out for your abuse of the civility code. Anyone who calls one a moron is surely one step beyond
And Happy, Wadewilliams surely has a point, I glossed over that trying to give you the benefit of the doubt but am not sure it is simple ignorance(as in lack of knowledge of something)…or…something else!
Those two points about blacks and native americans are incredibly misguided.
Po and Wadewilliams – I was going to title the remark with I am going to take Paul Schulte’s side this time but I decided to leave it blank and see what happened as there are many sides to every issue. Of course there is the Liberal side here which is always very one dimensional and throws – not you PO but Wadewilliams – sticks and stones at me – Oh Oh don’t hurt me please ouch ouch my tender feelings. NO one has ever done me any wrong in this wide world Wadewilliams. I have come thru unscathed. lol. I even have some Native Blood. omg. Can I go and jump in that dung heep? Please please please???? Pretty please. Po knows how I am so he is not going to prod really hard, Po – did you see that Charlie Hebdo comic of Jesus in the Menage de troi about gay marriage with St Peter with the Crown of Thorns bent over and everything with the holes in his hands and feet. I told you they leave no prisoners over there. I saw it in a google search and I am sufficiently irreverent that I had to laugh at the stupid look they had put on Jesus Face. I don’t know what part of my psyche they get to do that, but they find it. I hope you won’t think I am incredibly depraved now but just human.
Wadewilliams – can I please be ignorant for you? lol I meant it about the Nanny State right now though. That is winning. Did you watch my little video. It’s hilarious. I really am a progressive socially you know. lolol 😉
Happy
I am not sure how to respond. That sentence of yours is…is…wow!
How about this idiocy?
“The Natives received their lands back in most cases but there was bloodshed.”
Congratulations, Prof. Turley. You’ve got yourself some fine ‘minds’ that frolic here.
What a dung heap!
I stand corrected, prairie Rose. By conservatives, I actually meant that extremist fringe of the conservative movement that isn’t satisfied with live and let live, but that is,rather, spurred by either religion or bias, not the entirety of the conservative realm across race, social class and religion.,
LaserDLiquidator
Slavery has changed
And bigotry has grown
Really???? no kidding – and you think people that are conservative don’t come up against that every day???? My Conservative Dentist from N. Calif. had this to say to me when we were going to do a JW Pepper Anthem and she threw a Hissy fit right after I told her I understood why she told me 5 years ago to let the director tell us what to do
Sam said
am I racist against whites or blacks, he couldn’t tell from my retelling of the event
it’s too black for white people to sing that don’t sing well – it would be an insult to that church
This is the Anthem and the Author is a white man. We are to do these things for the Glory of God which cannot stand in a divided house. If I seem upset right now, this is why.
What an embarrassment!
“will tell you that a black person was better off and safer under slavery if they are going to enslave themselves to the Nanny State. This is something that no Progressive seems to understand.”
po, progressives create wedge issues. The current one is climate change. I heard a weather guy the other day taking a lot of kidding about how wrong the previous day’s forecast was.
Good naturedly, he said “and you think we know what!s going to happen in 50 years?” So far no he has come home from school talking about it. We would have a hard time saying nothing. Cross our fingers.
po,
“conservatism is the surest thing to drive a wedge between the many groups that compose this society. The live and let live idea is being challenged by those who want this society to be exactly as they wish it, damn everyone else.”
That is not a fair statement. It can easily be turned on its head. Liberalism wants society to be exactly as they wish it, d**n everyone else who does not agree. (Think of all the perjoratives that are thrown at conservatives–does that not drive a wedge?) Why should someone consider an opposing point of view if they’ve been demeaned or been called names?
If you mean the people who wish to control the thoughts and actions of others, then elements of both conservatism and liberalism are to blame.
Slavery has changed
And bigotry has grown
Progressives, such as I, understand bull shutvwhen tgey see it.
Especially, repetitive attempts of verbally (or text) reinforcing bull shit.
No matter how many times it is dumped out, rechurned and variously plated
It is still bull shit!
listened!
Happy, the issue of charter schools is not as black and white as you make it seem. I have listen to both sides arguing their case and there is still a lot more grey to it than it seems.
http://www.democracynow.org/2010/2/11/charter_roundtable
http://www.democracynow.org/2013/8/30/juan_gonzlez_growing_charter_school_chain
I would re-examine this sentence however: ” will tell you that a black person was better off and safer under slavery if they are going to enslave themselves to the Nanny State.
oops – live and let live
http://humanevents.com/2011/07/24/when-will-black-america-wake-up-and-stop-the-carnage/
Inga is right (again and again) Sandi! I was lamenting the newly vehement call to clean up history of the extremism of some.
And yes, Inga, conservatism is the surest thing to drive a wedge between the many groups that compose this society. The live and let live idea is being challenged by those who want this society to be exactly as they wish it, damn everyone else. In that, they remind me of other fundamentalists, only they wear black and use knives.
The odd thing is that they keep calling upon the constitution in their open battle war against liberalism, to the extent of wanting to subjugate it to their pet cause.
In other words, the constitution is inviolable until they need to violate it, and they keep yelling that the government is about to take away our freedoms yet they are even more eager to take away everyone else’ freedoms.
po –
Conservatives and libertarians are more likely to have a life and let live attitude than progressives. They just do not want their children taught by progressives.