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There simply is no persuasive reason to allow governmental officials who have virtually unreviewable power to hold their offices for life. | [ |
The second aspect of our Supreme Court that needs to be changed is the lack of television coverage of oral arguments and decision announcements. | [ |
What a shame that during the last week of June when the court handed down and read from the bench numerous important decisions -- including the overturning of the Defense of Marriage Act and the formula in Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act -- the American people had to hear the news indirectly from media personalities instead of the justices. | [ |
Similarly in 2012, when the court held three days of oral arguments on the president's most important piece of legislation, the Affordable Care Act, the public should have been able to witness those arguments just like the lucky few who happened to be in the courtroom. | [ |
Moreover, it is close to a tragedy that future generations will have absolutely no video record of the court's arguments or decisions in these landmark cases. | [ |
It would be an invaluable learning tool if young Americans today could see the oral arguments in Brown v. Board of Education or Roe v. Wade. | [ |
More than 30 state supreme courts allow cameras in the courtroom with great success. | [ |
Supreme Court Justices John Roberts and Anthony Kennedy have suggested that the presence of television would lead to grandstanding by lawyers and maybe even the justices themselves, but the experiences in state courts demonstrate such concerns are greatly exaggerated. | [ |
When Arkansas was considering placing cameras in the courtroom, Justice Robert L. Brown conducted a survey and found that "state supreme courts have blazed a significant technological trail. | [ |
The public's response, according to those state supreme courts that provide those video broadcasts, border[ed] on the exuberant. | [ |
Arkansas has joined the majority of states that allow cameras in their courtrooms. | [ |
There is simply no good reason for the Supreme Court not to do exactly the same thing. | [ |
A joke of a job interview . | [ |
Finally, we have to do something about the national farce that is our Supreme Court nomination process. | [ |
The sad spectacle of senators asking questions drafted by their staffs and then allowing the nominees to duck them should give way to serious conversations about the nominees' views so that the American people can participate more fully in the confirmation process. | [ |
As almost everyone now knows, the justices have enormous discretion to decide cases in accordance with their personal and political value systems. | [ |
The differences between Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg on most constitutional questions have nothing to do with legal interpretation and everything to do with their different backgrounds, experiences and values. | [ |
The Senate should do a much better job requiring nominees to answer hard questions about those values and experiences before the nominees are allowed to sit on the highest court in the land. | [ |
The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of Eric Segall. | [ |
Community health workers, or promotoras, in El Reparo, Mexico, take patients' blood pressure. | [ |
But the founder and CEO of the Arizona-based Tia Foundation, a nonprofit that strives to bring health care solutions and strategies to rural Mexico, can think of no more important time -- what with the swine flu scare -- to take the journey. | [ |
The World Health Organization says cases of swine flu have been confirmed worldwide, in countries that include the United States, Canada, New Zealand, the United Kingdom and Israel. | [ |
But Mexico has appeared to be the epicenter of the swine flu outbreak, with health officials saying the virus may have caused more than 150 deaths and roughly 2,500 illnesses there. | [ |
And that fact is increasingly scaring off prospective travelers to the country. | [ |
The Tia Foundation -- "tia" means aunt in Spanish -- targets the poorest of villages, places that generally lack basic health care facilities, not to mention vehicles to get to hospitals hours away, and where the people, often unschooled and malnourished, are more susceptible to disease, Libman said. | [ |
Watch answers to swine flu questions » . | [ |
Of the 98 health workers who have been selected and trained, all of them are women, Libman said. | [ |
This is because they're seen as caregivers and also because many men leave to find work, she explained. | [ |
But Libman, 45, added that "an unintended but extremely positive outcome" has been the "creation of female leadership" and empowerment. | [ |
Kathy McCraine, a freelance journalist and photographer, saw evidence of this when she traveled in 2007 and 2008 to Mexico to write a story for Thunderbird Magazine, a publication for alumni of the Thunderbird School of Global Management, which Libman attended in Glendale, Arizona. | [ |
She spoke of the confidence women exuded while taking charge and helping others. | [ |
McCraine fell in love with the foundation and ended up donating a $500 medical kit to one of the health care workers, or promotoras, after she graduated from the intensive week of training. | [ |
The recipient, McCraine remembered, "just felt that people respected her more. | [ |
She was able to do something for her community, and that made her really proud." | [ |
Collectively, the promotoras, who are not paid, are helping serve 30,000 to 50,000 people, Libman said. | [ |
They're doing everything from delivering babies and suturing wounds to treating infections, checking blood-sugar levels and teaching the importance of simple hand-washing. | [ |
The next village project is set to launch May 18 in the state of Jalisco. | [ |
Libman said she'll probably head down May 8, as she also is on a mission to hire a medical director for the foundation. | [ |
She usually travels with foundation interns but, because of the swine flu scare, cannot bring them this time around "for liability reasons," she said. | [ |
Nicole Ostrofe, a 23-year-old Thunderbird student and a summer intern who just started this week, found out only Tuesday that she wouldn't be going. | [ |
She was crushed, as she was really hoping to do field work and give back to the region where she studied abroad during her undergraduate years. | [ |
By the way, you can't go to Mexico." | [ |
In her place, a former intern, Wynona Heim, may go along as a volunteer -- someone free to sign a liability release -- to help with all that needs to be done. | [ |
For her part, Libman's worry is that her flight may be canceled. | [ |
If it is, she said she's prepared to hop in her car and drive if she has to. | [ |
She is hopeful, though, that the next wave of training will kick off as planned -- especially now, as concerns about swine flu sweep through Mexico and the remote villages remain the most underserved. | [ |
And to those who remain concerned about her plans and her personal safety, she said this: "I could just as easily be hit by a bus here. | [ |
The video, titled "We Con the World" -- set to the tune of the 1985 hit, "We are the World"-- was put together by Caroline Glick, a former member of the Israel Defense Forces and columnist for the Jerusalem Post. | [ |
In the video, up to a dozen members of the so-called "Flotilla Choir" -- some wearing a variation of traditional Arab dress -- sing satirical verses, such as: "There's no people dying, so the best that we can do is create the biggest bluff of all." | [ |
On her blog, Glick, who briefly appears in the video, says, "We produced a clip in English. | [ |
There we feature the Turkish-Hamas 'love boat' captain, crew and passengers in a musical explanation of how they con the world." | [ |
Nine Turkish citizens were killed Monday after violence erupted on one of six ships in a flotilla carrying humanitarian aid to the Palestinian Gaza Strip. | [ |
A number of other people were wounded. | [ |
Israel said the passengers initiated the attack; the passengers blamed the troops. | [ |
That incident drew widespread condemnation and cast a spotlight on the dynamics of the Gaza crisis. | [ |
On Saturday, Israel intercepted the final boat that was part of the flotilla, though the incident aboard the Irish-owned MV Rachel Corrie ended peacefully about 22 miles off the Gaza coast. | [ |
Israeli government spokesman Mark Regev dismissed the the video link, saying, "The GPO sends out lots of articles. | [ |
It doesn't mean they like it." | [ |
Regev said he first noticed the video on the New York Times website. | [ |
But the government has nothing to do with it. | [ |
The GPO distributes non-government items, things that we think that show our side of the story." | [ |
It was not the first time the Israeli GPO stirred controversy with its public communications on the Gaza flotilla. | [ |
Prior to the storming of the Turkish ship, the GPO sent an e-mail to journalists sarcastically recommending that while covering "alleged humanitarian difficulties," journalists should dine at one of Gaza's few restaurants. | [ |
The message included an internet link to an old promotional video for the restaurant. | [ |
The e-mail drew criticism from the foreign press and pro-Palestinian activists. | [ |
In an interview with the Jerusalem Post, GPO director Danny Seaman defended the communication, arguing that foreign media coverage of Gaza was not balanced. | [ |
Andrew Auwkit, 25, stabbed his girlfriend with a knife and fork, puncturing her lung, at a family meal on the day he was released from jail . | [ |
A man who stabbed his girlfriend with a knife and fork because she turned down his mother's cooking has been jailed for six years. | [ |
Andrew Auwkit lost his temper with his girlfriend during a family meal on May 9 - the day he was released from jail. | [ |
A court heard the 25-year-old, from Coventry, was at his parent's dinner table when the woman - who has an eating disorder - said she did not want to eat the food his mother had prepared. | [ |
He launched at his girlfriend in a frenzy calling her a 'fussy eater' and plunged his cutlery repeatedly into her chest. | [ |
His terrified victim, who has not been named, was left bleeding heavily at the table and suffered multiple injuries, including a collapsed lung. | [ |
Auwkit dialled 999 after attacking her - but once he was arrested he sent her a series of threatening letters from custody trying to get her to drop her complaint. | [ |
She ignored them, and he was jailed for six years yesterday at Warwick Crown Court after he admitted . | [ |
wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and perverting the course of justice. | [ |
Judge Richard Griffith-Jones told him: 'When she was not receptive to . | [ |
eating your mother’s cooking with the appreciation you had hoped, you . | [ |
used weapons which were at hand, and in a bad-tempered and persistent . | [ |
attack you caused more than one wound and injured her in a distressing . | [ |
way because one of the blows caused her lung to collapse. | [ |
Auwkit was sentenced at Warwick Crown Court, which heard he threatened his girlfriend not to press charges . | [ |
The court heard the vicious attack happened on the same day Auwkit was released from prison. | [ |
He was previously jailed for 16 weeks at Coventry Magistrates Court in April this year for breaching a sexual offences prevention order and for riding a motorbike while disqualified. | [ |
But because of the time he had spent in custody, he was freed on May 9, when he was met by his girlfriend. | [ |
His defence barrister said he had expressed remorse and told the court there was no lasting consequences from her injuries. | [ |
Australian state and territory governments have chosen not to grant a Monday public holiday when Anzac Day falls on a Saturday in 2015 - with the exception of Western Australia. | [ |
According to the official public holiday schedule for next year listed on the Australian Government's website, only WA will take an extra day to commemorate next year's Anzac Day centenary. | [ |
The granting of 'replacement' days for when public holidays fall on a weekend is at the discretion of state and territory governments and differs from year to year. | [ |
The Victorian Government says it's more important to commemorate the true meaning of Anzac Day than it is to have an extra day off. | [ |
Veterans will march on a Saturday for next year's Anzac Day - the centenary year . | [ |
Melbourne holds an Anzac Day commemoration at the MCG every year during a traditional AFL match between Collingwood and Essendon . | [ |
Mr Northe said Anzac Day trading restrictions would apply no matter which day April 25 fell on. | [ |
In 2009, Anzac Day fell on a Saturday and there was no public holiday, but the next year, when April 25 fell on a Sunday, Victorians got a Monday public holiday. | [ |
Rush-hour Underground commuters can sometimes resemble a herd of sheep - but that is usually where the association with agricultural ends. | [ |
However, travellers on Thursday were left bemused after two goats and an alpaca walked brazenly and unchecked through a ticket barrier at Vauxhall Underground Station. | [ |
There was no need for any Oyster cards as the plucky visitors Fred, Barney and Ben navigated the London station seemingly unaware of the hysteria around them. | [ |
Commuters could scarcely believe their eyes as they uploaded photos to social media websites. | [ |
One Twitter user commented: 'Vauxhall Tube always has some weird characters running around. | [ |
The animals from Vauxhall City Farm appeared happy and content as they waded through a multitude of onrushing passengers - all caught on camera. | [ |
A goat wanders through the ticket barrier at Vauxhall Tube in London . | [ |
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