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...statutes in question. Canon 3, Section B5 of the Georgia Code of Judicial Conduct prohibits judges from being religiously biased, and a Georgia’s Council of Municipal Court Judges brochure mandates that even hats should not be taken off if worn for religious purposes. As Marc D. Stern wrote on behalf of the American Jewish Congress about this incident, “I have appeared at counsel’s table in the U.S. Supreme Court several times wearing a religious head-covering…I am reasonably confident that wearing such symbols does not disrupt the processes...
...countries as an enticement to agree to a new deal at Copenhagen - though in a possible sign of how difficult such programs might be in a global recession, he refused to put a specific amount on the aid offer. But together with the Obama Administration's naming of Todd Stern as its special envoy for climate change, and with Gore's appearance on Capitol Hill, change has already come to the long-deadlocked global talks on warming. "This is a strong signal that Obama is ready to engage," says Jake Schmidt, international climate policy director for the Natural Resources Defense...
...This is another indication that President Obama is taking the issue of climate crisis seriously across the administration." - a Democratic official on the naming of Stern as climate change envoy (Politico, January...
...Today marks a new chapter in U.S. climate diplomacy. ... Todd Stern is first-rate - brilliant, with long experience and deep expertise on climate change. - David Sandalow, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and author of Freedom From Oil, following Stern's appointment (Washington Post, January...
...Stern can't bring China along - and that will undoubtedly be one of his prime responsibilities - we're never going to reduce worldwide emissions enough to stave off that 5 to 7 degrees Celsius warming we're facing." - Ezra Klein, associate editor for The American Prospect, on the work Stern has ahead of him. (prospect.org, January...