Luis Carlos Sarmiento Angulo en 6AM 

El Dr. Andrés Vecino, profesor e investigador de la Facultad de Salud Pública de la Universidad Johns Hopkins en EEUU, advierte sobre el posible incremento de la mortalidad durante una intervención a EPS, así como los traumatismos que esta puede generar.

En Caracol Radio estuvo Armando Gutiérrez, director ejecutivo de la Asociación Nacional de Ciudades Inteligentes e Iluminación, explicando las preocupaciones del gremio

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Gloria Luz Gutiérrez, literata. Hoy en la Feria Internacional del Libro de Bogotá será la premiación de poesía inédita de la tertulia de Gloria Luz Gutiérrez.

En 6AM Hoy por Hoy de Caracol Radio estuvo el alcalde de Soacha, Julián Sánchez, para hablar sobre la explosión de la polvorería El Vaquero, ubicada a las afueras del municipio.

En mayo de 2024, el recaudo tributario bruto de la Dian fue de $30.26 billones de pesos, un aumento nominal de 17,8% y real de 11% frente a mayo de 2023.

Jhenifer Mojica, jefe de la cartera de Agricultura, fue una de las invitadas especiales del Gran Encuentro S.O.S. Sostenible, organizado por Prisa Media, en el que se abordarán algunos de los ejes principales de la agenda verde

Jaime Beltrán insistió en que si hay acuerdos establecidos entre los equipos sobre el ingreso de la hinchada visitante y pidió que estos se respeten.

Nilson Antonio Liz, presidente de la Asociación Nacional de Usuarios Campesinos (ANUC) explicó en 6AM las razones por las cuales entrarán a paro

Entre la semana 12 (fin de marzo) y la semana 27 (ahora) el costo de Transporte marítimo de un contenedor de 40 pies ha subido de 1.700 a 8.200 dólares (ver gráfica).

Tomás Elejalde, gerente del Metro de Medellín, abordó las preocupaciones sobre el estado de salud de los heridos tras el accidente del Metrocable.

Presidente de Andesco expone las medidas que deben tomar ante un posible apagón para el 2025

En Caracol Radio estuvo Juan Fernando Cristo, ministro del Interior.

Humberto Amín, concejal de la capital, entregó detalles en 6AM de la propuesta que le presentó al distrito con el propósito de reducir los tiempos en algunos corredores viales sin que los conductores sean sancionados con comparendos

En el programa 6AM de Caracol Radio, habló Paula Cortés Calle, presidenta de Anato, que develó algunas propuestas que el gremio hará al gobierno nacional.

De acuerdo con Juan Carlos Echeverry, exministro de Hacienda y expresidente de Ecopetrol, se trata de un negocio que no se daría fácilmente.

En 6AM Hoy por Hoy de Caracol Radio estuvo Camilo Sánchez, presidente de Andesco, para hablar sobre el tema de los servicios públicos y la situación energética que vive el país actualmente.

El alcalde de este municipio estuvo en 6AM Hoy por Hoy de Caracol Radio dando detalles sobre el secuestro de soldados en esta zona del país.

El representante a la cámara, Julián López, hizo hincapié en sobre cuáles serán los puntos clave del proyecto de ley con el que pretenden evitar el reclutamiento. 

A pesar de todos los desacuerdos, el gobierno decidió incrementar el precio del diésel.

En 6AM Hoy por Hoy de Caracol Radio estuvo John Maya Salazar, gerente general de EPM, para hablar sobre qué esperan del cierre del túnel de desviación derecho de Hidroituango.

El ministro de Hacienda y Crédito Público, Ricardo Bonilla, habló en 6AM sobre las implicaciones de la Reforma Tributaria que quiere implementar este Gobierno.

El gobierno asegura que es necesario el incremento del ACPM, pero ¿no hay otras posibilidades?

En el programa 6AM de Caracol Radio, Martha Carvajalino, la ministra de Agricultura, hizo hincapié en cuáles son los departamentos más afectados con incrementos en el precio de alimentos 

En 6AM Hoy por Hoy de Caracol Radio estuvo Claudia Calero, presidenta de Asocaña, para hablar sobre cuál ha sido la respuesta del gobierno ante el incremento de la inseguridad en el gremio azucarero.

En 6AM de Caracol Radio, estuvo Jorge García, presidente de la Confederación Colombiana de Transportes y habló sobre que ya hay forma de acta para el acuerdo 

Durante el programa de este 19 de septiembre de 6AM de Caracol Radio, se conectó Ricardo Sierra, Presidente de Celsia, cadena de distribución de energía eléctrica

En 6AM Hoy por Hoy de Caracol Radio estuvo Jorge Emilio Rey, gobernador de Cundinamarca, para hablar sobre qué información tienen sobre grupos y actividades ilegales en esta parte del departamento y las acciones que adelantan para esto.

El gobernador del Vichada, Álex Benito habló en 6AM sobre la caída del helicóptero de la Fuerza Aérea, que enluta nuevamente al país.

Herna Penagos, Registrador Nacional, habló en 6AM sobre las garantías de las próximas elecciones 

En Caracol Radio estuvo Cielo Rusinque, superintendente de Industria y Comercio, explicando las medidas de la entidad.

Padre de Sofía Delgado habló en 6AM de Caracol Radio, sobre la cruel muerte de la niña y sobre si había una relación con el asesino 

El senador Miguel Uribe estuvo en 6AM para abordar lo que fue el anuncio de su aspiración presidencial.

En 6AM de Caracol Radio estuvo Alfred Ballesteros, director de la CAR, para hablar sobre en qué consiste el proyecto con el que pretenden enfrentar la crisis del agua.

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NPR's Scott Simon accompanied his daughters to the polls, as they voted in their first presidential election.

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On December 1st, 2020, Nasdaq filed a proposal with the Securities and Exchange Commission to adopt additional listing rules requiring enhanced board diversity and disclosure of firm diversity efforts.  The new listing rules require Nasdaq-listed companies to have on their board of directors, at least two diverse directors, including one who self-identifies as female and one who self-identifies as an underrepresented minority or LGBTQ+.  If the firm does not meet this listing requirement, it must explain why they do not have at least two diverse directors sitting on their board.  Additionally, the new listing rules require Nasdaq-listed companies to publicly disclose consistent, transparent diversity statistics regarding its board of directors.  Nasdaq defines underrepresented minorities to include Black or African America, Hispanic or Latinx, Asian, Native American or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, two or more races or ethnicities.  Smaller reporting companies and foreign companies have additional flexibility in satisfying these new listing requirements by seating at least two female directors.  These new listing rules require approval from the SEC.

NASDAQ's stated goal for requiring diversity among its listed companies board makeups is to provide the investing public with a "better understanding of the company's current board composition and enhance investor confidence that all listed companies are considering diversity in the context of selecting directors, either by including at least two diverse directors on their boards or explaining their rationale for not meeting that objective." To support this new listing requirement, Nasdaq pointed to over 24 studies that found a link between diverse board and more robust financial performance with better corporate governance.  Under this proposal, Nasdaq-listed companies are required to publicly disclose board-level diversity statistics within one year of the SEC's approval of the rule.

CNN reports that Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman stated, "Nasdaq's purpose is to champion inclusive growth and prosperity to power stronger economies." Non compliance by Nasdaq-listed companies could lead to delisting.  

Nasdaq's move is part of a growing momentum to see that corporate board diversity is taken seriously across the United States.  California has for two years been requiring gender diversity on corporate boards and has recently begun requiring racial and ethnic diversity on California boards as well.  Goldman Sachs has recently announced that it will require any company that it assists in taking public must include at least one diverse board member. 

The Corporate Justice Blog has long advocated for board diversity as a priority for expanding human capital and realizing greater financial benefits for the firms and its shareholders. We argue that a commitment to diversifying the board, both in gender and racial diversity as well as worldview diversity enhances the performance of the corporations that so commit.  See here, here, here and here.

hat tip:  Deepali Lal, 3L, Arkansas at Little Rock William H. Bowen School of Law 

photo: courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

 The United States invented the Rule of Law through the fragmentation of sovereignty among 51 sovereign authorities each with three branches of government. It further protects individual rights from state and federal infringement. This effectively created a legal system that could all state actors to account before law. While still imperfect in many important ways, Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to the Rule of Law particularly since January 6, 2021.

Today in America the rule of law faces severe challenges and may well face a total sunset. If so, the Supreme Court of the United States played a central role as accomplice. Most notably, today granted review (certiorari) on the following question: Whether and if so to what extent does a former President enjoy presidential immunity from criminal prosecution for conduct alleged to involve official acts during his tenure in office. That question in the abstract may hold academic interest, but the answer lies in many disputes in the future over decades or even centuries. 

Prof. Laurence Tribe, a legendary Constitutional Law scholar, explains the effect of this action:

The Supreme Court effectively gives Trump the potential to now escape any accountability for his role in the insurrection of January 6, 2021. This order puts partisan politics above the Rule of Law. A very dark day for America.

Today, the United States Supreme Court obliterated the Fourteenth Amendment, section 3, in Trump v. Anderson. The language of this section appears simple enough:

No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice-President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.

The Court held that: "the Constitution makes Congress, rather than the States, responsible for enforcing Section 3." More specifically, the Court held that only Congress may enforce the disqualification of section 3 and that states could only enforce the provision against state candidates for office and state officeholders. Otherwise the nation would face a risk of a patchwork of state outcomes. This, despite the fact that in 1868, shortly after the provision became law, the Governor of the State of Georgia disqualified a federal candidate for office. (See fn 3).

Further, if "only" Congress holds power to enforce section 3 then why did the drafters of the Amendment just insert an "only" in the section granting Congress power. The Court needs that "only" and it simply does not exist. Rather than apply the plain meaning the Court instead pretends there is an only when there is no such word. Section 5 plainly states: "The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article." The Court did violence to the statute to protect Donald Trump.

Former Fourth Circuit Judge J. Michael Luttig, a prominent conservative jurist explains:

The Supreme Court did leave one last avenue for accountability under law that the Biden Administration or DOJ Special Counsel Jack Smith could use to disqualify Trump. 18 U.S.C. section 2383 provides:

Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and shall be incapable of holding any office under the United States.

The Court cited this section with approval. It would provide a uniform federal solution. And, it arises from an exercise of Congressional power. Even this Court (which works overtime to protect Trump) would uphold such an action. 

Why did Jack Smith (or Attorney General Merrick Garland before him) fail to use this section against the obvious insurrectionist Donald Trump? Or, alternatively, why not bring such an action tomorrow morning? Colorado would provide a form indictment and a trial map, complete with comprehensive evidence?

So, the Court today shifted the spotlight to DOJ with today's SCOTUS ruling. Agreement or disagreement with the Court's opinion no longer matters. Many excellent arguments support the use of section 3 in precisely the manner of Colorado. All moot.

Why did DOJ fail (and continue to fail) to seek disqualification through a criminal action a criminal action? 

The most disturbing and vivid reality of all of this: law failed to hold Trump to account as an oath breaking insurrectionist despite many available pathways.

 

 

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