In America Today the fabric of our nation would never felt more divided. And we are too fixated on our differences. Hes black, hes white. He grew up in the city, and hes a farm boy from utah. Hes a democrat, and hes a republican. On paper, we could not be more different. And yet we are both dads. We both love college basketball. We both have really stylish haircuts. And we are both proud americans. We disagree passionately on lots of issues. But we are friends. And we respect each other. Politics is important. But it should not define us or destroy our relationships. His name is spencer cox. And his name is wes moore. And we approve this message. Please welcome to the stage, chairman of the board of trustees of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute, mr. Fred ryan. [applause] mr. Ryan good morning. Welcome to the reagan institute. We are delighted today to be joined by governor cox and first lady abby cox. Thank you for joining us this morning. Each year the chair of
Hello, friends please join me once more in welcoming justice back to the National Constitution center center. Thank you for. It is always an honor to welcome our honorary cochair here to the ncc and its extraordinarily meaningful to convene this evening to discuss his new book reading constitution why i chose fragments as im not textualism justice. It is clear from this powerful book which better than any other sums the central methodological debate on the Supreme Court today between the pragmatism of which you are the leading spokesperson and textualism which is embraced by a Supreme Court majority. So im going to begin with the obvious question why did you choose to write this book about why you chose pragmatism . Textualism its a good question because what many people say is the way ive been a judge for 40 years, 48 years on the Supreme Court and want to get across particularly to students and others, how do you go about deciding or how do i go about deciding these difficult questio
Once more in welcoming justice back to the National Constitution center center. Thank you for. It is always an honor to welcome our honorary cochair here to the ncc and its extraordinarily meaningful to convene this evening to discuss his new book reading constitution why i chose fragments as im not textualism justice. It is clear from this powerful book which better than any other sums the central methodological debate on the Supreme Court today between the pragmatism of which you are the leading spokesperson and textualism which is embraced by a Supreme Court majority. So im going to begin with the obvious question why did you choose to write this book about why you chose pragmatism . Textualism its a good question because what many people say is the way ive been a judge for 40 years, 48 years on the Supreme Court and want to get across particularly to students and others, how do you go about deciding or how do i go about deciding these difficult questions and difficult statutory que
Hello, friends please join me once more in welcoming justice back to the National Constitution center center. Thank you for. It is always an honor to welcome our honorary cochair here to the ncc and its extraordinarily meaningful to convene this evening to discuss his new book reading constitution why i chose fragments as im not textualism justice. It is clear from this powerful book which better than any other sums the central methodological debate on the Supreme Court today between the pragmatism of which you are the leading spokesperson and textualism which is embraced by a Supreme Court majority. So im going to begin with the obvious question why did you choose to write this book about why you chose pragmatism . Textualism its a good question because what many people say is the way ive been a judge for 40 years, 48 years on the Supreme Court and want to get across particularly to students and others, how do you go about deciding or how do i go about deciding these difficult questio
Yes, i know. Hello, friends please join me once more in welcoming justice back to the National Constitution center center. Thank you for. It is always an honor to welcome our honorary cochair here to the ncc and its extraordinarily meaningful to convene this evening to discuss his new book reading constitution why i chose fragments as im not textualism justice. It is clear from this powerful book which better than any other sums the central methodological debate on the Supreme Court today between the pragmatism of which you are the leading spokesperson and textualism which is embraced by a Supreme Court majority. So im going to begin with the obvious question why did you choose to write this book about why you chose pragmatism . Textualism its a good question because what many people say is the way ive been a judge for 40 years, 48 years on the Supreme Court and want to get across particularly to students and others, how do you go about deciding or how do i go about deciding these diff