Of the select Intelligence Committee providing ongoing oversight of the intelligence agencies and the creation of the foreign intelligence act of 1978. Two former staffers are with us and will be with us to help provide Historical Context and understand the significance of the 40yearold video you are about to see from new york city. Fredericks forges with us. And here is elliot maxwell, a counsel to the committee. Thank you to both of you for joining us. In this installment of our series looking at the work 40 we will focus on the committees investigation into andnational Security Agency the Fourth Amendment rights of american citizens. To get us started, lets watch a clip from 1979. The agency remains unknown to most americans either by its acronym or its full name. , one hasst to the cia to search for in life to find someone who has heard of the nsa. To his right is the chief counsel to committee. He is with us in new york. The nsa is something of a household world for anyone who fol
Excellence and is the author of several books including the law of the land a grand tour of our constitutional republic. I think that akhil was voted most popular professor at yale. At least he is my most popular professor. And you are all here because he is your most popular professor. Before we welcome the popular professor upon the stage, please turn off cell phones or Electronic Devices and join me in welcoming akhil reed amar. Thank you. [applause] dr. Amar good evening. Welcome. Thank you so much for coming. This is the New York Historical society. Were going to be talking about the Supreme Court and we will be talking about these Supreme Court history, but also talking about the new york angle on all of this, because this is the New York Historical society. And, yes, why is this night different from all others . A well, here is one thought. It is really only this week it has become, i think, pretty apparent that the upcoming president ial election will be a subway series between
Hosted this hourlong event. We are thrilled to welcome akhil reed amar, sterling professor of law and Political Science at Yale University back to New York Historical society. Before joining Yale Law School professor amar clerked on the First Circuit for judge steven then judge stephen breyer, he is also a recipient of the devane medical, yales highest award for teaching excellence and is the author of several books including the law of the land, a grand tour of our constitutional republic. And i think akhil was voted the most popular professor at yale at least he is my most popular professor and you are all here, i think, if you all are here because you know him, he is your most popular professor. So before we begin and invite our popular professor up on the stage, please turn off any cell phones, Electronic Devices and join me in welcoming akhil reed amar. Thank you. [ applause ] well, good evening. Welcome. Thank you so much for for coming. This is the New York Historical society, w
He knew it at the time. So they wouldnt sign the brief. They said were not signing it, were not going to defend this. Then they a big fight between departments and who was brought in to mediate, herbert j. Wexler. He was running the war part of the Justice Department was a Master Genius and he wrote a footnote, disowning the army on this issue and he wrote it in words that no one could understand. So he convinced burly to sign the brief and the Justice Departments position, i dont know, you read it and see if you can figure out exactly what it was. In fact, who won the case . The government. 63. Famous case. And who is it who upheld . The government. Black, douglas, frankfurter, the liberals who had, in fact, would sign brown versus board. And they were all on the government side. It was the three dissenters were be roberts, murphy and jackson. And there was 63. I thought for a long time maybe they didnt understand there was so little evidence. Footnote, who reads footnotes. [ laughter
And 58th worst states. But at the top we see idaho, indiana, wyoming, kansas, and iowa. Now when you add fiscal policies and regulatory policies together we get Economic Freedom as a whole and there are other studies that measure Economic Freedom out there but we think we do a decent job at combining regulatory and fiscal as we see it and giving an overarching Economic Freedom index itself and that could be utilized even if youre not interested in the other aspects we measure here. In terms of Economic Freedom you see at the bottom we have new york, california, hawaii, new jersey, and maryland. At the top, New Hampshire comes in fifth followed by moving the scale to oklahoma, tennessee, idaho and the top state in terms of Economic Freedom in the country is south dakota. Next well talk about personal freedom. Here you have a whole range of policies that before the Freedom Index were not measured in any of these indices of freedom. We think thats a big value add for looking at this wider