You here tonight on the second letter on the Supreme Court. Were very privileged tonight to have as our host, Justice Kagan. She will be introducing our distinguished speaker very shortly. Let me just tell you a few things about Justice Kagan you may or may not know already. Born in new york, raised in new york, educated at princeton, oxford, and Harvard Law School. Then came a clerk to judge abner mikvah on the d. C. Circuit judge, followed by a clerkship with Justice Thurgood marshall here on the Supreme Court. And a couple years of law practice, then in 1991, entering academia, teaching at the university of chicago law school, where she met professor barack obama. Two years later, invited back to washington tow ork to work for the Senate Judiciary committee at the request of the chairman, then senator joe biden. Two years later, judge mikvah becomes white House Counsel for president clinton. Justice kagan is asked to come to the white house, serve as associate white House Counsel. S
But what kind of judge is Amy Coney Barrett . That is what we are here to explore. Excellent panelists i invite to join me now on the screen while i give a brief introduction. Professorperson is jonathan adler, director of the center for environmental law at Case Western University school of law. Environmental, administrative, and constitutional law. A graduate of the george mason law school, now the scalia law school, he clerked on. D. C. Clerked on the circuit. Prior to joining case western, jonathan worked at the case Enterprise Institute where he was the director of the environmental studies program. Since joining case western coming he has received the distinguished teacher of the year award, as well as the federalist societys award for excellence in teaching, scholarship, and commitment to students. Jonathan is also the senior fellow at the Environmental Research center in bozeman, montana and has testified numerous times in front of congress, is a frequent commentator his articl
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 they followed your lead, published the papers. At least were not alone. I have to tell the audience just a small eye roll here, because the New York Times was the first to publish the papers, but thats drama, after all. I wanted to ask both of you from a legal strategy standpoint, Daniel Ellsberg sending it out to so many papers, how does that change the governments ability to prosecute the case . Well, floyd should be the one to answer that first because he was directly involved. Right. Well, it did make it harder to prosecute the prior restraint case, the case that weve been talking about, against the times and then other papers. They did bring actions against the post, and the Christian Science monitor and other papers, you know, who got the papers from elsberg, to stop them as well. But one judge in the District Of Columbia board of appeals put it very well when lawyers were in front of him on this case. He said, youre asking u
Here we are viewed here we are. The first class went pretty well. We are being recorded for cspan. For the folks at cspan, i am university of Tennessee College of law professor glenn harlan reynolds. This is our standard law class for 2020 and we are talking about free speech, incitement, true threats and will get started on obscenity. We will be less socratic than usual because the cspan people asked me to be. Here is the textbook we are using, constitutional law, a good casebook. The first time i have used it so we are learning our way. It is going just fine. We have been talking about free speech, equal protection, race discrimination, gender and things like that. Now we are pivoting to a core part of the bill of rights, a different section about free speech. The framers valued free speech very highly. To the extent they talked about it, they saw it as mostly political, more than artistic or expressive. The interesting thing about the First Amendment is the courts did little with it
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