You. Before i go further, i am instructed to tell you to please turn off any cell phones, apple watches, what other gadgets you may have, so they do not interfere with our system. Thank you. As you know our host tonight is Justice Sonia sotomayor. We are pleased to have her with us tonight and want to thank or on behalf of the society for giving her time when we call upon her to participate in events like this. It is quite important to us and quite important to you. We very much appreciate it. I will tell you briefly a bit about the justice. She is a native new yorker, born in the bronx, very unhappy about last night baseball game, i gather. Undergraduate work at princeton and went to yale law school, then joined the District Attorney office in New York County as an assistant District Attorney. She was a litigator in the international and commercial law area. That attracted attention and before long, she had become a Federal District judge on the Southern District of new york. Six year
one of these beautiful seats are available for your name, your name, a friend s name, to honor and support wonderful programs like these. thank you, again, so much rick brookhis brookhiser. tha y. each week at this time american history tv features an hourlong conversation from c-span s a sunday night interview series q and a. here s this week s encore q and a on american history tv. this week on q and a, a new biography of supreme court justice louis brandeis, the author is melvin urofsky. melvin urofsky, can you remember when you first thought you might like louis brandeis? in fact, it s a memory that s well seared into my consciousness. i was a graduate student at columbia in the early 60s and the great biographer, woodrow wilson, arthur link, had written in one of his books that louis brandeis was the architect of the new intellectual freedom. so i did all the paperwork, you know, and researched brandeis a little bit. got it approved. and then in the