Schenk starting from 1918, can be convicted with arime under the espionage act of 1917. And that the First Amendment isnt absolute. And then 9 30, from the 1934 case, holding the internment camps dont violate the constitution as they were needed in world war ii. Watch landmark cases tonight, on cspan three or anytime on cspan. Org. All persons having business for the Supreme Court are required to give their attention. Landmark cases, cspan special history series, produced in collaboration with the constitutional center. 12 historiciz Supreme Court decisions. Number 759. Petitioner. Well hear arguments from number 18. Quite often in our most famous decisions, the court took unpopular decisions. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society, of 310 million different people, who helped to stick together because they believe in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspan the landmark cases. Our series explores 12 landm
I want to welcome you to the lunch. My name is ben ginsberg, and i am delighted that we have as our speaker today, naomi schaefer, who is a distinguished journalist and writer whos written for many publications including the wall street journal, the chronicle of higher education, the weekly standard, too many to list, and is also the author of six books with a seven on its way to. I went to graduate school with her father which tells you how old i am. Hes a little ahead of me. I first met naomi when we debated one another for the New York Times blogging heads series. She wrote a book called the faculty lounges, which was an attack on the tenure system which i thought it was outrageous. Id written a book called fall of the faculty, which defended the tenure system. So we had good fun debating that entire set of questions. Im very confident that i have one but i have to confess she held herself very, very well. Her most recent book deals with the topic most of us dont know much about the
Said because theres absolutely no opportunity here. And i thought everybody who is young with any sort of drive or initiative, if their dream is to get out of this country this is never going to change. And i thought, well, what are we doing to help remedy this . And thats when i realized the answer was absolutely nothing. Our policy is only aggravating the situation. Instead of being able to bring the International Community together to help reserve pressure toward the castro regime weve isolated ourselves toward the International Community. Theyve run the other way because they dont want to be seen as maligned with this overreaching policy. Its done nothing to help Civil Society on the island, tomorrow power to empower them in any way. Its given us no leverage with the cubans to push for changes. They dont respond to basically anything we say on this side. And it hasnt overall it hasnt achieved its objectives. It hasnt ushered in a democratic transition. So when you grow up your enti