Parliament paid tribute to Labour Party Lawmaker joe cox who was shot and killed last week. Live coverage from the british house of commons today at 9 30 a. M. Eastern on cspan2. The Heritage Foundation hosted a discussion friday with Margaret Thatchers former speech writer on the upcoming e. U. Referendum vote set to take place this thursday. This discussion also comes a day after jo cox was shot and killed outside her constituency in leeds. As a result, campaigns for the referendum were halted. This is just over an hour. [applause] thank you very much, john. Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation and the Margaret Thatcher center for freedom. It is my great pleasure to introduce john osullivan. Ive known john for over 15 years and first met him when i
Guest so were very pleased and also gratified that this discussion has led us to the right place on the legal interpretation and on these particular rules. Matt, if i could start with you, id be curious to know what you think about judge williams dissent and what you think of, you know, what the strongest, most compelling arguments that he made were. Guest well, having Justice Scalias dissent in brand x many times, maybe im not the right one. He basically quibbled with the fccs rationale. He had to concede the that the fcc had the right to make the determination. Following earlier Supreme Court precedent on that very question. So he questioned the fccs reasons for doing so, the majority opinion, i think, answers that well, and its a factual conversation in some ways. Thats really not the courts place to make those factual determinations. They have to defer to the agencys understanding of the technology, and we think thats exactly what they got right here in in addition to a lot of othe