And the Justice Department use of civil asset forfeiture. [applause] sen. Paul thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have three boys, one of them with me. [applause] obamacare, you can keep it. [laughter] apparently, that is the republican message appeared raise your hand if you want to keep obamacare . Exactly. [laughter] nobody outside of washington who is a republican wants to keep it. What happened to these people . I heard them, we will repeal it. That sounds like all of it and then some. When we got up here, we decided to vote on a partial repeal and we lost eight people who voted for it one year ago. We started getting skinnier and voted on the we skinny repeal, what percentage of obamacare would be revealed repeal . 20 . And we lost people on that, they said it was too much, then they said it was too little the next repeal. It amazes me how people with a straight face and one republican alternative plan said that literally, if you like obamacare, you can keep it. Still one of thos
And the Justice Department use of civil asset forfeiture. [applause] sen. Paul thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have three boys, one of them with me. [applause] obamacare, you can keep it. [laughter] apparently, that is the republican message appeared raise your hand if you want to keep obamacare . Exactly. [laughter] nobody outside of washington who is a republican wants to keep it. What happened to these people . I heard them, we will repeal it. That sounds like all of it and then some. When we got up here, we decided to vote on a partial repeal and we lost eight people who voted for it one year ago. We started getting skinnier and voted on the we skinny repeal, what percentage of obamacare would be revealed repeal . 20 . And we lost people on that, they said it was too much, then they said it was too little the next repeal. It amazes me how people with a straight face and one republican alternative plan said that literally, if you like obamacare, you can keep it. Still one of thos
And the Justice Department use of civil asset forfeiture. [applause] sen. Paul thank you. Thank you. Thank you. I have three boys, one of them with me. [applause] obamacare, you can keep it. [laughter] apparently, that is the republican message appeared raise your hand if you want to keep obamacare . Exactly. [laughter] nobody outside of washington who is a republican wants to keep it. What happened to these people . I heard them, we will repeal it. That sounds like all of it and then some. When we got up here, we decided to vote on a partial repeal and we lost eight people who voted for it one year ago. We started getting skinnier and voted on the we skinny repeal, what percentage of obamacare would be revealed repeal . 20 . And we lost people on that, they said it was too much, then they said it was too little the next repeal. It amazes me how people with a straight face and one republican alternative plan said that literally, if you like obamacare, you can keep it. Still one of thos
River. Of next week will take you to a wake church where the party held its First National convention in 1839 where the hig party held its First National convention in 1839. The election of 1840 was very election. Inal the springch of talking about how contested elections work and how critical it was to be there setting the rules. That happened here first. We are at the church, which is to say the 1830 nine convention here in harrisburg. The whig party was basically a loose conglomeration of divergent political views that agreed on one thing that under the administration of president Andrew Jackson, executive power had just not in way out of control gotten way out of control. In fact, that is where the name came from. The whigs named themselves after a group that was opposed to king during the revolution. They were opposed to king andrew of his minions. Otherwise, they did not agree on much. The whigs were made up of the conservative faction in the country. Of ais a little bit misnomer
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