Test captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 i used to tell the students on the advice of counsel i will not answer that. I talk to Justice Brandeis on campus every day. That should not make you nervous. When i tell you hes talking back to me that should make you nervous. When questions emerge as to the constitutionality of the search of a cell phone i am confident Justice Brandeis with would not ask what James Madison thought about the use of a cell phone. I am equally confident with regard to what jeffrey said with regard to business business, i think it is important the power of big business in 1905 was not because they were providing substantial amounts of money to fund campaign, the power of big business came because they were paying off ledgislators through patronage. That was the means by which big business, there was enormous business, the names mentioned today are museums in new york, melon, guggenheim, enormous concentration of wealth which we are once again re
Started. Welcome to politics and pros. I am justin, the programs manager at the store, i receive classrooms, books, and clients and i can try to speak closer. So thank you all for coming out tonight. Were honored to have Linda Hirshman speaking about sisterinlaws. Now would be the time to turn off any Electronic Devices that may be tempted to beep or buzz throughout the proceedings. Next, linda will be taking questions during the second half of the event. For that we ask that you use one of two microphones. Looks like theres just one tonight on my left. That way everyone here can hear it and it will be on recordings. At the end if you could help us out by folding up your chairs, that will help the cleanup process greatly. Linda hirshman, former professor and law degree from the university of degree and ph. D. In philosophy and practiced law for 15 years, during which she appeared before the u. S. Supreme court for three different cases. Since she has published several nonfiction works,
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Court, one of the concerns especially with the stamps she takes on interpreting the constitution . Absolutely. First of all it is improper to even be considering a nominate right now and we are in the middle of an election. Not just an election year, election is happening right now with a half a million ballots already passed in early voting states not to mention that we are in the middle of a pandemic and the senate is taking away important time that should be devoted to dealing with those urgent crucial issues in the weeks. Ve you know, putting that aside i think there is a legitimacy question when you have the public voting right now for the president and the senates. The two halves of the folks that deal with the nomination and confirmation of the Supreme Court justice. If there isco a lack of public and that how that works theres a crisis of legitimacy for the Supreme Court which relies on really public relief inlets legitimacy for it to be voluntarily, sometimes begrudgingly but
The development of Controversial Supreme Court nominations in the late 60s and early 70s. We are looking at the war in court, this increasing surge of controversial decisions from the court with two basic principles. Remember the idea of counter majoritarianism. The idea that it was the job of the Supreme Court to stand up on behalf of people who may not have majority support, whether it was atheist or Civil Rights Activists are criminal defendants throughout the 1960s. And second was the emergence of this philosophy that some historians have called right related liberalism. The idea that liberalism was primarily devoted to the protection of individual rights. As a result, the Supreme Court became an important mechanism for this. One problem, which is that if you are going to govern, you have to be able to appoint Supreme Court justices. This becomes an increasingly fraught prospect for liberals. So the backdrop. Lbj. After 1964 with the Civil Rights Act, 1965 with the Voting Rights ac