Constitution . First of all, i think that its improper to even be considering a nominee right now when we are in the middle of an election. Not just an election year, the election is happening right now with half a million ballots already cast in early voting states. Not to mention that we are in the middle of the pandemic and the senate is taking away an important time that should be devoted to dealing with those virgin, crucial issues in these next five weeks. Aside, i thinkt theres a real legitimacy question when you have the public voting right now for the president and the senate, the folks thatof the deal with nomination and confirmation of a Supreme Court justice, and if there is a lack of public space in the way that process works, there is going to be a crisis of legitimacy for ae Supreme Court it relies on really public believe in its legitimacy in order for its ruling to be voluntarily and sometimes for grudgingly, but still happily followed. Guest it gives me great concern
I am Nikki Kennedy and on behalf of the edward m. Kennedy institute for United States senate im very pleased to welcome all of you to this very special edition of our getting to the point series. The candidate kennedy two dozen nonprofit, nonpartisan plays in vision and plans by my late husband senator edward kennedy. Its a place where visitors come now virtually as well as inperson to experience democracy their hands on learning about the United States senate and then use that knowledge as a touchstone to understand the branches of our government. Its also a place where we encouraged participatory democracy. In fact we just started to nonpartisan effort called just about and i encourage you to to go to our new web site called just go. Org but most important i encouraged you on november 3 to just vote. It is the most important thing we can do as citizens. This is a place where we work to invigorate civil discourse and inspire the next generation of leaders. I can think of no program an
The candidate kennedy two dozen nonprofit, nonpartisan plays in vision and plans by my late husband senator edward kennedy. Its a place where visitors come now virtually as well as inperson to experience democracy their hands on learning about the United States senate and then use that knowledge as a touchstone to understand the branches of our government. Its also a place where we encouraged participatory democracy. In fact we just started to nonpartisan effort called just about and i encourage you to to go to our new web site called just go. Org but most important i encouraged you on november 3 to just vote. It is the most important thing we can do as citizens. This is a place where we work to invigorate civil discourse and inspire the next generation of leaders. I can think of no program and no speaker who meets every one of the goals that my husband had for this place more than todays special guest Justice Stephen breyer. Without question Justice Breyer is a man for our time and de
Lifestream. Im University Professor at the university of toronto. Before we get started, the land by which university out operates for thousands of years, most recently, the river. Today from his home to clinic and people and we are grateful for the opportunity to work on this land. The University Stands in solidarity with the ongoing protests against systemic racism and discrimination. I have the pleasure of introducing catherine and michael, a business leader, entrepreneur and speaker, founder of the institute for political innovation and ceo of innovations, catherine was formerly president and ceo of get foods, to 50 million food manufacture, she hold degrees from notre dame, Catholic University and Northwestern School of management. She lives in wisconsin, thats where she is coming in from today. Its a special honor to host Michael Porter, University Professors at harvard university, we met a long time ago when i was a student in his industry and Competitive Analysis and Harvard Bu
Bader ginsburg who died friday night. She died on the eve of the jewish new year, the first jewish woman on the Supreme Court and a very interesting thing about individuals who die right before the new year. They say they suggest very righteous people die at the very end of the year because they were needed until the very end. Under jewish tradition those who die on the new year holiday, a title given to the righteous and saintly. Certainly Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg was entitled to this honor, being righteous and saintly. At her confirmation hearing she talked about her immigrant experience was her father was a jewish immigrant, her mother was a secondgeneration american, she talked about American Values and then she said what has happened over me could only happen in america and then she spent her entire career protecting those values that make america a great nation it is in the reason people come here in order to reach their full potential. It guided her well in her public service