Review of the major cases decided in the recently ended u. S. Supreme court term. The judicial nomination and confirmation process. After that, Federalist Society panelists will discuss this terms highprofile opinions. Hello. This is one of the chairs of the colorado federal society. My cochairs are on the wind today but you cannot see them on the screen. I want to thank everyone in our membership and in the audience for coming to todays wonderful presentation. This is one of our Flagship Events of the year. We are honored to have this panel to talk through the 2019 Supreme Court term with you. Im going to introduce our opening speaker then we will turn it over to our moderator who will then throw things off with the panel. We are looking forward to an interesting discussion today with a lot of diverse opinions. We are accepting questions in the q a box. If you have a question, you can open that box and submit a question at any time. We look forward to having a good number of questions
Outgoing president of the chapter and were grateful for the gracious support youve given us throughout the year. Youve meant so much to us. We are endebted to our distinguished panelist who have come together to celebrate the distinguished legacy of justin Antonin Scalia. Todays stewardship spence, mr. Kevin walker and mr. David derek. Todays event is an existence to the brilliant and storied legacy of Justice Scalia. He served on the Supreme Court nor nearly three decades, one of the langest tenures on the institution. Marking one of the milestones on the court, chief Justice Roberts said since scalia came on the Supreme Court, the place has not been the same. Indeed, kagen remarks that Justice Scalia will go down in history as one of the most transformational Supreme Court justices of the nation. His views on interpreting texts have changed the way we think and talk about law. All interpretation and sub species originalism and constitutional construction, his principle and courageous
Versus heller was decided, we are all originalists now. Now, professor mitchell op pined on some of these issues and heller established an individual right to bear arms under the Second Amendment but its remarkable also because both the scalia majority and Justice Stevens dissent went to the public meaning of the the Second Amendment. Will it endure . And that is among his greatsest legacies. So if we could have as short an answer as complex topic as that can generate. Sure, even nonoriginalists ments ling to make argue when it serves their purses. Theres a opinion that marshall wrote dissenting from a Supreme Court ruling that upheld a jury of fewer than 12 persons. He argued on originalist evidence that the right of jury trial required 12 persons because that was the original means. So its nothing new to see him in dissent in heller trying to make originalist argue ymingts. So everyone is an originalist to this extents. Everyone thinks its counts for something. Im not aware of anyone