Upcoming year of action. This is just over 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations]ne. Good morning everyone. E to as good morning. Welcome to the annual Supreme Court preview. I am cara stein, vice policy of program which most of you know is a National Network ofld lawyers, law students, judges and policy makers who believe the law should be enforced to improve peoples lives. Here we are again. After a Supreme Court term that many felt was lackluster despite the much delayed addition of a nice justice to the bench, we are looking at an upcoming term that promises the highstakes we had grown accustomed to in recent years. You need only look at the first two weeks of oral arguments to see what i mean. Of during just those first five days, the court will consider the constitutionality of the president s travel ban, the legitimacy of wisconsins redistricting scheme and whether American Workers can be forced to arbitrate t disputes with employers as opposed to have a day in court. Some may sa
It is published by paul Gray Mcmillan and the editors are myself and Michael Mcconnell was a professor at Stanford University school of law and was a judge of the Circuit Court of appeals. We have a conference about one year ago in which all of the papers that were gathered together for this short publication were discussed and analyzed and we have with us today, to the participants in the conference and opposite to the essays included in this collection. Antonin scalia was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court who wrote and signed opinions directly on fundamental elements of the american system. He was also a scholar and a leading public figure. It is appropriate that to honor this man with the selection of reflections on his impact on education. Seeing broadly is not just schools but scholarship and Public Discourse as well. In doing so, we hope to discover the, through the education and look into the fundamentals of the justices thinking if you doubt his impact on
[applause] mr. Meese thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Its a pleasure for know join john in welcoming you to the heritage foundation. And also to the first event in our preserve the constitution series, which we have each year at this time. And which well continue over eight programs starting today and running through november. Ill say more about that later on. Its appropriate, i think, that we begin our series on preserving the constitution by observing Constitution Day, which, as you know, is the 17th of september. This sunday. Commemorating the day when in 1787 the representatives of 12 states signed the original document and then sent to the states for ratification. I believe that my opinion this date, Constitution Day, in terms of the historical antecedence to our country, is second only to the fourth of july. I say that because as we know on independence day, 1776, 56 men signed the declaration of independence and pledged to each other their lives, their fortunes and their sacred
Okay, we are going to start. Good evening everyone, thanks for joining us. My name is yael yisraeli, im the Community Relations manager at the nyu bookstore. This is an ongoing series that weve been having here for the past 70 years featuring nyu alumni like tonight with Haroon Moghul as well as nyu faculty and the General Community as well. Its a real pleasure to be hosting tonight Haroon Moghul who is an nyu along. Welcome back to nyu, pleasure to have you here. We are going to hear from haroon and then have time for questions and answers and a book signing. I want to start the evening by giving a brief introduction. Haroon, i think. Haroon has been very active since graduating from nyu so i dont know if i will cover everything but i will leave it up to him to fill in the gaps. Haroon is currently senior fellow and director of development for the center of global studies, policy, excuse me. He is a commentator and broadcaster who wishes he could be a writer and i think you are, haroo
The third,ing george they should answer that question. The second week on a schism did the revolution survive its the second question we ask is how did the revolution survive its darkest hour . Largest overseas expedition in european history is headed toward new york, and so the mural you see beside me is an eyewitness depiction, which we have blown up as a mural, showing five british warships in about 6000 troops and landing boats about to land on manhattan on september 15, 1776. At the time, one official soldiers saw the ships gathering and said, later thought, i thought all london was a float, so it was one thing to declare independence, to tear down the king, to declare that you are now living in the American Revolution, but to actually achieve american independence was going to be an effort of many more years of struggle. The first thing americans had to deal with was just survive onslaught that was coming in the in form of the british army. A really exciting opportunity to look a