What impact would this have on the president s ability to fill vacancies under that kind of situation . Hard to know up front except it obviously suggests that the nominees will be more to the center rather than to the right or left depending on who win it is white house. But i think that part of that will depend on the mandate the new president has, if theres sort of a first nature to the next appointment. All sorts of questions like that. Any additional questions . Thanks very much. Could i take you up on your offer when you said you might look ahead to some of the cases to come and some of the thoughts of what the block busters might be . There are three of them a pretty good term. This last term will be hard to beat. I remember a couple years ago we had the First Health Care case. We said thats the term of the century. Then a first go at marriage. The court ended up not answering but we thought that was the term of the century then when you add health care and marriage together we
Immediately after this presentation and there are numerous copies of the books on sale in the politics and prose tent. Buy your books early buy them often. No doubt you have friends who want these books. Please buy a bunch. Our writers would appreciate. I. This race free event. We want to keep it that way. It really does help the book festival if youll be buying some books. The more books we sell, the more publishers will send their writers their speak with us, and purchasing books from our partner, politics and prose will help our local economy. It supports local jobs, supports the book festival, and supports independent book stores. Thats really important. They need your support. So if you enjoy this program please buy some books. Martin frost is here with us today. He spent 26 years as a member of congress representing dale dallasfort worth. He swept four years of the Democratic Congressional campaign and four years as chair of the House Democratic caucus. Richard cohen is not our W
About gabbys injuries, and one of her neurosurgeons told me this early on, if there is any other positive thing about her injury, it is that she will not suffer from post traumatic stress. Because you dont remember . Because she was shot first and shot in the head. That memory what you remember from that day . Toyota. Mittens. Share members where she part. She remembers where she parked. Our drive to toyota to target and park, i dont remember where she part. A year to the day, she remembers where she part rate she remembered one of her Staff Members brought her mittens. No noise. Guns and law on enforcement tonight at 8 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Author Allan Hoffman shares a tale of two mississippis. Founded by hill was isaac ross, who was a revolutionary for war veteran from south carolina. When he realized he was going to die and the slaves would end up being sold or just become common slaves, he wrote in his will that at the time of his daughters death, the plantation would be sold
Average person couldnt have done. He was a very articulate person even though hes not known generally for that and hes a very likable person and a decent person. And eventually he was appointed to the court of appeals to for three years after i had been appointed. And so we find ourselves being often competitors to megatrends. We have conversation about it. Kind of hard to do your regular work without knowing what is going on here. And so we agree to it. Each of us agreed to tell the other one if we heard anything about the nomination. Our opportunity to get the job. So about three or four days after we had that conversation, the friday after text giving, president ford called me up. My secretary was not there. Explain the was going to nominate me. Was very pleased and told himself. He talked for a minute and then he said were going to announce this about 5 00 this afternoon here in washington. He said i asked you not to tell anybody about it. I would like to, mr. President , but i hav
To move the thing along quicker, you know, for research or for staffing. And then, as we saw, by the way, you know, in the bill that kept the government going for another eight months or so, we saw writers attach to that, you know, fundamental budget bill what was designed to affect derivatives risk. So congress is in it, theyre in wit both feet, theyre in it at the front end, theyre in it in the middle, and theyre in it in the back. There is something, and let me get to this one on the next slide yeah. A guest speaker said derivatives were defined three different ways in dodd frank on purpose to give the agency more power to actually select the definition that they wanted because they could have more power not on the hill at that point but with the agency defining it. Yeah. Well, i mean but if youre saying that the agency has the power, youre really saying that the groups that influence the congress to write those three different definitions were expecting some advantage from one or m