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U. S. Supreme Court Justice elena kagan was interviewed by Jeffrey Sutton at the library of congress in washington, d. C. , to discuss her life and career, including other Career Options that she considered before deciding on law, what it was like to clerk under the firstever black supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and her approach to writing opinions. This is about one hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining the law library of congress and the United States Supreme Court for the 2024 Supreme Court fellow program lecture. I have the honor and privilege of serving as the librarian of congress. It is my pleasure to send greetings from the beautiful auditorium of the library of congress of Jefferson Building to our in person audience and everyone watching online. I have the honor and privilege of serving as the law library and of congress. It is my pleasure to send greetings from the beautiful auditorium of the library of Congress Jefferson building to both our i
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The fdr president ial library museum. And today im very pleased to welcome harvey kaye an emeritus professor of democracy and justice at university of wisconsin at green bay. Hes old friend here at the library, spoken before. We always love to have him welcome back. Harvey, thank you. It is such pleasure. And its and im going to now make clear to everyone. Congratulations, bill becoming the director. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Its an honor. And today, of course, weve got a wonderful to talk about your book on the four freedoms and four freedoms are ever relevant or should be ever, because even more sort of something thats aspiration. While we would hope that their bedrock what we do every day and how we think about what we do. So i always like to ask this question just to sort what what brought you or do you want to talk about four freedoms in relationship to the past enter today sorry and hope i dont take too much time explaining this because theres actually a bit of a story
Library, spoken before. We always love to have him welcome back. Harvey, thank you. It is such pleasure. And its and im going to now make clear to everyone. Congratulations, bill becoming the director. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Its an honor. And today, of course, weve got a wonderful to talk about your book on the four freedoms and four freedoms are ever relevant or should be ever, because even more sort of something thats aspiration. While we would hope that their bedrock what we do every day and how we think about what we do. So i always like to ask this question just to sort what what brought you or do you want to talk about four freedoms in relationship to the past enter today sorry and hope i dont take too much time explaining this because theres actually a bit of a story behind it. I grew up in a fdr democratic household, so there was no question about how the family felt about. Franklin roosevelt but what . But my first major work in history, because i trained actually