Special thanks to alan and stephen for your generous today. This has already become a signature event. We thank you. Ourchertoff has expanded programs and brought it wonderful new directions. Today we have two luminaries of american law here. The fact that we have Justice Marshall here is an important reminder of something many of us forget, even those of us who are lawyers, and that is we have something unique in this country in our constitutional system. We have state Constitutional Courts, and the work the judges on the highest court that the states play in interpreting state constitutions, and in many state state caution constitutional justices have taken individual rights further than the federal Supreme Court has. It is a unique aspect. Some people call it dual federalism. We will talk about the interplay of state and federal constitutions. I would like to mention one thing because Justice Marshall is here, and it is to point out that Justice Marshall really was part of a team of
After the horrific mass execution of 21 christians in libya at the hands of isis. As well as attacks last weekend in copenhagen. And of course last month in paris. All this amid a standoff with republicans on capitol hill as lawmakers seek to roll back the president s executive orders on immigration. Lets go out to white house chief correspondent ed henry with the very latest. This comes at a time when the president s Foreign Policy, lets face it, its a mess all around the world. It was last fall that he said yemen was a success, thats obviously in tatters. Isis the jv squad, now theyre having to deal with extremism. New in the last few moments is that we have just seen these reports suggesting that these horrific beheadings and burnings may have gotten worse, that isis may have burned alive 45 iraqis in western iraq theres various news reports about this and i just spoke to the state department spokeswoman, she was doing a Conference Call with reporters, she told me she has seen those