See our complete National Book festival schedule online at booktv. Org. The library of congress National Book festival live saturday, august 12 beginning at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan2. Coming up, Supreme Court associate Justice Elena kagan talks about a senate bill created to establish a code of ethics for the high court. The democratic measure comes response to recent reports of potential ethics violations involving justices and samuel alito and sonia sotomayor. She spoke at a conference in portland, oregon. [applause] thank you, judge simon. Thank you, everyone. Welcome, thank you for being here, Justice Kagan. Its an honor to have you here. Were really excited and we appreciate you taking the time to have this conversation with us. Its great to be here this whole conference and thank you to everybody and especially to the chief judge for making me feel so at home and forgiving me so much work to do during this. The lineup in that case were somewhat unusual given the recent divide
[captioning performed by thenao, which is responsible for its caption coenand accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] tonight, former President Donald Trump travels to montgomery, alabama, to speak at a dierosted by the alabama republican party. Its his first public en since being arraigned yesterday in a federal court. Well have live vege beginning at 8 00 p. M. Eastern onspan, the cspan now video app and online at cspan. Org. Coming up, Supreme Court associate Justice Kagan talks about a senate bill created to establish a code of ethics for the high court. The democratic measure comes in response to recent reports of potential ethics violations involving justices Clarence Thomas and samuel alito. And the book sales of Justice Sotomayor. Justice kagan spoke at the ninth circuit judicial conference in portland, oregon. Thank you, judge simon. Thank you, everyone. Welcome, thank you for being here, Justice Kagan. Its an honor to have you her
If he really going to run for Supreme Court that theyre going to hear your case. Reelection . In two years . He doesnt have another they have the Supreme Court internal senate race to deal with. But we will see. Identified for the lawyers on both sides the question, and the only question, they want to hear addressed. And i want to give that question to the audience now. I wouldnt put any money on the question is whether, and if Mitch Mcconnells decency and so to what extent, does a integrity. Do you have any optimism, former president enjoy president ial immunity from im not asking who, but in terms of the leadership that criminal prosecution for comes next . Of course not. Conduct alleged to involve what i would say this. Official acts during his tenure i would say the only optimism, the only sign of optimism is in office . How would you address that that i think its likely that whoever comes next will be less question . Well, if im jack smith, the competent. Because Mitch Mcconnell i
Thank you, judge simon. Thank you, everyone. Welcome, thank you for being here, Justice Kagan. Its an honor to have you here. Were really excited and we appreciate you taking the time to have this conversation with us. Its great to be here this whole conference and thank you to everybody and especially to the chief judge for making me feel so at home and forgiving me so much work to do during this. The lineup in that case were somewhat unusual given the recent divide on the court. Im wondering from your perception what lessons can we learn from that case and from the lineup . Well, truth be told, i do think that the lineups were less unusual than they just were lop sided. You know, the unusual lineup is usually like the 54, but everybodys all scrambled. But this was just a lop sided result. It was a 72 case, sometimes we have those. We have 72 cases. We have 81 cases. And in this case the outsiders, if you will, were me and the chief justice. And what can i say, there were seven people
Boston the fog of Todays Supreme Court news is the hard fact that donald trump is still scheduled to go to trial In Manhattan On March 25th to Face Criminal Charges in his first Criminal Trial, charges that he tried to effect the results of the 2016 president ial election i by making Hush Money Payments to porn star Stormy Daniels, who will likely become one of the star witnesses against donald trump in that trial, a witness who even Donald Trumps followers will have no problem understanding what she describes donald trump did with her alone in a hotel room while his wife was pregnant. And when she describes how donald trump delivered his Hush Money Payments to her. And i think r. That the Supreme Court did today is helping donald trump get out of the crushing weight of half A Billion Dollars of civil judgments he is now facing in new york. Today, donald trump said cihe i not rich enough to pay those judgments, after previously testifying under oath that he is rich enough to pay those