The ability of congress to regulate the executive branch. This is one hour and 25 minutes. Hello, everyone. Panele to the 2019 apsa on prompt, constitutional crisis, and american democracy. Have distinguished panel here for you and we will hear from them individually. We will talk amongst ourselves briefly and then we will take some questions from the large and growing audience. Let me just quickly introduce the panel. Represent and reflect a diverse expertise in different points of view. Professor atwho is Cornell Law School visiting this year at georgetown. Matt glassman is senior fellow at the Governor Institute at georgetown, formerly at the Congressional Research service. Brick is the chancellors professor at uc irvine. Henry olson is a fellow at the ethics and Public Policy center and a columnist with the Washington Post. Ilya and victoria nurse is a woodworth professor of law at georgetown. In the interest of saving time and making sure that we can hear from all of these disting
Well get started. Good morning, everyone ip im elizabeth slattery, legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and this is a panel on the past Supreme Court term. So the Supreme Courts next oh, im sorry. The top one . Okay, there we go. The Supreme Courts next term starts . Just a few weeks but were here to reflect on the past term. I submit that the october term 2018 will more likely be remembered for Justice Brett kavanaughs confirmation hearings than for any particular case the court decided, and its too early to make sweeping statements about the impact of president Donald Trumps nominees to the court, though the rapid destruction of america, their opponents foresaw has yet to occur. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and neil gorsuch have however lived up to the chief justices declaration that we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. Like their predecessors, kavanaugh and gorsuch are their own men at times bucking expectations of how a trump judge will vote. T
Of the law and we will explore some of that today. This panel will focus on the highlights of the past term. The most important cases such as the census citizenship case and the political gerrymandering case and if you missed opportunities like the cases involving the nondelegation doctrine and deference to a ministry of agencies. Enough from me. We are fortunate to have with us today four distinguished panelists. And if i devoted the time there many achievements and positions deserved that would easily take about 90 minutes here. So i will keep their introductions extremely leave. Professor at Amherst College and founder and director of the James Wilson Institute on National Rights and the american founding. He has authored many books on politics, political philosophy and jurisprudence and his articles have appeared in professional journals as well as popular outlets including the wall street journal and national review. The henryan is salvatori professor of law and director of the ce
There are pockets of incompetence. Sometimes these jurisdictions are resource starved. It was not only Brenda Stites in Broward County and the stories of her incompetence. A whole chapter in my book, just incredible, but i would like to point to detroit, michigan, if you look in 2016. You may remember jill stein tried to have a recount conducted there, and a recount revealed just an incredible amount of incompetence, the way votes were counted in detroit. That recount was eventually abandoned and there was no findings of malfeasance, but plenty of findings of incompetence. When there is incompetence, it finds a base those distrustful of the election to believe the election is not fairly run. A poll this week from suffolk indicates the majority of democrats and republicans are concerned that if their side kind ofhere was some wrong doing and how the election was run. , whether that is russian interference, which were copied by democrat operatives in the special election in alabama andee
Politician and how he came to form his political values and attitudes and political habits. An enormously political person who had a real sensibility how to approach the political system. At the foundation of it were strongly held moral convictions and blumenthal told the story about lincoln telling people i was a slave and he talks about how his father rented him out as an indentured servant to do work on other peoples farms, the backwoods country of kentucky and the money was taken away from him and his father pocketed it and he had an instinctive hatred of slavery and what that meant to pilfer someone elses labor from them and steal their labor from them. Unlike a lot of other white politicians, whether they were antislavery abolitionists or equal locating in the middle he talked about slavery from the standpoint of the slaves and what it meant to have their time taken from them, to have their money taken from them, to have the family lives disrupted. That is one of the things i fou