I will take this as a testament to how people are interested in the court, not necessarily in may. Me. Maybe i should start off by orienting people to let this little book is. Its part of a series called a very short introduction and they are really short. They have about 300 titles and they asked me to do a Supreme Court titled. I guess it was about three years ago in the book came out this spring. It came out really on the eve of the health care position, so who knew three years ago that we would be faced with the Supreme Court dealing with the most closely watched and maybe the most contentious case and many many years and i would be happy, of course in the book doesnt say anything about the health care so in the q a i would be happy to share some conversation about that with you. I thought i would just kind of step back and give a little bit of my take on how the court has gotten to where it is, not so much Current Events but really looking back. The book starts with a little histo
Those in with all of these other sources. Host david, thank you very much. I urge everyone to read the book and, later, you can look at the context in those transcripts of these tape recording as they come out over the next year. Thank you very much. Guest thank you. On affirmative action in the prelim to the Supreme Court hearing of oral argument in fisher be the university of texas. The authors report the agree with the National Goals of affirmative action but now agree the system hurts more than helps minorities. This is about an hour and a half. [applause] thank you very much for that introduction, and thank you to roger and cato for hosting this event. Im thankful to have such a good kick off to the book, which is actually being officially published today. As roger mentioned i am going to start and talk a little bit about the mismatch idea itself and some of what we have done in the book. Stewart is going to try to relate this Martin Fisher and what will be happening tomorrow. I a