This afternoon. We ask you silence your devices as we begin. Everyone online is welcome to send a question at any time simply emailing speaker heritage. Org. Hosting our discussion is Tiffany Bates for judicial and legal studies. She researchers and writes about the courts, judicial nominations and other constitutional issues. She was cohost of heritages potus one one podcast, a contributor to the daily signal, the Multimedia Organization and coordinator the media advocacy programs. Please join me in welcoming Tiffany Bates. Tiffany. Thank you and welcome to the Heritage Foundation. Thanks for joining us to celebrate free speech week by highlighting recent First Amendment victories for beer, fans and sports as we will discuss later on. I will keep my introductions short so we can get to what were all here for, the beer. This summer the Supreme Court reiterated the proudest boast of our jurisprudence is protect the freedom to express the speech we hate. While it has long been the core o
Holocaust in this hall of democracy in the capital of the free world, or for that matter, why is there a Holocaust Museum on the National Mall . The answer lies in the fact that this great country was founded on an idea, one of the most consequential ideas in human history. That ideas represented in this majestic space, and engraved at one entrance of the museum, where visitors encounter the most important words ever written about our national values. They begin, we hold these truths to be selfevident. The declaration of independence was perhaps the very first human rights proclamation, and universal freedom is at the heart of our democracy. This house of the democracy is situated at one end of the long, and at the other end is the lincoln memorial. Midway between is our museum, whose lessons stand as a cautionary tale in stark contrast to the rest of the mall. As one u. S. Senator said shortly after the museum opened, the Washington Monument has never looks quite so beautiful as it do
Congress shall make no law your book is called the soul of the First Amendment. So what is the soul of those 45 words . Guest it is basically anticensorship. Basically keeping the government away. It applies only to the government, not private people. The government cannot do these limit freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly. The core of it is to limit the Government Role or two and and avoid a serious governmental role about what people say, how people think, and the like. Why did you think you needed to write a book about the soul of the First Amendment now . Guest well, i have been writing it for a few years. It is not a response to the administration, as such. I really thought americans do not have a good enough idea of white house special the First Amendment is. How different do not have a specialugh idea of how the First Amendment is. This book does not compare us to russia or venezuela or ecuador. It compares us to england and canada and countries that c
Reached that deal late sunday night to avert the end of week government sat down shutdown. The one that is currently keeping the lights on. Passed byll is congress, it will fund the government through september 30. We can talk about that or any Public Policy issue you want to talk about. Anthony is up first, a democrat. Caller good morning. Thanks for the excellent programming cspan has always provided. You had a guest on discussing constitutional law. , theestion for cspan folks that work there, the wouldics, perhaps cspan have a guest on, a mr. Klein, who had been involved in a lawsuit against the telecommute asians industry for having spied on americans for quite some time to 9 11, i am pretty sure. My point is when barack obama came into office, his First Signing statement as our president was to squash the lawsuit that had been pending, a class action lawsuit. Mr. Klein has been part of it. He worked for at t, i believe. He sat at the table with you. And then, barack obama had bas
Noon eastern on cspan to book tv. This morning california senator Dianne Feinstein addressed what she called President Trumps an credulous decision to fire fbi director james comey. She made the comments during a Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing on the nomination of Noah Francisco as the next solicitor general and other Justice Department officials. Well show you the hearing in its entirety. Its about an hour. Normally, i dont start until a Ranking Member or members get here. In this particular instance, i can start but im going to stop wherever we are when the Ranking Member gets here so she can make an opening statement. Good morning. Im pleased that we can hold this nomination hearing for three very well qualified nominees to three important in our government. Nominated solicitor general, hell be the first ever Asian American senator confirmed solicitor general after confirmation steven angle, assistant attorney general to the office of Legal Counsel and of functions that Legal Ad