Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, a Beautiful Day in washington dc. I always say that but it is. The sun has come out, the rain has stopped and here we are, great day to be alive at the Heritage Foundation. My name is lee edwards, at the Heritage Foundation, i am so pleased to be able to introduce our speaker. It is all too easy these days to focus on the negative in our nation. From School Shootings and the declining sunday attendance in our churches to racist rhetoric, hyper partisanship in our politics. It is tempting to turn off the tv, close down all the apps and adopt the benedict option. That is not what we are about here. That is not the american way. We never surrendered to doubt and despair even in time of war or economic or cultural crisis. Since our founding 234 years ago americans have always risen to any challenge in our lives, liberty and our happiness. Always there have reason in time of crisis men and women who called forth the best of us, the better angels of our
Dissenting. Here is the oral argument from april. Mr. Stewart thank you, mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court the lanham acts ban on federal registration of scandalous trademarks is not a restriction on speech but a valid condition on participation in a federal program. On its face, and as applied here, the provision is is viewpointneutral. The scandalous marks provision is one of many contentbased criteria for federal trademark registration, and consideration of a marks content is essential. Justice sotomayor could you please tell me how youre defining scandalous mark . From your brief, i thought you were giving it a different definition than has been used by the agency for a while. Mr. Stewart well, the the term the adjectives that have sometimes been used as synonyms for scandalous by the agency are terms like shocking, disgraceful, offensive, and disreputable. I think Justice Sotomayor well, if you use all those adjectives, you run headon to tam. Mr. Stewart i think one s
And cspan is here, so this is an historic occasion. Ilr. The chair of you encountered some of the Board Members when checking into this room. , whot to acknowledge carol is where . Where are you, carol . She is our her. [applause] best our executive director. Of businesscouple items i have to address. Photographs, recordings, not permitted. We have already turned off the cell phones. We are beginning our full , inion on monday the 15th less than two weeks but 10 days. We have an open house scheduled for next week the 10th at 1 00 at the boca raton Committee Center which is right near palmetto. Program brochure on your seats when you came in that shows you the full program for the eightweek session which i think was very exciting. Rr, there are new to il are also signup sheets which you can turn in when we are done. Some business at hand. Havee privileged today to with us retired Supreme Court Justice Stevens. [applause] he hasnt even said anything yet. [laughter] the origins of this ev
Now joining us on booktv is author robert cornrevere jr, the name of his book, the mind of the censor and the eye of the beholder. Well get into that in just a minute. But mr. Corn revere, i want to read this to you. The First Amendment of the constitution, Congress Shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. True or false . Well, true in that that was the mandate that the framers of the constitution had in mind. The difficulty has been interpreting what those words mean over the interval of time between the founding of the country and today, and who has been interpreting those words of the courts. Well, all of us have been in one way or another. But the final arbiters of what that means are judicial decisions that breathe life into what those words mean and how they protect our constitutional freedoms. As a First Amendment lawyer, are we a sensorial nation . We have always been a sensorial nation in the sense that there are some people who think their ideas shou
It might take several iterations of this going forward. Republican infighting and dysfunction, thats the theme in washington, d. C. Right now. Congressional investigations reporter for the Washington Post, Jackie Alemany, thank you. Thanks to all of you for getting up Way Too Early with us on this monday morning. Morning joe starts right now. Are you concerned about americas reputation on The World Stage given the level of brinksmanship we have seen this year . Based on the maga republican support, yes. Based on what my administration is doing, no. President biden blaming maga republicans as the country falters and how the movement is endangering democracy. This as House Speaker Kevin Mccarthy defied if right wing of his party. And partnered with democrats to Keep Congress running. Now his job could be on the line. Well discuss mccarthys fate and who he may need to turn for help. Plus, hours from now donald trump will appear in court in manhattan for the start of a civil trial scrutini