Original jurisdiction are preserved here at the National Archives as are opinions, docket books, minutes, attorney rolls with our earliest records starting in 1790. We also have the audio recordings of the Supreme Court and the majority have been digitized and available online. We are working on a project to prepare all of these digital recordings for our online catalog and we hope to have them available by september of this year. Since its founding in 1934 the National Archives has hosted Supreme Court justices in person as well as in its records. In some of the justices we will discuss tonight have had close connections with this agency. In the 1950s Justice Felix frankfurter served on the board of the National Historical publications and records commission, followed by justice brendan, rehnquist, blackman and associater. In the 1960s Justice Goldberg served on the archivist advisory council. The archives launched a series of conversations with Supreme Court justices of the United St
Original jurisdiction are preserved here at the National Archives as are opinions, docket books, minutes, attorney rolls with our earliest records starting in 1790. We also have the audio recordings of the Supreme Court and the majority have been digitized and available online. We are working on a project to prepare all of these digital recordings for our online catalog and we hope to have them available by september of this year. Since its founding in 1934 the National Archives has hosted Supreme Court justices in person as well as in its records. In some of the justices we will discuss tonight have had close connections with this agency. In the 1950s Justice Felix frankfurter served on the board of the National Historical publications and records commission, followed by justice brendan, rehnquist, blackman and associater. In the 1960s Justice Goldberg served on the archivist advisory council. The archives launched a series of conversations with Supreme Court justices of the United St
The tomb guard badge, which is depicted on our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge in the United States military with the exception of the astronaut a astronaut badge. Today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man and now in the brotherhood of fellowship of tomb guards. We have a society, we are 501c3 organization and part of the bylaws is is we do Community Outreach to educate the public about the tomb. I find that your generation, this, sort of a sweeping generation here, that your generation knows about the tomb. I talk to School Groups, and its appalling to me how little they know. Its not their fault. We have allowed all this teaching and teaching to the test and we have not put history on the test. And i will get off my soap box. Just think of that. I do speak to a lot of School Groups probono, this is my 81st speech this year. In 2015. I will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is over. Im speaking pretty much nonstop from the first
The declaration tells us that rights come from god, not government. [ applause ] the constitution has a framework thats set up not as some kind of result of bureaucratic haggling, but as something is designed to protect, promote freedom. And the president is right. In many way, we are a shining city on a hill. But the hard truth is that not everyone is sharing in this citys slender and glory. A shining city is perhaps all the president sees from the port ko of the white house and the ver randa of thiz ranch, where everyone seems to be doing well. But theres another city. Another part to the shining city. The part where some people cant pay their mortgages. And most young people cant afford one. Where students cant afford the education they need and middle class parents watch the dreams they hold for their children evaporate. In this part of the city, there are more poor than ever. More families in trouble. More and more people who need help, but cant find it. Even worse. There are elde
Information that is favorable to the accused because all favorable information is critically relevant to that determination. The commitment of nacdl and the foundation for criminal justice to seek reform in the area of fair disclosure is one of the many areas in which we are working to make our criminal Justice System fairer and more humane across a wide range of issues. In recent months we have worked to expand access to counsel, promote reform of the nations indigent reform system, address ethnic and Racial Disparity in the criminal Justice System, explore the impact of militarization of the nations Law Enforcement infrastructure, rein in overcriminalization and promote the restoration of rights and status for those who have had a brush with the criminal law. All of this is a reflection of the core mission of americas criminal defense bar, libertys last champions as we define ourselves. Fairness is the bedrock principle of any society and of any judicial system. The reforms ensuring