Cliff sloan, your second book is about the Supreme Court but a very different era from the first one. Tell me about the court at work. The court that war is about the Supreme Court during world war ii, and it is a very, very interesting and momentous time for the court, and it is really the roosevelt court. Let me back up and tell you how i got interested in the subject. I was working at as a special envoy for the closure of guantanamo in 2014, and i was reading the decisions on military detention, including the notorious and shameful korematsu case. I noticed that the first of the shameful antijapanese decisions , which was about a curfew targeted at japaneseamerican citizens, was decided exactly one week from one week before one of the greatest Civil Liberties decisions in the courts history, West Virginia for the board of education versus burnett, where justice rep. Jackson gave an opinion that struck down the compulsory flag statute that the jehovahs witnesses had objected to. I no
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair has authorized to declare a recess at anytime. We welcome everybody to todays hearing on a free press and protecting journalists. Ill remind everybody the guests in the chamber are guests and youre free to be here, but this is no audience participation in the hearing. This is a hearing and were going to conduct it accordingly. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press. And that cannot be limited without being lost. Those words were true when Thomas Jefferson wrote them in 1786 and theyre still true today. First amendment guarantees freedom of the press and prohibits the government from making any law to that freedom. Just hugo black stated, the Founding Fathers gave the press the role. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. And the hale to the freedom of the press is the keystone upon which all
Book bands and defamation cases. Cliff sloan, your second book is about the Supreme Court but a very different era from the first one. Tell me about the court at work. The court that war is about the Supreme Court during world war ii, and it is a very, very interesting and momentous time for the court, and it is really the roosevelt court. Let me back up and tell you how i got interested in the subject. I was working at as a special envoy for the closure of guantanamo in 2014, and i was reading the decisions on military detention, including the notorious and shameful korematsu case. I noticed that the first of the shameful antijapanese decisions , which was about a curfew targeted at japaneseamerican citizens, was decided exactly one week from one week before one of the greatest Civil Liberties decisions in the courts history, West Virginia for the board of education versus burnett, where justice rep. Jackson gave an opinion that struck down the compulsory flag statute that the jehovah
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair has authorized to declare a recess at anytime. We welcome everybody to todays hearing on a free press and protecting journalists. Ill remind everybody the guests in the chamber are guests and youre free to be here, but this is no audience participation in the hearing. This is a hearing and were going to conduct it accordingly. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press. And that cannot be limited without being lost. Those words were true when Thomas Jefferson wrote them in 1786 and theyre still true today. First amendment guarantees freedom of the press and prohibits the government from making any law to that freedom. Just hugo black stated, the Founding Fathers gave the press the role. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. And the hale to the freedom of the press is th
[inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] the subcommittee will come to order. Without objection the chair has authorized to declare a recess at anytime. We welcome everybody to todays hearing on a free press and protecting journalists. Ill remind everybody the guests in the chamber are guests and youre free to be here, but this is no audience participation in the hearing. This is a hearing and were going to conduct it accordingly. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press. And that cannot be limited without being lost. Those words were true when Thomas Jefferson wrote them in 1786 and theyre still true today. First amendment guarantees freedom of the press and prohibits the government from making any law to that freedom. Just hugo black stated, the Founding Fathers gave the press the role. The press was to serve the governed, not the governors. And the hale to the freedom of the press is th