I thought before we dug into some of the decisions, that we could talk about the court itself. Since 2005, the then considerable turnover with justices. I was one if you could give us a thumbnail sketch of the new one. Sure. Obviously, the first one who we talk about as adequate as chief Justice Roberts, who was appointed by president george w. Bush. He was initially nominated to replace sandra day oconnor. While that nomination was pending the chief justice passed away and roberts was renominated for the rehnquist position. And that meant there had to be new nominees for the oconnor position, and samuel alito was nominated for that. They essentially arrived at the court at the same time to think that maybe in a month of overl overlap. And theyre both quite conservative coming out of the reaganbush era justice departments, and then later justices stevens and souter retired, and they were replaced by Justice Sotomayor, president obama appointed her the first hispanic american on the Sup
In her fathers instance, he wasnt treated all that well and ended up dying without much in the way of dignity at all. In her mothers case, she had a more clear cut choice. And so i really feel its both an indictment of the health care system, but it also offers a way forward that can be particularly enlightening and even, perhaps, a little bit maybe not inspiring, but certainly encouraging that people dont have to fall into despair. In addition, im also looking forward to a number of different biographies. Its really strong, interestingly enough, with respect to biographies of entertainers. So, for example, brian jay jones, he has a biography coming out on jim henson who is best known for being the founder and creator of the muppets. Theres also henry bushkin, hes got a biography coming out on johnny carson, sam wassen, stanley crouchs Charlie Parker biography which has been in the works for a very long time, that volume has is just about to come out. Victoria allson who is an wilson w
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