Important topics. That is coming up in october. We have a giant delegation, both government and civil society, planning to go. If youre interested, youre all invited. Certainly lots of topics important to us will be discussed. So back to open data and the United States. I mentioned that in 2013, president obama issued an open order eo, executive order, for default information. Accompanying that was the open data policy, which we refer to as m1313 for you government nerds in the room. That directs agencies to manage information as an asset. And of course that doesnt happen overnight, right . For the last two years we have been working really hard with our agencies to move towards managing information as an asset. So i mentioned data. Gov. There is a screen shot of the data. Gov home page. 160,000 data sets across all sectors. The data. Gov site has incredible resources and is fantastic if you havent spent much time there. Another effort that we that the administration launched into quic
First ladies is an inspiring read, now available in hardcover and as an ebook. Here are a few of the book festivals we will be covering this spring on book tv. We will visit maryland for live coverage of the gaithersburg book festival with tom davis and mark frost. Along with david axelrod. We will close out may at books expo new york city, where the Publishing Industry showcases upcoming books. In june, we are live for printers row, including a threehour indepth program with lawrence wright. That is this spring on cspan2s book tv. The Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a case involving samesex marriage. Coming up, we get a preview of the case with a group of attorneys. That is followed by conservative religious leaders talking about opposition to samesex marriage and how the Supreme Court decision could impact religious freedom. Later, a look at issues important to progressives in the 2016 president ial election. The American Constitution Society for law and policy recentl
Cspan2. And live today at 4 p. M. Eastern here on cspan2, chilean president michelle [inaudible] will be at the brookings institution. Shes meeting with president obama this morning. You had broadcast tv and then cable came along, and then satellite. What if satellite had said, you know, were different than cable. We have a slightly Different Technology, so were going to take that and not consider ourselves to be what is in law called an nvpd. So we dont have to negotiate. But satellite didnt do that, and so why should aereo be able to come up with a Different Technology and say we dont have to negotiate for copyrighted material . Weve said from the beginning this isnt about being a opposed to technology. Theres still a technology there in aereo, and maybe theres a Business Model for it. But that doesnt mean you can evade the law to run a business. More about the Supreme Court decision against aereo with the head of the National Association of broadcasters, gordon smith. Tonight at 8 e
I stayed. I stayed. Do you have the same time pressure to get something out to your publications . Not quite as much as some of the folks who need to get something out within the hour. I have daily some of the papers i write for are daily and needed to get something out but, you know, the editors also realize im one person so i do the best that i can and we all make it work. Well, you know, you sit there and making so many judgments because i had my colleague knows more about business cases and he was going to cover aerial coming second. I said ill do the susan b. Anthony First Amendment one and not knowing that Justice Sotomayor is about to present this great dissent which matters to me both in my day job and in this side project book on her. So after she says what she says and i know its huge, im thinking, i promise ill stay for the susan b. Anthony oral arguments so my editors are hoping for that but i also know i have just observed this big moment i want to be woven into whatever s
Usually straddles the middle and whose vote takes the middle. He wrote a concurring opinion saying, lets lower the temperature here. The decision doesnt mean as much as my colleague Ruth Ginsberg with the dissent has said but its, you know, its narrower the way Justice Alito says and like he tried to bridge the rhetoric in the moment more than the substantive issue. Justice ginsberg is not normally an alarmist and having achieving the goals that bob said might have been part of the reason for the dissent. She saw it the way she saw it and that kind of alarmist dissent, theres history for it. You remember that Justice Scalia in two big gay rights decisions said, if you buy this, then the next thing you know, samesex marriage and he turned out to be right. Somewhat broader question still focusing on hobby lobby, the case involved four separate issues, any one of which could have been determinetive. Whether a corporation was a person for the religious freedom restoration act or whether th