He was appointed by madison in 1812. Live coverage now of this event from the Heritage Foundation. We will be beginning momentarily. Jessica does have note cards for those that have come from the Legal Strategy Forum for the question and answer session. If you like some wed be glad to get them to you. Remind everyone please check that our mobile devices have been silenced or turned off as a courtesy as he prepare to begin. We should begin in about two or three minutes. Mr. Meese will introduce our special guest and john malcolm of our legal center will moderate the q a following. Force. Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation center for legal and judicial studies and to our tenth annual joseph story distinguished lecture. As you might imagine the name sake of our lecture is that eminent juris joseph story. He was a remarkable patriot who carried out the founders vision of a constitutional republic. Before joining the Supreme Court he had quite a career
The subcommittee on communications and technology will now come to order. And the chair recognizes herself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. And i do want to welcome each and every one of you. Obviously a hearing of interest as we have a full room in front of us. And it is our first hearing in 2017 with a fully formed federal Communications Commission as often seems to be the case, the senate takes their dear ever loving time to get things done, but im pleased to see that the commission is back up to speed and ill tell you i am pleased that we have five members of this commission and they have different points of view to bring to the discussion on all things telecom related. I think that is healthy for the telecommunications and technology industry. Were here today to conduct oversight of the agency which is this subcommittees primary role. It is very important that we fulfill these obligations because we have given the fcc a Critical Mission and critical task to fulfill. From
Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation center for legal and judicial studies and to our 10th lecturer. Tinguished the name sake is joseph story. He was a remarkable patriot who carried out the founders vision of a constitutional before joining the Supreme Court, he had quite a career of his own. He was a congressman. He was a state legislature. He was a speaker of the massachusetts house of representatives. He was also while he was on the Supreme Court, a professor law chool. When he was 65 years old, that particular year, his book royalties gave him twice much money as his salary as a justice of the Supreme Court. As many of you know, he became, when he was appointed, at that time, the youngest justice to serve on the Supreme Court and one of the youngest ever to serve, he was appointed by president madison in 1811 and was actually took office in following year in february of 1812. As most of you know, im sure, he made a significant mark on american l
For more of the schedule go to booktv. Org. D. C. Circuit court judge Brett Kavanaugh spoke recently the Heritage Foundation about the judiciaries role in maintaining the constitutional separation of powers. Hes introduced by former attorney general ed meese. This is one hour. Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation center for legal and judicial studies and to our tenth annual joseph story distinguished lecture. As you might imagine the namesake of our lecture is that eminent jurist, joseph story he was remarkable patriot who carried out the founders vision of a constitutional republic. Before joining the spring for it quite a career of his own. He was a congressman. He was a state legislator. He was the speaker of the massachusetts house of representatives, and he was also even while he was on the Supreme Court a professor at the harvard law school. Interestingly enough he was also noted as one of the most successful authors of the first half of the 19t
Comments and tweets. Watch cspans washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern friday morning. Join the discussion. Oklahoma former congressman now with the Aspen Institute discuss how founding father James Madison might view the Current Congress. The presidency, the court, and the media. From the National Constitution center in philadelphia, this is about one hour and 45 minutes. Ladies and gentlemen welcome back to freedom day. A round of applause for the next phase of this incredible discussion. We have judiciary, and now its time to discuss congress set of my article one of the constitution. Joining us are two of americas congress,holars on nicky edwards. He is a former congressman from oklahoma, and he is author of the parties versus the people how to turn republicans and democrats into americans. , coauthor of a book that will set up the tone of our discussion. The other ones were too optimistic. The broken branch how congress is feeling america and how to get it back on track.