Sutton, an honor to have him down. He flew in last night, right through the storm, and so were grateful that his flight made it here safely and that we are able to have this event today. Judge sutton is a judge of the u. S. Court of appeals for see six inch circuit where he has served since 2003. Nominate i by george w. Bush, former solicitor general of ohio, been in private practice, has clerked for several judges, including Justice Scalia, the subject of his new book. So, the occasion for todays event is the essential scalia. That is the new book that the judge suton edited with ed whelan, another friend of us who has been here some spoken to this chapter about another scalia book. So were all but scalia in this chapter. Jut sutton evidence his law degree from the ohio state university. He has served as chair of the federal judicial and Conference Committee on the rules of practice and procedures. The was appointed to that position by chief justice john roberts. He has taught constit
Princeton, and oxford, and harvard for law, and served in the chambers of a law clark. All of our panelists this evening, clark for one judge or another in a decent circuit. All four of us. Its a good court. He was a great court. I was in the white house counsels office, and clinton administration. And the policy council as deputy director. She couldnt keep a job apparently. University of chicago law school, and then after getting tanya there she moved on inside at harvard. Not long after that became the dean of harvard law school. And then can get that job either. And became an associate solicitor general first, and then an associate justice of the Supreme Court. Judge uncle meyer at the far and, is in the district of new york, and has been since 2011. He came in the court on 20 twin. In 2011 in the southern district. He went to harvard, and to harvard for law school as well. Clerk for judge world on the d. C. Circuit. And was in the Solicitors Office with a solicitor general. And the
Recognize me of my tie were fixed. But ok. I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running an equity firm. How do you define leadership . Is it that makes somebody tick . When you went to cornell, your grades were very good. Was the class have women and half men . Justice ginsburg in my entering class, there were over 500 and , marty was a year ahead of me, there were five women in his class. And today the Harvard Law School david you0 women did extremely well and you got onto the harvard law review. But when your husband needed to move to new york, you wanted to transfer to Columbia Law School and the dean did not think it was a great idea if you wanted to be a harvard graduate. Justice ginsburg time Justice Ginsburg . I didnt because marty was diagnosed with a testicular tumor in his third year of law school. Were early days for cancer and there was no
I would like to thank you all for joining us for tonights tribute to Justice Ginsburg. These past few days have been painful and hard, and i, like you, have been heartbroken. Justice ginsburg was a giant in the law, a champion of justice ad equality, and she was also treasured member of the Georgetown Law Community for many years, beginning with her husband martys joining the faculty. She was remarkably generous with her time. I will never forget walking into on so many occasions. Every year she spoke to our first year class. Walking with her out onto the stage, looking out at hundreds of students, many of them wearing notorious rbg tshirts and seeing their faces light up and uploading ecstatically as , eventered the room though her Security Team always told us that she would leave right after her talk, she always stayed to talk to students and since friday, i have received so many photos from our students of the selfies they took with her. Notes about what a wonderful memory it was. I
This philosophy that some historians have called right related liberalism. The idea that liberalism was primarily devoted to the protection of individual rights. As a result, the Supreme Court became an important mechanism for this. One problem, which is that if you are going to govern, you have to be able to appoint Supreme Court justices. This becomes an increasingly fraught prospect for liberals. So the backdrop. Lbj. After 1964 with the Civil Rights Act, 1965 with the Voting Rights act, he has a sense that the Supreme Court will be significant. Unlike with kennedy, there are no openings on the court. Johnson essentially creates one. The first one comes in 1965. It is a custom which dates back to the wilson administration. There was one jewish member on the court. The jewish member on the court in the early 1960s was arthur goldberg. He had been appointed by jfk. Johnson however wants to appoint this man, his longtime lawyer and fairly close personal friend and advisor, abe fortas.