That generated as much heat and animus as this topic did. Please help me welcome a man who stood up to argue and to defend what our nations highest court has now recognized as a constitutional right, professor geoffrey stone. [applause] thank you. Im delighted to be here. My talk this afternoon derives from a book that i am currently finishing titled sex and the constitution. Although the book addresses such issues as obscenity, contraception, homosexuality generally, abortion and so on, i decided to focus specifically this afternoon on the issue of samesex marriage, an issue that cuts to the very heart of the meaning of equal citizenship. In august of 1982, an Atlanta Police officer went to the home of Michael Hardwick to serve an arrest warrant for public drinking. Upon entering the home, he observed hardwick and another man engaged in oral sex. The officer placed both men under arrest for the crime of sodomy. In the case decided in 1986, the Supreme Court held that the homosexual so
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By getting all the justices to dance the salsa with her. I use it to set the scene of a contrast its been between the woman who i is a genuine, somersaults come into this institution thats a wonderfully traditional, used to certain rhythms. The rhythms frankly our salsa. She and she did this wonderful displays that show everybody up, the end of term party, and justice belly at usually shakes people up, he says she can be trouble. It was a perfect line for a little bit of what greeted her there. Host did you go to that party . Guest no. It was tough to get the information. You know how secretive this court is. A lot of people arent aware of how we never know what goes on in the conference, journalists are never invited to the end of term party. Chief Justice John Roberts sent out invitations for this particular party he reminded all the staff, it was just full time staff, no contractors or parttimers, it is a very tight family. All the justices are appointed for life, many of the employ
Their evening news to broadcast the remarks live. We will show you coverage by cbs. The following is a special broadcast on cbs news. Good evening. We are broadcasting a speech live from des moines, iowa, by the Vice President of the United States, spiro agnew. It will be delivered from the grand ballroom in des moines, iowa. The scene is in the grand ballroom where the state chairman of the Republican Party of iowa is introducing the head table guests. The Vice President is attacking the objectivity and fairness of Network Television news, which he says is in the hands of a small and unelected elite. The Vice President is due to appear within the next minute or two. This is a meeting of the Midwest Regional Republican Committees, which includes the states of illinois, indiana, michigan, iowa, kansas, minnesota, nebraska, missouri, north dakota, oklahoma, south dakota, west virginia, and wisconsin. At the head table will be the senator from oklahoma, the nebraska governor, the former R
In this material and other types of material. And create a blind spot and intelligence collection. You have to think about the technical complexity you are suggesting so this is segregated in some way, treat it in some way. That could lead to a training issues. We actually do it in a way that would be different from other types the we handled. One brief point to this, the last decade and at half, they were set up to investigate after a variety of terrorism events 9 11, fort hood, the underwear bomber and so on, consistently everyone of those commissions has found that we need to eliminate barriers to making use of information that is lawfully in our possession to better protect the nation and requiring some kind of additional process before we can query this information directly contrary to the recommendations of all those. I see my time is up. I never had a chance to introduce the panel to the benefits that they are familiar to us and benefit the audience. We have jim baker who is gen