Here we are in the midst of sorting through another close election. We asked you because youve been covering this Supreme Court since 1986 to come back and look back in time with us at that 2000 election. What we were going through then as comparison to whats happening now and also some of the lessons that were learned. Lets start with the court itself in 2000. Nine members of the court and seven of them have been appointed by republican president s. But how do they align id logically . David its sort of a 54 conservative court. Rehnquist was a leader. Justice scalia was a leader of that court. Ohn stephens, david sutter and Ruth Ginsburg and steven briar, on the left. So it leaned conservative. But it was also an interesting you know, the court the court is never 100 predictable. I found that Justice Kennedy and Justice Connor were middle of the road conservatives. And you could not predict them in all sorts of cases. Would you say a bit more about William Rehnquist and his approach t
Thank you, i want to thank stephanie and skip for the clinr and Clinton School of public service, i want to thank the family for sponsoring this lecture series and thank you [laughter] [cheers and applause] i want to thank i want to thank all of you. I tried to entertain Justice Ginsburg for a few moments before we came over here by telling her stories of my adventures and misadventures in arkansas politics. [laughter] back when we all thought of each other as people, 3 dimensional human beings before we realized we were [cheers and applause] and its fairly well known, not actually met Justice Ginsburg until that memorable sunday evening in june of 1993 when she came to see me at the white house residence. I had only interviewed two other people and immediately leaked to the press and i had a lot young age, they worked hard and reporter called them, they were more afraid to say i dont know than anything else, so i got a good kick out of it. One of the most famous people in the entire w
Up next, oral argument from the North Carolina gerrymandering case. This court has repeatedly failed to identify a standard r for partisan gerrymandering claims. The cause is not a lack of judicial imagination or a lack of claims that the particular map before the court was the most extreme ever. Rather, the root cause of this failure is the basic decision of the framers to give responsibility for congressional districting to political actors. The framers consciously chose to give the primary authority to state i would submit that you dont have a one size fits all solution. I took the central lesson of baker v carr to be that the same claim essentially when presented as an equal protection claim was justiceable. Mr. Clement, does one person have one vote that counts equally, which i take it to be the message of those cases now well accepted. Does one person have one vote that counts equally with others. Is the impact of her vote reduced based on her Party Affiliation . The answer is ye
Videos are actually really a unique way to spread antibullying because you know, its not directly breaking up a fight between a bully and a victim. You know, you can make a video and you post it on the internet and you dont know whos gonna see it or whos going to take something away from it. You could be changing a bullies mind or you could be helping a victim, you never know, so we think its very unique, and its a safe way to stand up to bullying. It was so eye opening and inspirational not only to me but i know the people around me really liked it also and i think it was just great that they could come in and talk to our school today. Cyberbullying especially is a big problem nowadays and i think this is a great way to get people to shed light on the subject. And im glad that theres people that are like actually doing stuff about it because i know theres people out there that dont really care about it. cause some kids dont really know all thats going on around us and they dont really
Ports of entry. Coming up next, justices ruth bader again berg and Sonia Sotomayor share stories of the current Supreme Courts food traditions, including topics of conversation at shared meals. We also learn about customs dating to the 19th and 20th centuries. This discussion took place at the Smithsonians National Museum American history here in washington and its just over an hour. So its absolutely a thrill to see so many people here for this kind of a program. My name is john gray and i have the wonderful privilege of being your director of National Museum of American History, particularly on nights like tonight when we can really look at American History in unique and unusual ways. We are honored to be joined by Tonights Panel, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsberg. [ applause ] Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor. [ applause ] katherine fitz. [ applause ] and Supreme Court Society Publications director claire cushman. [ applause ] it is now my privilege to introduce the 13t