Chosen as one of New York Times. One notable books of 2015. Professor moore teaches at the university of oxford and has lectured internationally on 18th century history. He also hosts a podcast called travels through time, which i encourage you to check out. Tonights moderator, richard cohn is the author of making history, a book that we presented in this past year in the american inspiration series. He also has written by the sword chasing the sun and how to write. Like tolstoy, the forming former publishing director of two leading publishing houses, he has edited books that have won the pulitzer the booker and many other prizes 21 books under his watchful. I have been number one bestsellers. Richards written works have appeared in the New York Times book review and in the wall street journal. He is also a fellow of Royal Society of literature. Richard will join us for the second half of our program. But to start us off, peter. Welcome to you. Peter moore. It is such a delight to have
Talking about u. S. Federal entitlement programs sunday night on cspans q a. American history tv, u. S. University officers icon for aikrishnaures s prakash. He focuses on the separation of powers and argues that the United States constitution does not focus on what he calls double duty. This is a 45 Minute Program in the Supreme Court chamber. I would like to express the societys gratitude to our host this evening, Justice Clarence thomas. Justice thomas has been wonderfully generous and giving of his time to the society when we called upon him. I want to thank him for taking the time away, particularly this first week of october when things are humming here in the court. We are also grateful to the large for allowing us to have this series here in the courtroom. It is my particular pleasure to richard deuce Justice Thomas this evening to introduce Justice Thomass evening because in the 11th circuit, referred to him as our judge. He was born on june 20 3, 1948, and graduated from coll
Justice thomas has been wonderfully generous and giving of his time to the society when we called upon him. I want to thank him for taking the time away, particularly this first week of october when things are humming here in the court. We are also grateful to the court at large for allowing us to have this series here in the courtroom. It is my particular pleasure to to introduce Justice Thomas this evening because in the 11th circuit, we refer to him as our judge. Our justice. He was born near savanna on june 23, 1948, and graduated from college at holy cross in 1971 and got his law degree from yale college in 1974. He was promptly appointed after finishing law school as an attorney assistant general and was working under thenattorney general john danforth. When danforth was elected senator, our host this evening followed him to washington and worked for senator danforth. He was appointed assistant secretary for civil rights in the u. S. Department of education in 1981. In 1982, pres
Articles that were of no use to me. A lot of them were long reviews that would take a particular dissent and parse it which is something that i did as a law school student, had no desire to do again. Been there were a lot of Political Science articles that were worse than useless because unfortunately Political Science these days is more interested in counting them in analyzing. You would get articles like why are more dissent written on tuesday that on thursday . What i wanted to explore was what role does the dissent itself play, other than for the person who wrote it said i dont agree with you . The answer i came up with, which is sort of buried in the subtitle of the book, is the notion of a constitutional dialogue. Most dissents are justly forgotten as soon as theyre written, as our im afraid to say majority of all cases. Some of them ring on. You have to deal with them. Not just the judges sitting out but the future. A good example of this is hugo blacks dissent in brady where he
Similarly, i was a professional woman in the 70s and part of the movement to try to get the president to try to appoint more women to the federal courts at all much less the Supreme Court. So when Sandra Day Oconnor was appointed to the Supreme Court it meant the world to me. I was so hoping it would happen just like she said. She said it is okay to be the first. But i do not want to be the last. And i was watching her because i was so many first. And i didnt want to have her fail. I wanted to be the next one. Two; they were really my offensive lines. Host when will we see a woman chief justice . Guest there was talk of making oconnor chief justice. She would have been great. She was so fair and widely respected. John robert is a young man so i want to say in probably 40 years. Host next call is jay in toledo, ohio. We are listening and you are on with Linda Hirshman. We are talki about the Supreme Court. Caller thank you. Linda, you have such a wonderful sense of humor. It is so great