Historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice may appease the port. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions, once that the court took quite unpopular. Let us go through a few places that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of different people who helped stick together because they believed in a rule of law. Good evening. Tonights landmark cases, 1960 fives griswold v. Connecticut, with a seven to two decision, the justices in this case establish a constitutional right to privacy. Its set in motion the expansion of privacy rights that continue till today over the next several decades. To give you a sense of continuing importance in our society, we put together a short video that is a modernday reference to the grizzle case. There is wild v connecticut, which recognized a right to privacy in the constitution i agree with the griswold v. Connecticut that marital privacy extends to contraception griswold v. Connecticut griswold v. Co
In berlin this is the day. This will protect the one country 2 systems and hong kongs long term prosperity and stability. In. The balkans for us all call it will be heard hall tonight theyre going to pull them away all the fold if theyre rounds of sanctions all television which. I think ill heartily and all those people in wars will suffer quite a lot. From the chinese nation has the wisdom and the ability to handle appropriately gives own affairs streets is. Also coming up tonight u. S. President donald trump the twitterer in chief is taking aim at twitter with an executive order. What they choose to fact check and what they choose to encourage and promote is nothing more than a political Activism Group or political activism and its an appropriate. Thing to our viewers on p. B. S. In the United States and all around the world welcome we begin the day with chinas heavy handed hong kong and washington shaking its fist at beijing for months much of the world has yearned for a return to n
Be too good just because it. Take her take her to go to. John nolan meyer at work that fast. And internationally renowned choreographer who depicts worlds of emotion and the language of dance thank you its been done im a grateful person and that might be why im a happy person quickly and privileged to get to do what i love most is need. For johnno i mire the artistic journey has always been more important than a destination. In my living and if my life is a painting dance is the frame. His creative home is the Ballet Center hamburg. Sight is she ever since ive been a choreographer my aim has been to create a sort of microcosm of the world on stage after its. A microcosm that includes the underworld johnno meyer is staging orpheus and you read a scene. Where cliche you see is stick soon to the narrative is the Creative Process itself guys in and theres Nothing Better than entering a space and feeling extremely nervous and uncertain. You know dancers looking to you with huge expectations
Really excited to dive into is how journalism is dealing with this issue, how journalists are trying to cover a story that is unprecedented. Here is how the conversation will go. The first half of the conversation, our guest and i will just have a conversation between the two of us. Halfway through we will start taking your questions. For those of you who are members of the georgetown community, you will see a q and a button. Halfway through we will start taking them. We will let you know when your question has been collected and bring you onto the screen to ask your questions. Ake sure you are tv ready. You can ask chris your question directly. Tell us whether you are a student, staff or faculty and they sure to keep an eye on the chat at the bottom. That is where we will let you now. For those of you that know me, you know my side gig is as a fox ews contributor. I have known chris for a few years now and am a summit semi regular guest on his program. It is intimidating preparing to
Now joining us on booktv is author robert cornrevere jr, the name of his book, the mind of the censor and the eye of the beholder. Well get into that in just a minute. But mr. Corn revere, i want to read this to you. The First Amendment of the constitution, Congress Shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press. True or false . Well, true in that that was the mandate that the framers of the constitution had in mind. The difficulty has been interpreting what those words mean over the interval of time between the founding of the country and today, and who has been interpreting those words of the courts. Well, all of us have been in one way or another. But the final arbiters of what that means are judicial decisions that breathe life into what those words mean and how they protect our constitutional freedoms. As a First Amendment lawyer, are we a sensorial nation . We have always been a sensorial nation in the sense that there are some people who think their ideas shou