Flew last night right through the storm so we are grateful he made it here safely and that we are able to have this event today. A judge of us court of appeals and with the circuit where he served since 2003 and nominated by george w. Bush and is a former solicitor general of ohio include for several judges including Justice Scalia the subject of his new book. The location for todays event is the essential scully the new book that jeffrey sets in edited so we all about scalia on this chapter receiving his law degree from Ohio State University and served as chair of the Commerce Committee rules of practice and procedure appointed by chief Justice John Roberts and taught constitutional law and other legal subjects universities and his teaching at several universities right now. We have zoom and other forms of Online Education so the kids can have him as a professor without him having to me present in person. That is a tremendous benefit to the Legal Academy at large. Thank you for being
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. The Rehnquist Court. Nine members of the court and seven of them have been appointed by republican president s. But how do they align ideologically . David its sort of a 54 conservative court. Rehnquist was a leader. Justice scalia was a prominent figure. It leans right. There were several moderate republicans. John stephens, david souter and Ruth Ginsburg and stephen breyer, four 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 Oconnor were middle of the road conservatives. And you could not predict them in all sorts of cases. Susan would you say a bit more about the chief Justice William rehnquist and his approach to leading the court . David well, he had, you know, he had been on the court for a lot of years b
As comparison to whats happening now and also some of the lessons that were learned. Lets start with the court itself in 2000. The Rehnquist Court. Nine members of the court and seven of them have been appointed by republican president s. But how do they align ideologically . David its sort of a 54 conservative court. Rehnquist was a leader. Justice scalia was a prominent figure. It leans right. There were several moderate republicans. John stephens, david souter and Ruth Ginsburg and stephen breyer, four 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 Oconnor were middle of the road conservatives. And you could not predict them in all sorts of cases. Susan would you say a bit more about the chief Justice William rehnquist and his approach to leading the court . David well, he had, you know, he had been on the court for a lot of years before he became a chief justice.
David savage, it is the 20th andversary of bush v gore 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. The Rehnquist Court. Nine members of the court and seven of them have been appointed by republican president s. But how do they align ideologically . David its sort of a 54 conservative court. Rehnquist was a leader. Justice scalia was a prominent figure. It leans right. There were several moderate republicans. John stephens, david souter and Ruth Ginsburg and stephen breyer, four 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 Oconnor were middle of the ro
So what could go wrong. [laughter]. Thank you. Thank you for coming and we have a lot of people here today. As you probably recognize by now, we have to socially distance and follow other sorts of guidelines and regulations today. So thank you for your patience. And thank you for following those. We have here today with us Jeffrey Sutton, its an honor to have him here. Fluid last night right through the storm. So we are grateful that he got here safely and that we are able to have this event today. Jeffrey sutton is a judge for the sixth circuit where he serves since 2003 news nominated by george w. Bush. His former general of ohio, in private practice, and is clerked for several judges including Justice Antonin Scalia as essential gives new book targeted so todays event, the essential scalia. That is the new book that he edited another friend of ours who has been here not too long ago and also talked about another scalia book brightest of all about scullion in this chapter. It and Jef