One of the mose powerful writers of Supreme Court opinions. He wrote a lot of dissents that were real zingers, great for people like me quoting him. But this is not a book about Court Opinions. This is a book about speeches. Why speeches . His Court Opinions or memorable and im ontold by law students and report theyd went to his opinions first for that reason. So crisply written and evocative and powerful. His speech have some of the same quality all the same great qualities that his opinion does but the advantage of the speeches is that he could let more of his personality shine through for one thing. He was a great performer, a little bit of a ham. He had he played mcbeth in a High School Production of that play and was i think the president of georgetown theater club. So that kind of theatrical side shined through in speeches and not Court Opinions. Court opinions have to follow certain conventions that are apt to turn off the average person who is not a court follower or a law stud
So we have to be if youre in an enclosed environment be very concerned with what the human body is exhaling. In terms of the future of space station, do we have plans to expand, put different elements on to the space station at this point . Currently on the u. S. Side we just reconfigured the permanent Multi Purpose module from one location to the other location to make room for a docking adopter that we discussed earlier to let commercial vehicles come. Thats about all were going td on the u. S. Side. Theres no major new additions coming. The russians talked about a solar platform to provide solar energy for their segment. The russians talked about another Research Module they may add. We on the u. S. Side dont have any major additions, no. The Bigelow Company has a new concept without the inflatables. Is there any use of this technology . It will be added to space station next year. This is an expandable module that will be added to the station. It will stay there for about a year, y
What it wrote here was not artful. Problems. But thats not why were here. Were here to see what was congresss intention and give it a fair reading. So he finishes up and then comes Justice Scalia to read his dissent. As you all know, they sit by order of seniority. So scalia is going on and entouraging what the fellow in the center chair has just done and then he reminds everyone of what the chief had done back in 2012 to uphold it and he said we might as well call it scotus chair. As he says that its the only time when the chief breaks a little bit of a grin. Give sa he leah credit for something colorful, but thats about it. I looked at the way several of you covered that case. Those of you who do the daily reporting. They were somewhat different. Let me just ask you a question about why you chose to write the way you did. David, in the very first sentence of your report you say the first half of the sentence says the Supreme Court cleared the way for oklahoma to continue using the le
Until june 25th of this year when we had these two companion decisions that came down. King is precisely exactly like webber. The majority opinion said look you cant look at forward in isolation and give it a broader meaning because the broader purpose was to give subsidies to poor people. The precise facts in king were as follows the statute dealing with subsidies, said they are available for purchases made off an exchange established by the state under statute 131211 of the statute and the question was what if you made an exchange off of an exchange of the federal government under 1321 and does that qualify and in other words does state mean state. Which is not a question for the nonjudicial mind but was one that bee fuddled six members of the Supreme Court. And they analyzed it in precisely the way they had done in webber. Listen the broader purpose was to provide substance and were not going to be Fuddy Duddies and worry about language or exactly what congress has done. I wont walk
Evening for us and were delighted that Justice Ginsburg is here, as well. The Society Depends on the support of the justices of the court and they have been most generous. Otherwise, we would be unable to host this kind of event in this impressive surrounding of the Supreme Court courtroom so we are very grateful for your generosity and support. Im now going to offer a brief introduction for Justice Kagan who all of you know. Shell be introducing our lecturer for the evening. Justice kagan was born in new york city. She received her undergraduate education at princeton where she graduated summa cum laude. She then visited Oxford University as the daniel m. Sax graduate fellow from princeton and she earned her masters degree there. She returned to Harvard Law School, graduated three years later magna cum laude as being supervising editor of the harvard law review, then distinguished clerk ships. She first clerked for judge admiral migva of the d. C. Court of appeals and then for thurgoo