My own words. [indiscernible] [applause]. We hope you all have been enjoying yourself this morning. El now, we have a rather large crowd this morning for this particular session. And thats why im very thrilled to introduce our next program. For the past year at the library of commerce you may sit down i have a few more things i want to say. For the past year at the library of commerce we had been celebrating changemakers and i can c think of a few m people who more than aptly fit that description. I can pick a few people who fit the description quite like Justice Ruth Bader ginsberg. Im in a hurry up. She ise a hero and an inspiration to so many of us. In fact it for him this morningg students from American University are right over there camped out in front of this facility and they are here she says are you in a talk about your graduation from Columbia Law School and rutgers and columbia and spent most of your career advocating on womens rights. And you had been called recently the b
u.s. supreme court spiraling into controversy overturning long precedent and rolling back rights, some are turning to state courts. why strong constitutions can save the every day rights being eroded by a lob sided u.s. supreme court. this and more on another hour of velshi starting now. good morning it s sunday june 9th. president biden is wrapping up his trip to france today where he spent much of the week recognizing d day. this morning he will be at a cemetery near paris and he and the first lady will fly back home. but in a few days he will head back to italy. biden s upcoming trips to europe are valuable opportunities for him to highlight the importance of america s role in the world stage. he s cast his opponent as a strong man who will usher in an era of corruption in america and support such things abroad. trump s first term also saw the country shift toward a more isolationist stance which raised concerns among our partners that america might abandon its alliances
The fisa court and how they could improve that but courts generally. I think the down side of courts generally is they are not often well equipped to handle classified cases. Aside from standing issues, the process of handling classified materials, stamped with clearances is a challenge with the courts and they have shown timidity when taking on the government and they defer to the government or rather than challenge the government or look for the least intrusive for the rights with Civil Liberties. So make a pitch for the krif liberties oversight board, we complement the judicial. We can meet with the nsa and cia and fbi informally and confer with congress informally without rules of evidence and standing requirements and have a review not limited to lelt review, although we did a legal review in the and i was pleased the Second Circuit adopted our legal analysis and we can do policy review and make recommendations to the president and to congress, not only on whether something is con
Each side has been assigned 30 minutes, 10 minutes per person. Well hear from mr. Antolito. Good amp, your hor nor. Id like to introduce my cocounsel who worked with me on this case. Were proud to represent Melissa Zarda and bill moore, the executors of they have zarda estate. We ask the court to construe title 7 with life as we live it and under the plain language in its interpretations. We ask that you find that Sexual Orientation discrimination is sex discrimination under title 7 00. Don zarda was a male. He was known as gay though he was not traditionally feminine. He was a great sky diver. When a customer complained that he identified himself as gay, he was fired. And for that revelation, a violation of statute because his sex, a male who is attracted to other men, was a motivating factor in the adverse action. And in this case, he identified as gay only because he was accused of being straight. And he was proud of being gay and in the male workplace of the sky diving community, j
Was required eled with genderbased distinctions but they all operated benignly in womens favor. Like a woman didnt have to serve on a jury if she didnt want to. So that was a benefit. The eavesdropping reflected curiosity. And i think that that is what drew me as a lawyer. I mean i always tell people, and its not the perfect analogy. But being a lawyer is like being a voier in other peoples lives. You participate more than voiers do, thankfully, but in every case you get to learn how people or an industry or a Government Entity interacts in the world. What they do and what is important to them. And to be able to enjoy that process, i think you have to have curiosity. And so listening to others in their conversations was a way of teaching may self things that i would not have otherwise thought so easily. Rose an encore conversation of two Supreme Court justices when we continue. Funding for charlie rose is provided by the following kl and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and