Amy, welcome. Thanks for having. Me lets talk about the term of the 20 20 to 23 term thats ramping up. Maybe this month, maybe next month. Anything that surprised you . Not so far. Were waiting on virtually all of the big decisions. Affirmative action, religion, lgbtq rights on Voting Rights of election law. Its too soon. Were waiting on 27 cases to draw any conclusions about what this version of the court is going to look like this term. Were gonna talk about some of these cases were waiting on. First Ketanji Brown jackson was new this term. What did you see from her. Anything different that you did not expect . Im not sure if i didnt expect. But shes been very active just as perhaps one of the most active new justices. Thats not surprising. And she spent most of her time as a judge. As a trial court judge. She was the only one in the courtroom. She is not dominating by any measure but shes very active. She has a lot of questions. She is often working with the other two liberal justic
[applause] good afternoon justice. Delighted you are here. Delighted to be here, thanks for having me. Thank you for coming especially in the first two weeks of current term that began the first monday in october. Hausa going to see her . Its good so far. We have only have six arguments and so we are on a twoweek game between our session sessions that we finished arguments last week and now will be two weeks to prepare for the next round. We are delighted that you are here for so many reasons. You grew up in new orleans at the other end of the mississippi and i think you said theres a Family Connection to the university of minnesota. Can you tell us about that . Professors spine did not know this when he invited me. I mymy brother went to du so its not my first time visiting campus. [applause] he lived in a rental house so i went and visited. Well i know you know something about the university. Id like to start asking questions by asking a question about youro undergraduate colle the d
Every you are, the opinion that matters the most is your own. This is what democracy looks like. Cspan, powered by cable. Amy Coney Barrett considers the potential benefits of the code of ethics for the nations highest court. During a conversation with law students at the university of minnesota, or comments come in the wake of new stories detailing ethical concerns among some of the Court Justices. I think he said there is a Family Connection to the university of minnesota. Crux the professor did not know this when he invited me so i dont think that was the reason he invited me but my brother actually went to bu. It is not my first time visiting campus. He lived in a rental house in hankey town. I know you dont think about the university when you say the u. Crux i want to ask a question by your undergraduate college. You received your undergraduate degree in memphis which is a superb school and i noted several years ago the justice graduated from the college. It was the Memphis Colleg
Some of the Court Justices. I think he said there is a Family Connection to the university of minnesota. Crux the professor did not know this when he invited me so i dont think that was the reason he invited me but my brother actually went to bu. It is not my first time visiting campus. He lived in a rental house in hankey town. I know you dont think about the university when you say the u. Crux i want to ask a question by your undergraduate college. You received your undergraduate degree in memphis which is a superb school and i noted several years ago the justice graduated from the college. It was the Memphis College of law. Were you aware that a Supreme Court justice had graduated from your undergraduate school . Did you think it all about the Supreme Court at that time . Crux i did not know i wanted to be a lawyer. I had some vague awareness that they want to roast college. I thought, about going. I also thought about going to law school. You are the only justice to graduate from l
Hello, friends please join me once more in welcoming justice back to the National Constitution center center. Thank you for. It is always an honor to welcome our honorary cochair here to the ncc and its extraordinarily meaningful to convene this evening to discuss his new book reading constitution why i chose fragments as im not textualism justice. It is clear from this powerful book which better than any other sums the central methodological debate on the Supreme Court today between the pragmatism of which you are the leading spokesperson and textualism which is embraced by a Supreme Court majority. So im going to begin with the obvious question why did you choose to write this book about why you chose pragmatism . Textualism its a good question because what many people say is the way ive been a judge for 40 years, 48 years on the Supreme Court and want to get across particularly to students and others, how do you go about deciding or how do i go about deciding these difficult questio