Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation center for legal and judicial studies and to our 10th lecturer. Tinguished the name sake is joseph story. He was a remarkable patriot who carried out the founders vision of a constitutional before joining the Supreme Court, he had quite a career of his own. He was a congressman. He was a state legislature. He was a speaker of the massachusetts house of representatives. He was also while he was on the Supreme Court, a professor law chool. When he was 65 years old, that particular year, his book royalties gave him twice much money as his salary as a justice of the Supreme Court. As many of you know, he became, when he was appointed, at that time, the youngest justice to serve on the Supreme Court and one of the youngest ever to serve, he was appointed by president madison in 1811 and was actually took office in following year in february of 1812. As most of you know, im sure, he made a significant mark on american l
Database that searches when people attempt to purchase firearms but when the federal government doesnt do this it is reported that the air force simply through interventions, human error or somewhere failed to do it then there is nothing there to contradict the misrepresentation by the purchaser when they go to buymc it. We leave these remarks to return to live coverage of the senate here on cspan2 fficer wt objection. Mr. Mccain mr. President , in recent months the United States and Coalition Forces have achieved major gains against isis in iraq and syria. U. S. Coalition partners have liberated the capital of raqqa and syria, the pocket of hawija in Northern Iraq and just days ago the border town of alkine in western iraq. The socalled caliphate the terrorists claimed would overrun the middle east is now a shadow of its former self, a shrinking swath on a map once defined by an open reign of terror. Unfortunately, however, our challenges in the region remain daunting despite these ha
Him so he can say more about the tragedy that occurred in texas over it weekend. Top of the morning and i thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome. All nine witnesses. All time hearing. And the distinguished gentleman from wisconsin. Let me just say briefly that before discussing the important topic of the days hearing, i want to raise another issue that we must unfortunately confront with urgency. On sunday, a gunman shot and killed 26 church goers in southern springs, texas. We now know that information concerning his Court Marshal for Domestic Abuse should have been submitted by the air force to the National Instant criminal background check system and should have been prevented from purchasing firearms from licensed gun dealers via the brady background check system. Yesterday before this information came to light, i wrote to you, mr. Chairman, requesting that the briefing planned for our members tomorrow afternoon by atf on the issue of bump stocks. Be expanded through the fbi to discuss t
Over it weekend. Top of the morning and i thank you, mr. Chairman. Welcome. All nine witnesses. All time hearing. And the distinguished gentleman from wisconsin. Let me just say briefly that before discussing the important topic of the days hearing, i want to raise another issue that we must unfortunately confront with urgency. On sunday, a gunman shot and killed 26 church goers in southern springs, texas. We now know that information concerning his Court Marshal for Domestic Abuse should have been submitted by the air force to the National Instant criminal background check system and should have been prevented from purchasing firearms from licensed gun dealers via the brady background check system. Yesterday before this information came to light, i wrote to you, mr. Chairman, requesting that the briefing planned for our members tomorrow afternoon by atf on the issue of bump stocks. Be expanded through the fbi to discuss the background check issues. Related to southern springs. And in
Spectacular program on americas founding. Spec so just to get a few logistical items off first, todays program is one of many that are comingng up at the fall season of the constitution center. Next week we are going to tackle the question of is the constitution judeochristian which would be a great discussion for the scholar residents herthis callerresidene discussion. In twossio weeks we are hostinga conference with robert strauss, author of the new book worst president ever, James Buchanan and the legacy of the least of the lesser president said that should be a really sort of aga again. You can learn about some of the benefits of becoming a member of the constitution center. Gram otherwise just a couple of lo logistics. We will be rethinking americas founding. Some of the great characters in American History without further ado, the two speakers are the kirkland and ellis professor at Harvard Law School in his marvelous neand hismarvelous nee down here is the framers to the making