I hope it doesnt take a long time. Pound] good morning everybody and thanks for being here. Today, we have three exceptional nominees on the agenda, judge gorsuch, to be associate justice of the supreme court. Rod rosenstein for Deputy Attorney general and racheal brand to be Deputy Attorney general. All three of these are on the agenda for the first time. I understand the minority would like to hold them over. Of course, any member may hold under our rules on the agenda the first time they are on the agenda. All three nominations will be held over for one week. As you all know, last week the Committee Held a fourday hearing to consider judge gorsuchs nomination. He testified for two days and over 20 hours. Before the hearing started, we all knew how qualified the judge is. His resume speaks for itself but last week we got to see up close how thoughtful, how articulate, and how humble he is. He is clearly deeply committed to being fair and impartial as a judge. He is not willing to com
I hope it doesnt take a long time. Pound] good morning everybody and thanks for being here. Today, we have three exceptional nominees on the agenda, judge gorsuch, to be associate justice of the supreme court. Rod rosenstein for Deputy Attorney general and racheal brand to be Deputy Attorney general. All three of these are on the agenda for the first time. I understand the minority would like to hold them over. Of course, any member may hold under our rules on the agenda the first time they are on the agenda. All three nominations will be held over for one week. As you all know, last week the Committee Held a fourday hearing to consider judge gorsuchs nomination. He testified for two days and over 20 hours. Before the hearing started, we all knew how qualified the judge is. His resume speaks for itself but last week we got to see up close how thoughtful, how articulate, and how humble he is. He is clearly deeply committed to being fair and impartial as a judge. He is not willing to com
Articles that were of no use to me. A lot of them were long reviews that would take a particular dissent and parse it which is something that i did as a law school student, had no desire to do again. Been there were a lot of Political Science articles that were worse than useless because unfortunately Political Science these days is more interested in counting them in analyzing. You would get articles like why are more dissent written on tuesday that on thursday . What i wanted to explore was what role does the dissent itself play, other than for the person who wrote it said i dont agree with you . The answer i came up with, which is sort of buried in the subtitle of the book, is the notion of a constitutional dialogue. Most dissents are justly forgotten as soon as theyre written, as our im afraid to say majority of all cases. Some of them ring on. You have to deal with them. Not just the judges sitting out but the future. A good example of this is hugo blacks dissent in brady where he
Forgive us when we boast about tomorrow, forgetting that our times are in your hands. Today, bless our lawmakers and their staff. Remind them that they belong to you and that you will order their steps. As they wrestle with complex issues, help them seek your wisdom and guidance. Empower them as stewards of your bounty to serve you and humanity, striving to be faithful in the vocation to which you have called them. We pray in your sacred name. Amen. The president pro tempore please join me in reciting the pledge of allegiance to our flag. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell the junior t junior senator from New Hampshire delivered a powerful address to our nation this weekend. She spoke about the need to tackle a heroin and prescription Opioid Epidemic thats majori
May be a real victory for short people. Marys book, in the kirby lobby, thank you for sharing. Thanks very much. [applause] [inaudible conversations] next, Melvin Urofsky from the bill of rights book festival, talks about the role of dissent and the Supreme Court. He has an extraordinary array of publications in addition to his definitive biography of brandeis, a life. He has written books on american zionism and his latest book which we are here to discuss is so wonderful and so timely, so provocative that i couldnt put it down. Is dissent and the Supreme Court, its role in the courts history and its role in constitutional dialogue and i cant wait to discuss it with you, please join me in welcoming Melvin Urofsky. [applause] you dont need to, this great book, we had a blast, we couldnt resist starting to talk about it. I have to begin with the obvious question. It was a logical step to go from there because brandeis is one of the great dissenters and according to his opinion in the wh