thoughtful members of the united states senate not just one of the patriots of our age but someone who in spite of all of the challenges facing this great republic remains steadfast in his cheerfulness and so it is a wonderful privilege on behalf of all of us at the heritage foundation to introduce our friend senator mike lee. thank you. senator good afternoon to you. thank you. yeah good to be here. thanks. thanks for being here. so we re going to get into this wonderful book, which i told you earlier in the week. i had skimmed i have since read so i did my homework. and you can decide how well i did based on the questions. but before we get into the book, there s a lot going on in washington this week. i know you don t mind a question about that. what s your assessment of what s happening in the country right now? well a lot s happening including the fact that we ve got people who want to protest at the homes of supreme court justices. we ve got federal statute that makes t
[applause] very kind, thank you, welcome to all of you, and those who joined online for a gentleman who needs very little introduction and is a great friend of the heritage foundation and many of you individually. it still is a pleasure to introduce senator mike lee and i will introduce him not just as one of the most thoughtful members of the united states senate, not just one of the patriots of our age but someone who in spite of challenges facing this great republic remains steadfast in his cheerfulness. it s a privilege on behalf of all of us at the heritage foundation to introduce our friends senator mike lee. good afternoon. thank you, good to be here. thanks for being here. we will get into this wonderful book which i told you earlier i have since read. you can decide how well i did based on the questions but before we get into the book there s a lot going on in washington this week. i know you don t mind a question about that. what is your assessment? a lot
c-span.org/january6 two watch previous hearings and videos related to that day. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. nues the eyes is turn to the supreme court we are joined by senator mike lee a veteran now of four supreme court nominations in the author of the book saving nine. before we get to saving nine, i wanted to get your reaction to the man arrested outside of brett kavanaugh s house yesterday. he had a knife on him, he had a gun on him. your reaction to that incident. guest: there are real problems with showing up at the home of the supreme court justice to protest what you anticipate might be the outcome of a case to try to influence the outcome of the case. this particular instance he appears he showed up to influence the outcome of a case in a way that is unthinkably bad. i am grateful that they caught him, but we have to get serious about the fact that this is prohibited. this is a federal criminal offense. host: showing up to protest or having a weapon?
the house select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol will hold its first public hearing. before that happens, on the house floor this morning, members will take up new gun legislation focused on red flag laws a day after the house passed a broad package of gun restrictions and hear testimony from survivors and families of the young victims of last month s elementary school shooting. we will begin hearing from you about either topic. give us a call if you want to hear about the hearing tonight or the gun law bills moving to the house. phone lines split by party. republicans, (202) 748-8001, democrats (202) 748-8000, independents, (202) 748-8002, and you can send us a text at (202) 748-8003. if you do, please include your name and where you are from. catch up with us on social media, on twitter, @c-span2 bj, and on facebook the houses in a 9:00 a.m. eastern. this is how they describe the proceedings tonight. they are working with a former abc new
Cliff sloan, your second book is about the Supreme Court but a very different era from the first one. Tell me about the court at work. The court that war is about the Supreme Court during world war ii, and it is a very, very interesting and momentous time for the court, and it is really the roosevelt court. Let me back up and tell you how i got interested in the subject. I was working at as a special envoy for the closure of guantanamo in 2014, and i was reading the decisions on military detention, including the notorious and shameful korematsu case. I noticed that the first of the shameful antijapanese decisions , which was about a curfew targeted at japaneseamerican citizens, was decided exactly one week from one week before one of the greatest Civil Liberties decisions in the courts history, West Virginia for the board of education versus burnett, where justice rep. Jackson gave an opinion that struck down the compulsory flag statute that the jehovahs witnesses had objected to. I no