Remarkable year for book that have been tackling the uses and especially the abuses of this countrys criminal Justice System. And we at politics and prose have been honored to host authors and poets behind them. The first event we hosted this year at this location was for the investigation of the misdemeanor punishment without crime and were closing with an equally essential look at the way the legal world unfairly treats this countrys disenfranchised and the author target is his own former profession as a public testify. The become called usual crueltity comes from alec karakatsanis. The founder of the civil rising corps, advocating for racial justice. Especially known for come batting the unconstitutionality of money bail, karakatsanis was name the 2016 trial lawyer of the year by public yates and the steven b. B. B wright aired for and as an introduction to his talk tonight im very excited to be welcoming his guest nor program, the poet, based indog, raised in columbus, ohio and eve
Scenes on social media at post boost on twitter, instagram and facebook. Remarkable year for book that have been tackling the uses and especially the abuses of this countrys criminal Justice System. And we at politics and prose have been honored to host authors and poets behind them. The first event we hosted this year at this location was for the investigation of the misdemeanor punishment without crime and were closing with an equally essential look at the way the legal world unfairly treats this countrys disenfranchised and the author target is his own former profession as a public testify. The become called usual crueltity comes from alec karakatsanis. The founder of the civil rising corps, advocating for racial justice. Especially known for come batting the unconstitutionality of money bail, karakatsanis was name the 2016 trial lawyer of the year by public yates and the steven b. B. B wright aired for and as an introduction to his talk tonight im very excited to be welcoming his g
Policy put in place 30 or 40 years ago are having an adverse effect today. You will hear from him next on book tv. [cheering and applause] thank you. Thank you everybody for coming out. Want to think politics and prose and busboys poets for hosting this event. Obviously there are too many people here who i love and have known for a long time to shout out everybody individually but i do want to shout out a couple of families and i want to shut out my pbs family. [applause] thank you. You taught me how to be a lawyer and i want to shout out to my maia angela family, you all taught me how to fight for children. And i want to give a shout to my sick family. [cheering and applause] i am wearing my button tonight and i am right now thinking of you all and im thinking of my dad and i know that he is here with us so i want to Start Talking about why i wrote this book. The first reason for writing this book is that i dont know if you all are like this or have friends like this but im the kind o
The [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] welcome to the 22nd annual texas book festival. We appreciate you coming out for the authors and just in general great literature. A few housekeeping things, president of houston university. Just a reminder please silence your cell phones or turn them off. After that session here in our authors will be signing books in the book tend and book the booke for sale courtesy of book people. Remember when you buy a book, you support the author, the festival and independent bookstore and it is a Nonprofit Organization and its mission is to support lowincome schools in texas with author visits and donations like the leading rock Stars Program so your purchases go a very long way. And we have a book drive going on to help raise money to rebuild the library is affected by Hurricane Harvey and a donation of 15 at any register to buya a book for a student in the texas book festival and foundation will match with a bo
Your cell phones are totally off because it will interfere with the sound system in the courtroom. We are here tonight with a program we are cosponsoring with the Supreme Court Alumni Association. We are delighted to be a cosponsor with them. The program was brought to us by several people from that organization. Let me make sure i get them right. Stephanie, matthew, elizabeth. Who really came up with the idea for the program and we are very happy to be heard to present it to you. We are also particularly happy to have as our host Justice Breyer who will speak to you in a minute. I will tell you briefly what you dont know already about Justice Breyer. He is a californian. Study that stanford, oxford, then Harvard Law School. Became a law clerk europe the Supreme Court in 1964 which happens to be one year after gideon v. Wainwright, so he missed that activity. Then he was a counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee, also very active in the academic world. President carter appointed him