Good evening. Im jason kelly. Im interim director of the galvin in journalism ethics and democracy. And im excited to welcome you all to the 2023 red smith lecture. Its great. See everybody here tonight. I want to start by thanking our speaker Carlos Lozada and, the Notre Dame Institute for advanced study, which is the reason why this event is possible tonight. Carlos is here this year as a faculty fellow and they very generously made this event possible as part of his very busy schedule. So very grateful for that. So that the lecture tonight had a timely element. This morning when i woke up this morning, there was a notification, my phone from the New York Times that said Carlos Lozada latest. And so i dont normally click through the notifications but i went to that one right away and the headline said this is his new column just today in the New York Times i the mueller ukraine and jan six reports as though they were one long book that didnt have to say so. You dont have to. So Carlo
Im interim director of the galvin in journalism ethics and democracy. And im excited to welcome you all to the 2023 red smith lecture. Its great. See everybody here tonight. I want to start by thanking our speaker Carlos Lozada and, the Notre Dame Institute for advanced study, which is the reason why this event is possible tonight. Carlos is here this year as a faculty fellow and they very generously made this event possible as part of his very busy schedule. So very grateful for that. So that the lecture tonight had a timely element. This morning when i woke up this morning, there was a notification, my phone from the New York Times that said Carlos Lozada latest. And so i dont normally click through the notifications but i went to that one right away and the headline said this is his new column just today in the New York Times i the mueller ukraine and jan six reports as though they were one long book that didnt have to say so. You dont have to. So Carlos Lozada has been doing readin
It was a monday night, just after 8 30 eastern time when news broke that shook the entire country. Political had the once in a lifetime scoop about a draft opinion. Supreme court has voted to overturn Abortion Rights. We hold that roe and casey must be overruled, Justice Alito writes in a draft circulated inside the courtroom. That scoop, that headline changed everything. It certainly changed the course of the Midterm Elections. In that moment, the stakes of the upcoming november election, they skyrocketed. It gave democrats over a month and a half a head start to start campaigning on that issue before the opinion was handed down in late june. And on june 24th, the Supreme Court struck down roe v. Wade. The law of the land for nearly 50 years, they stripped away Reproductive Rights for millions in this country. Just six weeks later, the first test of Abortion Rights at the ballot box came in kansas. Voters in kansas headed to the polls in early august to vote on a constitutional amendm
to declare resistance on the committee at any time. welcome everybody to this morning s hearing, i m invoking rewrites to the ongoing crisis in abortion care and access. before we begin, i d like to remind members we have established an email address in distribution list educated to circulating exhibits motions and other materials the members might want to offer as part of our hearing today. if you would like to submit materials, please send them to the email address that has been previously distributed to your offices and we will circulate the materials to members of the staff as quickly as we can. i will now recognize myself for an opening statement. two weeks ago in a leak of a draft opinion from the supreme court, we learned that for the first time in its history the court may be on the precipice of overturning president to take away a constitutional right. so doing, it would be revoked the constitutional right to abortion. a fundamental right first recognized almost 5
to declare resistance on the committee at any time. welcome everybody to this morning s hearing, i m invoking rewrites to the ongoing crisis in abortion care and access. before we begin, i d like to remind members we have established an email address in distribution list educated to circulating exhibits motions and other materials the members might want to offer as part of our hearing today. if you would like to submit materials, please send them to the email address that has been previously distributed to your offices and we will circulate the materials to members of the staff as quickly as we can. i will now recognize myself for an opening statement. two weeks ago in a leak of a draft opinion from the supreme court, we learned that for the first time in its history the court may be on the precipice of overturning president to take away a constitutional right. so doing, it would be revoked the constitutional right to abortion. a fundamental right first recognized almost 50