They also reflect on the death of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg and her influence on the court, and the legal profession. From Georgetown University law center, this is two hours. Welcome, everyone to our annual, Supreme Court preview. Before we get started with todays scheduled program, i wanted to take the opportunity to acknowledge the passing of Justice Ginsburg. She was a trail blazing civil rights lawyer, a giant of a jurist, and a largerthanlife human being. Anlife human being. But but what i will remember most about her was her indomitable spirit. That and the devastating series of questions she hurled at me inf course. Invite time, i want to any Panel Members who wish to do so to say anything they would like about Justice Ginsburg, but first, let me introduce our panel. [reads names] anybody who wants to come up be on video and take the floor. To, be on video and take the floor. Anyone want to start . Don . To get myill trying head around the idea that Justice Ginsburg wont be o
Sunday, october 4th, a at noon eastern on book tv on cspan2. And now, Georgetown University law center previews the Upcoming Supreme Court term including one case challenging the constitutionality of the Affordable Care act. They also talk about the potential for lawsuits concerning the 2020 elections that may reach the Supreme Court for consideration and reflects on the passing of Ruth Bader Ginsburg and her legacy in the court and the legal profession. This is about two hours. Welcome, everyone, to our annual Supreme Court term preview. Im executive director of the Supreme Court institute at georgetown law. Before we get started with todays scheduled program, i want to take the opportunity to acknowledge the passing of Justice Ginsburg. She was a trail blazing civil rights lawyer, a giant of a juress and a larger than life human being. But what i will remember most about her is her indom spirit. That and the devastate iing ser of questions she hurled my way at oral argument in the wi
I want to take the opportunity to acknowledge the passing of Justice Ginsberg. She was a trailblazing civil rights lawyer, a giant of a jurist and a largerthanlife human being. But what i will remember most about her is her indomitable spirit. That and the devastating series of questions she hurled my way at oral argument in the Lilly Ledbetter case. In the kindest way possible, of course. Invite time, i want to any Panel Members who wish to do so to say anything they would like about Justice Ginsburg, but first, let me introduce our panel. [reads names] anybody who wants to come up be on video and take the floor. To, be on video and take the floor. Anyone want to start . Don . To get myill trying head around the idea that Justice Ginsburg wont be on the bench any longer. , maybe for most of us all of us on this panel who have argued in front of the court, she has in there for every argument we have paid have made. As you said in your introduction , even when you ultimately got her vot
When asked what kind of judge he would be, how he views this job. Someone comes to argue before me, i treat each one of them equally. They dont come as rich or poor, big guy or little guy. They come as a person. And i put my ego aside when i put on that robe, and i open my mind, and i open my heart, and i listen. He is outdoorsman. He loves to flee fish. He talks about taking judicial clerks to the rodeo ever year. He think it is important for them to get real world downhome experience with those kinds of things. I never thought i would talk about muttonbusting, essentially little kids wrestling little baby sheep in the rodeo. That came up as well, you never know at hearings what you get, liz. Liz never know what you will hear. Shannon thanks for coming on. Head back to the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for judge gorsuch. Senator chris coons questioning. Lets have a conversation if we could about religious free exercise and liberty interests. There is entiring tension or contest
Object to the existence of a quorum. We dont have to debate the her its of it. Theres an open question about the consequence. Okay. A professor at my law school, Washington College of law and an expert in constitutional law and many other things. Runs the sjd program there and an expert in issues related to race and the Supreme Court. We did have one really important race related case this term thats kind of gotten buried and lost in the shuffle. Maybe decided earlier. But it tells us a fair amount i think about where the court is at on the questions and relates to other cases that you can discuss, im sure. The schutte case, the voters of michigan announced they were going to change the constitution to forbid affirmative action, including particularly racebased affirmative in Higher Education and some other things and had the consequence of overruling a prior question saying the Michigan Law School could take race into account for admissions. And so, the court was presented with a ques