The presiding officer the senator from missouri. Mr. Hawley madam president , some months ago, in july of this year, i came to this floor shortly after the conclusion of the Supreme Courts most recent term to lament the ongoing judicial activism, the judicial imperialism that we have seen from this court over this past term and from the Supreme Court for years on end. I quoted the late Justice Scalia who said the imperial judiciary lives, and i said on the floor of this senate it was a shame to say but undeniable that the imperial judiciary continued to live in this country, a judiciary intent, a Supreme Court intent on legislating from the bench, on making up laws that went along with no regard for what the people actually wrote in their statutes or in their laws, and i particularly lamented the position of religious conservatives, people of faith who had seen in this past term for the United States Supreme Court decision after decision, tossing aside the concerns of religious conserv
October 26, 2020 will go down as one of the darkest days in the history of the United States senate. Like the record show that decided toe majority thwart the will of the people and confirm a lifetime appointment to the court in the middle of a president ial election after more than 60 million americans have voted. Tonightrecord show that the republican majority will break 231 years and become the first majority to confirm a Supreme Court justice this close to election day. Tonightrecord show that the republican majority will make a mockery of its own rentable that the American People deserve a voice in the selection of Supreme Court justices, completing the partisan theft of two seats on the Supreme Court using completely contradictory rationales. Let the record show that the American People, their lives and freedoms, will suffer the consequences of this nomination for a generation. Be summede debate can up in three lies propagated by that publican majority and one great terrible trut
I think those are the two where the question is most relevant. Yeah. Well, i would just say it had an immediate effect on me, because i was supposed to be in germany right now at the bayer stockholders meeting. I had bought one share. I should mention, i was train by some really amazing historians, a bunch of people, but we didnt learn journalism, you know . We didnt know how to go on the ground. Ive had to learn on the fly. Buying a share, that sounds great. Ill tell you, the zoom version of the shareholders version was six hours straight, no breaks. No breaks literally just watching zoom from 4 00 in the morning germany until i dont know what time it was when i gave up. But and it was really interesting because heres the interesting confluence with this company, right . Its both a company thats on the cutting edge of health care and dealing, you know, so theyre talking a great deal about the pandemic at the exact moment in that stockholders e meeting theyre getting peppered by whats
At columbia i hope we are back together again next year and the way we annually celebrate these wonderful awards in the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around and probably the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than the ceremonies since zoom is not a place to exchange awards and the like. We will have a series of conversations with our four winners and then when we are done we will take your questions in chat and try to wrap up in an hour using zoom best practice of not leaving you in front of your computer screen for too long a time, especially this time of day. For those of you new to the awards, we have a short video about j anthony with his prizes. People talk about book writing they almost always talk about the process of writing, sitting at the keyboard writing it down is in many respects not the
Celebrate these wonderful awards. In the memory of one of the great nonfiction narrative writers of any generation, certainly a great influence on the generation of writers that i grew up around, and probably among the folks being honored tonight. What we are going to do tonight is try to concentrate on the substance rather than they ceremony since zoom is not a great place to exchange awards and the like. So were going to have a series of conversations with our four winners, and then ill when were done well take your questions in chat. And well try to wrap up in an hour, following the zoom practice not leaving you in front of your computer screen for to long especially this time of day. As we get started, for those who may be knew to the awards and to the legacy that they honor, we have a short video about J Anthony Luka ss prizes. People talk but book writing, they almost always talk but the process of writing. Sitting there by the keyboard, and writing it dont and it is in many resp