Good morning. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation in our lewis fuller meant auditorium. And thank you for those who are joining us through the various networks today. If you will make sure your cell phones are turned off, we appreciate it as we begin. And if you wish to send in questions or comments, simply email us at speaker heritage. Org. Posting our discussion is a senior fellow for Public Diplomacy in our douglas and Sarah Allison center for foreign policy. She focuses on the government institutions and programs for strategic outreach to the public and Foreign Countries as well as diplomacy. She is a fellow at the Hoover Institution and serves on the journalismolitical at Hanover College in indiana. Please join me in welcoming hello dale hila dale. [applause] thank you. Politics andssian 30 tricks that we have seen in full bloom in recent months, relating to specifically russias efforts to dominate and control parts of its former soviet empire. As we look at a highly unstable situa
Reasons but if it had occurred, it wouldve occurred because of a strong First Amendment opinion written by a judge who practiced what i call the rhetoric of regret. He kept saying, i hate it. It is going to do a lot of harm. I absolutely regret the fact that we have to allow these horrible things that happen but that is a First Amendment. I would get this when i speak at universities and i totally agree with stanley when it comes to someone who was espousing holocaust views. Malarky. Orse that its one of the reasons why a lot of the times when you pass laws that ban it, you are going to encourage it. If someone has to say, i believe the holocaust did not happen. Prove it. Defend that position. I cant. Here are the following 10,000 pictures. Have you ever gone on the website . They defend it. I have read it. If you are a paranoid fanatic and youre all idea is to say the holocaust never happened but i am not allowed to say because there was a conspiracy. That is a formula for the society
Justice. All youths feel a connection with her. Struggle every day, often people of color, feel that their dreams can be realized because of her. And respect given to my friend is palpable. Regardless of what is going on in her life, is always friendly, takes a photo with the to her. Ho comes up she gives it her all to everyone 24 7, 365 days a year. Who is she . Sotomayor . A i remember Sonia Sotomayor in law school. Out for a number of reasons. , principled,iant hardworking, determined, caring others, generous and full of life. School we lived in different cities had different jobs. And this being before email and internet lost touch. But our paths crossed again when considered for judicial appointment to the Southern District of new york by clinton and senator moynihan. I can well remember saying to said,r moynihan when he who is Sonia Sotomayor . , and i said, well, shes brilliant, principled, caringrking, determined, about others, generous, full of life, and will make an outstandi
I would have given up. I guess i still believe that we can recover our democracy from the Police Stated becoming. Terms of encryption, im not a technologist that even i heard ahow to use pgp, good privacy. Its easy. You can install it as a nap on your phone and put it on your computer. It is just one of many encryption mechanisms. Adm, otr, tor, tails. Others get more sophisticated gp is pretty basic encryption thats not too difficult to looearn. Partieshave some crypto really, they do this and other countries. I believe every journalist should learn how to use basic encryption. Of theon the board freedom of the press foundation with edward snowden. If you look at press freedom foundations website, we have made available and encryption methods for journalist like those for wikileaks i can be. Icked up for he and used they will walk you through it. They have secure drops so people can blow the whistle through news outlets in a secure way. Can actually really help in this endeavor. You s
Political restructuring doctrine test and to either mr. Bursch, isnt yes. Isnt the position that was taken in seattle derived from a different view of the equal protection clause . I mean, strict scrutiny was originally put forward as a protection for minorities a protection for minorities against hostile disadvantageous legislation. And so the view then was we use strict scrutiny when the majority is disadvantaging the minority. So you do, under the carolene products view, you do focus on race and you ask, is the minority being disadvantaged . If that were the view, then i suppose we would not be looking at this, well, the criterion is race and wherever the disadvantage falls, whether a majority or minority, its just the same. That wasnt the original idea of when strict scrutiny is appropriate. So if we were faithful to that notion, that it is measures a disadvantage the the minority that get strict scrutiny. Well, two thoughts on that, justice ginsburg. First, under grutter, this cou