America ha first foreignborn first lady since luiza adams or former president as first gentleman . Learn about the influence of americas president ial spouses from cspans first ladies, now available in paperback. First ladies, give readers look into personal lives of every impact of every first lady in history. And features interviews with the nations leading first ladies historians. Each chapter offers brief biographies. First ladies in paperback, published by public affairs. Available also as an ebook. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Im director of cato center for constitutional studies. And together with the Federalist Society, were hosting a todays forum. I want to thank the Federalist Society. Dean righter, julie nix, for their assistance organizing this forum. I want ii want to welcome thoseg us through cspan and Live Streaming audience as well. Were here to discuss an important new, important subject the Permission Society, title of new book from encounter book from Goldwater Ins
America ha first foreignborn first lady since luiza adams or former president as first gentleman . Learn about the influence of americas president ial spouses from cspans first ladies, now available in paperback. First ladies, give readers look into personal lives of every impact of every first lady in history. And features interviews with the nations leading first ladies historians. Each chapter offers brief biographies. First ladies in paperback, published by public affairs. Available also as an ebook. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Im director of cato center for constitutional studies. And together with the Federalist Society, were hosting a todays forum. I want to thank the Federalist Society. Dean righter, julie nix, for their assistance organizing this forum. I want ii want to welcome thoseg us through cspan and Live Streaming audience as well. Were here to discuss an important new, important subject the Permission Society, title of new book from encounter book from Goldwater Ins
Welcome to the Cato Institute. I am the director for the center for constitutional studies and together with the Federalist Society, we are hosting todays forum. I want to thank the Federalist Society dean and julie who are with us today for their assistance in organizing the forum and also want to welcome those that are seeing us through cspan and our live stream audience as well. We are here to discuss an important subject, the Permission Society, the title of a new book by the Goldwater Institute tim sandefur, the Permission Society how the ruling class turns our freedoms into privileges and what we can do about it. This book documents the many ways especially since the progressive era the presumption of liberty and freedom is at the heart of the founding principles and documents and has been extinguished in favor of the perception of government with individuals having to obtain permission to government officials before being able to act. Property owners have long experienced this r
[applause] jessica hello, i am Vice President on the board and the event chair. Welcome to everybody. We are excited and honored to have an illustrious panel of investigative journalists today. This is ethics week at the society of professional journalists, which is the National Version of the Deadline Club, which is the new york chapter. There is a lot going on in freedom of information, it is the 50th anniversary of the freedom of information act. One thing our National Society is proud of and we think is important is our Legal Defense fund just gave a 10,000 grant to a Nonprofit Organization in new orleans which has been consistently not giving over public records on public purchases. That is the kind of battle that is going on. You may know that under the obama administration, while president obama has promised incredible transparency, in fact there have been a Record Number of foia lawsuits under his administration. They have doubled this year from when he first took office. That
Robbins, legendary new york reporter, now Investigative Reporter and residents here and a finalist for Pulitzer Prize investigative reporting last week, so congratulations. And we have Jessica Hughes men, who is a reporter for the teachers project. Obviously focusing on education. And a lot of fun this last year with the City Department of education, which he will talk about later on. , whoe have Justin Elliott has done amazing work specifically on spending issues at the red cross, which he will talk about tonight as well. I want to thank the panelists for agreeing to do this, i promise it wont hurt too much. Lets jump right into it. Andy, what is the craziest response you have ever gotten . The craziest response . At, ive hadursed agencies in sit of routing my myt and retreating request and treating it and medially giving it in the hands of political operatives to be you toally expedient for decide whether to release that information was beneficial. So they are not judging whether it