My good friend died exactly that way. Her last words when the ambulance arrived. To this day, it wasnt going to go to the hospital or i dont want to die. So the bi so, the bill that went through were trying to the Legislature Last year and youve talked here about the respect or like the movement that would take a decade or two. Thats what specifically can people do to try to gett something thats not the past several times through finally . Thats what has to happen in california. Thats what had to happen. I dont know about montana and how long that took. We have to simply keep pushing. And jamie in maryland introduced the first time someone else, then the second time it went down. I have a feeling, i may be totally wrong. Thats like marriage i had the feeling that california could be the turning point that you may have a great many states following through more quickly now then california has passed its law. But you write letters and emails to your own legislator and that is all you can
There. And, by the way, when i was there, there was a man there, former secretary of defense, National Security adviser, brzezinski, and his daughters on morning joe shes a very nice lady, and her father was in this meeting, and he looked over at rumsfeld and he said, would you tell the president to stop saying dead or alive, that we want bin laden dead or alive. Dead or alive is incendiary and kissinger was across the table and looked at rumsfeld and said, i agree, we dont want bin laden alive, okay . But anyway, so heres the situation. With iraq, the first war in iraq was an amazing situation because the muslim arabs supported the west and we went as a unified group to push saddam out of kuwait, okay . I actually went there after the war and even saw the oil fields that were still on fire. The egyptian ambassador to the United States went to the rose garden and announced the support of aour arab friends who would work with us. Talk about the second iraq war. The second iraq war was p
Announcing the nomination of Merrick Garland. President barack obama good morning. Verybody please have a seat. Of the many powers and responsibilities that the constitution vests in the few are more consequential than appointing a Supreme Court justice particularly one that succeeds Justice Scalia one of the most influential jurrists of our time. The men and women who sit on the Supreme Court are the final arbiters of american law. They safeguard our rights. They ensure that our system is one of laws and not men. Theyre charged with the essential task of applying principles put to paper more than two centuries ago to some of the most challenging questions of our time. So this is not a responsibility that i take lightly. The decision that requires me to set aside shortterm expediency and narrow politics so as to maintain faith with our founders and perhaps more importantly with future generations. Thats why over the past several weeks ive done my best to set up a rigorous and comprehen
We thought you take this opportunity to be in prime time this week. Were focusing on books related to the Supreme Court. It began its fall session monday october 5th and here are the books we will be showing you tonight. We will begin with Erwin Chemerinsky who has written a book called the case agaist the Supreme Court. After that in the biography on thurgood marshall. And a new book out called sisters is lot about the first to women to serve on the Supreme Court and their relationship. Finally we will visit with the Justice Stephen breyer whose book is out about international what. Would Dash International law. First is Erwin Chemerinsky ti if and the case agaist the Supreme Court from thethinks hl tucson book festival last march. Sure it is actually off. With that i am very pleased to introduce the founding dean of the university of California School of law which the six short years as one of the finest law schools in the country. A prolific scholar a legendary teacher of constituti
Become one of the finest law schools in the country. He is a scholar, legendary teacher of constitutional law and related subject, he himself himself has argued many cases before the United States federal court including the Supreme Court. He is a frequent public commentator issues and perhaps the most gifted translator legalese into plain english. [laughter] which the public oppose him a huge debt of gratitude. Caller. Thank you. Let me start by thanking the tucson festival of books for having me and for all of you for coming it is enormously gratifying for me as an author but to see so many people on a beautiful afternoon coming to hear about the Supreme Court and the constitution is wonderful. [applause] thankyou. I will tell a story that the book begins wi book begins with. I was tearoming a case thatrgera youre very familiar with, buck versus doll. It involves a woman by the namea of carrie buck, as she by allrgl accounts had a normal childhoodw she went to the normal publicrga ph