[chanting] [cheering] ms. Handel thank you. I have to start first of all i saying thank you. [cheering] ms. Handel there are literally hundreds of people to thank and scores of elected officials and gop leaders who put their confidence in me right from the very beginning, and i will probably miss a few but there were several who stepped up right from day one, including my very good friend, bob ott, joanne burrow, joe lockwood, mo my hometown mayor, jerry wood. On aprilo thank 18, i said to everyone that this was going to be a very, very tight race. It was going to be contentious, and it was going to require all hands on deck. That is exactly what we had. From [cheering] ms. Handel from all of the others who were the gop competitors in the primary, including several who are here tonight. I see bob gray. Thank you for your help. [cheering] ms. Handel every Single Member of the republican georgia congressional delegation, our constitutional officers, the legislators, the governor and firs
We ask everyone in house to check that your various mobile devices have been silenced or turned off as we prepare to begin, and of course those watching outside heritage are welcome to send questions or comments to us at speaker at heritage. Org throughout todays programming. Our initial panel will be led by john malcolm. Immediately following the first panel. [inaudible] please join me in welcoming john malcolm. Welcome everybody it was a good year to be a patent lawyer at the Supreme Court. This was not exactly the biggest blockbuster term but there was none the less a few cases of interest and a few cases that the lower courts decided to hear that are of interest. Im delighted that we have a panel here to discuss this and offer some thoughts on the case cases. Is a graduate of mammoth colleg college. Will clark for judge edith jones on the fifth Circuit Court of appeals and for Justice Clarence thomas on the Supreme Court. We represent clients in cases covering constitutional issues
We take you live to Georgetown Law School in washington, d. C. For the nomination of neil gorsuch to the Supreme Court. Its just getting under way. Ill introduce our moderator who is the Supreme Court correspondent for what i like to call the New York Times purviewer of genuine news. He will introduce other panelists. Take it away. Thank you all for being here. Thank you. So i see in our flyer that we promised you an engaging roundtable of experts. Im going to introduce the panelists and then talk a little bit about the formatting and get under way. To my right is a partner from jones day where he wanders the empty hallways. Hes a graduate of law school and a former law clerk to Justice Scalia. To hit right is the president of the american constitution society. Shes a graduate of Columbia Law School and works at the aclu. Then christine lucias who is a graduate of georgetown law and has served as chief counsel of the Judiciary Committee working for senator Patrick Lahey in a variety of
So i guess well get started as folks continue to wander this from class in from class. Im joy bernstein, i direct the Supreme Court institute here at georgetown, and on behalf of our executive director and assistant director, we are, were happy to welcome all of you here to what promises to be a very interesting discussion of the pending nomination to the u. S. Supreme court. Ill introduce our moderator, adam liptak, who is a Supreme Court correspondent for what i like to call the new york times, purveyor of genuine news. [laughter] and he will introduce our other panelists ask take it away. Thank you, i just call it the failing new york times. [laughter] so we promised you an engaging round table of experts. The expertise real and the engaging, well find out. [laughter] im going to introduce the panelists and then talk a little bit about the format and then get underway. To my right is shay def relates sky whos a partner be at jones day where im guessing he now wanders the hallways. H
Let me check that mic. Yeah, it looks good. Thanks. [sighing] okay, are you ready . Look, im not the enemy here. I want you to listen to me. Forget about last night, this morning, everything. This is your moment, all right . Its your time to shine. Hey. Floor director in five. Four. Three. Good morning. Welcome to great day usa. Im mary jane paul. From comedy centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah cheers and applause trevor welcome to the daily show im trevor noah thank you so much, everybody my guest tonight is a Supreme Court correspondent for slate, Dahlia Lithwick is here, and im really excited that she is because were going to get her insight on americas possible new Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch yay but first, in america today, few people have more difficult job than press secretary and white house minion sean spicer. laughter his job is to communicate policy, serve as the administrations public face, and sometimes explain that