Hello and to todays virtual Commonwealth Club program. Im melissa caen. Im political analyst, a lawyer and a cohost of the pod podcast. Get out the bet. Its my pleasure to introduce today Joan Biskupic shes the Cnn Supreme Court analyst and the author of this book nine black robes inside Supreme Courts drive to the right in its historic consequences. Now, before joining cnn, joan was the editor in charge for Legal Affairs at reuters and was a Supreme Court correspondent for Washington Post and usa today. She holds a degree from Georgetown University and, has written several books, including biographies of Supreme Court justices john roberts, Sandra Day Oconnor, Antonin Scalia, sonia sotomayor. And weve just talked about your illustrious history of writing autobiographies of Supreme Court justices. You just start by telling us why this one is a is more of a comprehensive Group Picture of the the Supreme Court. Thanks, melissa. Its great to be with you. And with everyone else from the Co
Lebanons Prime Minister is due to go to cairo on tuesday as he makes his way back to beirut after a two week absence saad hariri is still in france which is trying to mediate the political fallout from his shock resignation he quit whilst in the saudi capital on november the fourth or i dropped those are the very latest headlines coming up next its inside story. On counting the cost venezuela in difficult as the oil rich country fails to pay its debt well look at what a messy financial on raveling could mean for starving people our lebanons economy is getting squeezed plus why zimbabweans are buying big corn counting the cost at this time on i just hear a. Palestinian leaders cries and to end all communication with the u. S. Government thats often the Trump Administration said it will close the yellows office in washington so whats behind this move and what does it mean for trumps peace plan this is inside story. And welcome to the program im laura cottle over the past fifty years sinc
Featured author 11 t11. [applause] we were taking a selfie. [laughter] hello. Thanks for joining us today this book is amazing. You are like kanye to me. There is a basketball game tonight. But i was so struck by so many thing because it was very emotional and raw and how generous you are as a person not afraid to say the thing that we are all thinking. So what was hard about writing this for you . It was a difficult book to write i was thinking let my next project would be and i thought the book i want to write least is about fatness than i realize that is what i should write the most in my dad said do something nobody else is doing to achieve success. So from that perspective so you see a woman standing in her formerly fat pants to say i did it and i cannot write that book yet but i want to. So i will tell the story of my body today without apology. This is my fat body. For as much as perspective that we here i still think there is that singular narrative and thank you can shift the
The Senate Committee on health, education, labor and pensions will please come to order. This morning were holding a hearing entitled implementation at the 41st century cures act responded to Mental Health needs. Senators cassidy and murphy were the leaders in this committee on Mental Health reform and in the senate. And those reforms included in our 21st century cures act. Senator murray is not here today so she asked senator murphy to fill in for her, and ive asked senator cassidy to chair most of this hearing, or at least until 11 45. I will come back and attended but but i think its appropriate senators cassidy and murphy share the hearings, especially given the extensive work in the area and their leadership and interacting the legislation last year. After our witness testifies, senators will have five minutes of questions. National, young adult with a fulltime job who also attends college. In june 2014, two days before 25th birthday experienced his first schizophrenic experience.
Christopher scalia son of the Late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia chairs had his father speeches on law, faith and vur chew and interviewed by Los Angeles Times Supreme Court correspondent david savage. Christopher scalia your father justice angt anyone scalia one of the most powerful writer of the Supreme Court opinions, he wrote a lot of decent with the real zingers, great for people like me quoting them but this is not a book about Court Opinion but a book about speeches so why speechsome as you said his Court Opinions are memorable and im a often told by law students and reporters that they liked they went to his opinions first for that reason. They were so crisply written and powerful, and his speeches are are have some of the same really all of the same great qualities that his opinions do. But i think the advantage of the speech is that he could let more of his personality shine through or for one thing. He was a great. Performer a little bit of a ham he played in the High