Talking about, really i dont. Also i want to thank a couple. I could be here all night thanking people but there are a couple of people i want to mention. The most important one is kelly, kelly bird. Thank you for organizing all of this, bringing me here, getting us through the whole process of organizing the symposium itself as well as having me speak. And where is paul and nancy . Paul is over there. Paul, thank you for taking me to the best steak place in kansas city. Okay. Thank you. Now paul has been very helpful in other ways as well. Now diane has mentioned that my passion and ill admit this, i will admit to this, my passion is blackpast. Org. Now a 15,000 page website. Essentially a work thats based on volunteers. You can see some of it being skrold. Im not touching on it. You can see the scrolling. It started as kind of a project for our students at the university of washington and we forgot to gate it and as a consequence somebody wrote from new zealand and said, you know, sh
Them in here and hopefully they fit. First of all, dianne, thank you for the introduction. That was amazing. I was thinking, i dont know who she is talking about here. Really dont. And i also want to thank a couple i could here all night thanking people. There are a couple of people i want to meng. Most important is kelly burns. Thank you for organizing all of this, bringing me here. [ applause ] getting us through the whole process of organizing the symposium itself as well as having me speak. And where is paul and nancy winsky . Paul is over there. Paul thank you for taking me to the best steak place in kansas city. Okay . Thank you. Paul has been very helpful in other ways as well. Now dianne has mentioned that my passion and i will admit this. I will knit to this. My passion is black past. Org. She said its now a 15thousand page website. Its a work based on volunteers. And you can see some of it. Yeah its being scrolled. Im not touching it you can see the scrolling. It started as k
I can see we have a few things to talk about today. Good morning. I am caroline. Im the president of the American Constitution Society and i would like to welcome you to our annual Supreme Court review. We are as all of you know and to our viewers on cspan, we are the nations leading progressive Legal Organization with over 200 students and lawyer chapters in almost every state and at almost every single law school. We originally formed as the progressive response after the bush versus gore decision. Acs was founded on the principle that law should be a force to the lives of all people. [applause] saye should not have to that is an aspiration but that is. That brings us to the Supreme Court term that ended yesterday. It left us with quite a number of Unanswered Questions and some that were answered in ways that we may not have liked. But, it all leads us to the conclusion that courts really matter. Whether you care about the environment, immigrants rights, an accurate census, or fear a
Long as they have in essence extra funds. Another possibility could be that the Supreme Court could hear oral arguments at the beginning of october if it wanted to. Theres a lot of speculation and a lot of uncertainty right now. The next we will take you live now to that discussion on the just completed Supreme Court term. We are live at the National Press club for a panel hosted by the american constitution society. After the bush v. Gore decision and acs was founded on the principle that law should be a force to improve the lives of all people. Now, the Supreme Court term that ended [ applause ] i know, it shouldnt we shouldnt actually have to say that thats an aspiration, but unfortunately it is. And that brings us to the Supreme Court term that ended yesterday and left us with quite a number of Unanswered Questions and some that were answered in ways that we might not have liked. But that all lead us to the coulden collusion that courts really matter and whether you care about the
I spent an extraordinary 12 months in american politics. Twice impeached president is facing multiple criminal investigations, civil and praise across jurisdictions. Its antisemitic in some cases and the platform. As the conservative Supreme Court and the 50 real constitutional right to an abortion. We get all that and more tonight but we begin at the end of this year with historic results with the Midterm Election or democrats came to see in the senate and republicans managed to have defeat from the victory and historically the elections had been a disaster for a first term president in the party in power. As and as nbc noted democratic president s in their first midterms have seen the party lose an average of 40 have seats in five senate seats so watergate i look even worse for the party. Democratic president s in the first midterm at cnn part of those an average of 44 house seats and six senate seats. Many political observers had a bloodbath on the level of 1994 republican evolution