Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the Heritage Foundation center for legal and judicial studies and to our 10th lecturer. Tinguished the name sake is joseph story. He was a remarkable patriot who carried out the founders vision of a constitutional before joining the Supreme Court, he had quite a career of his own. He was a congressman. He was a state legislature. He was a speaker of the massachusetts house of representatives. He was also while he was on the Supreme Court, a professor law chool. When he was 65 years old, that particular year, his book royalties gave him twice much money as his salary as a justice of the Supreme Court. As many of you know, he became, when he was appointed, at that time, the youngest justice to serve on the Supreme Court and one of the youngest ever to serve, he was appointed by president madison in 1811 and was actually took office in following year in february of 1812. As most of you know, im sure, he made a significant mark on american l
Good afternoon. Welcome to the Heritage Foundations Center and the tenth annual distinguished lecturer. The namesake was a remarkable patriot who carried out the founders vision of a Constitutional Republic before joining the Supreme Court he had a career of his own a congressman from a state legislator from this beaker of the house of representatives and professor at the Harvard Law School and interestingly enough also one of the most successful authors of the first half of the 19th century when he was 65 in that year his royalties keep him twice as much money as his salary at the justice of the Supreme Court. [laughter] when appointed the youngest justice to serve in one of the unions members appointed by president madison and took office the following year february of 1812. He made a significant mark of american law in his 33 years on the bench but his greatest contribution is his renowned commentary to set forth that philosophy of judicial restraint and was in the emirate by that p
We were certainly lucky to have a professor of his caliber. Professor bibas then took a position on the faculty of the university of Pennsylvania Law School where he has been teaching since. Professor bibas has been prolific in his academic writings, publishing numerous articles on all aspects of criminal law. His Academic Work culminated in the publication of his book entitled the machinery of criminal justice. That book was published 2012. In this book and many of his articles, professor bibas criticized the current model of bureaucratic assemblyline justice and americas high incarceration rate. Much of his work has been devoted to finding solutions to these problems. His Academic Work has certainly had an impact on the law. In fact, professor bibas is one of the most cited law professors in judicial opinions. One study shows he is the 15th most cited legal scholar by total judicial opinions, and he is the fifth most cited in the area of criminal law. Not bad for a relatively young p
Like not a lot left. The low clouds are Still Holding on as it moves across but not much of this system as it moves south. The next system is taking aim to the north on tuesday afternoon in the evening with lost altos 38 and even 38 up in truckee and 32 toward sacramento and otherwise on the cool side and for us look for us in the 50s and the 60s with this next system wanting to move north. It is 7 00 and monday traffic is doing what, allie . It is behaving like monday traffic. Lets show you the map because the commute is keep having issues. West of the bailey road offramp there was a crash that was tying things that you can see in the red congestion westbound and another wreck that popped up close to it westbound at the san marco offramp. That is impacting south on 680 there was an earlier crash and they moved it out of the way, but things are still very slow in that area. Then moving over to 24 westbound through lafayette last week the schools in this area was on spring break and not
Savage, Supreme Court correspondent for the los angeles times. Host professor Kenji Yoshino you have written a very interesting very thoughtful account of the 2010 trial in San Francisco where to couples challenged californias ban on samesex marriage. This was a trial that neither side wanted. Tell us why you decided to go back and write a book now. Guest at david first of all thank you so much for doing this interview. Its my great pleasure to be here today. I really got into thinking about this trial after chief judge ron walker issued his 136 page opinion with findings of fact on august the fourth of 2010 and i looked at that opinion and as somebody who has been working in the gay rights feel this opinion but different in kind from anything i had seen before. Its just thoughtfulness generally and so i asked my library and to pull the transcript of the trial and she came up with it in 13 volumes 2000 page transcript of the trial in closing arguments. When i first started reading it i