Majority opinions, different aspects. You have been warned about your cell phones and apple watches so i will not repeat that but you will be in the doghouse if it goes off during the time of our evening. I also want to thank our host Justice Stephen breyer who against all odds agreed to come and introduce our speaker on the first day of a busy term. Justice higher is one of the most Justice Breyer is one of the most faithful friends. When we have called on him, he has shown up and done a wonderful job. I want to thank him for taking time away from his busy schedule on first day of term. I dont want to be too much on his time, so i will abbreviate the introduction of Justice Breyer. He was born in San Francisco and received an ab from stanford, llb from harvard. He served as a law clerk to Justice Arthur goldberg of the Supreme Court of the United States during the 1964 term. After Justice Breyer pursued a teacher teaching career, president jimmy carter appointed him to the court of ap
Whatever gadgets you may have. So they dont interfere with our system here. Thank you, now, as you know warehouse tonight is Justice Sonia sotomayor, we are very pleased to have the justice with those tonight. I want to thank her on behalf of the society for giving her time, when we call upon her to participate in events like this. Because its quite important to us, and quite important to you. And we marry much appreciate it. Ill tell you briefly a little bit about the justice. She is a native new yorker, born in the bronx, very unhappy about last nights baseball game i guess, the boston red sox. She did her undergraduate work at princeton, and then to yell last school. Then joined the District Attorney in new york county, as an assistant District Attorney. After several years there in private practice in new york she was a litigator in the International Commercial law. That attracted attention and before long she had become a Federal District judge on the Southern District of new york
The Supreme Court. It has been a highly successful series up until now. We expect to finish it this evening in a blaze of glory. So we are looking forward. I want to especially thank Justice Kagan for hosting us this evening. Without the support of the justices about report, we would be unable to host these events in such a gust surroundings. Because the justice has another event immediately after this one, i will give a brief or introduction then she deserves. But she has to make her way to a second event. Justice kagan has an enviable resume. You will hear a little bit about it now. She received her a b summa cum laude from princeton university. She then attended Worcester College at oxford as princeton s daniel em sex graduating fellow. She received a masters of philosophy there. She then earned aj d. From harvard law school, graduating magnet come allowed a, where she was supervising editor of the harvard law review. A Job Description that i assume she means they did the really har
About how to fix americas elections and several of you noted maybe thats on the best since our goal is precisely the opposite to figure out how to prevent american license from being fixed although will have a very wide ranging discussion of the two books that both of our panels had written in about constitutional issues in the news relating to the coronavirus in the electoral system. Please join us next week for a superb discussion of another book on his new book how to restore trust, the merck institution, that is next tuesday and you can learn more about the program and others at Constitution Center. Org live. We will be taking questions out the program so you can put your questions in the q a box and ill just offer them dry panelist when it seems right during the discussion, please be interactive, these are very meaningful opportunities to have a conversation about the meaning of the constitution and thats exactly what were going to do. It took great pleasure that i introduce her t
Comprise ourselves or men lecture series. This years series focuses on new perspectives in dissent and the Supreme Court. Before we begin the evenings program, i am commanded, not asked, im commanded to ask you to turn off your cell phones, tablets, apple watches. Even in silent mode, they can interfere with the sound system here in the courtroom. So thank you for doing that. I would like to express the societys gratitude to our host this evening, justice sonya sotomayor. She has been enormously generous in giving up her time to the society when we call upon her to help us, and i want to thank her for taking time off during a very busy time in the life of the court. Sonya sotomayor was born in the bronx, new york, june 25, 1954. She earned a ba in 1976 from princeton. She earned a jd from yale law school, where she served as an editor of the yale law journal. She then was an assistant District Attorney in the New York County District Attorneys office, from 1979 to 1984. Then, she litig