Legal foundation. The foundation for individual rights and expression. Id like to welcome you to this Years Supreme Court preview discussion and also welcome to our viewers on cspan. The courts term begins on monday of next week, although this morning we got the surprise of several grants and new cases at that theyre going to hear and its shaping up to be an exciting term. Theres a little bit of something for everyone. Free speech, guns, taxes, and of course, overreach by administrative agencies. We have a lot of ground to cover and only about an hour to do soso im going to jump right into brief introductions of our distinguished panel. John elwood is a partner at arnold and poller where he heads up to the Supreme Court cases. Hes argued 10 cases before the Supreme Court and appeared before nearly every federal Appeals Court in the country. And john writes, the popular relist watch for scotus blog. I hope youll bring back the relist carols this holiday season. And a National Writer on
His own that has republicans in alarm. My question to you is, given how republicans are threatening to retaliate does the president take the risks that the balance of his presidency is consumed by more partisanship . Not really. It was going to be partisanship anyway. It will not have much effect. That will be determined by selfinterest. Whether each side is willing to give the other they dont want to give in return for something they really want. Being nice does not get you far in washington. I think there will be a lot of fury over this. I dont think it will affect what is actually achieved are not achieved over the next 12 months. There you see the shot of the east room. You have covered washington for a pheromone of time. Do you remember any faceoff quiet like this . Here is the president. Lets listen to the president. For more than 200 years, our tradition of welcoming immigrants from around the world has given us a tremendous vantage over other nations. It has kept us useful you
Law and our process. Neil your big fear is how it does encourage others to follow suit not to have severe punishment to those who have done illegal acts to get here . Clearly, the president said that, hes released countless illegals in custody. Those with serious, violent criminal records back into our communities, and the president s got to be held responsible for the actions. Neil and sheriff, all of the people are going to have Social Security numbers, and you know better than many what can you do with a Social Security number. Gives you a whole host of things . Fraud, not just Social Security cards but government privileges or, quote, entitlements. Thats what we have problems with as american citizens is the people not only come here, disrespecting our process okay, sheriff. President obama . Fellow americans, id like to talk with you about immigration, for more than 200 years our tradition from welcoming immigrants around the world has given us a tremendous advantage over other na
Law and our process. Neil your big fear is how it does encourage others to follow suit not to have severe punishment to those who have done illegal acts to get here . Clearly, the president said that, hes released countless illegals in custody. Those with serious, violent criminal records back into our communities, and the president s got to be held responsible for the actions. Neil and sheriff, all of the people are going to have Social Security numbers, and you know better than many what can you do with a Social Security number. Gives you a whole host of things . Fraud, not just Social Security cards but government privileges or, quote, entitlements. Thats what we have problems with as american citizens is the people not only come here, disrespecting our process okay, sheriff. President obama . Fellow americans, id like to talk with you about immigration, for more than 200 years our tradition from welcoming immigrants around the world has given us a tremendous advantage over other na