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United on eight justices who did endorse the disclosure current requirements. Only Justice Thomas dissented in that decision. I know it doesnt look very hopeful i think that congress is the way theyre on a deeing regulation trend until the Supreme Court. What can change normal terms of obama or anyone else couldnt even get through nominations for regular courts though Supreme Court. The president ial elections do matter. Hi, im jim. My question deals with roberts vote on the health care issue. Do you think he was motivated by the fear that the court began to look like a political entity rather than a jurisprudence entity . Youre welcome to speak to this too. Its probably one of the most common questions we get, isnt it . Yeah. Do i think so . No. I take him at the word. I take him as sincerely trying to grapple with the issues presented in that case. I think he was first inclined to vote with the four conservatives and strike the law down as violating the Commerce Clause. When they cam
You talk, i like that. So my question then would he part of what you are talking about Oliver Wendell holmes was sort of mentally above it all in a sense of like that. Is that a major area to freedom of speech across the world like you know this dictator, we dont like this that a good thing because they seem to be above it all and we can bring it down to our level by physical force as we can talk like Oliver Wendell holmes. We can ring it down to our level by physical force so was that a great narrative to freedom of speech back then and now . The detachment and the difficulty breaking through to people. I suppose it could be. On the one hand it seems like your question gets at, should we be engaged in more aggressive diplomacy is supposed to force as a country clacks on the other hand, the question might be taken to ask you now is what it takes to advance free speech or for free speech to become personal to people . To the extent that that is what youre asking i think that is kind of
Learned hand, a wonderful name for a judge. So he is not a young person. Hes a middleaged person. He also plays a role in Justice Holmes changing of his mind. Can you talk about that a little bit . An interesting interplay of judges and this question. Learned hand was on on the Federal District court at the time. He was in his mid40s. He was a very well regarded judge of the philosophical event. He hears one of the first cases in the espionage act and one of the first judges to interpret the act and deal with these freespeech questions that it raises. He adopts a very narrow construction of the espionage act so as to leave a lot of room for free speech. And he does this before holmes writes in a these opinions. The hand is reversed by the Second Circuit that hes upset about this and he thinks he was right. Its really hand that starts this whole process among these men in trying to change holmes mind because the two men meet in the summer of 19 1819 just by chance on a train between was