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
You accepted an invitation to speak to a group of christian law students on the topic of your specialty. Tell us why you accepted. Ms. Barrett several colleagues had participated in the program, lecturing and i heard great things about it. We had a contingent of students from notre dame attend, they were among our most engaged and smartest students. I went and did it in the first time i really enjoyed it. The students were very engaged. I might have done it four or five times. I would go and give a lecture that was one hour of the summerlong program. And i my one hour lecture thought it was fun. We talked about the constitution. You aware ofare anything in the constitution that says it is a disqualification for office . For a believer to go and lectured to law students of a similar faith in her area of expertise . I want to be careful i am not veering into answering a hypothetical. I did not think there was anything wrong speaking to a group of christian law students. Sen. Hawley senat
To the United States Supreme Court on january 28th 1916. In june of that year, he became the first jewish person to sit on the nations highest court. The third until 1939. Up next on American History tv, and commemoration of the 100th anniversary of his nation a Panel Including u. S. Supreme court Ruth Bader Ginsburg discusses his contribution to american democracy. This program in massachusetts, is about two hours. applause ladies and gentlemen please welcome, lisa m. Lynch interim president of Brandeis University. Good evening, it gives me great pleasure to welcome everyone, students, faculty, alums, trustees staff, and distinguished panelist and friend to this remarkable gathering here at brandeis the university. I want to welcome in particular some of our special guests. Massachusetts attorney general, congressman catherine clark, applause they senator michael baron, james elbridge, and karen silica applause , they representative david and jake offman, applause our very own mayor j
Theres a lot of commentary, some people saying its a win for congress and the prosecutors, some for trump, what do you think . Well, it is a split decision and frankly it was john roberts finest day, a lot of controversy, here he managed to hold together two 72 coalitions, alito and thomas were sort of with him in general, they meanted even more basically. The cases will now continue. Its not a slam dunk that we are going to see the tax returns tomorrow or anything like that, and effectively pushes it past the election, but the really thread of the needle in min takenning the balance among separation of powers between legislative and executive branches as well as federalism with state inquiries into the federal executive. Paul i think i disagree with you. What i worry about is what alito talked about, 2200 local prosecutors, a lot of them politically motivated. The courts did set up standards but i wonder how strict they are going to be and how strict local strict federal judges and ot
You. Before i go further, i am instructed to tell you to please turn off any cell phones, apple watches, what other gadgets you may have, so they do not interfere with our system. Thank you. As you know our host tonight is Justice Sonia sotomayor. We are pleased to have her with us tonight and want to thank or on behalf of the society for giving her time when we call upon her to participate in events like this. It is quite important to us and quite important to you. We very much appreciate it. I will tell you briefly a bit about the justice. She is a native new yorker, born in the bronx, very unhappy about last night baseball game, i gather. Undergraduate work at princeton and went to yale law school, then joined the District Attorney office in New York County as an assistant District Attorney. She was a litigator in the international and commercial law area. That attracted attention and before long, she had become a Federal District judge on the Southern District of new york. Six year