Court of appeals. We have a conference about one year ago in which all of the papers that were gathered together for this short publication were discussed and analyzed and we have with us today, to the participants in the conference and opposite to the essays included in this collection. Antonin scalia was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court who wrote and signed opinions directly on fundamental elements of the american system. He was also a scholar and a leading public figure. It is appropriate that to honor this man with the selection of reflections on his impact on education. Seeing broadly is not just schools but scholarship and Public Discourse as well. In doing so, we hope to discover the, through the education and look into the fundamentals of the justices thinking if you doubt his impact on constitutional prudence, cast unseen at harvard that he was not only one of the most important justices in the nations history also among the best. And Justice Elena kagan
The administration of george w. Bush. This Hoover Institution event is about an hour and 20 minutes. Good morning, i am paul peterson, director of the education, policy and governance at Harvard University , and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution. I would like to welcome you all today to an event that celebrates the publication of the new book called scalias constitution, essays on law and education. It is published by paul Gray Mcmillan and the editors are myself and Michael Mcconnell , who is a professor at Stanford Universitys school of law and was a judge of the Circuit Court of appeals. Of appeals. We held a conference about year ago in which all of the papers that were gathered together for this short publication were discussed and analyzed and we have with us today, to the participants in the conference and opposite to the essays included in this collection. Antonin scalia was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court who wrote and signed opinions directly o
And constructive disagreements. But are hoping to help universities achieve education and research. Also to have that informal and serendipitous connection but in 2014 inviting me to lunch to present with a crazy idea that was one of the most colistin important ideas of the last five years that strange stuff is happening on campus and students requesting protections from speech they had the idea they are girding to think in the same distorted ways he learned he has not to do while in therapy. We submitted to the lancet published 2015. It provoked discussion so we can go back to our day jobs. But a couple weeks later all hell broke loose. [laughter] and then jailed and everywhere else. So that was one strand of that what brought us here. But by complete coincidence that we had founded Heterodox Academy also in september 2015 all at the same time and had nothing to do with anything else. That was just an early member. We what thinking hour and undergrads situation so we launched Heterodo
Laxton in a video library. Going you live to the floor of the senate about to gavel in peer voting today and whether to confirm Trevor Mcfadden to be d. C. District judge and another debate on amy barrett to be the seventh Circuit Court. More work on judicial nominations are expected this week and also let you know in rush investigation, bail has been set for Paul Manafort and rick gates, former Trump Campaign staffers. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. The chaplain will legal the senate in prayer. The chaplain let us pray. Eternal god, we are grateful for your goodness, your faithful love endures forever. We cannot list the miracles you have done throughout our lives and history. Lord, establish our lawmakers with your might. When they go through dry and barren places, become for them a stream of water in lifes desert. Demonstrate your mighty wisdom as they seek to solve the daunting problems of our time. May your promises never fail, as your will is done on earth e
Come as late as 12 30 a. M. Eastern wednesday. Mr. President , on another matter yesterday the senate advanced nomination of professor amy barrett, President Trumps impressive nominee to be a judge on the seventh Circuit Court of appeals. She is the first of for strong nominees to our nation Circuit Court that the senate will confirm this week. Professor barretts experience as it was law professor at the university of notre dame shows her qualifications to serve our nation on the federal bench. She is going to be an asset to our judiciary. Of course, some on the left have tried to invent any reason to prevent this president nominees from advancing. For an outstanding nominee like professor barrett was not easy. They attacked her credentials which are truly. They cant attack her belief in the rule of law. Her writings and testimony clearly show a nominee who will uphold our prosecution and our nations laws as they are written, asof they are written, not as she wishes they were. Unbeliev