Plays and gentlemen please Welcome Supreme Court justice kneeled gorgeous and. Ryan. [applause] good evening everyone, my name is john and i have the honor of being the executive director of the Ronald Reagan president ial foundation and institute. Thank you all for coming this evening. If you would, and honor of our men and women in uniform who protect our freedoms around the world, please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation, under god, indivisible with liberty and justice for all. Thank you please be seated. Before we get started, i would like to take a moment to recognize some special guests we have with this this evening. And i will begin with our board of trustees. We have with this government governor pete wilson and his terrific wife gail. [applause] from North Carolina, all the way North Carolina mr. Ben sutton, ben thank you for coming. [applause] form
Good morning. Welcome to Worldwide Exchange on cnbc from a chilly davos, switzerland, im sara eisen. Im wilfred frost. Good morning to you from me. Were coming to you from the World Economic forum in davos, switzerland. The annual gathering of Global Political leaders, ceos and policymakers. Yes, it is chilly, but a fantastic setting. A fantastic setting and a lot of news. Our guests this morning include jim coulter, he will join us in a few moments. At 5 15, Princeton University president Christopher Eisgruber will be here to join us. At 5 30, Stephen Pagliuca stops by. And a wide ranging conversation on the economy with nourie Nouriel Roubini. Another busy morning ahead on Worldwide Exchange. A lot of headlines to discuss. Heres the cover of the china daily. President xi here at the World Economic forum getting a lot of attention, not just in davos, switzerland, around the world. Here is his home, boost open economies, a defender of globalism. This is the front and center debate. Hug
Grant lodes is here to break down todays big announcement. The pick itself is not at all a shock. The president is relpacing justice antonin scalia, who died suddenly nearly one year ago. With another conservative. Neil gorsuch. He made the announcement tonight in prime time at the white house. Gorsuch is a judge on the 10th Circuit Court of appeals in denver. The 49yearold supports religious freedom. Hes thought to be pro life. And like the majority of the Supreme Court, is harvard educated. Now the question is. How much of fight will democrats in the senate mount . With three Court Members in their 80s or near 80. All three liberal or moderate. Pres ident trump could easily have one or more additional appointments. And those could really shift the way the court leans. Some think the demoncrats should wait to make a stand. But Many Democrats are still bitter. Last year, republicans refused to consider president obamas nominee for the seat. Merrick garland. That was a big gamble leadin
Laws, thinks gorsuch will team up with conservative justices roberts and alitowhich could mean big changes. It has been both of their Life Missions to overturn roe vs. Wade. So i think they will definitely try and take up cases that would eradicate roe or at least eviscerate it. But she does point out that in last years whole Womens Health case, the eightperson court went 53 on the decision saying texas placed undue burden on those seeking an abortion. So maybe overturning roe wont be so easy. It really depends on what the case is and whats at stake in the case and what the court where Anthony Kennedy is going to come down. Though dudro would like the court to reexamine roe v. Wade, even she doesnt think it will ever fully be overturned. Whatever happens, she just hopes both sides can listen, and respect and understand one another. To take aim and appoint a Supreme Court justice where that is their going to be a mistake for this administration because it is so america is you wanna the
That generated as much heat and animus as this topic did. Please help me welcome a man who stood up to argue and to defend what our nations highest court has now recognized as a constitutional right, professor geoffrey stone. [applause] thank you. Im delighted to be here. My talk this afternoon derives from a book that i am currently finishing titled sex and the constitution. Although the book addresses such issues as obscenity, contraception, homosexuality generally, abortion and so on, i decided to focus specifically this afternoon on the issue of samesex marriage, an issue that cuts to the very heart of the meaning of equal citizenship. In august of 1982, an Atlanta Police officer went to the home of Michael Hardwick to serve an arrest warrant for public drinking. Upon entering the home, he observed hardwick and another man engaged in oral sex. The officer placed both men under arrest for the crime of sodomy. In the case decided in 1986, the Supreme Court held that the homosexual so