Okay. The Supreme Courts next term starts in a few weeks but we are here to reflect on the past term. I submit the october term 2018 will more likely be remembered for Justice Brett cavanaugh confirmation hearing and for any particular case the court decided. In and its too early to make sweeping statements about the impact of president Donald Trumps nominees to the court though the rapid description of america has yet to occur. This is Brett Kavanaugh and neil gorsuch have lived up to the chief justice declaration that we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. Kavanaugh and gorsuch are their own men, wrecking g expectations of how a trump judge will vote you are not tt cookiecutter republicans but local jurists with independent views of the law and will explore some of that today. This panel will focus on the highlights of past term, the most important cases such as the census Citizenship Question case and the political gerrymandering case and if you
Impact elections in the u. S. And abroad. This is 90 minutes. Well, thank you, brad, for the kind introduction and let me start by thanking my friend Robbie George and his James Madison program on american ideals and institutions and bringing me to princeton its my first time here at this beautiful campus. I want to start with a personal story about my birthday. I happen to have been born on february 1st, 1985. But the february 1st is the point of interest here because on the persian calendar, i was born and raised in tehran, iran, on the persian calendar its the date on the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to tehran from his exile to herald the Islamic Revolution and founded the republic that took over after the shah was toppled. All of our relatives and friends would ask me, remind me what was your birthday and i would say february 1st. And they would always say because you brought the stench of the imam, which is terrible but its true. Why do i say that . None of my relatives were opposi
Impact elections in the u. S. And abroad. This is 90 minutes. Well, thank you, brad, for the kind introduction and let me start by thanking my friend Robbie George and his James Madison program on american ideals and institutions and bringing me to princeton its my first time here at this beautiful campus. I want to start with a personal story about my birthday. I happen to have been born on february 1st, 1985. But the february 1st is the point of interest here because on the persian calendar, i was born and raised in tehran, iran, on the persian calendar its the date on the Ayatollah Khomeini returned to tehran from his exile to herald the Islamic Revolution and founded the republic that took over after the shah was toppled. All of our relatives and friends would ask me, remind me what was your birthday and i would say february 1st. And they would always say because you brought the stench of the imam, which is terrible but its true. Why do i say that . None of my relatives were opposi
Writer on the erosion of the liberal order and politics known as ill liberalism. Also at nationalism, goldman security and identity politics impact elections in the United States and abroad. Well, thank you brad for the kind introduction. And let me start by thinking my friend Robbie George and his james mattis program on american idealism and institution for bringing to princeton. Its my first time, beautiful campus. Let me extend and warm welcome to all of you for coming. I want to start with a personal story about my birthday. I happen to have been born on february 1, 1985. But the february 1 is the point of interest. Because on the persian calendar i was born and raised in tehran iran, its a date on which the Ayatollah Khamenei, is the anniversary of the day which the Ayatollah Khamenei in 1979 return to tehran from his exile in paris to help the Islamic Revolution and found the Islamic Republic that took over after the shah was toppled. I mentioned that because throughout my child