Well get started. Good morning, everyone ip im elizabeth slattery, legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and this is a panel on the past Supreme Court term. So the Supreme Courts next oh, im sorry. The top one . Okay, there we go. The Supreme Courts next term starts . Just a few weeks but were here to reflect on the past term. I submit that the october term 2018 will more likely be remembered for Justice Brett kavanaughs confirmation hearings than for any particular case the court decided, and its too early to make sweeping statements about the impact of president Donald Trumps nominees to the court, though the rapid destruction of america, their opponents foresaw has yet to occur. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and neil gorsuch have however lived up to the chief justices declaration that we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. Like their predecessors, kavanaugh and gorsuch are their own men at times bucking expectations of how a trump judge will vote. T
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
Time. We welcome everybody to todays hearing and lessons from the Mueller Report 3. I will now recognize myself for an opening statement. The title of todays hearing is lessons from the Mueller Report part 3, constitutional processes for addressing president ial misconduct. As many of you may already know, the subtitle is taken directly from volume 2 of the Mueller Report where he describes why he did not reach a prosecutorial judgment regarding trumps conduct. There the special counsel explained as an attorney operating within the department of justice, is he bound by Department Policy including an office of Legal Counsel opinion that asserts that a president is immune from prosecution while in office. The special council recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting president would place burdens undue burden or burdens on president s capacity to governor. The report acknowledged such an accusation cog spgs disrupt constitutional processes for addressing president ia
Time. We welcome everybody to todays hearing and lessons from the Mueller Report 3. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. The title of todays hearing is lessons from the Mueller Report part 3, constitutional processes for addressing president ial misconduct. As many of you may already know, the subtitle is taken directly from volume 2 of the Mueller Report where he describes why he did not reach a prosecutorial judgment regarding trumps conduct. There the special counsel explained as an attorney operating within the department of justice, is he bound by Department Policy including an office of Legal Counsel opinion that asserts that a president is immune from prosecution while in office. The special council recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting president would place burdens undue burden or burdens on president s capacity to governor. The report acknowledged such an accusation cog spgs disrupt constitutional processes for addressing president ia
Outgoing president of the chapter and were grateful for the gracious support youve given us throughout the year. Youve meant so much to us. We are endebted to our distinguished panelist who have come together to celebrate the distinguished legacy of justin Antonin Scalia. Todays stewardship spence, mr. Kevin walker and mr. David derek. Todays event is an existence to the brilliant and storied legacy of Justice Scalia. He served on the Supreme Court nor nearly three decades, one of the langest tenures on the institution. Marking one of the milestones on the court, chief Justice Roberts said since scalia came on the Supreme Court, the place has not been the same. Indeed, kagen remarks that Justice Scalia will go down in history as one of the most transformational Supreme Court justices of the nation. His views on interpreting texts have changed the way we think and talk about law. All interpretation and sub species originalism and constitutional construction, his principle and courageous