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
Helen tapped was more ambitious about getting to the white house than her husband, William Howard taft, and was willing to get personally in bald in politics to get him elected. As first lady, she overcame a serious illness directly mounted the white house. Invited top Classical Musicians to perform their, and support it causes that matter to her. Helen tap also has one of the most physical legacies of our first ladies. Washington d. C. s famous japanese cherry trees, the ones that frame the tidal basin in the Nations Capital and brings tens of thousands of visitors to washington every year. Good evening, and welcome to first ladies. Influence and image. The life of hell and taft, her husband served in the white house from 1909 to 1913. Here to tell us about her life and her legacy is her biographer lewis gold. His biography of her is helen taft, our musical first lady. You open the book by making the case that of the 20th century first lady, shes the most obscure but you say she deser
We cannot be here unless we are sponsored by a justice. And you do us honor by coming here this evening to introduce professor capozzola. I have the privilege of spending a moment to introduce Justice Kagan, someone whom we really need not introduce, but its a pleasure to do so, and i will be brief. She had a career of extraordinary distinction before she assumed her seat on august 7, 2010. Justice kagan was born in new york city, she graduated from princeton, was editorial chair of the daily princetonian. She then got a masters degree in philosophy at oxford on a fellowship from princeton. She went to harvard, graduated magna cum laude, and was supervising editor of the law review. She clerked on the d. C. Circuit and then for Justice Marshall on this court. She then went to actual work at williams and connelly, great law firm, for a couple of years, before teaching at the university of chicago in the early 1990s. She became associate counsel to president clinton in 1995 and later bec
On cspan3. In december of 1917, the Supreme Court heard oral selectivenown as the draft law cases. They challenged the Selective Service act of 1917. One month later, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld that conscription is constitutional. Next, chirstopher capozzola, author of investigates how the Selective Service act influenced men and women during and after the war. The Supreme Court Historical Society is host of this 90 40 minute event. Good evening. I am greg joseph, chair of the trustees of the Historical Society. Welcome to our third lecture this year in the leon silverman series. Professor capozzola is going to be speaking about the selective draft law cases in a lecture he titles body and soul. You will understand that afterwards. Let me begin by asking everybody to turn off their cell phones. That includes your fancy watches that are really cell phones. I want to begin by thanking Justice Kagan. We cannot be here unless we are sponsored by a justice. You do us honor by comi
Thank you. Host is just as sonja sotomayor. We are please to have her with us. We want to thank or on behalf of the society for giving up time when we call upon her to participate and events like this. It is quite important to us and quite important to you. We very much appreciated. I will tell you about the justice. She is a native new yorker, born in the bronx. About lasthappy nights baseball game i gather. [laughter] she did her undergraduate at princeton, went to jail law school. The joined the District Attorneys Office as an assistant district attorney. After several years she had a private practice and was a litigator in the international and commercial law area. And attracted attention before long she had become a Federal District judge on the Southern District of new york. Became a later she Circuit Court of appeals judge on the Second Circuit in new york. That was 1998. That, she found herself here in the Supreme Court. She and one other justice and the modern era, charles whi