Hello and welcome. We launched this series to provide more ways for you to hear from renowned leaders. The individ hello and welcome. We launched this series to provide more ways for you to hear from renowned leaders. Environment, weve been able to extend the reach of these events even more. And we hope to host these opportunities often over the coming months. For many in our community, this will be the first of countless only at g. W. Experiences to come. Our g. W. Community is fortunate to hear directly from the leaders, doers and thinkers who make many of the decisions that affect us each day. But our students, faculty, staff and alumni arent just passive listeners in these events. Youre leading the discussions and actively creating solutions. And youre leveraging this universitys teaching and Research Mission to drive positive choing in the world. Today on Constitution Day, were honored to host u. S. Supreme Court Justice steven breyer. For a conversation with our g. W. Community.
The first discussion this fall in our president ial distinguished event series. We launched this series to provide more ways for you to hear from renowned leaders. Ng illuminating dialogue, insight and inspiration to our g. W. Community. This year, in our virtual environment, weve been able to extend the reach of these events even more. And we hope to host these opportunities often over the coming months. For many in our community, this will be the first of countless only at g. W. Experiences to come. Our g. W. Community is fortunate to hear directly from the leaders, doers and thinkers who make many of the decisions that affect us each day. But our students, faculty, staff and alumni arent just passive listeners in these events. Youre leading the discussions and actively creating solutions. And youre leveraging this universitys teaching and Research Mission to drive positive choing in the world. Today on Constitution Day, were honored to host u. S. Supreme Court Justice steven breyer.
At 7 00 p. M. Eastern on book v. George Washington University law school hosted a conversation with u. S. Supreme Court Justice steven breyer. They discussed the role of the constitution in todays world as well as criminal Justice Reform. Hello and welcome. We launched this series to provide more ways for you to hear from renowned leaders. The individuals who bring illuminating dialogue, insight and inspiration to our g. W. Community. This year, in our virtual environment, weve been able to extend the reach of these events even more. And we hope to host these opportunities often over the coming months. For many in our community, this will be the first of countless only at g. W. Experiences to come. Our g. W. Community is fortunate to hear directly from the leaders, doers and thinkers who make many of the decisions that affect us each day. But our students, faculty, staff and alumni arent just passive listeners in these events. Youre leading the discussions and actively creating solutio
We are now lucky enough to be joined by scott nelson and Robert Mcnamara. Nelson filed the brief in support of the president of the United States who is a petitioner in the second case we which is bar versus American Association of political consultants. He filed his brief on behalf of Public Citizen in the public foundation. Scott nelson is an attorney at the Public Citizen Litigation Group in washington. Hes been there since 2001. He is a former lawyer for Justice Byron white on the u. S. Supreme court and we are honored to have them today. Is senioramara attorney with the institute for justice and he has filed a brief in support of the state of pennsylvania who is the respondent on behalf of the institute for justice. Since 2006 with them and litigates constitutional cases to protect free speech, Property Rights and economic liberty and we are honored to have him as well. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Thanks. With the basic argument in this case about robo
It wasnt a robo call but it reminds us of the fact that our cell phones are treated differently than our home phones. I have unplugged my landline because i get these robo calls from the person who had my landline 10 years ago who is in a Government Debt collection agency. Callperson continues to because those calls are authorized on land lines but they are not authorized on cell phones. The essential question in this case is whether it was a form of content discrimination for congress to say you cannot make those Government Debt collection calls on cell phones but you can on land lines. By aase was brought Political Action group that said their political speech was being discriminated against by not being able to make those calls. Respondentmara, the goes first here so tell us how you see the central issues in the case and how you believe the court was framing them. The central issue in the cases that congress has made a generally illegal to make robo calls to cell phones which all of