Dave barry and scott turow. [inaudible conversations] ladies and gentlemen please give a warm welcome to scott turow and dave barry. [applause] [inaudible conversations] at afternoon and thanks for coming. We cant believe you are still coming to these things. This is scotts fifth panel. Scott will be doing his part fully in mind. But i want to start, im going to tell you some things about scott turow. My friend and bandmate and you all know that he is probably the most accomplished legal thriller writer fall times and im sure there are very few who didnt. You know everything about him now and you probably all have samples. But there are two things you dont know about scott. First of all i performed at his wedding. I hope we can get some point to discuss it. Scott got married last summer in wisconsin and asked me if i would perform the ceremony. I am a notary public in the state of florida. [laughter] and floored it means i can do anything. I can sentence people to death in florida. [la
[inaudible conversations] at afternoon and thanks for coming. We cant believe you are still coming to these things. This is scotts fifth panel. Scott will be doing his part fully in mind. But i want to start, im going to tell you some things about scott turow. My friend and bandmate and you all know that he is probably the most accomplished legal thriller writer fall times and im sure there are very few who didnt. You know everything about him now and you probably all have samples. But there are two things you dont know about scott. First of all i performed at his wedding. I hope we can get some point to discuss it. Scott got married last summer in wisconsin and asked me if i would perform the ceremony. I am a notary public in the state of florida. [laughter] and floored it means i can do anything. I can sentence people to death in florida. [laughter] but it didnt have a lot of legal standing in wisconsin. Scott wanted me to do it and we got into this scott sent me the emails that the
Sure that there was outside contractors or not. We developed it all in house. Thats helpful. Justice breyer, i noted and was intrigue of your comments discussing her design and really the courts desire to get the work of the court court out to dinner can people and to engage them in this. Is there a designated effort, a continued effort . To the extent youre familiar with come and by the way, i thought it would be some of your staff would actually go i see they are here with us but you see the two of you actually engaging the committee i think is laudable. I respect and appreciate that. You may not be dialed in on all of the nuances of it at the effort to revisit the website to keep it fresh and perhaps use the term that is often being used now to develop an app for the Supreme Court, maybe there is what managers need to be educated about it but this idea of engaging the American Public i applaud you for this. It needs to be done because we only have a healthy republic if our fellow ci
Well, this hearing will come to order. First of all, let me welcome Justice Breyer and Justice Kennedy. Thank you for being here today. I know both of you have testified before our subcommittee in times past and we appreciate you coming back and being with us here again today. We all look forward to this time to have an exchange. Not often does the legislative branch and Judicial Branch get to talk to each other, so we look forward to that. I think all of us know that a fair and impartial judiciary is very much a cornerstone to our democratic system of government. And so the fact that youre here today, i think is important. I think the work that you do is obviously very, very important. And not only you resolve disputes between individuals, but also between the executive branch of the federal government as well as legislative branch. And to do that, you need the respect of the citizens. And i think you have that. I think you also give respect to the citizens and their view of whats rig
Things electronically. Which is hopeful to the lawyers and helpful to the public because they can get it instantaneously. Lets take some time. I think its going along satisfactorily, and i think that most of the other Court Systems you have this already in many forms, so we can plug into ours without too much trouble the third is a little more open ended and i put more weight on it, can we use our technology to inform the public about what were doing particularly through our website. I was talking to people they do the same kind of thing, and thats not so easy to do. And we put in a website. But the question is, will they use it. Will people find out . Will School Children find out . I want to know about this case, i know how to do it i get on the web and i tell my class fabulous, if we can do that. I got some figures its hard to calculate what it is. We had according to this, we have in a year 271 million hits. I wasnt sure what that meant. I mean, is that a lot or a little . It sound