What are your biggest concerns . Guest number one. Great to be here today. People have been talking about this a lot over the past week 1 2 or two or three, whos counting . But it is not a positionim unfamiliar with. As you know, i spent 11 years on my state Public Utility Commission in South Carolina and if you know anything about South Carolina it is a state that does not have the political balance on its commission. So i was either one of one or one of, one of seven or, two of seven depending on where thing. So it is not a very uncomfortable and uncommon place for me. What i feel and what i hope we will have Going Forward is the need to really address the Communications Needs of this nation. Theres a lot of work to do when it comes to broadband coverage. Mobile broadband is something i care about in particular. Really connecting communities and bridging the digital divide. Those are things that he i care about. I trust that those will not have partisan leanings. Host do you plan on
Federalist society were hosting todays forum. I want to thank the Federalist Society, dean righter and julie nix who are with us today, for their assistance in organizing this forum. I also want to welcome those who are seeing us through cspan and our Live Streaming audience as well. Were here to discuss an important new, an important subject, the Permission Society, the title of a new book from encounter books by the Goldwater Institutes tim sandefur. Subtitled, how the ruling class turns our freedoms into privileges and what we can do about it. This book documents the many ways, especially since the progressive era, that the presumption of liberty, the freedom at the heart of our founding principles and documents, has been extinguished in favor after presumption for government, with individuals having to obtain permission from government officials before being able to act. Property owners have long experienced this reversal of course. Today they often find before they can make any ch
[applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] good afternoon and welcome to the kid institute. Let me also welcome our cspan audience. Im roger pilon, the director of the Kansas Center for constitutional studies and your host for todays Forum Working the publication of a new book by professor David Bernstein, lawless the Obama Administrations unprecedented assault on the constitution and the rule of law. This book in this form could not be more timely. This yesterday as we all know we witness the president said he was directing officials in his administration to expand the regulation of the Second Amendment rights of americans in several ways these repeated usurpations have served to divert attention from a long list of domestic and Foreign Policy disasters, but theyve also serve fortunately to direct our attention to the constitution into what are its bedrock principles, separation of powers. That will be our focus today as we canvassed the many constitutional assault
[inaudible conversations] finish good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. Im roger pilon the director for constitutional studies and your host for this event. I want also to welcome our cspan audience and those of us those who are looking at the event on cato Live Streaming and later through the archives. Were here to discuss religious liberty as it may or may not be exercised in the context of the modern Business Corporation pursuant to both statutory and constitutional law. More immediately, were here also to mark the publication of a new book on that subject from palgrave religious liberties for corporations, and i note the title ends with a question mark. In the book our two main speakers today ilya shapiro and david gans provide a comprehensive analysis of thish shoes in burwell very can issues in burwell v. Hobby lobby in the blockbuster decision the Supreme Court rejected the obamacare regulation that proviewedded employersponsored Health Care Plans to provide which requir
There legally action able whatsoever. So thats easy. Then theres the question of how you have the right pollution standards and, ultimately, its a big issue. Im much more of the view that this should be resolved, you know, much more in courts actually than by an agency like epa. So that theres a really good essay in the book climate coup by this guy named roger pilon which gives a pretty good critique of the executive state in this issue and gives a positive alternative. Im in that school, but its definitely not my focus. Part of the reason its the moral case is to evaluate what is the impact on human life and then give certain rough political guidance but thats a guide for policymakers to say we cannot be trying to outlaw this stuff thats fundamentally good for human life. So thats what im attempting to do with the book but theres tons more work to do beyond that. All right. Well, good news, we have copies of alexs book outside, and im sure hed be happy to sign them. Yes. Okay, great.