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
Cspan friends, welcome to the Nexen Stallman to the National Constitution center and cspans Supreme Court review live. Im jeffrey rosen, the president and ceo of the National Constitution center, the only institution in america chartered by congress to increase awareness and understanding of the constitution among the American People on a nonpartisan basis. Its been so exciting to partner with cspan during these historic weeks, when, for the first time in american history, the Supreme Court is broadcasting its oral arguments live. We have been listening closely to these two important cases this morning. There has been so much to learn and unpacked and unpacked. We are fortunate to be joined by the leading scholars and advocates who filed briefs on both sides of the case to help us understand the arguments we just heard. Little begin with sisters of the poor, the first case that was argued, with great pleasure i introduce our two panelists. Aten is a professor of law the Antonin Scalia
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
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
Good evening, everyone. Welcome to atlanta History Center. Im claire haley, president of democracy initiatives and author talks here for the History Center. Im sitting here tonight with three great scholars and very excited to have here atlanta history. Tonight were joined by Fitzhugh Brundage jon sensback and scott nelson. They are just three of many contributors to this new volume, a new history of the south. It just came a couple of weeks ago. So were very excited to be here in discussion with them tonight. And each are professors of history. Each have different of expertise. We have a lot ground to cover tonight. And so im going to briefly introduce them and then we will jump right in. Fitzhugh brundage sitting here on the end, hes the editor of this wonderful volume. Hes the william b umstead, professor of history, the university of north at chapel hill. So welcome, folks, from North Carolina. We appreciate you being here. And seated next to him is jon sensbach. He teaches Early A