Would begin the first in a series of hearings on the state of the federal judiciary in the 21st century. In this hearing we will investigate ideas for promoting ethics, accountability, and transparency in the federal courts. We focus on these ideas in our first hearing on the judiciary because they flow from two foundational principles of due process. First that no one can be a judge in his own case. Second, to form a Supreme Court Justice Felix frankfurter , justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice. Both rules embody the understanding that the constitutions implicit promise of equal justice under law depends on at least two things that our court must be fair, independent and impartial and that we must also believe that our courts are fair, independent, and impartial. Justice must satisfy the appearance of justice it might take a second but we intuitively understand that. It means that as the Supreme Court recently explained both th
Good morning. Im jane pauley and this is sunday morning. Every day in classrooms across america our children pledge allegiance to the flag, to one nation, indivisible. But in so many ways, we are divided culturally, economically, and, of course, politically. How do you heal a divided nation . This morning well look at a project focusing on young people, as lee cowan will explain, its like a Foreign Exchange program, only for students right here at home. Its nice to meet you. Reporter there is a lot of talk about how its too late for us. That its the Net Generation thats going to bridge both our politics and our social divides. But that hope still needs to be nurtured. I feel like we have the vaccine. I think this can scale enormously and i think it works. Reporter how a new Student Exchange program is laying the groundwork that just might connect us all coming up on sunday morning. Back in the 60s and 70s, sly and the family stone was a sensation. With a string of topop ten h hi. But a
Scalia will only read the brief but you can imagine others would say if i wanted an extended version of the argument im really interested in a specific issue in the book you can go to that if you want to know more. But i wonder if they will this play this role. It to my mind ultimately that would be a good thing because if you dont want to access it, you dont have to. A will always still be there but its another place out there and information which will hopefully be to better inform an opinion by the court. Richard is next on book tv. He examines the historical debate whether Franklin Roosevelt was indifferent to or a defender of europe during world war ii. This is about one hour and 15 minutes. Thank you for that generous introduction and i am grateful for the center of advanced studies for the invitation and for the preparation work done. Fdr and the jews was published in march of last year and has generated a good deal of response since then. I regret to report what all reactions w
Title, and ill write down some bullet points about what i want to say, and i will order them. This is about an hour and 15 minutes. Thank you walt for is that generous introduction to generous. Thank you for the center for dance holocaust studies for the invitation and preparation work. Fdr fdr and the jews was published in march of last year and has generated a good deal of response since then. I regret to report that all not all reactions were positive. I want to start by talking about two messages sent to me by unknown readers. They were not the worst but they were certainly not the best. The reason i am singling them out is that they Say Something to us that may cause you to listen to the rest of my lecture with slightly different years. One person wrote all you have to do is go to the Holocaust Museum to see that you are wrong. I am not sure this lecture is what he had in mind. And since our book offers a mixed judgment on Franklin Roosevelt i can only guess at what he thought was