First speaker. Our topic is the fascinating friendship between two towering figures. The conservative torchbearer william f buckler and norman baylor. At the risk of sounding too cheerful, i must say that beginning with friendship kicks off the possibility of Common Ground between progressives and conservatives. It does seem unlikely that the buckleymailer relationship has an equivalent today. Seeing as we have historians and public intellectuals such as our speaker writing eloquently and persuasively about such friendship, the prospect seems far from lost. Our speaker, Kevin Schultz is the author of buckley and mailer. He is an associate professor of history, catholic studies at illinois in chicago, winning several awards for his teaching on the ethnoracial and intellectual history of america. Receiving his phd from berkeley in 2005, he began an academic and public intellectual career. He has published articles in journal of American History and american quarterly as well as essays in
I am Program Manager of the Common Ground initiative. I am pleased to usher in our first session and introduce our first speaker. At the risk of sounding too cheerful, i must say that beginning with friendship kicks off the possibility of Common Ground between progressives and conservatives. It does seem unlikely that the buckleymailer relationship has an equivalent today. Seeing as we have historians and public intellectuals such as our speaker writing eloquently and persuasively about such friendship, the prospect seems far from lost. Our speaker, Kevin Schultz is the author of buckley and mailer. He is an associate professor of history, cap at studies at the university of catholic studies at illinois in chicago, winning several awards for his teaching on the f no racial and intellectual history ethno racial and intellectual history of america. Receiving his phd from berkeley in 2005, he began an academic and public intellectual career. He has published articles in journal of America
Here it set in the Popular Culture that that pretty much means its a political decision, that if the house of representatives has the votes, then thats pretty much good enough. Is that how it works. I dont think so mark, so, the phrase high crime misdemeanor was specifically chose to be a very high bar and the reason for that is that our framers wanted the president to be independent of congress, one of the main functions of the president was to be one of the checks and balances against congress, which they thought, perhaps inaccurately was going to be by far the most powerful and most Dangerous Branch of government. They did not Want Congress to be able to toss the president out on the basis of any low standard at all, and they deliberately chose the phrase high crimes and misdemeanors which had a history in the common law because it referred to misdeeds about public nature of a very serious amount of abuse of power. I just wanted to mention, you read the impeachment clause to us, but
Free exercise and establishment clauses, tenth circuit from 2002, 2009, published broadly, bonafide are quite significant. A number of topics that i want to touch on during the course of this hour, we are not going to get everything id like to talk about but we would get to some of them, the first one is impeachment, we hear impeachment being discussed left and right in the country, in the media, by politicians, here is the impeachment clause of the constitution and here is what it says, the president , the Vice President , all offices in the United States shall be removed from office on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors, here it said with Popular Culture that that pretty much means its a political decision, the house of representatives has the votes, thats pretty much good enough, is that how it works . I dont think so, mark, so phrase high crime misdemeanor is specifically chosen to be a very high bar and the reason for that is t
You served as a federal appellate judge on the tenth circuit from 2002 to 2009. Your bona fides are quite significant. There are a number of topics i would like to touch on this hour. We hear impeachment being discussed. Here is the impeachment clause in the constitution. The president , Vice President and all civil officers of the United States shall be removed from office on conviction of treason, bribery, or other high crimes and misdemeanors. I hear it said in the Popular Culture that that pretty much means its a political decision. If the house of representatives has the votes . I dont think so. The phrase high crimes and misdemeanors is specifically chosen to be a high bar. Our framers wanted the president toe be independent to congress. One of the main functions of the president was to be a check and balance against congress which they thought would be by far the most of powerful and most of Dangerous Branch of government. They did not Want Congress to be able to toss the presid