I ended up spending most of my adult life as chief justice of the Infamous Supreme Court and i now doing see scenes of it in or intermediate court and i have an appointment over at the Indiana University Mckinney School of law. To my right is Rebecca Kourlis who spent more than a decade on the colorado supreme court. She left there perhaps ten or 11 years ago to be the founding director of the institute for the advancement of the american legal system which does all sorts of research and programmatic work on the improvement of courts and the improvements of Legal Education and of the legal profession. And then Professor William henderson certainly and that of the circuit if there ever was one. After his Legal Education at the university of chicago became a clerk at the seventh circuit but happily has spent his recent career at the Indiana University Maurer School of law, and i say theres nobody he was done more intriguing work about the future of our profession than bill and becky. Im
Latest. Blake . Reporter pope francis was injected into the race today when he was asked about Donald Trumps plans to build a wall along the mechanic can border. The pope responded in part, im saying the quote, person only thinks about building walls wherever they may be instead of bridges is not a christian. This is not in the gospel. The trump after that did not critshy away from criticizing the pope. He said the comments towards him were disgraceful. For a religious leader to question a persons faith is disgraceful. Im proud to be a christian. And as president i will not allow christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened unlike what is happening now with our current president. Reporter trump also said if isis attacks the vatican the pope would have only quote, wished and prayed that trump were president. He accused Mexican Government using the pope as a pawn. We will see if this has any impact on the president ial race going forward. The South Carolina, primary, keep in min
Cried archives here in washington. This is about 20 minutes. Good evening. Im the archivist of the United States and is a pleasure to welcome you to the National Archives in theater this evening. A special welcome to our friends at cspan and the other Media Outlets who are with us tonight. We have a lot of special guests in the audience today but i want to single out a special welcome to senator mike reed who is a good friend of the National Archives, senator reed from utah. [applause] who himself clerked for a future Supreme Court justice, judge alito when he was at the u. S. Court of appeals on the third circuit. Welcome. On monday the constitution of the United States turned 225. Tonights program is one of several that the National Archives is presenting this month in celebration of the founding document, signed in philadelphia on september 17, 1787. Tonight we are honored to welcome two distinguished guests to explore the past, present and future of United States constitution. Our
We dont always find newspaper editors and area embracing reporting. Its not just economics. Is the discomfort that investigative reporting often causes in the newsroom. Because its troublesome. Its that more than the economics. If youre going to ruffle the feathers of somebody powerful that gives those people running into complaint to the publisher and destroys their legion over those and we are fortunate to go through the 70s and really almost all of our careers to work for people who are really Strong Enough right in that area, and let the chips fall where they may. Akhil reed amar presents his thoughts on the interpretation of the u. S. Constitution and what the author means by up to his passages. Mr. Amar posits the constitution can be understood by the original text alone or historical precedent. Akhil reed amar discusses his book with Supreme Court Justice Clarence thomas of the national air cried archives here in washington. This is about 20 minutes. Good evening. Im the archivi
Those in with all of these other sources. Host david, thank you very much. I urge everyone to read the book and, later, you can look at the context in those transcripts of these tape recording as they come out over the next year. Thank you very much. Guest thank you. On affirmative action in the prelim to the Supreme Court hearing of oral argument in fisher be the university of texas. The authors report the agree with the National Goals of affirmative action but now agree the system hurts more than helps minorities. This is about an hour and a half. [applause] thank you very much for that introduction, and thank you to roger and cato for hosting this event. Im thankful to have such a good kick off to the book, which is actually being officially published today. As roger mentioned i am going to start and talk a little bit about the mismatch idea itself and some of what we have done in the book. Stewart is going to try to relate this Martin Fisher and what will be happening tomorrow. I a