Toy have just as much right try to get ahead basically. Ofid not inc. That a lot people have this fear that they taking the wealth we what are your but thoughts . With ben quite a lot of time talking about the politics of it and the ways to address it in bills and all the sort of thing. At the core of this debate, it is what makes it so difficult is that very reason debates we have been having in america since its founding. This has been a constant source for generations. Face of thee generation is via march the his manic community. It is that much more difficult to have the discussion. Difficult to look at the economics of it or how economic programs are supposed to work. A lot of these bills cracking down on illegal immigration, we saw them joining immigration advocacy groups to frame it in a civil rights perspective. This year we have seen a lot of as a moralat it issue about how you treat the strangers in your own land. About the rogue room within five months all we want but at the
Questionable relevance. In fact what his stations create, it is that it give journalism. Video storytelling that can exist on a television station, and ipad, iphone, or any smartphone. The question to me is, what is the future of the journal is a mage . All the all of the students here, telling stories with pictures projected into all kinds of screens. All of the content creators and all of the students who are here tonight who are gg into television journalism, you will really go into a progression that into a profession that is video journalism, telling stories and pictures that will be projected into all kinds of screens. Some of them will be television screens. Many of them will be little devices, the Little Television devices in your laps that one can watch on a watch application, on an or tablet or iphone. So i think the future is very bright and very robust. There is clear evidence that more and more people are consuming more and more video journalism, not just on television, bu
And so that approach generally, generally doesnt work, but you, you know, you could establish distance without trashing, you know, an incumbent for your side. And there was a famous election, it was bush 1990. George h. W. Bush, his midterm election. And ed rollins who had managed one of president reagans campaigns had top staff job at the National Republican congressional committee. And he wrote a memo that went out to all the Republican House members saying, um, you know, effectively, you know, we all love president bush and hes a great guy and all like that, but your most important job right now is to get reelected and do whatever you need to do to get reelected, and feel prix to put distance free to put distance between yourself and the president. Not surprisingly, the white house went crazy. And im trying to remember whether ed had to resign or not. Do you remember if he did or not . I remember they were calling for his resignation. I dont remember whether he actually did or not.
Property belonging to the public. And not subject to the particular Decision Making of any particular justice when he or she leaves the court, and when you ask what access means to me, everyone that responded in terms of extreme particularity, i wrote some statistics down. My wifes grandfather was a friend of Justice Douglas and we discovered when he passed away that he had a number of letters from douglas and we were kind of trophy hunting going through the papers and seeing the stuff. So i looked it up online to see what i could find out about the papers of Justice Douglas and where they were. And, of course, you go to the Supreme Court website and immediately send you someplace else because its not the kind of thing that they are collect and gathering, although they should. As you make your way through a number of other websites, i found with great particularity great information about the papers of Justice Douglas, which i will share with you. Theyre at the library of congress. The
Although it is important. I just find that my work both inside and outside of the federal government, you know, going to someone, anyone and saying hey, i would like to place a camera behind you so i can watch and scrutinize everything that you do in realtime tends to be a tough sell. So i tend to lead with more substantial arguments like, this does not reflect on the dignity of your job. So i think those are the three things that matter the most to me around transparency. And why i care about this issue. Good morning. I want to thank gabe for inviting me and tony and dahlia for hosting it. Im excited to be here. My skin in this game is pretty serious. I teach constitutional law at Georgia State in atlanta. Its ironic to me that the Supreme Court might be the least Transparent Court in the United States because at best i am with judge pozner that it is a political court. I in fact dont think its a court at all. To the extent there are transparency issues to begin with judges i dont thi