Of Sonoma County. The man that lives in this home is calling firefighters heroes. All of these vehicles on his property owned by his brother and by him were lost and so was his brothers home but his home was saved. He watched at firefighters battled the flames in incredible winds. He says what they did to save other homes was heroic. A chimney tower from this once proud chalkville hill road. A neighbor said it looked like arrows of fire were flying at him as wind gusts launched burning embers towards him, his home, and the antique jeeps parked next to his home. It created a tremendous problem for the firefighters. Fire was spotting well out ahead of the main front. Reporter kincade Public Information officer fred woods has been taking media tours into the burned areas all day but has been here since the weekend watching the fire fight and agrees with that neighbor, the effort to save homes was heroic. So far the fire has destroyed at least 96 homes. When you drive these homes and see h
Pleasure to introduce a panel of three of americas most distinguished historians of the Early Supreme Court to teach us about significant justices that we may not have learned about before. Gerard mallioka is the Samuel R Rosen professor of law at the Indiana University Robert H Mckinney school of law. Hes the author of many books which weve had the pleasure of discussing at the ncc and the most recent which were here to talk about is washingtons air the life of justice, bushrod, washington. Maybe marcus is Research Professor of law and directer of the institute for constitutional studies at the George Washington University Law school where weve been colleagues for many years as editor of the documentary history of the Supreme Court of the United States 1789 to 1800 professor marcus published eight volumes with many articles on legal history. She was appointed by the librarian of congress as the general editor of the Oliver Wendell holmes devised the history of the Supreme Court of the
Says it wasnt by one person. It was an opinion. It was a decree of the court and it had four paragraphs and every paragraph said and the court says and later in the decade chief justice elseworth always had things that said by the court. The opinion of the court was born in the first decade not during the martial era people should really know things like that. Wonderful, they should indeed and you and thank you for helping all of us know that thank you may have a Marcus Walter star and george my yoga for an engaging discussion on this really important and much too little understood period of the early court youve inspired all of us to learn more and look forward to learning more with all of you Gerard Walter neighbor. Thank you so much for joining and thank you friends for taking an hour we drove out to arlington. It was a long long lines of solemn respectful people. All along the hill in rowdy lees home to round up the grave site the grave covered with flowers. We got out. And put our
Indiana University Robert h Mckinney School of law. Hes the author of many books which weve had the pleasure of discussing at the ncc and the most recent which were here to talk about is washingtons air the life of justice, bushrod, washington. Maybe marcus is Research Professor of law and directer of the institute for constitutional studies at the George Washington University Law school where weve been colleagues for many years as editor of the documentary history of the Supreme Court of the United States 1789 to 1800 professor marcus published eight volumes with many articles on legal history. She was appointed by the librarian of congress as the general editor of the Oliver Wendell holmes devised the history of the Supreme Court of the United States in 20 15 and walter starr is a historian a New York Times best selling author a twotime winner of the seward award for excellence in civil war biography. Hes the author of several books including john jay founding father and most recentl
Weve been colleagues for many years as editor of the documentary history of the Supreme Court of the United States 1789 to 1800 professor marcus published eight volumes with many articles on legal history. She was appointed by the librarian of congress as the general editor of the Oliver Wendell holmes devised the history of the Supreme Court of the United States in 20 15 and walter starr is a historian a New York Times best selling author a twotime winner of the seward award for excellence in civil war biography. Hes the author of several books including john jay founding father and most recently Salmon P Chase lincolns vital rival. Thank you so much for joining us gerard maybach and walter if i may gerard let us begin with you. Why did you choose to write about justice bushrod, washington . Why should our ncc friends be interested in him . Well, thanks jeff for inviting me and its wonderful to be here with such a great panel. I decided to write about bushrod, washington for a couple