Roberts court more than any other Supreme Court justice in the recent history john roberts has played a defining role to change our free speech law writing twice as many majority opinions in anyny colleagues b a once philosophicl and tactical 95 percent of those cases decided it is 15 years roberts has been in theaj majority so there is Something Special about this area of cases that speaks to how john roberts sees the court in the First Comprehensive report ron and david each of published looking at those 56 cases handed down by the Roberts Court the authors eyeopening study provides a l detailed look at of the justices differing approaches in here to tell us are the authors and david henson who serves as a legal fellow with individual rights and education with the freedom form is to. Larissa is dean and leading professor of lot university of Missouri School of law where the focus of the research and teaching is tort law and First Amendment with emphasis on freespeech issues and socia
Supreme Court Nominee judge amy coney barrett. Good afternoon. Good morning. Welcome to the virtual Cato Institute. Im the director of Robert E Lee Center for constitutional studies and author of the new book, supreme disorder judicial nominations and politics of americas highest court and related to that, im glad everyone taking a break from the barrett confirmation hearings this morning. If you didnt watch, i envy you. There was nothing new, republicans and democrats placed their assigned roles but we are not here to talk about that. We are talking about something more interesting, the Roberts Court. More than any other Supreme Court justice in recent history, john roberts has played a defining role in shaping our free speech block. Hes been more than twice as many majority opinions in this area than any of his colleagues and there is a certain result in 95 of the greek expression cases decided in his tenure, hes been in the majority. Hes taken the lead of nearly 80 of the time so th
Religiously conservative it is ok to be personally prochoice. To all the young, conservative women out there, this hearing is about a place for you. When this is over, i hope there will be place for you at the table. Pickingdent trump, i judge barrett, you have publicly said you find value in all of these characteristics, beyond anything else, you find a judge barrett to be highly qualified. You are one of the best picks President Trump could have made and from the conservative side of the aisle you are one of the most qualified people of your generation. s talk about board versus brown versus board of education. Professor, i talked i think may be in political conversation or in newspapers people use it different ways but in my writing i was using a framework that has been articulated by other scholars and in that context, super precedent means precedent that is so wellestablished that it would be unthinkable that it would ever be overruled. There are six other cases on this list schol
National Action Network the initials of behind you that running joining the Obama Presidency i know time and time again in the book you talk about it is a model of grassroots action at the very local level to help a civil rights and social justice no i have we definitely were very active during is 8 years Trayvon Martin we were out on the front lines of that from the beginning as well as the ferguson killing in ferguson missouri Michael Brown in aragon all of that happened during the obama era what im saying is that we could do even more and i think that thats what i challenge that we should never even modify what we do and i think we were very active but i think we could have been more active while everyone knows you did you did a lot because we had we had one of the top trumps pastas. A guy called Darrell Scott he said that trump has been the most pro black president ever and of course he reminded us how black lies might have began under the a bamma presidency when those horrific Pol
For textualism, the judge approaches the text with the meeting it had at the time. By want to be careful to say that, if i am confirmed, you would not be getting justice scalia, you would be getting justice barrett. And that is because originalists do not always agree, and not do textualists. It is not a mechanical exercise. Sen. Graham i will wait until the movie comes out. [laughter] the bottom line for me as there is a narrative building of this country, and again, you can stand down this is just me speaking for me. Justice ginsburg was an iconic figure in american history, just not the law. She was a trailblazer. She fought for better conditions for women throughout society. Progressivehamedly in her personal thought. She was devout to her faith. She worked for the aclu. She was fairly prochoice personally. But all of us on the side apparently when they voted accepted she was highly qualified. What i want the American People to know i think it is ok to be religiously conservative.