He has argued before the Supreme Court a feat in of itself and has been since Supreme Court analysts since 2013. And he lives in austin, texas. All right. So im going to hand it over to them. Okay. Good evening. Can you hear me . Okay. Great. Its very good to be with you. Steve vladeck, a hero in his own hometown. Absolutely. Great. Great to be here. I had injection of you, but among many other things i didnt know that was going to go that way either. So well just actually right into it. So the first thing i want to ask you, as im sure you dont want, to move this conversation to twitter spaces, but theres still time. I mean, i think, you know, 20 minutes of silence is about right. A book about unsigned, unexplained supreme decisions. Id say this already gone better than last night when actually the night is young. Are you sure you dont want to just talk about ken paxton. For . An hour. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Id kind of like to talk about ken paxton. Right. So that if youve not already seen
Charles allen wright chair in federal courts at the University Texas school of law. His work been published in the new york times, the Los Angeles Times and the slate. He has argued before the Supreme Court a feat in of itself and has been since Supreme Court analysts since 2013. And he lives in austin, texas. All right. So im going to hand it over to them. Okay. Good evening. Can you hear me . Okay. Great. Its very good to be with you. Steve vladeck, a hero in his own hometown. Absolutely. Great. Great to be here. I had injection of you, but among many other things i didnt know that was going to go that way either. So well just actually right into it. So the first thing i want to ask you, as im sure you dont want, to move this conversation to twitter spaces, but theres still time. I mean, i think, you know, 20 minutes of silence is about right. A book about unsigned, unexplained supreme decisions. Id say this already gone better than last night when actually the night is young. Are yo
Charles allen wright chair in federal courts at the University Texas school of law. His work been published in the new york times, the Los Angeles Times and the slate. He has argued before the Supreme Court a feat in of itself and has been since Supreme Court analysts since 2013. And he lives in austin, texas. All right. So im going to hand it over to them. Okay. Good evening. Can you hear me . Okay. Great. Its very good to be with you. Steve vladeck, a hero in his own hometown. Absolutely. Great. Great to be here. I had injection of you, but among many other things i didnt know that was going to go that way either. So well just actually right into it. So the first thing i want to ask you, as im sure you dont want, to move this conversation to twitter spaces, but theres still time. I mean, i think, you know, 20 minutes of silence is about right. A book about unsigned, unexplained supreme decisions. Id say this already gone better than last night when actually the night is young. Are yo
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That generated as much heat and animus as this topic did. Please help me welcome a man who stood up to argue and to defend what our nations highest court has now recognized as a constitutional right, professor geoffrey stone. [applause] thank you. Im delighted to be here. My talk this afternoon derives from a book that i am currently finishing titled sex and the constitution. Although the book addresses such issues as obscenity, contraception, homosexuality generally, abortion and so on, i decided to focus specifically this afternoon on the issue of samesex marriage, an issue that cuts to the very heart of the meaning of equal citizenship. In august of 1982, an Atlanta Police officer went to the home of Michael Hardwick to serve an arrest warrant for public drinking. Upon entering the home, he observed hardwick and another man engaged in oral sex. The officer placed both men under arrest for the crime of sodomy. In the case decided in 1986, the Supreme Court held that the homosexual so