This weekend I am attending a conference on the Presidency and the Supreme Court – November 11th and 12th, 2007 at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum
The Presidency and the Supreme Court conference brings together a wide range of speakers, including scholars, policymakers, and journalists to deliberate on the complex relationship between the Court and the Presidency and the impact of that interaction on American society. Panels focus not only on the political process of Supreme Court nominations and confirmations, but examines the Court's influence on social issues, civil rights and governmental power in times of crisis. The conference also includes a keynote address by former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
This conference is sponsored by the nation's twelve Presidential Libraries, their foundations, the National Archives, the Foundation for the National Archives, and the Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute with generous support from:
Thomson West, Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP, Frederick P. Furth, Wiley Rein LLP
The Presidency and the Supreme Court conference Agenda
AGENDA
Sunday, November 11, 2007
1:00 p.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Professor Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States;
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, Co-Chair,
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute;
Former President George H. W. Bush (via video).
1:15 - 3:00 p.m.
Presidents Hoover and Roosevelt and the 1930s Supreme Court
The consequential Supreme Court decisions, appointments, and presidential politics of the 1930s.
Chair: Alan Brinkley, Provost, Columbia University; Professors William E. Leuchtenburg and G. Edward White; Author and Newsweek Senior Editor Jonathan Alter.
3:00 - 4:45 p.m.
Shaping the Modern Court: Presidents Truman through Clinton
Insider accounts of Supreme Court appointments and how the appointment process has changed over the past sixty years.
Chair: Allen Weinstein; Ambassador C. Boyden Gray; Professors Douglas Brinkley and Laura Kalman.
5:00 p.m.
Keynote Address: The Honorable Sandra Day O'Connor
Monday, November 12, 2007
9:15 a.m.
Welcoming Remarks
Sharon Fawcett, Assistant Archivist for Presidential Libraries;
The Hon. Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the State of New York.
Moderator for the day: National Public Radio Legal Affairs Correspondent Nina Totenberg.
9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
The Presidency, the Supreme Court and Civil Rights
The interactions of Presidents and the Supreme Court on topics relating to race, discrimination, equality and civil rights.
Civil rights leader and former Assistant Attorney General Roger Wilkins; Professor David A. Nichols; former Secretary of Education the Hon. Shirley Hufstedler; Professor and former President of the American Civil Liberties Union Norman Dorsen; National Public Radio Senior Correspondent Juan Williams.
Lunch Break
12:45 - 2:45 p.m.
The Presidency, the Supreme Court and the "Culture Wars"
Presidential and Supreme Court concerns and decisions relating to abortion, the death penalty, gay rights, religion and other topics of societal division.
The Hon. Michael W. McConnell; Professors Heather Gerken and Michael C. Dorf.
3:00 - 5:00 p.m.
The Supreme Court and Presidential Power
Supreme Court adjudication of the limits of executive power under the Constitution, especially in times of war and crisis.
Professor John Q. Barrett; former White House Counsel John W. Dean; Author and New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis; former White House Counsel Beth Nolan.
5:00 p.m.
Concluding Remarks
Ambassador William J. vanden Heuvel, Founder and Chairman Emeritus, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt Institute.
