10,000. this was an important case because it had to do with students piece rights. >> it was also split because it was a 7-2 split. >> it 8:00 american history tv will continue the discussion as they take your questions and comments about their experience. much american history tv this weekend on c-span three. two teams of litigators contribute to a competition answering questions about the history of the u.s. supreme court. the event is hosted by the

heritage foundation. >> good evening i am elizabeth slattery and welcome to the heritage foundation. thank you for coming to the supreme trivia event. you can hear the teams out there that will be coming out in just a minute. we have two teams tonight. they are top supreme court litigators that are ready to go head-to-head in rounds of trivia regarding history, scandal, and more. before we introduce the teams i would like to introduce my cohost sheldon gilbert. thank you for being here. >> thank you. and welcome to basically super bowl for law nerds. we will kick things off by introducing the teams. it's my privilege to introduce team jefferson. the heckling has already started., and out team jefferson. we will start with lisa blatt.

lisa heads-up appellate and supreme court practice. somebody recently said that sometimes a superstar is just a superstar. lisa is a superstar among superstars. she has argued my cases at the supreme court then any other woman and even more impressive she has won 94% of her cases which is a remarkable record. welcome. next up we have ian. he heads up supreme court practice and has held such fantastic physicians as acting inspector general for you for the united states under the obama administration. welcome. last but definitely not

least charles rockville. he special counsel at brown. he has worked over 200 supreme court cases in his career and is often hailed a somebody that is 12 moves above everybody else. he wrote the book on federal appellate practice. welcome. >> the team madison why don't you come on out? team madison come on down. here they come. first up he is going to charges fun. we have john elwood. he is an author of the always enjoyable log. welcome. next we have paul larkin. he is here to be the resident supreme court expert while he spends his day cranking out

loud review articles from everything from economic liberties to prisoner dog rehabilitation programs he has argued dozens of cases at the supreme court. rounding out team madison's kevin marshall. one of the only ones left around after the place was rated for judges and a former lawyer. so keeping score for us tonight is medicine from the national constitution center. we will check in with her to see how the teams are doing. now for the ground rules. we will flip a coin. it will determine which team starts. we will alternate reading questions by team. team members may briefly confer before answering. if the team whose turn it is answers incorrectly or does not know the answer the opposing team may still the question. regardless of whether they get it right or not they get the

next question and so on. each question is worth one point and there will be six rounds of questions. the final round will be a rapid response round with 10 questions for team. in the event of a tie we will do another rapid response round until we have a winner. the team that lost the coin flip that will go first at the last question so we have an even distribution of questions for both teams. at the end of the hour one team will be named the victor and awarded the supreme trivia champion gavel that you see here on states. with that let's toss the toy coin and get started. >> this has john marshall on one side and the supreme court on the other. it only seems appropriate. we will toss the coin and it comes up marshall. medicine goes first. are you ready?

first question. this is supreme quote. which justice wrote that three generations of imbeciles are enough. >> homes. >> that is one point for team madison. >> team jefferson. in which case that justice antonin scalia call the reasoning pure applesauce. >> probably. >> there are so many. >> next question for team madison. which justice popularized the

phrase i know it when i see it. >> do you know what the context was? >> it was an obscenity. it was janice or whatever the heck. >> that is a point for team madison. next question for team jefferson. >> which justice is credited with coining the phrase the right to privacy in an 1890 article. >> brandeis. >> that is correct. >> all right. which chief justice coined the phrase evolving standards of

decency. >> we will go with earl warren. >> that is correct. >> this is a particularly have a question. this is the supreme court goes on forever. >> it is a hefty question. >> next question. john roberts wrote that the incidents quartermaster decision

was overridden in history. . who wrote this. i can give you a hint. it's a justice that left the court to become an ambassador. >> which long serving justice argued that justice is considered a person before the courts. which justice? >> justice douglas. >> that is correct. >> which staunch defender of

democracy declarative people want to go to how i will help them with the. >> oliver wendell holmes. >> that concludes the first category and now we will move on to before there were justices. >> this first question is about byron white took a leave of absence to play professional football. which team did he play for. >> he earned $15,000 per season. pretty impressive. next up which future justice had the first virtual bat mitzvah arguing that it's no

less important than a bar mitzvah for boys. >> hagan. >> that is correct. >> another point for team madison. >> which chief justice married the daughter of thomas jefferson's lost love. >> this is king versus burwell again? [laughter] >> marshall. >> that is correct. when he popped the question to polly his love she was so shocked that she ran off without answering him and set a look of her her back to him with aes.

>> which future justice worked as a page in the california legislature and played alongside the children of then governor earl warren who also went on to serve on the supreme court. >> my former employer anthony kennedy. >> that is correct. >> which future chief justice was responsible for adding in god we trust to u.s. currency. >> you need to be civil about this. >> i think there is something fishy about this question. >> that is correct. he served as a treasury secretary before the limit to the supreme court. >> which future justice.

>> steve prior. unfortunately the seat went to ruth bader ginsburg but the following year he would be tapped for another vacancy. >> when he was a child which future justice and lifelong chicago cubs fan attended world series games. >> justice john paul stevens. he attended the world series. >> okay. we are moving to the next category presidents and justices but let's do a quick chaffin with the score. it is a close game. in reference to chief justice

earl warren and brennan who said i make mistakes as president and both of them are sitting on the supreme court. >> eisenhower. >> that is correct. >> this one may or may not be apocryphal. which resident said john marshall has made his decision. let him enforce it. >> president jackson. >> which president in a weekly chat talked about the judiciary.

>> let's go with fdr. >> he said this in one of his fireside chats. >> which president known for his hardball tactics as a senator. >> which president generally regarded as one of the least effective president told the records for the most failed supreme court nominations. >> gilmore. that is incorrect.

>> buchanan. >> it is john tyler with eight nominations that were either rejected by the senate or otherwise withdrawn. this was in a year and a half. >> next question. >> which asked for the coveted job of u.s. attorney for virginia. >> they named him the u.s.

attorney for virginia.. >> we now have a tie. >> he had accepted a bribe in exchange for seeking a presidential pardon for a former client with securities fraud charges. >> which justice killed a man

in his stool. a tool. there are two possible answers? [laughter]. >> i would go with your first instinct. >> it is not marshall. there are two. >> madison wants to steal. >> the first answer is stephen field. >> no. >> can we get another one? >> livingston.

>> why don't you share what happened. >> justice henry livingston was trump -- was punched in the nose by a federalist so he killed the man in new jersey. that was number one. the other justice that killed a man >> the question -- whose question is it? >> which future justice tiptop

the fbi about an attempt by communist to infiltrate the civil rights organization that he headed up. >> thurgood marshall. >> that is correct. he ran the naacp legal defense fund. >> which justice was a vocal anti-semite and would leave the room and his colleague and first jewish justice would speak. >> reynolds? >> justice mcreynolds. he was not a nice guy. none of his supreme court colleagues attended as few funeral. >> which justice weathered four impeachment attempts and as many wives during his 36 years on the supreme court. >> william o douglas. >> wild bill. i think we could have filled an

entire category today. >> this is another rather violent one. which justice was attacked on a train by a california supreme court justice david terry after ruling against his wife for divorce from her first husband. >> it was nominated by lincoln. >> i do not know what century that was. >> paul was there. >> i will have to pass. >> that was field.

>> they are waiting for him to appear. >> which justice had an equally infamous father and fled from maryland to virginia to escape conviction. >> we need an answer. >> this is a shot in the dark. james wilson.

>> you cannot lame his dad for be in the one. this one goes back to team jefferson. >> which justice is nomination was marked by cronyism leading to a narrow confirmation vote so far at least. >> that is about the only thing i know about that justice. now this as well. >> no other justice has been confirmed by just one vote. >> i do not know if we can give

that to them. >> stanley matthews. >> team madison. which justice skipped oral arguments to deal with creditors and ended up in debtor's prison twice while serving on the supreme court. i will give you a hint he was one of the original six justices. >> wilson. >> that is correct. >> you know that the current people are boring compared to this. >> they really are. >> which justice was nicknamed old bacon face because his face

would become so red when making fiery speeches during this election. he is on the bench and he is making fun of his political opponents. old bacon face. >> should we give him a hint? >> he was later impeached. >> it was not rutledge but that is always a good guess. >> would you like to steal? >> daniel chase. >> next question and we are moving to a new category. it is

17-12 so still a pretty close game. next question. sandra day o'connor attended law school with this future supreme court call again they briefly dated. >> rehnquist. >> that is correct they both attended stanford. >> this was one of yours. >> which justice and future chief justice which was a

surprising third ballot of the national convention? >> next question for team madison. which chief justice resigned and turned down a chance to be chief justice after the senate had already confirmed him. we are going to need an answer. >> kelly call lifeline.

>> it was the very first chief justice who resigned when he was elected governor of new york. six years later president adams nominated him a second time but he declined and went on to select john marshall to be the chief justice. >> team jefferson. a majority of the current justices today are catholic but in history there have been 13 catholic justices. this one was the first. >> it is tonnie best known. >> which chief justice. he served as an honorary chairman

until his death. >> berger. >> that is correct. >> after learning that the senate had rejected his nomination to chief justice which sitting justice threw himself into the charleston bay . he tried to kill himself he was so despondent. i can give you a hint. his nomination failed as he referred to the jay treaty as for prostitution. it did not go over well. he was the first presidential nominee ever to be rejected by the senate.

>> rutledge is correct. very good. >> team madison next question. which chief justice granted the motion of the first african- american attorney to be admitted to the supreme court bar. it was the same day president lincoln signed the 13th amendment. >> morrison waits. >> that is incorrect. >> team jefferson would you like to steal. >> i will give you a hint.

>> chase. it is back to team jefferson. which chief justice, a wisconsin native was credited with the supreme court's insistence to remain open for business on snow days even when most federal offices have shut down. >> rehnquist? >> that is correct. another point for team jefferson. >> jefferson has closed the gap. we will enter the final round. let's tacoma score. 20-17.

with this round we ended with team jefferson. we will go back to team madison. so now we are going to give you simplified headlines for supreme court decisions and he will have brief amount of time to tell us the name of that case. are you ready. each team gets 10 questions? first question. tomatoes are vegetables. if you want to pass that is fine. or defense. >> we will pass that one. next women can be cadets.

next question. madison can eating for us. next question mr. rogers helped save the betamax. >> tony. >> sony versus universal studios. >> no unemployment benefits for peyote smokers. >> employment division versus smith. >> that is correct. >> forced sterilization is okay. man becomes president. >> bush versus gore. >> that is correct. >> burglar gets a lawyer.

>> now selling skim milk filled with coconut water. that is correct. next it is okay for amish teens to be truant. >> wisconsin versus yoder. >> that is correct. the final question poisoning your husband's lover is not and international arms violation. that is correct. you want to circle back to tomatoes are vegetables? >> medically. great job and now it is time for team jefferson's lightning round before we begin do you know which case the court decided that tomatoes are

vegetables. >> no. >> it was about customs regulations in the 1890s. it is a good one. >> ethnic french butchers lose their jobs. butchers unemployed. >> why were they ethnic? >> it gives a little flavor. have a generic name. okay. >> steamboat inventor loses monopoly. i'm trying to think if there is a good hint for

that one. >> skip. >> we will go straight to the next one. magazine can mock preacher. next religious groups can sacrifice chickens. santeria? >> i think that is close enough. >> the air force has to pay for scaring chickens to death.

an actual case. >> it sounds like lisa should know the answer. >> did they get credited with the points for the chickens? okay good. >> we have two but your categories. now we have chickens again. rock band gets a trademark. we have done butchers and and we are bakers. bakers can work all day long. >> german saboteurs >> i was not sure if you were

going to get that one. schoolchildren do not have to salute the flag. >> that there was a pair of sisters of the hopes. >> we do not know what it is. >> it is two sisters. >> they share a last name with a pretty known law professor. >> we appreciate the hint. >> all right a president cannot take over a steel mill.

>> youngstown. >> let's check in with the scorekeeper. >> not too shabby. we have enough time for one final round of simplified. we will go back to see medicine which is for questions. and then you will get your drink. they asked if they could have beer on stage and i said no. so madison are you ready. go to simplify more of the same. >> civil rights don't apply to the territory of hawaii.

that is a hint for the one side of the caption. >> the insular cases. >> a religious group can't pamphleteer in the airport. >> that is correct. >> no prayer at high school graduation. lee versus wiseman. >> final question the interracial marriage is not a crime.

>> good job. back over to team jefferson. >> final question states kanban women from practicing law. >> how do you know that? >> rx. these take back control of their school. >> dartmouth. >> minnesota can't shutdown a

scandalous newspaper. >> i believe this was a case where the court incorporated the first amendment. >> just give us a little bit. >> is a faraway? >> no school prayers. >> do you have a hint.

>> we are praying now but it is not working. >> i do not have a hint for this one. with that we have come to the end of the second round. let's check in with madison to see which team? >> i said that is a pretty respectable score for both teams. that concludes the first-ever and possibly last ever supreme court trivia here at the heritage foundation. [applause] our victors will each get their very own gavel that says 2018 supreme trivia champion the

heritage foundation and national constitution center and they will have personalized sounding blocks that you being the gavel on. they will send those to you because we did not order them in advance. please join me in congratulating team madison and taken team jefferson. team jefferson gets to be first in line at the bar. [applause] >> great job guys. >> the only thing we have the fear is fear itself.

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