president clinton nominated him as an associate justice of the supreme court to succeed justice blackmun. he took his seat on august 3, 1994. he has also been a prolific writer, not just of judicial opinions. many books, wonderful articles, on a very wide range of important legal subjects, both domestic and international. published last september. in a nutshell, in my view, and i am sure you will agree with me, justice breyer's career is powerful evidence of the enduring contributions that a single individual can make to society when he or she is just -- blessed with a keen intellect and an innate sense of decency, justice breyer: that was a pretty long introduction. i will give you a short introduction. i am very happy to be here and introduce you, and i am glad you are all here. i do want to say that this society does a terrifically good job to tell its members and people who aren't members, judges in our courts, and everybody else in the world, something about the history of the court and what we do. you have teacher training programs. you have trained high school civics teachers. you

behind them is the gilbert stuart portrait of c george washington the first president who owned a blackmun then all of the senate felt all of history was condensed i did not even have to turn my head. but what was most excitingnts fm was space the people never sitting right below him there was 100 students whoo is of the reactions they were feeling when an earlier performances the place where they intersect those kids and see a to side as george washington that meant something in the memoranda we use something now in 2016 with spoke to the actors said the most powerful were the authors and they were very candid have otherwise might be different when they were of the age they had seen a black implying georgewerg washington if they felt they were living a story they had nothing to do with this is the last generation who will not have the chance to have that experience because of the show with and has three imagine the past but we do in 20 years it will be a much different country than it is today in the racial makeup is changing in the expectations will change but this is a chapter in one a

one homerun, 18 rbi to 19 batting average, blackmun is having a career year batting .307.hockey, the capitals and forward marcus johansson have been in contract talks in hopes of avoiding an arbitration scheduled for 9:00, they avoided it with three minutes to spare according to th the team and johansson agreed to a three-year $13.75 million deal, the last two years he will have a no trade clause. the 25-year-old totaled 26 points last season. people continue leaving their sentiments on the passing of chief zee, posting memories on social media since the news broke of his death last night. most and -- end with this hashtag. the last one posted was me and chief zee from a game two years ago. we are still waiting to hear about funeral arrangements. all week long people will be talking about that. >> pelley: back for seconds. trump returns to cleveland to see his number two accept the nomination. also tonight, the convention inrunnw.g lo where did everybody go, or why didn't they come? the fallen officers of baton rouge and the families they left behind. >> the knock on the d

blackmun's humanity only need to be visible to you so you never question where the story came from a wide exist. so many people were content to do just that. that's a zimmerman was ever to raise a little over $2000 for his legal defense fund in less than two weeks, a month before he was arraigned. the only weapons of found on tremont's body was a can of arizona iced tea and a bag of skittles he had just purchased from a local 711. but it was a zimmerman with a on his hip that caused him to fear for his left. trey vann was everything they believe blackman should be. the rest of us treat on martin became another of our martyrs, the man became a rally cry, the skittles, the skittles a reminder of lost innocence, the city a symbol of resistance, his family living memory of what american racism steals from us. he did not ask for any of it, before he was assembly was just a boy, he like football and little wayne in airplanes, taking things apart to put them back together. there is a black boy in america trying to become a black man. zimmerman made him into another black boy who would never

the first circuit in the last four years as chief judge when he was nominated to replace justice blackmun in 1984 edition the oath of office in august of 1994. coming on the 22nd anniversary. if you would all please join me in giving a welcome to our lecturer who we are very lucky to have this year. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. very nice introduction. it wonderful group. i'm talking little bit about history, but you know about history, and quite a lot. i was told by historian that anyone can make it, but it takes a genius to write it. [laughter] anyway, books are not that easy. my publisher is great. i wrote a book want about -- found its way into the hands of the los angeles times reviewer. don't ask me how. he decide to write a review and says, this is in the alice in wonderland, the dormouse emerged from a pool of tears and they have heard the story before. [laughter] the dormouse begins to read from hume's history of england, where he reckoned that? why we reading that says alice as we are wet and this is the driest thing we know and that was before breyer wrote the book. [laug

years on the circuit and served in the last four years when he was nominated to replace justice blackmun, and assumed the oath of office in 1994. we are coming up on the 22nd anniversary. if you all please join me in justice brayer. [applause] thank you. very nice introduction. this is a formidable group. i am talking a little bit about history, but you actually know about history. that told by a historian anyone can make history, but it takes a real genius to write it. [laughter] easy fastto that books aren't -- books aren't that the. . easy. that got its way into the hands of a new york times reviewer. don't ask me how. wonderland,alice in when alice emerged in a pool of tears, they have heard this story before. [laughter] why are you writing that, why are you getting that, said alice? that is the driest thing i know. this was before breyer wrote this book. [laughter] >> it is terribly important that you support these things because it is important that people know something of the history of the court. i am very glad to be here. i am glad to be talking about it and i am glad that you

when you have justices like brennan and marshall and blackmun and powell, a lot of them ask her a fewquestions. you could go a whole hour with a handful of questions, whereas now it is not uncommon to have 60 questions -- 80 questions in an hour or half an hour. it is incredible how different it is. scully has stirred the pot. as soon as he got on the, i don't think he waited for, you know, their rookie year of deferring to the other justices. he waited right in and i think just made oral arguments much more proactive or aggressive event. it was to the point where i would often come out of an oral argument and think boy, the supreme court is going to roll this way on this case. i would look at my notes and realized it was basically just is scalia who was going that way. but he had such an overwhelming and fluent over the entire court for the entire event. it was just amazing. he would throw lifelines to lawyers that he was in favor of. he would demolish lawyers. he was antagonistic. i remember once he asked a question and the lawyers sort of paused a little bit too long and scalia sai

when he had justices like brennan and marshall, blackmun and powell, a lot of them asked very few questions with may be a handful of questions. whereas now it is not uncommon to have 60 questions, 80 questions in an hour hour or half-hour. it's. it's incredible how different it is. certainly scalia stirred the pot, soon as he got on their i don't think he waited for the rookie year of deferring to the other justices. he waited right in and i think just made oral arguments much more proactive or aggressive event. it was to the point where i would often come out of an oral argument and think boy, the supreme court is going to roll this way in this case. then i would get my notes and basically it was justice scalia who was going that way. but he has such an overwhelming influence over the entire court and over the entire event that it was just amazing. he would throw lifelines to lawyers that he was in favor of. he would demolish lawyers he was antagonistic toward. i remember words he asked a question and the lawyer paused a little too long and scalia said, counselor, you have four choices. ye