to decree -- to continue the degree of separation to edwin meese, he received his master's from edwin meese patel and undergraduate university of study, the university of yell. he also teaches at the george washington university. stuart taylor will be our last, but not least in any way on this panel. he is currently a contributing editor to "national journal" and "newsweek." is also a senior fellow at the brookings institute, and was previously a supreme court correspondent for "the new york times." he graduated from harvard law school, but despite that handicap has done quite well for himself, including his outstanding book on the shameful injustice of the duke law cross case, which she co-wrote with professor casey johnson. insight from that book might be relevant today regarding the failed criminal charges for dominique strauss-kahn, where casey antony, but hopefully today we will urge him to stick to the supreme court's term. with that, let me welcome jess bravin to begin our program. [applause] >> thank you, todd gaziano. well, as scribes, our job is to make the supreme court int

hosted by the heritage foundation and moderated by edwin meese, live coverage at 10:00 a.m. eastern. next, a discussion on science and innovation in the u.s. appeared we will hear from the head of the national institutes of health, dr. francis collins. hosted by the brookings institution, this panel is about an hour. >> i was a host of the show called "the next big thing, " and so we're going to look at the next big thing. francis collins played a significant note -- role in this project. what is going to me next? what do you say has emerged in will emerge as the possible next big thing? >> it has been tenure stuns the publication of the draft sequence of the human genome. there has been a decade-long experience and paramount about reflection of how far we've come in those 10 years. for researchers, this is utterly transformed the way that we ask in tried answer questions about human biology. graduate students have a hard time imagining how actually people did anything worthwhile in studying human biology without this information. it is so much a minute to minute, hour at ou

edwin meese who is chairman of center for legal and judicial studies and also the attorney general of the united states. [applause] >> thank you, rachel. 10 inequities and gentlemen. i join with rachel and thank them on behalf of heritage, specifically center for the clinton judicial studies at communications departments. her journey presenting this program today on her annual scholars and scribes review the supreme court term. while of course the most look for event at the end of every supreme court term didn't take place this year. that is nobody retired. as he so far is related to the president. looking back over the term it's been an interesting turn. your help from the experts about the legal community and from the journalist community. but it is interesting to note that we have continued one tradition and that is that the most overturned circuit was of course the ninth circuit. our friends from the western part of the united states, with 84% reversal rate. come and now would have been -- had the highest percentage except for the second circuit. he only had two cases they're both

edwin meese. he's also the 75th attorney general of the united states. mr. meese. [applause] >> well, thank you, rachel, and thank you, ladies and gentlemen. i join with rachel in welcoming you on behalf of heritage. that's specifically our center of legal and judicial studies. we're jointly presenting this program today on our annual scholars and scribes review of the supreme court term. well, of course, the most looked for event at the end of every supreme court term didn't take place this year. that is nobody retired. at least so far. but looking back over the term it's been an interesting term. you are going to hear about it from the experiod of times, both from the legal community and the journalistic community. we have continued one tradition and that is that the most overturned circuit was, of course, the ninth circuit. our friends from the western part of the united states with 84% reversal record. now they would have been the -- had the highest percentage except for the second circuit. technically they outdid the ninth circuit. in terms of reversal the nin