arguably, he and edward leavy .ere cronies john paul stevens, while a practicing lawyer, i think while a judge on the seventh circuit, taught at the university of chicago our school, but taught prelaw, perhaps with edward leavy. john paul stevens was appointed william douglas. in one of these intriguing ironies, william douglass taught edward leavy, at least, perhaps gerald ford at yale law school. william douglas is the person who strongly recommended edward they for appointment to faculty at the university of chicago when there were very few positions for jewish law professors. when edward leavy came into office, he knew that william o douglas was very frail. there were four and then five of us who were his special assistance. we are all under 30. two had been first in their class at harvard law school. powell, and heis gave each of us a sitting judge to read their opinions and to advise them on, you know, whether they would make good justices. i got william webster, who later became director of fbi and cia, and was always too busy to get started on the project, which is fortunate be

back, the e came president decided, john paul stevens, which i don't know if levy made a specific ecommendation from among the final two. if he did. event, they agreed hat the president took this seriously. he read the opinions, he read the research. appoint somebody who was regarded as conservative at the time but a real craftsman as a judge and while the prediction future conservatism definition change, the projection of john paul tevens as a consummate craftsman as a person dedicated intelligent, al, interpretation and application of the law was validated by history, i would say. >> i want you to find more about of ens and add to the mix the fact that before he died, president ford said that justice stevens was the proudest legacy. completely embraced justice stevens. had the privilege of interviewing justice stevens for "the new york times" before he i didn't d he said change, the court changed. every single justice appointed after i with the of justice eption ginsberg. what can explain the transformation of the that tutional debates so justice stevens conceived as a nonpartisan conservativ

one of the things that really had me bothered a couple of weeks ago was when retired justice john paul stevens actually used the word flawed in his criticism of the arguments about the nature and character of the right to arms, and i wrote up log post about it -- wrote a blog post about it. the 1860's, get to one of the things that is abundantly clear is that one of the guarantees established by the 14th amendment, particularly for purposes of protecting newly slaves is that the 14th amendment was designed -- and i senator howardte who said that the great object of the amendment was to restrain the power of the states and at all times to protect fundamental guarantees secured by the first eight amendments of the constitution, including the right to keep and bear arms. there are lots of skeptics about the right to arms. many of them are people who have a very deep knowledge about the conversation that was going on in the early and later parts of the 18th century, and they will focus on the militia clause of the second -- militia clause of the second amendment, and i say thanave to think more co

one of the things that really had me bothered a couple of weeks ago was when retired justice john paul stevens actually used the word flawed in his criticism of the arguments about the nature and character of the right to arms and i wrote up log post about it -- wrote a blog post about it. but once you get to the 1860's one of the things that is abundantly clear is that one of the guarantees established by the 14th amendment particularly for purposes of protecting newly freed slaves is that the 14th amendment was designed -- and i am going to quote senator howard who said that the great object of the amendment was to restrain the power of the states and at all times to protect fundamental guarantees secured by the first eight amendments of the constitution, including the right to keep and bear arms. there are lots of skeptics about the right to arms. many of them are people who have a very deep knowledge about the conversation that was going on in the early and later parts of the 18th century, and they will focus on the militia clause of the second -- militia clause of the second amendment and

i blog about this and one of the things that had me bothered a couple of weeks ago john paul stevensctually used the word fraud" in his criticism of the arguments of the nature of characters. i said we could have a fight about what was happening in the 1780's but once you get to the 1860's, one of the things that is abundantly clear is that one of the guarantees that was established by the 14th amendment particularly for protecting newly freed slaves was that the 14th amendment was designed and here i'm going to quote senator jacob howard who introduced the teement the senate by explaining "that the great object of the amendment was to restrain the power of the states and compel them at all times to respect these great fundamental guarantees cured by the first amendment in the constitution including the right to bear arms." >> there are a lot of skeptics about the right to arms. and many of them are people who have a very deep knowledge about the conversation that's going on during the early later parts of the 18th century. they were focus on the militia claws of the second amendment

one of the things that had me sort of bothered couple of weeks ago was retired justice john paul stevens actually used the word flawed in his criticism of the arguments about the nature and character of the right to arms, and i wrote a blog post about it. what was happening in the 1780's. one of the things that is abundantly clear is that one of the guarantees that was established by the 14th amendment, too girly for the purposes of protecting newly freed slaves, and this was ken's point earlier it was designed and i am going to quote senator jacob howard, who introduced it to the senate, by describing that the great object was to restrain the power of the states and compel them in all times to respect these great fundamental guarantees, including the right to keep and bear arms, and there are lots of skeptics there about the right to arms, and many of them are those who have a very deep knowledge about the conversation going on during the 18th century, and they will focus on the militia clause of the second amendment and you have to think about the right of the english bill of rights. a