case the lochner case liberty of contract this is incredible in one thousand. which is the owner of a bakery he was the employer he sued the state in new york over the state of new york's bake shop act which limited the number of hours bakery employees could work in a week they couldn't work more than sixty hours a week as i recall after losing in new york's court of appeals in one thousand nine hundred five this employer took his case all the way to the supreme court and there the justices decided in lochner favor striking down new york's law in a close five to four decision in their decision they cited lochner is right under the fourteenth amendment to run his business without state interference apparently the bakeshop act violated that most fundamental of liberties that of employers to work their employees to death the court's interpretation struck down an important piece of progressive legislation and ushered in dark times for the american worker the lochner era as this period is fittingly called so the supreme court decided against child labor against coal

case the lochner case liberty of contract this is incredible in one thousand. words the owner of a bakery he was the employer he sued the state in new york over the state of new york's bake shop act which limited the number of hours bakery employees could work in a week they couldn't work more than sixty hours a week as i recall after losing in new york's court of appeals in one thousand nine hundred five this employer took his case all the way to the supreme court and there the justices decided in lockers favor striking down new york's law in a close five to four decision in their decision they cited lochner is right under the fourteenth amendment to run his business without state interference apparently the bakeshop act violated that most fundamental of liberties that of employers to work their employees to death the court's interpretation struck down an important piece of progressive legislation and ushered in dark times for the american worker the lochner era as this period is fittingly called so the supreme court decided against child labor against coal re

so when you get to the lochner case, the lochner case is i in 1905. the majority rules 5-4 that the right to make a contract is part of your due process. someone can't deprive you of determining how long your working hours are without due process. so president obama's a big opponent to this, but i would ask him, among the other things i'm asking him today, to rethink the lochner case. because the lochner case is really what precedes and what the -- the case buchanan v.worley is predicated upon. in buchanan v. worley is a case in 1917. interestingly, it comes from my state, from louisville, kentucky. there's a young african-american attorney by the name of william worley. he's a republican, like most african-americans were in louisville in those days. he was the founder of the naacp. and like most founders of the naacp, a republican. and so what they do in 1914 is they sue because the kentucky legislature, by majority rule, by democratic action, passes a law saying a white person can't sell to a black person in a white section of town or vice versa. so

you talk about the rebalancing in the pacific, i was out with admiral lochner a little over a month ago, have an opportunity to spend a fair amount of time in the pacific. i can screw up in the pacific if you will, and as you know, we, the special operations community, have at one of her relationship in the pacific for many, many many decades from korea down to australia and every country in between. so we very much value our relationship in the pacific. i will tell you as a look at special operation before we always need to maintain our ability to rescue americans and to capture or eliminate the various threats. so that kind of kinetic, that direct action approach is an important part of what we can special operationoperation s do. but i will tell you, the current and future aspect of special operations that i think is equally if not more important is how to go about building our partners capacity, how we allow them to do with their own security problems. so part of the strategy of u.s. special operations command, building off defense strategic guidance put in place in 22 by secretary