Politics & Prose @ Sixth & I Historic Synagogue -- John Paul Stevens ("Six Amendments") w/David Tatel:
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Description of Pictures: Justice John Paul Stevens:
By the time of his retirement in June 2010, John Paul Stevens had become the second longest serving Justice in the history of the Supreme Court. Now he draws upon his more than three decades on the Court, during which he was involved with many of the defining decisions of the modern era, to offer an unprecedented call to arms, detailing six specific ways in which the Constitution should be amended in order to protect our democracy and the safety and wellbeing of American citizens.
Six Amendments: How and Why We Should Change the Constitution is written with the same precision and elegance that made Stevens’s own Court opinions legendary for their clarity as well as logic.
Justice Stevens will be interviewed by Judge David Tatel of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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STEVEN_140505_022.JPG: Edith Tatel, David Tatel, John Paul Stevens
STEVEN_140505_098.JPG: David Tatel
STEVEN_140505_164.JPG: John Paul Stevens
STEVEN_140505_496.JPG: John Paul Stevens
STEVEN_140505_498.JPG: John Paul Stevens passed on July 16, 2019. Serving from 1975 to 2010 as an associate justice on the US Supreme Court, he had been appointed as a Republican and, like most open-minded people, by the end of his term was firmly on the liberal end of the court. He wrote the majority opinions in several cases including Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006), which held that military commissions set up by the Bush administration to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay violated the Geneva Conventions. However, the cases which you're most familiar with are the ones where he wrote vehement dissents: Bush v. Gore (2000) which ended the contested election in Florida and gave us President Baby Bush (the 4th of 5 elections so far where the candidate with the most popular votes did not become president -- the others were John Quincy Adams in 1824, Rutherford Hayes in 1876, Benjamin Harrison in 1888, and of course Donald Trump in 2016), District of Columbia v. Heller (2008) which wiped out gun restrictions in the District of Columbia and extended the overreaching Second Amendment's "right to bear arms" interpretation further into our lives, and Citizens United v. FEC (2010) which unleashed businesses to buy elections.
STEVEN_140505_638.JPG: Edith Tatel
STEVEN_140505_736.JPG: David, Edith Tatel
STEVEN_140505_743.JPG: Esther Foer and David Tatel
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2014 photos: Equipment this year: I mostly used my Fuji XS-1 camera but, depending on the event, I also used a Nikon D7000.
Trips this year:
three Civil War Trust conferences (Winchester, VA, Nashville, TN, and Atlanta, GA),
Michigan to visit mom in the hospice before she died and then a return trip after she died, and
my 9th consecutive San Diego Comic-Con trip (including Las Vegas, Reno, Carson City, Sacramento, Oakland, and Los Angeles).
Ego strokes: Paul Dickson used one of my photos as the author photo in his book "Aphorisms: Words Wrought by Writers".
Number of photos taken this year: just over 470,000.
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