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Jan Crawford Greenburg and Supreme Conflict
Start:  Wednesday, May 30, 2007  5:30 PM
End:  Wednesday, May 30, 2007  7:00 PM

In her widely acclaimed new book Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court (Penguin Press, 2007), Jan Crawford Greenburg provides a fascinating account of recent clashes in the ongoing battle over the composition of the Supreme Court. As the Court's first full term with both Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito approaches its final weeks, Ms. Greenburg discussed her book and offered her insights on the Court's direction.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

 
Jan Crawford Greenburg is an ABC News correspondent based in Washington, D.C. She covers the Supreme Court and provides legal analysis for all ABC News broadcasts.

Prior to joining ABC, Ms. Greenburg was the national legal affairs reporter for the Chicago Tribune, where she covered the Supreme Court and national legal issues, including judicial appointments and confirmation battles. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and of the University of Alabama. 



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E-mail: jsawyer@eppc.org
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Gift subscriptions to EPPC's journal 'The New Atlantis' now available

 

Technology and Society
The Age of Neuroelectronics

For decades, experiments at the border between brains and electronics have led to sensationalistic media coverage, vivid science fiction portrayals, and dreams of cyborgs and bionic men. But recently, this area of science has seen remarkable advances -- from robotic limbs controlled directly by brain activity, to brain implants that alter the mood of the depressed, to rats steered by remote control. In this New Atlantis article, EPPC Fellow Adam Keiper explores the peculiar history and present directions of this research, and considers the challenges of staying human in the age of neuroelectronics. 

M. Edward Whelan III
Blogging on the Courts

EPPC President Edward Whelan, the director of the program on The Constitution, the Courts, and the Culture, is a leading contributor to Bench Memos, National Review Online's award-winning blog on judicial nominations and constitutional law. You can read a list of all of his postings here.

Here is some of the praise Mr. Whelan has received for his blogging:

From Steve Schmidt, who, as special adviser to President Bush, led the White House's efforts to confirm the Supreme Court nominations of John Roberts and Samuel Alito: "Ed Whelan was the most influential and valuable commentator on the nominations of Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Alito. His remarkably rapid, thorough, and reliable responses to the distorted attacks on the nominees prevented those attacks from gaining traction. The White House was deeply grateful that he was on our side."

From Paul Mirengoff of the influential Power Line blog:  "Blogs like NRO’s Bench Memos … enable legal super-stars like Ed Whelan to shoot down bad arguments against nominees within hours." 


"Cube and Cathedral" Now in Paperback

Senior Fellow George Weigel's 2005 book The Cube and the Cathedral -- a Foreign Affairs bestseller -- is now available in the United States in paperback, and has been published in several foreign-language editions: Polish, Italian, and French. For more information, or to purchase copies, click here