RETIRED MEN'S ASSOCIATION OF GREENWICH, Inc.
Invites you to its meeting, December 18, 2024, at 11 am at
First Presbyterian Church, 1 West Putnam Ave., Greenwich, CT.
The program will also be shown on Zoom: https://bit.ly/30IBj21
Hon. Jed S. Rakoff
“Why the Supreme Court is the Most Conservative Branch of Our U.S. Government”
For most of its history, the U.S. Supreme Court has been the most conservative of the three branches of the U.S. Government, ranging from its strong support of slavery before the Civil War, its destruction of Reconstruction after the Civil War, its opposition to the progressive legislation of both Wilson and FDR, and its recent repeal of Roe v. Wade. The main exception, the Warren Court, was something of a fluke, and many of its holdings have been greatly narrowed by subsequent decisions. In this talk, Judge Rakoff canvasses this history and explains why the Court has tended to be so regressive.
Jed S. Rakoff has served since March 1996 as a U.S. District Judge for the
Southern District of New York. He frequently sits by designation on the 2nd and 9th Circuit Courts of Appeals. His most noteworthy decisions have been in the areas of securities law and criminal law. He is an Adjunct Professor at both Columbia Law School and NYU Law School, and also teaches at Berkeley Law School and the University of Virginia Law School. He has written over 200 published articles, 900 speeches, and 2800 judicial opinions, and has co-authored five books. He is a regular contributor to the New York Review of Books, and the author of Why The Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free, and Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2021).
Our next speaker, on January 8, will be photographer Jean-Marc Bara, “From Intuition to Insight.”
Note: Location for the January 8 talk, and future talks, will be Christ Church, Greenwich, at 254 East Putnam Avenue.
The Greenwich Retired Men’s Association offers a free program every Wednesday that is open to the public, both men and women; no reservations are required. Our social break starts at 10:40 am followed promptly by our presentation at 11:00 am. For additional information see www.greenwichrma.org.
