Abortion Debate between Michael Waldman and Judge Napolitano
Come see Judge Andrew Napolitano go head to head with Michael Waldman about the legal, ethical, and social issues associated with the topic of abortion. See the biographies of each speaker below.
- Date: Thursday, October 15th
- Time: 7:30pm - 9:00pm
- Location: Tate Grand Hall
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Former White House Chief Speechwriter Michael Waldman spent seven years shaping the way the world views presidential policy, Washington, D.C., and the nation. A nationally prominent public interest lawyer, government official, teacher and writer, Waldman is also the Director of the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law.
Mr. Waldman was Director of Speechwriting for President Bill Clinton from 1995-1999, serving as Assistant to the President. He was responsible for writing or editing nearly 2,000 speeches, including four State of the Union speeches and two Inaugural Addresses. Previously, he was Special Assistant to the President for Policy Coordination (1993-1995). Mr. Waldman was the top administration policy aide working on campaign finance reform, one of the Center’s signature issues, and drafted the administration’s public financing proposal.
One of the few senior aides who remained with President Clinton throughout both terms, Waldman experienced the workings of power from the inside, from the “War Room” in Little Rock to the war in Kosovo.
Waldman is the author of several books, including My Fellow Americans: The Most Important Speeches of American Presidents (Sourcebooks, 2003); POTUS Speaks: Finding the Words that Defined the Clinton Presidency (Simon & Schuster, 2000); and Who Robbed America? A Citizens’ Guide to the Savings and Loan Scandal (Random House, 1990).
Prior to his government service, Waldman was the director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch, then the capital’s largest consumer lobbying office. After leaving the White House, he was a Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government (2001-2003), teaching courses on political reform, public leadership and communications. Most recently he has been a litigator in private practice in New York. Waldman appears frequently on television and radio to discuss public policy, the presidency and the law.
Waldman is a graduate of Columbia College (B.A., 1982) and New York University School of Law (J.D., 1987), where he was a member of the Law Review.
A popular political commentator who has appeared on Good Morning America, Nightline and MSNBC’s Hardball, Waldman speaks out in his own voice and brings his one-of-a-kind perspective to the lecture podium. His behind-the-scenes perspective and personal experiences shaping the presidential message paint a clear picture of life within the White House. Waldman tells the gripping untold stories of working during President Clinton’s media-frenzied two terms. In addition, he looks outside the Beltway to offer invaluable lessons for American corporations and organizations on how to project stability and maintain a committed vision during times of crisis or uncertainty.
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While on the bench from 1987 to 1995, Judge Napolitano tried more than 150 jury trials and sat in all parts of the Superior Court —criminal, civil, equity and family. He has handled thousands of sentencings, motions, hearings and divorces. For 11 years, he served as an adjunct professor of constitutional law at Seton Hall Law School, where he provided instruction in constitutional law and jurisprudence. Judge Napolitano returned to private law practice in 1995 and began television broadcasting in the same year.
Judge Napolitano joined FOX News Channel (FNC) in January 1998 and currently serves as the senior judicial analyst. He provides legal analysis on both FNC and FOX Business Network (FBN). He is also a fill in co-host for FOX & Friends and regularly co-hosts FOX News Radio’s Brian and The Judge show daily. He hosts “FreedomWatch” on Foxnews.com Wednesdays at 2 p.m., Eastern time.
Judge Napolitano has written four Books: Constitutional Chaos: What Happens When the Government Breaks Its Own Laws; a New York Times Best-Seller, The Constitution in Exile: How the Federal Government Has Seized Power by Rewriting the Supreme Law of the Land; A Nation of Sheep, and Dred Scott’s Revenge: A Legal History of Race and Freedom In America. His work has also been published in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The New York Sun, The Baltimore Sun, The (New London) Day, The Seton Hall Law Review, The New Jersey Law Journal and The Newark Star-Ledger. He lectures nationally on the Constitution, the rule of law and human freedom.
Judge Napolitano received his undergraduate degree from Princeton University in 1972, and received his Juris Doctor from University of Notre Dame in 1975.
At the podium, Judge Napolitano tenaciously defends the natural law freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. Famous for his candid remarks, signature wit and personal anecdotes, Judge Napolitano is the American media’s most outspoken analyst of the legal system, most fervent critic of government intervention into personal lives and commercial transactions, and most passionate defender of the Constitution. With great conviction and brutal honesty, Judge Napolitano reminds audiences what America is all about: the purpose of government is to protect our freedoms; you cannot make a poor person rich by making a rich person poor; and that the engine of our prosperity has been rugged individualism, not government intervention.
