Breyer

Constitutional author and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is interviewed by NBC News justice correspondent Pete Williams on the next edition of Kentucky Author Forum Presents. The program airs Thursday, June 5 at 10/9 p.m. CT on KET1 and Monday, June 9 at 10/9 p.m. CT on KET2.

Breyer, who was appointed by President Clinton, became the 108th Supreme Court Justice in 1994. He discusses his book Active Liberty: Interpreting Our Democratic Constitution, which deals with constitutional interpretation and citizen participation in the judicial process. Breyer, who is known for his pragmatic approach to constitutional law, is generally associated with the more liberal side of the court. A former law professor and lecturer at Harvard Law School, he specialized in administrative law, authoring a number of influential textbooks that remain in use today.

Williams, of NBC News, has been covering the Justice Department and the Supreme Court since 1993. He appeared on a previous program in the Kentucky Author Forum Presents series interviewing Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in 2003.

Kentucky Author Forum Presents “A Conversation with Justice Stephen Breyer” is a KET production. The producer-director is Duncan Hart; Nancy Carpenter serves as executive producer. The author’s appearance in Louisville was produced by the Kentucky Author Forum (Mary Moss Greenebaum, producer) and sponsored by the University of Louisville, in partnership with Brown-Forman and The Humana Foundation.