{"id":5217,"date":"2019-09-23T18:40:03","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:40:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/wordpress\/lavie\/?p=5217"},"modified":"2019-09-23T18:40:03","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T18:40:03","slug":"judge-gives-talk-on-constitution-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2019\/09\/23\/judge-gives-talk-on-constitution-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge gives talk on Constitution Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p>By Joshua Snader \u201920, Staff Writer<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge visits LVC to talk about what the Constitution means to her.<br \/>\nSince 2005, LVC, alongside many institutions nationwide have honored Constitution Day with an event such as a guest speaker. In 2004, the United States Congress took the step of establishing a national mandate declaring Sept. 17 as Constitution Day. This year Chief Magistrate Judge of the US District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania Susan Schwab gave the talk.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat exactly does this document mean to us, it was drafted 1786 in secret,\u201d Judge Schwab said. \u201cWhen thinking about this, I have to be truthful. Throughout my time as a young girl growing up in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania, in a large Italian American family, where I was the first woman ever to go to college in my family, I can say the Constitution meant absolutely nothing to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge Schwab discussed how as a law student she learned about the important document, but it wasn\u2019t until she became a federal judge that she understood what the Constitution means to her and the people in her court. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am here to tell you the Constitution is alive and well by ordinary people through ordinary people,\u201d Judge Schwab said. \u201cMostly inmates, I can say if there is any group of people that raise constitutional issues in courts; it is prisoners.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge Schwab concluded her talk by discussing the case of a woman who sought to marry a man who was incarcerated and was refused to be issued a marriage license. After writing a handwritten to Judge Schwab\u2019s court, the judge settled the situation without a court ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Schwab had lunch with some students and visited classes in the afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Photo provided by: Huntre Keip<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Joshua Snader \u201920, Staff Writer A federal judge visits LVC to talk about what the Constitution means to her. Since 2005, LVC, alongside many institutions nationwide have honored Constitution Day with an event such <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2019\/09\/23\/judge-gives-talk-on-constitution-day\/\" title=\"Judge gives talk on Constitution Day\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5223,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news","8":"category-features"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}