Breyer accepts Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law - - CBS19 News
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- Associate Justice Stephen Breyer was at the University of Virginia School of Law on Tuesday.
While there, he accepted the 2022 Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law, which is the highest honor that can be conferred by UVA and the Thomas Jefferson Foundation at Monticello.
UVA President Jim Ryan spoke briefly about the award during the presentation.
"What an honor it is for me, what a real honor it is to receive this," said Breyer. "And I think of Thomas Jefferson and I think of that word, values."
While at the UVA School of Law, he spoke on various issues, such as affirmative action.
“I can’t be 100 percent certain that people are disagreeing about means to the same end, and the end, what is the end? The end is you have a country of 331 million people where each of those people respects the other person as a person, okay,” he said. “And so what we faced at the time of Brown [v. Board of Education] and at later times, and with affirmative action was, let’s say, [Associate Justice] Thurgood Marshall, until you have Black and white children together in the same classroom in the fourth grade, you’re going to get attitudes that are unhealthy and maybe you need some affirmative action to get there. Those are points of view too. Now I have my point of view, other people have their point of view.”
Breyer will be retiring at the end of the 2021-22 term. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson will be replacing him on the Supreme Court.
The Thomas Jefferson Foundation Medals go to people who have made outstanding contributions to one of three fields in which Thomas Jefferson excelled: Architecture, Citizen Leadership and Law.
source: http://www.cbs19news.com/story/46277831/breyer-accepts-thomas-jefferson-foundation-medal-in-law
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