Exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 7 59. Since row against weighed. Quite often, and very famous decisions, are ones that corked took that were quite unpopular. Let us go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspan and the National Constitution centers landmark cases. Tonight, we are going to be examining a 1944 war powers case of the Supreme Court. It is the story of korematsu v. United states. Aaa iaea detained through the course of the war. Mr. Korematsu said that was wrong. We have two people helping us learn the story. Peter irons is the civil rights attorney and editor of ten books including justice at war, the story of the japanese american internment cases. In the course of researching his book on this case, he found th
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 this is not something that 40, 50, 70 years later we were saying that was a mistake back then but they had their reason for it, they had no reason at the time except to uphold what they thought was a patriotic duty. For the record, i want to get some of this on the screen so people can have the reference. First of all, the chief justice at the time was hare land fisk stone . Hare land fisk stone. He was appointed by herbert hoover. He was a republican but he was he wouldnt be a republican today because he was, in fact, one of the great chief justices weve had. There were also a number of other names that have become famous to people who dont even know much about the court. You mentioned william o. Douglas. Frank murphy and robert jackson. 7 of the 9 members with the exception of Justice Jackson and justice stone had been appointed by franklin roosevelt. They were the new deal justices. When roosevelt threatened to pack the court in
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I really could, like, walk into a Grocery Store and probably i really could like walk into a Grocery Store and probably finde five in a single like outing to walmart, so is very rich with students who had lived that experience and from various perspectives. At i reall the thing i realize when i i started interviewing was that there are so made different perspective there can ever thought about what life might look like for a kid who was five when the schools closed, so when i met those students i thought i should passed a wider net. It was amazing to meet someone that was not able to start their education until they were 10 years old and was pushed throug school in seven years and frustrated many teachers. That was a totally different experience from these kids who quit to school at 13 or 14 through no fault of their own, but because of school closures, so i did my best to cast a wide net and figure out what some of the main themes of the stories were and i have to say that narrowing d
There was evidence of espionage, that it was absolutely false. The fbi had found no evidence to support it. They had all agreed there was no evidence to support this. He demanded, he said it is highly unfair to this racial minority that these lies about them in an official publication go on corrected. The solicitor general in 1994, he stood up before the Supreme Court and said, standing behind every word in light of the military report, claimed there had been asked of espionage and acts of espionage and sabotage. We found these documents, me and other researchers. We put together a legal team in san francisco, portland, seattle, where the three cases started, and filed suits under a provision that means you can go back to court even if after you have served your sentence, even then, you can if you have evidence the government has committed misconduct. In all three cases, the judges agreed the government had lied to the Supreme Court. So they vacated them. The decision and fred koremats