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Leandra kruger. and judge michelle childs. and theres also cherilyn eiffel. we havent had a civil rights lawyer on the board since thurgood marshal. >> professor, if you had the ear of the president, if you were advising him on this pick of the aforementioned, who would melissa murray endorse? >> all of these women are fantastic. i know many of them personally and i cant choose. this is an abundance of riches and its absolutely wonderful the president has this array of

Would not may any recommendations and draw any conclusions? et it seems to pretty clearly in this draft draw the conclusion that most reperforms to the supreme court are unwise and unwarranted. the report is very sour on the idea of court expansion, luke-warm on the idea of term limits passed by statute. pretty dubious about the idea of limiting the courts power over democratically enacted legislation. this is a report that essentially says, everything is more or less fine now. lets not tinker w...

The draft report saying, look, youre saying youre not drawing conclusions but so sour on court expansion its clearly one-sided. theres a real chance members like cherilyn eiffel may push back and ultimately force the commission to force a report that is neutral, pick both sides of the arguments more fairly. end of the day, i really doubt there will be any truly favorable unqualified language for one single reform. again, the members of this commission are very much institutionalists. none of the...

To me, the lesson of the kkk act is that white supremacy as a force can never be eradicated permanently, but with the will of the state violent terror can be vanquished and our governments job, our presidents job, our nations job is to vanquish it. i want to talk to someone who spent her adult life fighting against hatred, renowned civil rights attorney cherilyn eiffel, and with the naacp legal defense fund. >> i think of you as the civil rights attorney and when you hear the discussion about wh...

Much. >> what would you say your position today is on a womans right to choose? >> as a judge. >> as a judge. >> as a judge it is an important precedent of the supreme court. by it, i mean roe v. wade and planned parenthood versus casey, its been reaffirmed many times. casey is precedent on precedent. >> precedent on precedent. i am joined by people who know their way around precedents, sharon eiffel, elise hope, and my favorite legal eagle nprs nina totenberg who is still covering the hearing t...

He made -- executive privilege with the morrison case, whether the presidential has the power to be free from investigation while in office, which is the key issue with trump. and coons said there were four documents he thinks are critical from kavanaughs past. >> turning to you elise, one thing ive learned legally is that generally if i have a legal concept and cherilyn eiffel has to correct me, shes probably right. they were exciting hearings. my question is, what does it tell you that more th...

Community. starbucks just called on you to get involved in the training. >> we actually got a call initially from cherilyn eiffel and heather mcgee, two advisers to the star bucks family and they had begun a process with working with a design firm that specializes in creating these amazing human transformation experiences. so we sat down with sy partners and immediately clicked on what the opportunity was to really take this huge scale approach and really educate and begin the awareness around w...

Change? was it meant to? and where do we go from here? im joined by formpler congressman by the president of the naacp. cherilyn eiffel the president of the legal defense and education fund and msnbc political analyst ron reagan. congressman, what now? >> well, i think what now is we take the conversation beyond thenous rooms into communities, into churches and synagogues around the dinner table, in neighborhood associations, everywhere people want to discuss this. to be able to talk about somet...

Its been nearly a week since the george zimmerman verdict. what motivated the president to speak so personally now about ris and his own experience as a black man in america six days after the verdict? for that i turn to two white house reporters peter alexander and april ryan of the urban rao network. peter, i was watching andrea mitchell. they broke out of her program and go into the pr esroom. it looked to me like the president was joking with you as he got to the podium. and then delivered t...

What it took to create america. it took hard work, it took americans of every race in every part of this country standing for the principle of equality and thats what we are expecting from americans and from congress this summer and into the fall. >> thank you so much, cherilyn. tom, quickly speaking of equal rights, and tomorrow we have two major cases to be heard from tomorrow. is tomorrow the last day of the term. so we will hear about gay marriage tomorrow. >> thats absolutely right. court c...