Whatever gadgets you may have. So they dont interfere with our system here. Thank you, now, as you know warehouse tonight is Justice Sonia sotomayor, we are very pleased to have the justice with those tonight. I want to thank her on behalf of the society for giving her time, when we call upon her to participate in events like this. Because its quite important to us, and quite important to you. And we marry much appreciate it. Ill tell you briefly a little bit about the justice. She is a native new yorker, born in the bronx, very unhappy about last nights baseball game i guess, the boston red sox. She did her undergraduate work at princeton, and then to yell last school. Then joined the District Attorney in new york county, as an assistant District Attorney. After several years there in private practice in new york she was a litigator in the International Commercial law. That attracted attention and before long she had become a Federal District judge on the Southern District of new york
Among her peers. She was tireless on a number of liberal issues and out spoken. Some of them were particularly important with gender discrimination and she worked tire e tirelessly to protect womens rights and concerned with civil liberties. These are timeless issues particularly for liberals and a point at this time when liberals were for strong and conservative chief Justice Roberts tilting conservative but treading a middle ground lately. You kind of wonder whats going to happen. A lot of us expect whats going to happen the next few months. It is likelihood the president will draw from that list provided by the federal society, american conservative justices and well begin to see how it will unfold in the senate process. Larry, how possible is it to brush nominees through the system in the next few months . It is entirely possible. It is entirely possible. I would suspect Mitch Mcconnell to make this first on his todo list. He wants to get it through as quickly as possible. Time is
Seat on the court, just about 50 days before election day. Nbcs tracie potts has a look at Justice Ginsburgs life. Reporter Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg spent more than a quarter century on the u. S. Supreme court and spent much of her career fighting for equality. How wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like. Reporter born in brooklyn, new york, she tied for first in her class at columbia law. But with no job offers from law firms, this was the late 50s, she taught at columbia, then worked on the womens rights project in the 70s. As their lawyer she won five of six cases before the us Supreme Court. Her ultimately goal was to get sex discrimination treated by the Supreme Court the same way race discrimination was treated. Reporter president clinton made her the second female on the nations highest court where she continued to even the playing field, supporting reproductive rights and the lgbtq community. While her rulings leaned liberal, off the bench she was Clo
Cspan 3, created by americas table Television Companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. More now on the Supreme Court case brought by jehovahs witnesses to overturn a West Virginia line the 1940s requiring students to salute the u. S. Flag. You are in for a treat. As the cofounder of the Jackson Center we are thrilled to have this opportunity to commemorate one of Justice Jacksons foremost opinions, if not his number one. West virginia versus barnett. We have some of the individual that we will be hearing to just recap to 2002, i believe, i tracked down murray and Lillian Barnett and had a chance down in charleston area, i didnt know as was happening, but all of a sudden this guy where the camcorder track two down and we had a chance to chat. And you are gracious enough to put up with me. Some of the interviews you just saw, in 2006 we had a chance to bring the barracks disturbs here. And together with our friends at cspan, filmed a presentatio
In 1943, the Supreme Court ruled in West Virginia state board of education versus barnett that Public School students could not be forced to salute the american flag. Some students opposed saluting the flag on religious grounds. Up next, a conversation about that Supreme Court decision. One of the first cases of, note, was the gobitas versus case. In the presentation is robert zick, core producer and spokesman for the world of jehovahs witnesses. They will be presenting from gobitas two barnett. Mr. Zick. Well thats a tough act to follow. I will need a screen. Well first of all, it gives me an opportunity, actually, a nice opportunity, to just mention we are really appreciative for the privilege of being here at the jackson center. We work with a tremendous staff, professional, qualified, and really such a pleasure to work. Of course, great peterson, who is a spirit behind the activities throughout the center, team captain who helped open up an opportunity to actually speak to a wider