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
Hi im Steve Clements and i have a question are china and the United States headed for a new cold war or is it going to be a hot war lets get to the bottom line. The downward spiral began years ago but in the last few days it has really sunk to new lows following a pattern of kneejerk tit for tat ism washington just shut down chinas consulate in texas last week and in response facing shutdown americas consulate in chengdu thousands of chinese watched as the u. S. Flag was lowered from that former diplomatic post as part of americas full court press secretary of state mike pompei of gave a speech asking the world to embark with it on a new cold war with china which the 2 countries already have a trade war theyve got new travel restrictions on each other and theyve been banning each others journalists among other escalation so what do we go from here from a Strategic Perspective what are the right smart moves that america should be making joining me now is the president of the council on
Vicars built on the backs of slaves how much does britain oh in reparations millions pulled out of poverty tour in the commodity boom the pandemic could wipe out latin americas hard earned social and economic gains. Plus why a card and its new billions the german tax darling that wasnt all that was made out to be. The toppling of slave owner edward causton statue amid the black lives matter protesters race among comfortable questions about britains role in the slave trade questions live whether britain should pay reparations for more than 200 years of free labor the transportation of more than a 1000000 africans as part of the triangle trade helped build the british economy the bank of england lloyds of london and some universities have acknowledged their links to the slave trade so how much should britain pay is a way of compensation when brew. And ended slavery the government compensated slave traders with a share of 20000000. 00 pounds or 21000000000. 00 in todays money that money d
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