Unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Hello, and welcome to landmark cases. This is the first of 12 Historic Supreme Court cases well be looking at this season. Mcculloch versus maryland, our case tonight. And for the next 90 minutes well learn more about this significant case, and the people and issues behind it, and why its so important in our American History process. Later on well take your calls, well also take your questions on facebook and twitter, and make you a part of this conversation. We have two guests at the table tonight to help us understand what mcculloch versus maryland is all about. Let me introduce them to you, farah peterson, and mark killenbeck. The first question, of course, why does this belong on the list of landmark cases . Well, one of the most dominant controversies in the interpretation of the
[inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening good evening. Please take a moment to silence your cell phones. I would like to remind you that there is not any flash photography permitted during tonights events. Following the event there will be a book signing will take place upstairs in the library. And do not forget that most of our author events are also online at i would like to introduce myself to all of you folks that are here this evening. My name is state representative joanna mcclinton. Im a member of the General Assembly in the Pennsylvania House of representatives. And i represent the 191st legislative district. [applause] thank you. I was waiting for a boo. The district includes some of my favorite parts of the city where i have spent my entire life your southwest philadelphia, also was philadelphia. Im going to Delaware County and i represent we are thrilled to have you out this evening. As many of you know the free library is dedicated to advancing literacy, guiding
[inaudible conversations] good evening. Good evening good evening. Please take a moment to silence your cell phones. I would like to remind you that there is not any flash photography permitted during tonights events. Following the event there will be a book signing will take place upstairs in the library. And do not forget that most of our author events are also online at i would like to introduce myself to all of you folks that are here this evening. My name is state representative joanna mcclinton. Im a member of the General Assembly in the Pennsylvania House of representatives. And i represent the 191st legislative district. [applause] thank you. I was waiting for a boo. The district includes some of my favorite parts of the city where i have spent my entire life your southwest philadelphia, also was philadelphia. Im going to Delaware County and i represent we are thrilled to have you out this evening. As many of you know the free library is dedicated to advancing literacy, guiding
The west side of the street full of cars new towaway restrictions suddenly appeared. I was like sir, do you work for the city and hes like yeah. And im like whats going to happen to all these cars here. He said this will not go into affect tonight. It wont go into affect until tomorrow. Sure enough that didnt happen. I dont know maybe an hour or so later, here comes the police, putting tickets on every side of the car on vehicle. 60 bones. 60 big ones expensive tickets an assistant in Alderman Michael murhpys office admits, it was a mistake. It was their office that asked the department of public works to put up the signs after a neighbor complained about traffic. They say there was miscommunication between dpw and the Milwaukee Police department about when the restriction should start. Its absurd. Its ridiculous. Jacoy now worries hard earned money may be going down the drain. These people dont even realize that what they were doing was legal. So theyre probably department dispatcher
Lack of emotion by the sportscaster played a role in his sentence. I think the guy is a manipulator, today perhaps the well ran dry, he didnt know what to say or done had nothing left to give us as far as the act was concerned. I told mr. Tollefson i believe the sentence was fair and reasonable taking into the consideration all the aspects. Tollefson was whisked away to jail and unable to comment, he blames drug and alcohol addiction for his crimes and he did not address his victim because they did not want to hear from him. He said it was incredibly selfish and unfair and dishonest. And the family of brad fox were in court today their charity was among the victims. Our day is not going to change anymore whether he went to jail for 50 years or 50 minutes, we have a 5k to put on and well keep raising money for other people. And as part of his prison sentence Don Tollefson will continue to undergo Mental Health evaluation. We have more on the plane crash in the french alps, the state dep