Unfortunately, we saw another tragedy with the School Shooting in parkland, florida. Betsy devos the education , secretary, we just learned, has made comments that Congress Needs to hold hearings looking into these types of issues dealing with School Shootings. Your committee and your leadership you have not chosen , to go that route into gun violence. Do you think that mrs. Devos recommendation is a good one . Rep. Goodlatte we will consider that. We do believe that communities need to make sure that theyre doing everything to keep their schools secure. When i visit schools around my Congressional District i know that a lot of measures are taken today that were not taken 20 years ago when i first started visiting schools as a member of congress. You could go up to the door and walk right in. Now they are always locked and always seven has been arranged to meet me at the door and sign me in. Those precautions need to be taken. Obviously there are extraneous circumstances that lead to i
Landmark cases cspans producedistory series in cooperation with the National Constitution center, is boring that in his stories and constitutional dramas but to get Supreme Court decisions. Quite often, and many of our most famous decisions, a coupler quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what society of live in a 310 million different people. They helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Welcome to landmark cases, our series is looking at 12 of the most important cases in the Supreme Court history, we will lend more about the people and the issues behind them. Tonight we will talk about the case of lochner v. New york. This case give rise to an error that defines this report for the next 34 years. Let me introduce you to our two guests that will tell us more about this important case and why has been important for this report and our countrys history. Brandon barnett is that Georgetown University law school. He