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Scandalous, blockading of my constituent, merrick garland, who of course now is attorney general. but they're refusing to conduct a hearing for him in the last year of the term, a rule which they proceeded to violate the moment that trump got in, and he was able to nominate somebody at the very last minute. given that 6 to 3 majority, i would tend to favor the nomination of someone who will be able to speak out as forcefully for the democratic constitution, that's a small d, democratic constitution. just as scalea did for a right-wing conservative prosecution. if you look at a majority of the ...

Forcefully for the democratic constitution, that's a small d, democratic constitution. just as scully did for a right-wing conservative prosecution. if you look at a majority of the constitutional amendments adopted since the bill of rights, they've been about democracy expanding, suffrage extending movement and the country. women suffrage, and the 15th amendment to dismantle race barriers, and the 17th amendment to allow for direct election of u.s. senators, and so on. that's the meaning of our constitution. a progressive movement towards democracy for the people. that's what's under attack, ...

Officials Current Position: Previous Co-Chair Shirley Ann Jackson became co-chair of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board on August 29, 2014. The mission of the board, which was established in 1956 by President Dwight Eisenhower, is to keep the president apprised of the quality and adequacy of U.S. foreign intelligence efforts, including intelligence collection, estimates and analysis.   Jackson was born on August 5, 1946, in Washington, D.C. Her parents, George Hiter Jackson and Beatrice Cosby Jackson, were strong supporters of their daughter’s educat...

Go to this play. what i want to say is this, this cast is so far from the elite. this cast is the representative of the american dream. they worked hard, they pulled themselves up by bootstraps before they had the boots on. they worked really hard to make it in an industry, there wasn't space for them. tara, i know you said race doesn't matter in this space. oh, but it does. >> i'm talking about the way that theater folks get along with each other and work with each other. >> i hear you. >> the opportunity is so different. >> so often it is not the story we can tell. this cast is diverse. they...

And someone who was going to be receiving a prestigious journalism prize, john chancellor award at columbia university two days away. she passed away at age 61. >> she's broken gender barriers, race barriers in this wonderful career of journalism. i have a number of voices, i have jamie, nia-malika, gloria here all to celebrate her life. nia, to you first, she was a role model, wasn't she? >> she was. i loved gwen. i was a cub reporter at the baltimore sun. i had a little picture of gwen ifill on my computer that i printed out and pasted on my computer because i wanted to be gwen ifill. she ha...