Between america and the american government. So once the war is over and this is a good day to talk about this, today is the anniversary of the firing on fort sumter. Everybody has different ideas about what the nation is supposed to become. Weve really gone through a lot of that with ideas that African American men who fought for the union had ideas what america should be and certainly white southerners had ideas about what america should be. The northerners had ideas. The indians and chinese who were out west had ideas about what america should be. And certainly the northern men who had fought and won the war had ideas. About what the country should be. But the critical question as to what it was going to be was who was going to have a say in it. Weve gone through that as well. Who had a say in what that new nation was going to be was going to have a dramatic effect on what it eventually became. So today i want to talk about women and womens lives in the late 19th century and their r
Programs. Today we want to get your comments on those shows. Are they still relevant . Do they still matter . We want to hear from you. 202 7370001 host many of you are already weighing in on our facebook page. From the boston globe, an event getting in that getting lots of attention, two popes canonizing two popes. The scene, with over one Million People on hand, this headline comes from the boston sunday globe. A piece that really got a lot of attention this week, this style section was called meet the pressure. Host we will get your calls and comments in a moment, but for some look at the other sunday shows and what you can hear on cspan radio. Good morning, nancy. Some of the topics include the return of congress this week, the middle east, and of course, politics. You can hear rebroadcasts of the Program Beginning at noon eastern time with meet the press ergo guests include tony blair and bob menendez, the chairman of the foreign set the Senate Foreign relations committee. Then, t
decades-old supreme court opinion that money is speech and you can t limit how much an individual person can spend. he said if the first amendment can abide by flag burning nazi parades and protests at military funerals, it can abide by people spending as much money as they want to support the candidates of their choices. there s a real division here in the supreme court over what is the kind of corruption that these limits were intended to avoid. the court s majority said that there s no indication that spending as much as you want on all candidates put together would increase the chances of corrupting an individual candidate, the so-called quid pro quo corruption, i give you something, you give me something back. the minority said that misreads what the law s intended to avoid. the minority here is saying that the law is really trying to get at is a different kind of corruption of the wealthy voices drowning out the others. justice steven briere writing said, the court substitutes fo
decades-old supreme court opinion that money is speech and you can t limit how much an individual person can spend. he said if the first amendment can abide by flag burning nazi parades and protests at military funerals, it can abide by people spending as much money as they want to support the candidates of their choices. there s a real division here in the supreme court over what is the kind of corruption that these limits were intended to avoid. the court s majority said that there s no indication that spending as much as you want on all candidates put together would increase the chances of corrupting an individual candidate, the so-called quid pro quo corruption, i give you something, you give me something back. the minority said that misreads what the law s intended to avoid. the minority here is saying that the law is really trying to get at is a different kind of corruption of the wealthy voices drowning out the others. justice steven briere writing said, the court subs
reporter: sharon love stayed out of the courtroom for much of the afternoon understandable given the subject matter, her daughter s autopsy. over the past nearly two years you have seen this picture of yardly love. in court on monday jurors in the trial of her ex-boyfriend saw a number of vastly different pictures, autopsy photographs showing bruises on her legs, arms, hands and massive bruises on her face. remember it all comes after last week s testimony from love s roommate that she saw love nearly naked the night before she died and she had no injuries. defense attorney is not involved in the case but like much of his small college town he is following it closely. he said those autopsy photographs are particularly helpful for the prosecution. if they can t show malice it s not a murder and that s why they are building this evidence. reporter: in court the defendant tried to avoid looking at the photographs. in cross, his defense team attempted to demonstrate that lo