Cake. Its a wonderful feeling to know that something so positive representing Jefferson County will be on national television. My job tonight [ applause ] is to introduce the two people on the podium who will be conducting this conversation. Jane henderson is the editor at the st. Louis post dispatch. She graduated from st. Louis and graduated from columbia with degrees in journalism and english literature. She cut short her work as a grad student to go to work as a copy editor in the mid 1980s and later, after three years in the newsroom of the hartford in connecticut, she returned to st. Louis and has been an editor and writer with the post dispatch features department for 30 years. As a book editor, she assigns and edits book reviews choosing from some 300 or so new books each week. Shes written stories about book trends and interviewed many authors from sam and rushdie to e. L. Doctorel. So tonight she adds to that and she will be having a conversation with caroline fraser. Carolin
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
Thank you for having me. Thats a wonderfully brought question to open with and a challenging one. We are living in a moment of crisis, that is hard to deny. Weve been through a string dominated by Public Health crisis. This is the time it makes us wonder us our institutions are going to prove to me. However going to write a challenge like this. I think you get off at the scene is a time of crisis. Because it is a time of testing, is also a time for us to think about what american strengths are pretty what we are gonna as a country and how we government to address numerous problems. See 500 we get here. Yuval thats awfully complicated question. Our country has always tried to strike a balance. Between the dignity and equality and the individual on 100 some form of strength of community and the other. Every free Society Faces that tension. I think our society has in the past, has really emphasize the individual. Emphasized the freedom and defense diversity. That has present enormous adva
Another. The ways in which we listen. Youve written a fantastic book that has to do with understanding and hearing other peoples stories and ways in which they are heard and ways in which you can listen to them. Lets just jump right in and ask you what led you to this book and tell us the background. I worry a great deal about we dont converse anymore. We lost conversation. The political rhetoric on both sides dominates our conversations. This is a conversation about human beings, and ethical issue , and for me it sort of many adolesnce, but realin , i made visit to eastern chad and a form refugee camp. In those camps i say i started listening to refugee stories and i heard i saw the best of humanity and i heard about the worst of humanity. I made many subsequent trips. Many years later in looking at this, i said i wanted to do something we often forget there is real people involved and thats what led to this book. You use this wonderful term real people and as you are talking it occur