So right then reaffirm the u. S. Afghan Womens Council in Many American women filed various projects to support our sisters in guinness and and i was really the beginning of my interest in afghanistan and the women there. And im pleased to introduce the next speaker. Adam is the New York Times best selling author in a lecture at yale law school. He firmly served as a member of any times Editorial Board and was a Senior Writer for Time Magazine where he also has a weekly law. Before entering journalism, he was a reformed lawyer and staff attorney for the American Civil Liberties union. A graduate of harvard law school, president of the harvard law review in previous books include nothing to fear from a fierce inner circle in the 100 days that created modern america. His latest book on the closest Supreme Court decision to allow virginia to sterilize the young woman for eugenic reasons that the new republic cause in the cells and important new book that takes us back to a really remember
People have had to face justice. Some of them all over old because some of the worst criminals have faced the worlds most lenient penal system. So they will say it is very much halffull, but the idea that not having it all is unthinkable. Some measure of justice was done. It will never be enough, the kind of scale of killing that took place. It is a bit like the u. N. Is completely flawed. It falls over itself. Its at odds with itself but if you abolished it you have to reinvent it the next day. Do you think they would be a similar manhunt one day for syrian war criminals . I really, really hope so. I know that some of the people who were involved in this manhunt are now building is occasion cases so that when they they will be able maybe to prosecute people in the assad regime, people in daesh. What they are doing very bravely is smuggling out documents that could one day prove these people are guilty, smuggling them out of syria and keeping them in europe and going through them and b
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Amy we will discuss Merrick Garlands record with terry oneill, president of the National Organization for women and Ian Millhiser, author of, injustices the Supreme Courts history of comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted. Then to one of the Worst Supreme Court rulings in history. We will speak to adam cohen, author of, imbeciles the Supreme Court, american eugenics, and the sterilization of carrie buck. This was a case about a poor woman, nothing was wrong with her but being feebleminded. As a result with the endorsement of the Supreme Court, they sterilized her against her will and during that time, about 70,000 americans were sterilized. Amy judge Oliver Wendell holmes with the majority opinion to bring three generations of imbeciles are enough. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. After weeks of speculation president obama has announced , his nominee to replace the late Justice Antonin
Nomination not with the intent of seeing the nominee confirmed, but in order to politicize it for purposes of the election. Amy we will discuss rrick garlands record with terry oneill, president of the National Organization for women and Ian Millhiser, author of, injustices the Supreme Courts history of comforting the comfortable and afflicting the afflicted. Then to one of the Worst Supreme Court rulings in history. We will speak to adam cohen, author of, imbeciles the Supreme Court, american eugenics, and the sterilization of carrie buck. This was a case about a poor woman, nothing was wrong with her but being feebleminded. As a result with the endorsement of the Supreme Court, they sterilized her against her will and during that time, about 70,000 americans were sterilized. Amy judge Oliver Wendell holmes with the majority opinion to bring three generations of imbeciles are enough. All that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report.