All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention. Landmark cases, cspans special history series, produced in partnership with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court quite often, in many of our most famous decisions, are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Count the vote, count the vote. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people. Who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening, and welcome to cspans landmark cases, tonight were going to learn about a case that you may not have heard about. Its the civil rights cases of 1883, consolidation of five cases brought to the Supreme Court to help define the 14th amendment. Tonight were
He has also been a passionate advocate for the rights of individuals with disabilities. Ada amendments act of 2008 which president george bush signed into law and strengthened americans with disabilities act. He has served this committee with distinction and will be sorely missed. I look forward to continuing to work with him over the next year and a half as he completes his service in congress. I would now recognize the Ranking Member for any comments he may have. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I appreciate you doing this. For all the accomplishments that you just stated on my side its not only accomplishments of someone i can look over to the left and see on the wall of this committee, for me to be able to sit next to Jim Sensenbrener is one of the highlights of my career, in serving with him. It is often said when you have people you look up to and theyve played an impact on republican side would not have the frankly, the standing that we have, from whaeps done and over time. And it is so
Important, buts it does not help curb the cost of college. The perspective of education policy, theres a few things going on that are interesting. The federal government backs the student loans, but they do not actually administer them. Is not the federal government making sure that students are paying their loans. Its these outside Companies Must be loan contractors. Student loan contractors. The government is turned to give incentive totors make sure students are repaying their loans and doing a good job. Doing a badm are job at that. The are not paid by government based on the performance of students they are overseeing. Some of them are not doing nearly enough to try to keep borrowers on time, give them information they need to be responsible with their loan. It doesnt sound like as big of a deal, but it could stand to make a big change. Host weve heard about the concept of loan forgiveness and maybe allowing some of these student loan holders to simply not pay part of their lives
International lawyers that know it does have the force of law, but it was a declaration like your declaration of independence. Universal declaration of human rights couldnt be agreed to anymore globally. But at least in america we i think overwhelmingly would say we agree. I agree. With the sentiments of the universal. Do you agree with that . I agree with that. The universal declaration grew out of the second world war, largely out of the holocaust written by a jewish frenchman and it was an amazing accomplishment for which he got the nobel peace prize. There are efforts afoot to try to undo it and to try to undo freedom of speech, free done of religion. Freedom of religion. There are attempts to try to essentially put blasphemy laws back into universal exceptions to free speech and i think the United States government hasnt taken a Strong Enough view against that kind of international encroachment on our particular concept of liberty. Many people think it is too american that we are
Some of these areas . It is still the culture of revenge. Are there groups that are willing partners of terrorist . They know the sectors exist in theyre going to do it they need to did. I mention the country of iran. They have definitely helped hezbollah. Theres the question about that. Do we let them do what they do . There are cases of terrorists moving in the country does not do anything about it. Do you think goes on in other countries . Theres no question about it. We talk about the peaceful muslims in the radical muslims which we considered to be about 10 . When the radical muslims pressure the peaceful muslims, will they stand up for they claimove that they have that they get to enjoy in america under the liberty that we have and stand up and die instead of submitting to the oppression of the minority. Peaceful muslims in many countries on earth to stand up more. I fear some of them do not stand up. Fearould americans have a of sharia law . I hear people tell me this all the ti