the law, comply with court orders, what are the odds that it might come before the court again at a time when brett kavanaugh would get one of those nine votes, now that we know he is one of the only people could you even imagine in america who would think that actually nixon should have gotten away with watergate. joining us now, joyce vance, for the great state of alabama. thank you for being here. thanks for having me. as a nonlawyer, i look at u.s. v nixon and a handful of other cases that i can name off the top of my head and i see that as a consensus case. in the legal community, in the legal world, is u.s. v nixon a controversial thing? it was a unanimous supreme court ruling, right? it is not controversial. and much like brown versus board, it is a consensus case that people agree on. that is why it was so shocking recently to see federal judicial nominees refusing to affirm the
well. the supreme court may have a role in the mueller investigation because, right, they could decide whether a sitting president can be subpoenaed or indicted. stay tuned for that one. also, we talk about elections have consequences, supreme court weighs in on national terrorism. general hayden, he s going to join us and break it down. those issues and more in just a few minutes. appreciate it. imagine though, i don t know if you were paying attention to the debate or working on their pretty hair of yours. one of the arguments that was made, hey, you know trent scott was wrong, plus the v. ferguson was wrong. look at it in the adverse. if you reverse it what would happen if you had a court come up and say, you know what, brown versus education, let s just liu it to the states. certain questions are too big just to be left to states and have a randomness on what must be absolute. that s what makes the stakes so big, don t you think?
to his daughter being turned away from an all white school near where they lived. so while the case took on so much importance and represented so many other plaintiff plaintiffs, she lived out her life as linda brown as brown versus board of education until her death last night in her hometown of topeka, kansas. she could not have predicted what she and her dad started, a case argued before the court by thurgood marshall who would sit on the court. the 101st airborne by president eisenhower because a racist governor would not enforce brown versus education. we remember linda brown of topeka, kansas because all great struggles have to start somewhere. this one started with her. that is our broadcast for this monday night as we begin a new week. thank you so very much for being here with us. good night from nbc news
last thing before we go tonight, it was back in 1954, the chief justice of the u.s. supreme court, earl warren thought it was very important that the court rule unanimously in what he knew would be a landmark case for all of us and for all time. thankfully it is still taught in schools today. the ruling by a unanimous supreme court found the school segregation was unconstitutional. the case did not solve inequality in education that. goes on today. the case did send a clear and indelible message to our still evolving country not yet a decade after the end of the second world war in the age of fdr. the brown in brown versus board of education was linda brown. it was her father who objected
manifesto document to resist the supreme court decision brown versus the board of education in the ruling of segregation of schools. people like bill clinton s mentor, who he praised many times, j. william fulbright has been praised throughout his career. it was overwhelmingly signed by democratic members of congress. only two republicans support that. we go back to the 1960 s. passage of the civil rights acts in 1964, the voting rights act in 1965, democrats tried to stop these historic pieces of legislation there being passed including filibustering the civil rights act for months. the actual vote tallies. the no votes for the civil rights act of 1964. 112 democrats in congress voted against it, 41 republicans. for the 1965 voting rights act, 78 democrats in congress voted against it, 25 republicans voted