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
That changed a world series on a missed call. And im sure they probably wanted it back then too. Itd probably changed their lives a little. [smith] what do you think about limiting mound vits. That was an innovation within the last year or so, right . They intro hced that you could one six mound visits in a game. [clemens] yeah, right. So, i kid out trying to do the speed up in the games. [smith] cause all of our kids have no attention span. They want everything over faster. They think its a video game. [clemens] well, it is, it is. But, you have the, you know, you havei tease my boys about everybodys gotta have a walk up song now so you can walk there and be cool. And all this stuff. You gotta have a walk up song, you gotta have, of course, and your sponsors and everything. So thats gonna take time, too. So, theyre trying to speed it up. In the Minor Leagues they have a pitch clock. But, i just got off the phone two days ago with three minor league guys theyve tut from reallygood pis
[smith] of course we got by without it for years. [clemens] we did, but you got technology and there were a few umpires way back when that changed a worldseries. And im sure they probably wanted it back then too. Itd probably changed their lives a little. [smi] what do you think about limiting mound visits. That was an innovation within the last year or so, right . They introduced that you could only have six mound visits in a game. [clemens] yeah, right. So, i kid em about trying to do the speed up in the games. [smith] cause all of our kids have no attention span. They want everything over faster. They think its a video game. [clemens] well, it is, it is. But, you have the, you know, you have, i tease my boys about everybodys gotta have a walk up song now so you can walk there and be cool. And all this stuff. You gotta have a walk up song, you gotta have, of course, you gotta have your commercial breaks and your sponsors and everything. So thats gonna take time, too. So, theyre tryin
[smith] saeed jones, welcome. [saeed jones] thank you, hey [smith] and congratulations [jones] thank you so much. [smith] s. I think its an enorms accomplishment. As i shared with you before we came out,k. I dont like anything. laughing im not moved by anything. [jones] ok. [smith] im totally off. [jones] oh youre elsa. [smith] well, sure ok. [jones] cold. [smith] the second time i read this book, i got teary. Because i really think that it is as moving a story, even though your story is not everybodys story, everybodys story is not your story. Ill come back to this in a second, the universality of it, the fact that we all see in oursea time in our lives when we were trying to figure out who we were. Because reallythats what [jones] yes, that is it, thats the work. [smith] thats what the book is about. Why did you decide to write it . Basic question. [jones] i think like many writs, we write to understand. We write because were curious and interested in something that happened. Sometha
[smith] keb mowelcome. [keb mo] thank you, evan. [smith] good to be with you. [mo] its good to be here. [smith] may i say,i dont e ive had a twoapostrophe guest in 17 years . laughs time for everything, right . [mo] yes. [smith] for the record, its kevin moore. [mo] yes, thats my birth ne. [smith] birth name is kevin moore. [mo] Kevin Roosevelt moore. [sKevin Roosevelt moore. We have a former drummer of yours to thank for chris ning you or coining k, right . [mo] yes. [smith] tell that story. [mo] well, the was a band called the Billy Mitchell trio, and Quentin Dennard was the drummer in that band. They played at a club called the nucleus nuance in l. A. , durin the late 80s and 90s. They didnt have a guitar player because it was a jazz trio. So i would go in and play for free. My job was to play along with the band. It wasnt really a job, [smith] it was a gig. [mo] whener i felt like it. And i would play the blues. When it was blues time, i was on. So then, theyd go, keb mo, all right