Athough originally it was county courthouse of philadelphia. But in the years that washington, d. C. Is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u. S. Capital. This room is for the house of representatives. The second floor was the United States senate. The house of representatives , each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. Around 3. 75ulation million. We had 106 members of the house he would sit in this room, and eventually from 16 states. The story of philadelphia as the u. S. Capital, we are taking the new constitution and doing things like adding new states to the original 13. Also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. In fact, secretary of state Thomas Jefferson would formally announce the amendments to the by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution, which of course, the bill of rights is a huge part of our
I can see we have a few things to talk about today. Good morning. I am caroline. Im the president of the American Constitution Society and i would like to welcome you to our annual Supreme Court review. We are as all of you know and to our viewers on cspan, we are the nations leading progressive Legal Organization with over 200 students and lawyer chapters in almost every state and at almost every single law school. We originally formed as the progressive response after the bush versus gore decision. Acs was founded on the principle that law should be a force to the lives of all people. [applause] saye should not have to that is an aspiration but that is. That brings us to the Supreme Court term that ended yesterday. It left us with quite a number of Unanswered Questions and some that were answered in ways that we may not have liked. But, it all leads us to the conclusion that courts really matter. Whether you care about the environment, immigrants rights, an accurate census, or fear a
Long as they have in essence extra funds. Another possibility could be that the Supreme Court could hear oral arguments at the beginning of october if it wanted to. Theres a lot of speculation and a lot of uncertainty right now. The next we will take you live now to that discussion on the just completed Supreme Court term. We are live at the National Press club for a panel hosted by the american constitution society. After the bush v. Gore decision and acs was founded on the principle that law should be a force to improve the lives of all people. Now, the Supreme Court term that ended [ applause ] i know, it shouldnt we shouldnt actually have to say that thats an aspiration, but unfortunately it is. And that brings us to the Supreme Court term that ended yesterday and left us with quite a number of Unanswered Questions and some that were answered in ways that we might not have liked. But that all lead us to the coulden collusion that courts really matter and whether you care about the
Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. We have new revelations tonight about the ex president s coup plotting that contain some of the most incriminating evidence yet, ill explain. So in the weeks following the election with his defeat appearing one more certain trumps scheme to sustain power, as we have chronicled on the show, became increasingly desperate. And his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, had been spreading all sorts of conspiratorial nonsense about the Voting Machines for weeks. Falsely claiming that the Voting Machines rig the election for biden. Its way beyond what people think. Including a very very dangerous Foreign Company that says thats not american, thats far. A company that has close ties with venezuela and therefore china. And they were using venezuelans Company Software that was used to steal elections and other countries. I dont think people have an idea of the dimension of the National Security problem this dominion creates this Dominion Company is a radical
Good evening from new york, im chris hayes. We have new revelations tonight about the ex president s coup plotting that contain some of the most incriminating evidence yet, ill explain. So in the weeks following the election with his defeat appearing one more certain trumps scheme to sustain power, as we have chronicled on the show, became increasingly desperate. And his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, had been spreading all sorts of conspiratorial nonsense about the Voting Machines for weeks. Falsely claiming that the Voting Machines rig the election for biden. Its way beyond what people think. Including a very very dangerous Foreign Company that says thats not american, thats far. A company that has close ties with venezuela and therefore china. And they were using venezuelans Company Software that was used to steal elections and other countries. I dont think people have an idea of the dimension of the National Security problem this dominion creates this Dominion Company is a radical