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White house Steven Benjamin talked about the 70th anniversary to talk about brown versus board of education. This is about an hour. Madam president , thats right. Try to be good. Call out people. Good afternoon. As President Biden said during his campaign, no one should be in jail for using or possessing marijuana. Thats why in 2022, President Biden requested that domplet o. J. Review how marijuana is scheduled under federal law. Today the administration is taking a major step towards reclassifying from a shul one to schedule 3 under federal law. Marijuana will no longer hold the higher level classification it currently holds over fentanyl and meth, drugs driving our nations overdose epidemic and remove barriers to critical research. This is based on the work President Biden has done on offenses for simply he possessing marijuana. His pardon for simple possession in october of 2022 and december of 2023 lifted barriers to housing, Small Business loans for thousands of americans. The rea
Special event. A Panel Discussion on some of the Supreme Courts most significant landmark cases. When the stories of we the people become cases before the United States Supreme Court and when these cases result in the opinions of the court, history turns. The ways in which we think about and live under the constitution are reflected in the courts interpretations in both their Historical Context and their legacies. Some cases and the courts opinions in them so profoundly alter our constitutional understandings that they can only be rightly called landmark cases, markers of where we have traveled as a nation. As a part of an initiative begun in 2015, the National Constitution center partnered with cspan to create a 12part series illustrating the history, issues and people involved in monumental landmark cases. Through the resulting online videos and other classroom Resources Available at landmarkcases. Cspan. Org, students and educators can analyze some famous and infamous cases. Last ye
Dedication, we are armed and ready. We cannot give up. We will not give in. No more than ever before, we need your art to continue to be the wind beneath our wings. And, again, i congratulate you and thank you and salute you again for this welldever offse honor. [ applause ] this concludes our program. I would like you to join with me in one final applause and recognition for our t honoree a he helps the next generation of americans. Thank you. Youre watching American History tv. 48 hours of programming of American History every weekend on cspan 3. Follow us on twitter cspan history for information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest news. The next, the participants in Landmark Supreme Court cases talk about the legacies. Koramatsu versus United States. During world war ii, brown versus department of education and tinker versus des moines during the vietnam war. The National Constitution center in philadelphia hosted this hourlong event. My name is vince stango. Im the execu
Some cases, and the courts opinions in them so profoundly , alter our constitutional understandings that they can only be rightly called landmark cases, markers of where we have traveled as a nation. As a part of an initiative begun in 2015, the National Constitution center partnered with cspan to create a 12part series illustrating the history, issues, and people involved in monumental landmark cases. Through the resulting online videos and other classroom Resources Available at landmarkcases. Cspan. Org, students and educators can carefully analyze some famous and infamous cases. Last year, we continued this initiative through a series of town hall discussions. Indepth articles on our constitution daily blog and the publication of our 2017 popular civic calendar, which featured 12 beautifully designed mini posters highlighting 15 landmark cases. Todays event is the culmination of this initiative and we are thrilled that our three panelists have joined us to celebrate Constitution Day