Quite often and many of our most greatest decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go to a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believed in a rule of law. Cspan and the National Constitution center. Welcome you to the land more cases. Our 12 part history series. Exploring the people and the stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most famous dissidents. Tonight, we will be learning more about the dred scott case of 1857. Let me introduce you to our two guests to tell us about the history and impact of this case. Chris bracey is at George Washington University Law school professor. He is also the coeditor of a book called the dreads caught case and contemporary perspectives. Welcome. Martha jones is at the university of michigan. She is a history professor there and also the chair of afro american and codirector of the race line his
Am geraldo 50 years now streaming on fox nation i only have one beat by 13 years as of my 63rd year geraldo its good to see you again you too larry youre the real veteran i feel like a young rocky next to you buddy. Ok lets get into it whats your take on the media reports that russian of the get stronger every day offering bounties to taliban fighters well i think a lot of things about it larry 1st of all it makes me fear it is makes me want to puke i get very angry if the charges are true you know when russia was in afghanistan the United States backed the mujahideen we called them in those days they were our allies they were Freedom Fighters and we did you know supply them with the r. P. G. These in the other targeted missiles that they used to shoot the russians so part of the dirty game of the great game the the war you know the quiet war thats been going on i hope these charges are not true they seem illogical in the context of today with peace talks going on we want to get out of
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Seems. Im phil gallo welcome to the program we begin in the United States where thousands of people are expected to pay that last respects to george floyd today in Houston Texas has deployed a c. Unarmed black man whose killing by a white Police Officer in minneapolis sparked a global protests a 6 hour public viewing of the coffin is taking place at the fountain of praise church in houston where he was raised and he lived before moving to minneapolis several years ago the Funeral Service will be held on tuesday. The fountain of praise church a welcome all of that tell us more about whats happening today. All right phil you just mention of the remains of. George floyd have arrived here in houston at the fountain of praise church the city here in houston where george floyd spent many years of his life and today basically marks day one of 2 commemoration days his remains his body are laid out inside the church right behind me we are expecting thousands of visitors off the members of the p