Amount of cases and things to talk about, we needed to find someone with a passion for not only the history of the court but understand the dynamics of the history of virginia that were occurring when these cases were being tried. I was fortunate in that i reached up to one of my law school professors. And the 1st thing he said. We were very fortunate. He agreed to come on board. It was a journey he did an amazing job. I had know experience with publishers, editors, or archivists but but i do through this project. And at times controversial history of the United States District Court for the district of virginia. Our court was one of the first courts in america and is one that has a history but a tremendous amount of debt. Others tried to capture that history and found it to be an overwhelming project. So after a couple of years of frustration, we turned to john pierce. Hes not only a lawyer but also a story in and published author and the proof is in his work the history of the court.
This book . We have all been concerned how contentiousness and vicious the confirmation process has gotten over the years. A first i was trying to figure out how much has changed is it more importantly, like, but looking through the data one of the most obvious things is it is getting more difficult on average for judicial nominees to the federal courts, it particularly has got much more difficult for the very brightest and the most influential of these to get on the court. Just a couple of numbers to summarize if you look at nominee is of the federal Circuit Court prep although the Supreme Court, for those who went to the top than law school and graduated of the law review at the top of their class, those nominees took 65 percent maunder to get to the confirmation process then someone who did not go to a top law school. Even a better way to measure the influence hatter to other judges rely on the opinions that they bright . If anything it is the impact if you look at the federal Circu
Youre watching booktv, nonfiction authors and books every weekend on cspan2. Booktvs Online Book Club selection for october is representative john lewis walking with the wind a memoir of the movement. As a young child, i tasted the bitter fruits of segregation and Racial Discrimination, and i didnt like it. I asked my mother and my father, my grandparents, my great grandparents, why segregation . Why Racial Discrimination . And they said, thats the way it is. Dont get in trouble. Dont get in the way. But in 955 when 1955 when i was in the tenth grade, 15 years old, i heard of rosa parks. I heard the voice of Martin Luther king jr. On the old radio, and the words of dr. King inspired me to find a way to get in the way. In 1956 with my brothers and sisters and is some of my first cousins, we went down to the Public Library in the little town of troy, alabama, trying to get library cards, trying to check some books out. And we were told by the librarian that the library was for whites onl
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