[inaudible] im ready when you are. Are you live . Are we going . Senator whitehouse. Thank. , you can take a bit of a breather on your return to the committee. What i want to do is go through with the people who are watching the conversation that you and i had when we spoke on the telephone. You were kind enough to hear out a presentation that i made and i intend to have some questions in that area. It does not make sense if i have not laid the predicate particularly for our viewers who are watching this. I guess the reason i want to do this is because people who are watching this need to understand that this small hearing room and the little tv box you are looking at, the little screen you are looking at are a little bit like the frame of a puppet theater. If you only look at what is going on in the puppet theater, you are not going to understand the whole story, you are not going to understand the real dynamic of what is going on here. You are certainly not going to understand forces
About a law enacted by the peoples representatives, that has gone through the process, a constitutional ratification, it must go through the lawfully prescribed process before it is changed. Presentmentive or in the context of statute, and its not up to judges to shortcircuit that i updating the law. That is your job. Laws are clearly written in a context and the circumstances to which those laws apply would change. Does the Fourth Amendment have nothing to say about cell phones . Unreasonable search and caesar was not written at a time when they imagine mobile technological devices that addicted our kids. Does the Fourth Amendment have nothing to say about cell phones . The constitution, one of the reasons its the longest lasting constitutions in the world is that its written at a level of generality specific enough to tech to protect rights but general enough to be lacking. When you are talking about the constable banging at your door in 1791 as a search or seizure, we can apply it t
Versus arizona. Number 18, roe versus wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspans landmark cases where weve been learning more about historic cases at the Supreme Court that have affected the court and affected the country. Tonight the 1961 case of mapp v. Ohio, involving dollree mapp. An ohio woman that refused to let the Police Search her house without a warrant a case that involves some back stairs intrigue at the security itself and all this evolved into a case that was one of a series in the warren courts that changed policing in america. We welcome with us this program and hope you have been with us throughout the series as weve been learning so much about the Supreme Court. Let me
While we will continue to fight for the passage of this bill in the senate, we wanted to highlight today the efforts of the Congressional Black Caucus defined find on many different manifestations of systemic racism. That thisly inspired new movement has elevated the issue, and that people understand this was not a tragedy, one tragedy, and anomaly, but it was a manifestation of much deeper problems in our country. Proud to be joined by members of the Congressional Black Caucus who have been on the front lines, and the house of representatives, fighting for change, and they will share those areas where they have been fighting for with you today. After you hear presentations from members of congress, we will open it up to hear your questions and comments. Right now, i have the honor of introducing representative barbara lee. She is is apart of the congressional caucus and is the founder of the task force in the house of representatives to address poverty. And we have a slogan in the hou
We wanted to highlight today the efforts of the Congressional Black Caucus. I am and that people understand that this was not a tragedy, one tragedy, and anomaly, but actually it was a manifestation of deeper problems. I am very proud to be joined by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who have been on the frontline in the house of representatives fighting or change. They will share those areas they have been fighting for. I have the representative of introducing barbara lee. She is always on the front lines fighting for social net, justice. Thank you madam chair. Thank you for that spirited introduction. Let me thank you for your steady leadership of the Congressional Black Caucus. We are in our 49th year. Thank you so much. I want to thank all of our colleagues who are with us today. The tragic murder of mr. Floyd shows how White Supremacy has affected our country. Systemic racism has been built in this country. Racism is at the heart of every process that we are dealing with