All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States, are admonished to draw near and give their attention. Landmark cases, cspans special history series, produced in partnership with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court quite often, in many of our most famous decisions, are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Count the vote, count the vote. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of different people. Who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening, and welcome to cspans landmark cases, tonight were going to learn about a case that you may not have heard about. Its the civil rights cases of 1883, consolidation of five cases brought to the Supreme Court to help define the 14th amendment. Tonight were
judiciary committee. i want to bring in carol mosley brawn and also daniel holly walker, dean of the howard university school of law whose name was also floated as a possible supreme court nominee. ladies, i m privileged to have both of you on the panel tonight. let me begin with you carol mosley brawn because you have a unique perspective that i want people to hear. i mean, given the fact you were the first african american woman to the senate, the first woman on the senate judiciary committee, i do want to understand what this means to you and the significance of seeing now a black woman having a as a nominee to the supreme court of the united states. well, to begin with, thank you very much for having me tonight to express my views. i am overjoyed that she has been nominated. judge jackson is imminently qualified on every front. this should be, a quote, bulletproof nomination. but the fact is that some of the republicans have decided to make
right in the median of what federal judges do. there s nothing unusual about her record. she has outstanding experience and has done an excellent job from having that well qualified rating. well, i look forward to hearing her. and hopefully she will have the meaningful opportunity to be heard, the kind of due process she attempted to guarantee for her clients, which as you know, is so fundamental to our constitution. dean daniel walker, thank you so much. nice speaking with you. thanks, laura. great to be on. we ll turn back to ukraine and hope amid the humanitarian crisis. one family taking in, get this, 46 refugees. why they didn t wait a moment to become a lifeline to so many innocent people next. and a high risk for fracture, it s time to make youour move toto help reduce your risk of fracture with prolia®. only prolia® is proven to help strengthen and protect bonones
is it to restrict parental rights in our schools and family decisions? is it to support the radical left s attempt to pack the supreme court? you have praised the 1619 project, which argues the u.s. is a fundamentally racist country. it must have been difficult for her to sit there for so many hours and hear what was being said and the accusations. this is a preview, by the way. daniel holly walker s name was floated at the top of the supreme court candidates. she used to be at the howard university school of law. dean, i m glad you re hear. i have to ask you your initial reactions to what you re seeing. there s an overall theme, and marsha blackburn tends to have a kitchen sink argument to suggest that everything is falling on the shoulders of a hidden agenda