Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite 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 have helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights a 1954 case of School Segregation, brown v. Board of education. And were going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas city of topeka, where a mildmannered black man took his plump 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly four blocks from their home to the allwhite school and tired without success to enroll his child. That trying to enroll their children in s
Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite 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 have helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights a 1954 case of School Segregation, brown v. Board of education. And were going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas city of topeka, where a mildmannered black man took his plump 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly four blocks from their home to the allwhite school and tired without success to enroll his child. That trying to enroll their children in s
Issued tweets denouncing racism and bigotry, former president George Herbert walker are bush and george w. Bush put out statement the same. But former kkk leader david duke thanked the president for his honesty and courage. That prompted South Carolinas Lindsey Graham to plead with the president , you are now receiving praise from some of the most racists and hatefilled individuals and groups in our country. For the sake of our nation as our president , please fix this. How will he fix it . Well ask South Carolinas other republican senator tim scott who said this week the president s moral authority is now compromised. Virginia democratic senator tim kaine will also join us to discuss the debate over confederate monuments that has mushroomed since playing a role in the protest. Plus, just days after defending his chief strategist steve bannon. He is not a racist i can tell you that. Hes a good person. He actually gets a very unfair press in that regard. Dickerson the president said goo
Council. Five of the seven joint chiefs issued tweets denouncing racism and bigotry, former president George Herbert walker are bush and george w. Bush put out statement the same. But former kkk leader david duke thanked the president for his honesty and courage. That prompted South Carolinas Lindsey Graham to plead with the president , you are now receiving praise from some of the most racists and hatefilled individuals and groups in our country. For the sake of our nation as our president , please fix this. How will he fix it . Well ask South Carolinas other republican senator tim scott who said this week the president s moral authority is now compromised. Virginia democratic senator tim kaine will also join us to discuss the debate over confederate monuments that has mushroomed since playing a role in the protest. Plus, just days after defending his chief strategist steve bannon. He is not a racist i can tell you that. Hes a good person. He actually gets a very unfair press in that
Democracy in chains. Ive made no secret of just how important i think this book is, in my humble opinion. [inaudible] we are doing our best, okay . Turn up the airconditioning back there . Okay, okay. My little experience in electoral politics, some of you might know i was on the Durham City Council for eight years in the previous lifetime. [applause] and it seemed to me then that one very important thing in politics is to understand your opponent, and understand where theyre coming from, what motivates them, what they are really trying to do. And as this book shows, i think, that our understanding of what is called at sometimes the radical right, the libertarian right, has been very limited, and that there has been a philosophy and a strategy that goes back decades that is behind much of what we see in politics now. I think there are a few things that can be more important for those of us who dont agree with that kind of politics than to read this book, understand it. And i think will