Exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 7 59. Since row against weighed. Quite often, and very famous decisions, are ones that corked took that were quite unpopular. Let us 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 believed in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspan and the National Constitution centers landmark cases. Tonight, we are going to be examining a 1944 war powers case of the Supreme Court. It is the story of korematsu v. United states. Aaa iaea detained through the course of the war. Mr. Korematsu said that was wrong. We have two people helping us learn the story. Peter irons is the civil rights attorney and editor of ten books including justice at war, the story of the japanese american internment cases. In the course of researching his book on this case, he found th
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 this is not something that 40, 50, 70 years later we were saying that was a mistake back then but they had their reason for it, they had no reason at the time except to uphold what they thought was a patriotic duty. For the record, i want to get some of this on the screen so people can have the reference. First of all, the chief justice at the time was hare land fisk stone . Hare land fisk stone. He was appointed by herbert hoover. He was a republican but he was he wouldnt be a republican today because he was, in fact, one of the great chief justices weve had. There were also a number of other names that have become famous to people who dont even know much about the court. You mentioned william o. Douglas. Frank murphy and robert jackson. 7 of the 9 members with the exception of Justice Jackson and justice stone had been appointed by franklin roosevelt. They were the new deal justices. When roosevelt threatened to pack the court in
Into lockdown and checkpoints on the streets of manila as the philippines capital goes into coronavirus like. Australia has joined a growing list of countries imposing south isolation for International Arrivals as of midnight on sunday evil going into the country are asked to isolate for 14 days australia will also ban who ships from foreign ports for 30 days the u. S. Meanwhile has expanded its european travel ban to include the u. K. And ireland and in europe spains Prime Minister is putting his entire country into lockdown the way it did it before age 46000000 people will be ordered not to leave home unless its absolutely necessary and france is shutting down restaurants cafes and nightclubs and cinema. For more lets go to sauerkraut whos in hong kong for a salary tell us more for us about the restrictions being imposed in australia. Its illustrateds Prime Minister Scott Morrison has just held a Media Conference and basically what hes saying is that the strategy will limit or restri
The philippines capital goes into a corner by a slow. Thank you for joining us australia has joined a growing list of countries imposing south isolation for International Arrivals to try to curb the corona Virus Outbreak as of midnight on sunday people going into the country are asked to isolate for 14 days australia will also ban coup ships from foreign ports for 30 days. What weve seen in recent in recent waits is more countries having issues with the bars and that means that the source of some of those transmissions are coming from more and more countries bans have been very effective today and what this measure will do is ensure that particularly a stridency who are the majority of people coming to struggle now on these plots when they come back to. This so far civilization reporter and guys will do an effective job in flattening this as we go forward the u. S. Has expanded its european travel ban to include the u. K. And ireland and in europe spains Prime Minister is putting his e
When they come back to australia theyre so far civilization reporter and eyes will do an effective job in flattening use of as we go forward now after being exposed to infected individuals Donald Trumps doctor says the u. S. President has tested negative for corona virus has also expanded the european travel ban to include the United Kingdom and ireland in an effort to slow the viruses spread mike hanna has more on this from washington members of the coronavirus tossed force walk into the Briefing Room in terms of a new protocol all in the president s proximity must have the temperature taken including the journalists present. Unexpectedly President Trump walks in with his Vice President who had been chitral to leave the briefing and at another surprise he confirmed teeth submitted to a test for the virus last night i also took the test yesterday. And i decided i should based on the press conference yesterday people were asking did i take the test change when he also acknowledged that