The court. His class is about 75 minutes. All right, today we are going to be looking at is the development of Controversial Supreme Court nominations in the late sixties and early seventies. We are looking at the war in court, this increasing surge of controversial decisions from the court. Theres basically two basic principles. This idea that it was a particular job of the Supreme Court to stand up on behalf of people who may not have majority support, whether it was atheist, Civil Rights Activists, or criminal defendants throughout the 1960s. Second, the emergence of this philosophy that some historians have called rightsrelated liberalism. The idea that liberalism was primarily for the protection of individual rights. As a result, the Supreme Court became an important mechanism for this. One problem, that is if youre going to be governing, you have to be able to appoint Supreme Court justices and as we will see this becomes a froth prospect for liberals. The backdrop, london be joh
Well, it said the law said that all new laundries had to be constructed out of brick or stone, but existing laundries, which were made out of wood, which they all were, practically all were, could only continue to operate if they got a permit from the city. And this is what led to this charade, really, where they approved all the permit applications that white people made, say for one, and they denied all the chinese. So in a way this is not really about fire safety. It was one of quite a number of municipal ordinances that were passed to harass the chinese. If we make life so miserable for them, if we make it impossible for them to earn a living, maybe they will leave. So enter lee wiyick, who is e of the proprietors, he had been running it for 20 years. His name was not yick wo, his name was lee yick. That was the name of the laundromat. When the original case was filed, no one bothered to fix it that they didnt get the guys name right, which showed you how much they cared about Peop
Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome fred ryan, chairman, White House Historical Association Board of directors and deborah rudder, president of a the john f. Kennedy center for the performing arts. [applause] good evening, everyone. You will its my pleasure to welcome you to the celebration of the 2018 president ial site summit. The Kennedy Center is the perfect venue for this. Its so fitting because it itself is a president ial site which is dedicated as a living memorial to president john f. Kennedy. And to assure the authentic nature of this historical gathering, the Kennedy Center brought it back to the 1800s in terms of the temperature in washington, d. C. [laughter] and we want thank you for that. [applause] also, weve been given authority from no higher source than the chairman of the board of the john f. Kennedy center for gentlemen and ladies who would like to remove jackets and be more comfortable. So please feel free to do so. This years site summit is the largest gathering
Landmark cases, cspans special series produced with the constitution center, explore and the human story and constitutional dramas behind 12 Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, Petitioner Versus arizona. Number 18, roe against wade. Quite often in many of our famous decisions were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate are 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. Welcome to landmark cases. Our series of looking at the 12 most important cases in Supreme Courts history. We will learn more about the people in the issues behind them. Tonight, lochner v. New york, 1905. It is one of the controversial cases of the Supreme Court, and in fact the story of a baker from new york whose case gave rise to an era that defined Supreme Court cases for the next 30 years. Let me introduce you to our two guests who would tell us more about this important case
Good evening, everyone. Its my pleasure to welcome you to the celebration of the 2018 president ial site summit. The Kennedy Center is the perfect venue for this. Its so fitting because itself is a president ial site which is dedicated as a living memorial to president john f. Kennedy, and to assure the authentic nature of this historical gathering, the Kennedy Center brought it back to the 1800s in terms of the temperature in washington, d. C. [laughter] and we want thank you for that. Also, weve been given authority from no higher source than the chairman of the board of the john f. Kennedy center for gentlemen and ladies would like to remove jackets and be more comfortable. So please feel free to do so. This years site summit is the largest gathering ever of president ial site representatives. These Historic Sites include more than 100 birthplaces and childhood homes, memorials and museums, libraries and landmarks from coast to coast. Were grateful to have the site representatives h