Justice holmes said the constitution is made for people with fundamentally different points of view. The constitution is a debate all citizens can participate in and cspan believes that with its great nonpartisan motto. My justice was the greatest justice of the 20th century. He reminds us public discussion is a political duty. Its not just a right we have of free speech. We have an obligation to educate ourselves about the best arguments on all sides of the constitutions. Thanks so much to susan for her vision in creating this series and to her phenomenal team. Tune in on october 5th. Thanks so much. [ applause ] number 759. Petitioner versus council. C. Madison is probably the most famous piece in court. It existed as laypeople here. Dead and harriet as laypeople here on land for slavery wasnt legally recognized. Odinga brown dissented to affect would take president ial orders. And the presence of federal troops and marshals and the courage of children. We wanted to pick cases that c
Because if they dont, we cant then use their plans to provide the coverage that we want to provide. Now, you can still have a debate about whether that is the least restrictive means of doing all this, but i dont see really how you can have a debate at that point about whether there is a substantial burden on religion because youre comipelling peope do something and if they dont, they have to pay millions of dollars this penal ciin penalti. Every court below that has gone the other way. Im not sure the government will fair nearly as well before the Supreme Court on that piece. But we shall see. Im agreeing with you that to the extent it turns on the fact of the government providing information, but i dont think the governme cases turn on that. Ill turn then to the press. Questions. Yeah. Will atmospherics on kim davis affect the justices thoughts on this . Kim davis is raising a claim under the kentucky state rifra. Her case is obviously a little different because shes a public officia
The but the most wonderful thing was following that, she asked me to join the board of her foundation, and i did. And i was a member of the California State Assembly at that time, and all of the ideas i had are trying to create opportunities for women, becoming a feminist. I took those ideas to the California State Legislature and was able to get many of them signed into law, and one that ill just share with you was, at the time that i was in the California State Assembly, Insurance Companies would not pay for the buildup after a mastectomy. They said it was cosmetic surgery. I was a feminist. I wasnt going for that. And so because of my being able to serve on the board and witness all of these proposals, it came in up solicited, i learned, to move on things like that, and of course i had it signed into law, but my life changed because of Gloria Steinem and ended up in new york every month or so, and let so many different people met so many different people, and gloria was i had not me
You had some heavy and steady rain over the last few hours. Greatest potential for flash flooding will be later today. But notice the bright colors on storm team 4 radar. The yellows and oranges traveling along 301, its a soggy ride. 17 as well. Today its a raw, windy day. Heres a look at the Flash Flood Watch. This is in effect through tomorrow morning. All the counties in solid green. In total the area will see about two to four inches. Isolated amounts could be up to six. Megan mcgrath picks up our storm coverage in georgetown. What you are seeing down that way . Reporter good morning. If you look behind me, the potomac river, things are good now. No major problems. We are still expecting several inches of rain here over the next 24 hours. Which means that people who live in those lowlying areas that are prone to flooding, they could start to see some problems. Being out and about today, we have encountered a number of people who fit into that category. Theyre not taking any chances
Strong wins possible late tonight. That could knock down trees and power lines. It will be a high impact weather day for the heavy rain and increasing wind threat and its chilly too. Temperatures only in the mid50s right now. There it is on storm team 4 radar. This is coming northwest bound. Heavy rain is coming our way. Floosh flood watches are up. 2 to 4 inches of rain are possible between now and the time you get up saturday morning. Impacts in ten minutes. Speaking of which, impacts on news4 traffic. Were having it. Take a look here. At this point we have a couple of problems here. Right now indian head highway northbound at kirby hill road, we have some lanes blocked in each direction because of a problem with some construction popping up here. Taking a look at the top of the beltway, we have a problem. We have brandnew crash we heard about here. We have this problem, inner loop at georgetown road. Heading north, 15 and i70, we have the left lane block because of roadwork. Again,