I attended mass earlier in the day. Ruth baderr Justice Ginsburg and her family. The nation lost a heroin and an icon. They also lost a mother, a grandmother and matriarch. We know how hard that is, to watch a piece of your soul absorb the cruelty and pain of the dreadful disease of cancer. I spoke to her daughter and granddaughter last night, expressing my whole familys sorrow, particularly my grown granddaughters, one of whom was a student of Ruth Bader Ginsburgs daughter at columbia. They made clear to me, daughter and granddaughter, that until the very end Justice Ginsburg displayed the character and courage you would expect of her. They said she held their hands and give them strength and purpose to carry on. It has been noted that she passed away on rosh hashanah. By tradition, a person who dies during the jewish new year is considered a soul of great righteousness. That was Ruth Bader Ginsburg a righteous soul. It was my great honor, when i was in the senate and chairman of the
And 15 minutes. All persons having business before the court of appeals issued by the columbia circuit are to give their attention for the court is now sitting. God save the United States. Case number 195331. Committee on the house of representatives. Versus donald mcgann. [indiscernible] good morning. Good morning. May it please the court. The House Judiciary Committee seeks to serve an implied cause of action to enforce the subpoena to compel mr. Mcgahn to testify regarding his duties as white House Counsel over the objection of the president of the United States. Regarding his duties as white House Counsel over the objection of the president of the United States. Dispute over institutional prerogative bears no resemblance to the cases are controversies that could be heard under article three. Moreover, while congress has purported to authorize senate in fact, for that reason. Is there a more fundamental question now . The article three question . Article three standing and federal m
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Assassination attack that left him seriously wounded. Exploring the american story. Watch American History tv. This weekend on cspan three. Let us go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically in 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 landmark cases. We are about two thirds of the way through our 12 week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights 1954 case of school segregation. Brown v. Board of education. We are going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950. In the quiet kansas town of topeka, where a mild mannered black man took his sevenyearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly, four blocks from their home, to the all white school and tried without success, to enroll his child. Black parents into peak felt that the day of trying to enroll their sch
Rights on school grounds. Then at 9 35, New York Times versus United States which restricted the governments power over the press and broadened journalists First Amendment protections. Watch landmark cases, tonight on cspan3 and any time at cspan. Org. Wednesday night on American History tv beginning at 8 00 eastern. Congressman john lewis. The 17term democrat from georgia recently died at the age of 80 and will be buried on thursday. Before joining congress he was influential in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. In 2019 congressman lewis gave the keynote address at a ceremony offering pioneering africanamerican tennis player arthur ashe. Watch American History tv tonight on cspan3. All persons having business before the honorable, and the Supreme Court of the United States admonished who 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 be