Quite often, most of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who stuck together because they believed in the rule of law. Cspan and the National Constitution Center Welcome you to the landmark cases. We explore the people and stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most famous decisions. Tonight you will be learning more about the dred scott decision. Let me introduce you about the two guests about the history. A professor and coeditor of a book of the dred scott case. Welcome to our program. Thank you for having me. Martha jones is from the university of michigan and the chair of the Africanamerican Studies Program at the law school. They can for having me. Blacks, whether free or slaves werent citizens of the United States. And they limited the spread of sliverry and saying congress didnt have the authority. So
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This is al jazeera america, good morning and live from new york city im Randall Pinkston and less than half an hour the Clerks Office in kentucky is set to reopen and for the First Time Since june the office will issue marriage licenses now that deputies are in charge. Their boss, kim davis, is in jail for violating a federal court order and refused to issue marriage licenses to anyone to avoid giving them to same sex couples and davis says she was following her religious beliefs. John is live for us outside the Clerks Office in moor head kentucky and what is going on there right now . Good morning to you, randall, welcome to rowand county and the county Clerks Office, at the moment there is a handful of supporters here representing kim davis and carrying plaques and banners and lots of journalists and told same sex couples on the way here for the reopening of this office at 8 00 a. M. Eastern this morning. Not much at the moment but we are told they are coming. At this minute they hav
Interest rates. Happiness and validation for couples in rowen county, kentucky. A few hours ago the Clerks Office began handing out marriage licenses and this couple was the first to receive one from a deputy clerk. While the clerk, kim davis, sits in jail. She defied a court order and refused to hand out licenses to anyone because of her religious beliefs. Were covering the action outside the Clerks Office in morehead, kentucky. John, her deputies were busy processing paperwork all this morning for couples who had been waiting for licenses for months. I understood you met with the first gay couple to get a license in that county. What did they say . First gay couple to get a license since june. First gay couple ever i guess to get a license in this county. First through the doors this morning, its james yates and william smith. They were, as soon as the doors opened, straight up to the front desk. We caught up with them receiving the paperwork and signing things for their marriage lic
This is Al Jazeera America and good morning live from new york city, im randall and a manhunt underway in Illinois Police searching for three suspects wanted for killing a veteran officer and John Henry Smith is here and the area has been all but shot down. Its located 55 north of chicago and it has been as you say in virtual lock down for almost 24 hours now. Police are casting a wide net to catch the people they say are responsible for killing this well respected officer. Local, state and federal officers are searching high and low, house to house for the men believeds to be involved in shooting and killing lieutenant glenawitz tuesday morning. We will search out there and we are pretty successful in what we do and hoping we can do it again. Before 8 00 a. M. Tuesday and he sent a message he stumbled upon through suspicious men. Two whites and one black and shortly there after he informed communications he was this a foot pursuit and his communications then lost contact with him. Whe