Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets 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 have helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights a 1954 case of School Segregation, brown v. Board of education. And were going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas city of topeka, where a mildmannered black man took his plump 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly four blocks from their home to the allwhite school and tired without success to enroll his child. That trying to enroll their children in s
Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets 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 have helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights a 1954 case of School Segregation, brown v. Board of education. And were going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas city of topeka, where a mildmannered black man took his plump 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly four blocks from their home to the allwhite school and tired without success to enroll his child. That trying to enroll their children in s
Colorado Supreme Court. She left there perhaps 10 or 11 years ago to be the founding director of the institute for the advancement of the american legal system. She does all sorts of research and programmatic work on the improvement of the court and the improvements of Legal Education in the legal profession. And then, profess them Professor William henderson, after his Legal Education at the university of chicago became a clerk at the seventh circuit, but happily has spent his recent career at the Indiana University school of law and id say theres nobody whos done more intriguing work about the future of our profession than bill and becky kourlis. I will begin by setting the stage. There are many things about moderate Legal Education that we as lawyers know a little about, but not necessarily know about in detail. They provide considerable foundation for evaluating the current state of law schools both now and in the future. Now, you could actually describe recent developments by usin
I ended up spending most of my adult life as chief justice of the Infamous Supreme Court and i now doing see scenes of it in or intermediate court and i have an appointment over at the Indiana University Mckinney School of law. To my right is Rebecca Kourlis who spent more than a decade on the colorado supreme court. She left there perhaps ten or 11 years ago to be the founding director of the institute for the advancement of the american legal system which does all sorts of research and programmatic work on the improvement of courts and the improvements of Legal Education and of the legal profession. And then Professor William henderson certainly and that of the circuit if there ever was one. After his Legal Education at the university of chicago became a clerk at the seventh circuit but happily has spent his recent career at the Indiana University Maurer School of law, and i say theres nobody he was done more intriguing work about the future of our profession than bill and becky. Im
Newsroom at cbs news headquarters here in new york. Good to be with you. Im ann marie green. Well, in washington today, President Trump will lobby owe poernts of the obamacare replacement proposed by house republicans. Two house committees approved parts of the measure, meanwhile more states joined the legal challenge to the president s revised travel ban. Rocks anna is here in new york. Good morning. Good morning, ann marie. President trump tweeted yesterday that the new house care bill will, quote, end in a beautiful picture. Hes pushing hard to make that happen. Mr. Trump twrieg to winnow conservatives critical of the plan. Mr. Trump meets today with Key House Committee chairs to discuss advancing the Gop Health Care bill and vicepresident mike pence will meet with abortion rights opponents to make it clear the bill would dee fund planned parenthood. In the last few years its been hard enough for hard working americans and Small Businesses to get ahead. Frankly obamacare has made it