Stop it. Its called delay, delay, delay. Were going to hear from four of the leading republican president ial candidates this morning, donald trump, ted cruz, marco rubio and john kasich. The Democratic Candidates meanwhile were also quick to respond to the vacancy. Supreme court of the United States has nine members, not eight. We need that ninth member. Elections have consequences. The president has a responsibility to nominate a new justice. And the senate has a responsibility to vote. Well also be taking a close look at the democratic race and how Hillary Clintons team is working overtime to try to turn this contest from being a referendum on her to a referendum on Bernie Sanders. A lot to get to, but we start with the impact and the implications of scalias death nobody better to join me on this than our justice correspondent pete williams. Pete, welcome back, sir. Let me ask very quickly, were in the middle of some contentious cases on the Supreme Court now. What happens right now
Theres been speculation that humans basically used to sleep when it got dark, which would mean theyd sleep 10, 11, even 12 hours. It turns out that thats not the case. Sreenivasan all that and more on tonights pbs newshour. Major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by bnsf. And by the alfred p. Sloan foundation. Supporting science, technology, and improved Economic Performance and Financial Literacy in the 21st century. Support also comes from Carnegie Corporation of new york. A foundation created to do what Andrew Carnegie called real and permanent good. Celebrating 100 years of philanthropy at carnegie. Org. And with the ongoing support of these institutions this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. And by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. Sreenivasan president obama announced today hell keep american troops in afghanistan through the end of his presidency, extending americas longest war. The policy reversa
Heritage month. This is about 90 minutes. Good afternoon, and welcome back. This is our next panel in the afternoon. Organizing across the boundaries, strategies and coalitions in the struggle for the civil rights and social justice. Before we get started i just wanted to explain a little bit about the genesis of this panel or this how it came about like a lot of great ideas, i came across this book doing a search in the catalog. And this is many months ago we were kind of thinking about what do we want to do. There are so many books that come out on if Civil Rights Movement every year. We thought lets focus on some that are kind of different and interesting that kind of change how we think about the movement, kind of up in our understanding of it. When we came across this one. It has a great cover art. We loved how she was looking at these groups in an area we dont often think about and how these two groups came together in their struggles. So dr. Rice is going to be our first speaker
Talks. Sanctions over russia due to the crisis. A lova eruption detected at an icelandic volcano. Well begin the programme in iraq, where a series of explosions rocked the countrys north. Three car bombs exploded in the oil of rich city of kirkuk. 18 have been killed, 100 wounded. Iraqi media reported that a bomb has exploded in erbil. Tv footage from the scene shows firefighters dousing the charred remains of a car, which blew up outside a technical college. Several people were wounded. Meanwhile hundreds of iranian soldiers were helping fighters retake the town from the Islamic State. Its believed to be the first time that iranian troops have been involved in the fighting in iraq on this scale. From northern iraq, here is zeina khodr. Well, kirkuk really is a volatile province, a province disputed by many times, the Central Government and the kurds. There are three explosions. The peshmerga are at war with the Islamic State group. They share a 1,000km border, and there are many front
Or fewer than four percent of the president s nominees have worked as lawyers at Public Interest or civil rights organizations. State and federal prosecutorss out number public defenders by more than 3 1. Only 11 has a fulltime academics. Of those who worked in private over seven and 10 were for Corporate Law firms. It is the aggregate, eight nomineese president s have been either Corporate Lawyers or prosecutors and in some cases both. Clearly, president obamas remarkable historic progress in advancing personal diversity has not yet been matched in the area of professional diversity but change may be coming. Before the rules changed, the rampant obstruction of judicial nominations i Senate Republicans had the effect of narrowing the field of potential candidates who could potentially expect to be confirmed. Crosseds hope, fingers that in those days are over. What ever constrains the president as senators and and even potential nominees themselves as a result of the debilitating effort