Justice Joseph Bradley dissented in thecation. And up next on American History tv, we will hear a university of michigan professor explaining how Justice Bradleys dissent in the case influenced Later Supreme Court decisions. Good evening, thank you for being here and being prompt. Im jilten varner from atlanta and i currently serve as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society. Im pleased to welcome you to the third of four lectures that comprised our silverman lecture series. This years series focuses on new perspectives in dissent and the Supreme Court. Before we begin the evenings program, i am commanded not asked, i am commanded to ask you to turn off your electronics, cell phones, tablets, apple watches. Even in silent mode, they can interfere with the sound system here in the courtroom. So thank you for doing that. I would like to express the societys gratitude to our host this evening, justice sonja sis sotomayor. Shes been enormously jen ress giving of her time to the so
And disaster relief. That bill unanimously passed in the Senate Earlier this week. The dow is down right now about 629 points. And the latest battle between the president and the states is over ventilators. Scott ma grcgrew, the president asking why the hospitals need so many. Reporter thats right, and the reason, marcus, the hospitals need so many is they help you breathe, and if you dont have enough of them with those patients, many of them could die, and thats the point of flattening the curve, right . The idea is to match up the number of ventilators and patients. If you spike too early, there are too many, not enough doctors, not enough ventilators, and people get in trouble. New yorks governor says the state there needs as many as 30 thousand dollars ve thousand ventilators. 30,000 . Think of this. You go to hospitals, they have one in a hospital, now all of a sudden everybody is asking for these vast numbers. Reporter governor cuomo, meanwhile, maintains he needs that many venti
Reporters on the Coronavirus Response in his state. He presented an update on cases and announced two new debts on from the outbreak. From bratton bruce, this is 40 minutes. Gov. Edwards i thank you all for coming out this afternoon. I appreciate those of you who are here and those of you who are watching online. I am joined by secretary walters from the department of family also buyren services and following my remarks, they will deliver some prepared remarks as well. I am also joined today by dr. Here to answerbe questions if that becomes necessary. I justi came out, learned about to know deaths that we have had in louisiana because of the coronavirus. The total death count is now 10 in the state of louisiana. One of those, most recent, is the 44yearold Orleans Parish with underlying medical conditions, and the other was a lamba house resident. These individuals are in the most at risk category of our citizens because of age and Underlying Health conditions. The fifth total case hous
And at noon, live coverage of the senate where work continues on a third economic aid bill in response to the coronavirus pandem pandemic. But thank you all for coming out again this afternoon. I appreciate those of you who are here. Those of you who are watching online. Im joined today by secretary Markeeta Walters of the department of family and Children Services and also from the Louisiana Work force commission and following my remarks, they will deliver some prepared remarks as well. Im also joined today by dr. Al alex beeu to answer questions if thats necessary. Before i came out, i just learned about two new deaths weve had in louisiana because of the coronavirus. The total death count is now 10 in the state of louisiana. One of those most recent is a 44yearold Orleans Parish with underlying medical conditions and other a 90yearold resident. And obviously, these individual are in the most at risk category of our citizens because of age and Underlying Health conditions. So that ma
I am pleased to welcome you to the third of four lectures that comprise ourselves or men lecture series. This years series focuses on new perspectives in dissent and the Supreme Court. Before we begin the evenings program, i am commanded, not asked, im commanded to ask you to turn off your electronics. Cell phones, tablets, apple watches. Even in silent mode, they can interfere with the sound system here in the courtroom. So thank you for doing that. I would like to express the societys gratitude to our host this evening, justice sonya sotomayor. She has been enormously generous in giving up her time to the society when we call upon her to help us, and i want to thank her for taking time off during a very busy time in the life of the court. Sonya sotomayor was born in the bronx, new york, june 25, 1954. She earned a ba in 1976 from princeton. She earned a jd from yale law school, where she served as an editor of the yale law journal. She then was an assistant District Attorney in the N