zwrmt affirmed with costs. that was it. that was how the new york times reported on the case in 1896, the day after the ruling. it was the ruling that upheld racial segregation in this country and racial law, separate but equal. it took almost 60 years for that precedent to get knocked back when the supreme court unanimously ruled in brown v. board of education that separate but equal was unconstitutional. there are very few big supreme court cases in our country that are not just legal landmarks. they re also now considered consensus cases. cases where everybody agrees that the decision made by the court was either definitely the wrong one, like plessy or the right one like brown v board. not many of those big consensus cases. one of those involved a u.s. president in 1974. 1974 the supreme court ruled
still. plessy a beauty with simplicity maybe the country s pioneering designer also drew heavily on nature as early as the one nine hundred thirty s. also laid the groundwork for the worldwide success of finish design. in the 1940 s and fifty s revolutionized industrial design with his icy looking glass where. frank did the same with his robust timeless drinking glasses high quality craftsmanship and a nod to nature arche even in the sixty s when synthetic materials became popular. more than a billion pairs of the iconic fiske r. s orange scissors have been sold to date and who are left his mark on the swinging sixty s with these round bubble chairs. these mock lamps made a name for hardy koskinen in the one nine hundred ninety s. building on the success of his famous prita sesar story. but finished design isn t
justice system, he s not spending working on counter terrorism operations which gives extremists more room to grow. we ve also learned recently that the russian government launched a massive misinformation campaign in the run up to the last election. that was geared towards poll arizing the american voters. under cutting our criminal justice system in tweets is doing putin s job for him. you were shaking your head. why? well, look, you are misunderstanding. the president of the united states is the head of the federal prosecutors office. you may wish there was an independent counsel to prosecute cases. he gets to be the one. just like if you are u.s. attorney southern district of new york you can stand up and say as to so and so i want this penalty, that s what you get to do. you may wish it wasn t a tweet. but i ll tell you across the word the terrorists look up and say oh, no we have a guy saying we ll get the death penalty. and i think that s a great deterrence. and i hear from
harassment, abuse, and in the case of three women, rape. this is happening as the weinstein company board, including weinstein s own brother insist they knew nothing about the alleged abuse. but the new yorker reports this morning, that some employees now say they witnessed or at least had knowledge of unwanted sexual advances. meantime, manhattan district attorney just held a press conference fending off this criticism for not pursuing a case against weinstein where he admits to groping a woman. here it is. go to the bathroom. please, i don t want to do something i don t want to do. i won t do anything. you ll never see me after this. okay. that s it. if you emmy barrass me in this hotel. please, i m not going to dpo anything. i swear on my children. plessy come in. on fg, i m a famous guy.
you, the people s representatives, the lawmakers, have done. so when it comes to equal protection of the laws, for example, it matters not a whit that some of the drafters of the 14th amendment were racists, because they were, or sexists, because they were. the law they drafted promises equal protection of the laws to all persons. that s what they wrote. and those, the original meaning of those words, john marshall captured them in his dissent in plessy. equal protection of laws does not mean separate in advancing one particular race or gender. it means equal. as i said yesterday, i think that guarantee, equal protection of the laws guarantee, the 14th amendment that it took a civil