We wont see it for University Entrance exams offline the message from students in india citing the coronavirus pandemic the government insists the task cannot be postponed so will they put students lives at risk and how damaging is the virus to education this is inside story. This is inside story in just under a week millions of students in india will be expected to sit University Entrance exams that despite the country are reaching new heights in the spread of the coronavirus many students say thats not good enough and theyre fighting back socalled black protests being held online and across the country demanding the government this bone the tests. Say and a delay would waste the Academic Year they are not backing down so why all of these exams such a big issue in india 2500000. 00 students were just to take part in september to gain entry to medical and engineering colleges the students say they are worthy of they could cast the. Tanned and would have to cope with wearing clothes and
Landmark cases, cspans special series produced with the constitution center, explore and the human story and constitutional dramas behind 12 Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, Petitioner Versus arizona. Number 18, roe against wade. Quite often in many of our famous decisions were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate are very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. Welcome to landmark cases. Our series of looking at the 12 most important cases in Supreme Courts history. We will learn more about the people in the issues behind them. Tonight, lochner v. New york, 1905. It is one of the controversial cases of the Supreme Court, and in fact the story of a baker from new york whose case gave rise to an era that defined Supreme Court cases for the next 30 years. Let me introduce you to our two guests who would tell us more about this important case
And sewer pipes overhead and there were suers in the ground and sometimes were wood, rats ran freely and so did roaches. Bakers worked exceedingly long hours and exceedingly difficult work. It wasnt as difficult as a lot of work during that time, its true, but the title of my first chapter, by the way is not my grandma used to bake. They were handling 100 to 200 pounds of sacks of flour and its hard work and it was dirty and filthy and difficult work for long hours. But it wasnt just that it was difficult conditions for the bakers. There was also the Public Health was endangered by the conditions that these people were working in because the bread wasnt very sanitary. What was also happening in the country that people were beginning to look with Public Health and public safety. Well, i think this is a really good time after that clip to talk about the bake shop act and what the legislature of new york did to address the conditions that you so there were so well described in the video.
Both of you joining us for the first time. Nonpartisan law and part policy institute. We stand for equal justice and we work to crack and advance reforms that will make america work for all of us. Tonight we are really proud to welcome neal. Spending almost as much time at the Supreme Court as the justices themselves. He was arguing his 35th case and he broke a record for most Supreme Court arguments by a minority lawyer in the United States history. Next week, neal will argue his 40th case at at the Supreme Court. He also served as the act inc. Solicitor general under president obama. Professor of National Security law georgetown. He has played himself in an episode of house of cards. [laughter] this is an even more littleknown fact. He can spit hamilton lyrics on demand. Now he has written a Remarkable Book making the case, the impeachment of donald trump. Joined by michael waldman. President of the center. A constitutional lawyer and writer who is an expert on the presidency and ame
And that it was time that somebody stood up and said enough is enough. Amy the cases mark the first time the Supreme Court will rule on lgbtq rights since conservative Justice Brett kavanaugh replaced anthony kennedy, who had written many of the courts major lgbtq rights rulings. We are joined right now by two guests. Laverne cox is an Award Winning transgender actress and long time trans rights activist. Best known for her role on the show orange is the new black. In 2014, she became the first transgender person on the cover and the firstne openly trans person to be nominated for an emmy award in a primetime category. We are also joined by chase strangio, Deputy Director for transgender justice with the aclus lgbt hiv project. His work includes impact litigation, as well as legislative and administrative advocacy, on behalf of lgbtq people and People Living with hiv across the uniteted states. We welcome you both to democracy now it is great to have you with us. Tuesday is a significa