Justice for the senate to consider. President trump prepares a nomination. Mitch mcconnell pledges a vote. The democrats promise a fight. An epic showdown with just 44 days until the final votes. Our guests this is morning, bill clinton who nominated Ruth Ginsburg in 1993. Americas top elected democrat now, nancy pelosi, and republican senator ted cruz. Plus, analysis from our powerhouse round table. Good morning, and welcome to this week. Call it the year of chaos. The 2020 election has already seen it all. Impeachment, a pandemic, economic turmoil. Racial protests scarred at times by violence, and friday night, the loss of an american giant, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. A champion of equality, she broke barriers as a law professor and advocate, achieving greatness in the words of Supreme Court colleague david souter before she became a great justice. Outside the court where ginsburg served for 27 years, admirers have been gathering to mourn her passing, prepare for the
Meet with Senate Majority leader. Theen senate republins and white house on their covid relief bill. No agreement yet. The bill is supposed to beqy th. Lisa from the associated pressh security payroll taxes as re trillion rescue package on thursday. Opposition among allies. Fox news follows up with back and forth with mr. Mnuchin about the payroll tax saying, when asked if that oposal had a payroll tax cut, he replied, que,ot. Focused onting money to woers right now. The payroll tax takes time so well come back and look at that. Back in we want thoughts on a question we considered earlier about the house voting from political political and the campus. If you support or oppose at id. 2027488000. It, ia sites available as 1. Contributes two statuesople of to the National Statuary hall with contributions ranging revolutionary war hero, helen keller. The bill specifically mentionsr calhoun, and clark whom it a ma segregation. The bill also calls for removal of a bust of former Supreme Cour
Leading up to the vote. Nized. Mr. Butterfield thank you, mr. Speaker. I bring this legislation to the floor today on behalf of the committee on house administration. I want to thank our chair, congresswoman zoe lofgren, for her leadership. I thank Ranking Member rodney davis for his friendship and leadership on our committee. Thank you, mr. Davis. I said this to you privately, thank you for the spirit in which you have approached this important but delicate issue. Recognizing the issue of removing confederate statues from the capital has been simmering for years. Since i recognize that, ill now approach the issue today with the utmost respect for those who are opposed to the goal of the legislation. But, but i ask the dissenters to consider that america has been a divided nation since its founding. And its past time for us to close this chapter of American History that remove statues that depict an era that caused enormous pain to africanamerican citizens. Mr. Speaker, as you, i grew
Quite often and many of our most greatest decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go to a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believed in a rule of law. Cspan and the National Constitution center. Welcome you to the land more cases. Our 12 part history series. Exploring the people and the stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most famous dissidents. Tonight, we will be learning more about the dred scott case of 1857. Let me introduce you to our two guests to tell us about the history and impact of this case. Chris bracey is at George Washington University Law school professor. He is also the coeditor of a book called the dreads caught case and contemporary perspectives. Welcome. Martha jones is at the university of michigan. She is a history professor there and also the chair of afro american and codirector of the race line his
War era Study Program and did graduate work in university of pennsylvania where he focused on the history of religion. He holds a master of divinity degree. His roster of publications is so long im not going to try to read them all to you. You can go to his website to get a full accounting of not only his publications but oerjt sail ient elements of other saileint elements of hig biography. Im going to offer five books i think is pertinent. The first is called Abraham Lincoln published by william b in 1998 and the first of allen lincolns prizes. Lincolns emancipation pags proclamation end of slavery in america. Publish in 2004 brought his second lincoln prize. Lincoln and douglas the debates that define america. 2008. Some reason didnt win the lincoln prize. Faithful lightening new history of the civil war and reconstruction came out from Oxford University press in 2012 and the 5th title i will mention is is gettiesburg the last invasion published in 2013 which brought a third lincoln