Seat on the court, just about 50 days before election day. Nbcs tracie potts has a look at Justice Ginsburgs life. Reporter Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg spent more than a quarter century on the u. S. Supreme court and spent much of her career fighting for equality. How wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like. Reporter born in brooklyn, new york, she tied for first in her class at columbia law. But with no job offers from law firms, this was the late 50s, she taught at columbia, then worked on the womens rights project in the 70s. As their lawyer she won five of six cases before the us Supreme Court. Her ultimately goal was to get sex discrimination treated by the Supreme Court the same way race discrimination was treated. Reporter president clinton made her the second female on the nations highest court where she continued to even the playing field, supporting reproductive rights and the lgbtq community. While her rulings leaned liberal, off the bench she was Clo
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. She has stood up for women, for diverse communities. She has been one of the most progressive voices on the Supreme Court pushing an agenda of justice for all, which is what this country is founded on. Its a huge loss, it is a huge loss. The mayor of San Francisco speaking with us about the contributions of Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Good evening, im andre senior. And im christina run down. Justice ginsburg died at her home in washington, d. C. From pancreatic cancer. Family was by her side, she was 87 years old. Chief Justice John Roberts announced her passing earlier this evening saying quote, our nation has lost a jurist of historic stature. We at the Supreme Court have lost a cherished colleague. Today we mourn, but with confidence that future generations will remember Ruth Bader Ginsburg as we knew her, a tireless and resolute champion of justice. People sang Amazing Grace outside the Supreme Court tonight in honor of the late justice. Throughout the night m
Myths about rosa parks and the montgomery bus boycott. She was not the first africanamerican woman who trooe fused to give her seat. Why this version has become so widespread. So our focus today then is going to be the montgomery bus boycott. That is and what you read your sources for except the payne article that gave you a larger focus and to do that well go back to the discussion of origin point. Our favorite slide which youre going to be so sick of. Representing the narrative arc of the popular story of the Civil Rights Movement. And were going back to our topic of origin points, again with the objective of troubling it. One, putting those events in context but also troubling the idea of them as origin points. And last week we discussed brown versus board of education, we discussed the decision, response, the impact but also the legacy. And i want to talk more about the legacy as we go forward but were not going to do that today. And then on tuesday, we spent time talking about the
That. The things you do for your, asset youll do anything reasonable. I think its in that book but typically you give the money, but not enough so that they can expose themselves by conspicuous spending, were always trying to preserve our assets lives, and telling them that they need to dial it back, and i think we gave him i do know we gave him particular gifts, to give to his superiors, to curry favor, so they liked him so they would promote him, so they would give him good jobs and at one point we gave him, a bottle of brandy i think, that was doctored to make it look like it was the vintage year of the birth of his boss, a soviet general. Who just love that you found this for me. You know, we will do the sorts of things. Okay. So anything else . Okay so next week a quiz on thursday, and i will see you on tuesday. Thank you for your attention. Climactic moments of the democratic convention, as a place to nomination before the Democratic National convention. That reflects a party tra
Morning to watch out for a few low visibility areas skies once fog burns off will overall be very clear yet again and thus temperatures having that opportunity to push on upwards into the 80s and 90s for inland valleys. Cooler at the coast though 50s and 60s for your current temperatures, nice cool start to the morning. Hopefully got that window open letter that cool ocean breeze in later today, not so much of an ocean breeze inland as 80s and 90s return back to you. Thanks a lot john 5 oh one and today alameda counties is more restrictions allowing Outdoor Dining and indoor Retail Shopping kron fours will tran is live with the latest good morning. Well. A good morning, the area for people in Alameda County theyre saying yes finally because theyve seen all the other counties do this and now its Alameda Countys turn were in downtown alameda little bit later something you will see that you have not seen over the past 3 months. Tables outside and waiters and waitresses seating people down