Primary when iowa caucus winner Pete Buttigieg endorsed Court Packing. Now it is back in the news again in the general elections following the passing of justice ginsburg. I am not writing this book because Court Packing is back in the news. I have always been interested in the new deal. It is a constitutionally significant error in our industry. It never received quite as much attention as it deserved on that front. Scholarshipeal there has not nearly been enough attention paid to the role the public paid played in shaping some of those constitutional developments. That is why im writing the book. I want to tell you a little bit more about it. We may as well get started with the powerpoint. Lets talk a little bit more about the new deal and the constitution and the role Public Opinion played. Couple of things today. First, i want to recap the standard history of the new deal. Discussion of the constitution that took place. The next thing i want to do is bring Public Opinion back to th
Some of fdrs initiatives, such as increasing the number of Supreme Court justices. This class took place online and the university of maryland Baltimore County provided the video. Prof. Blake we are going to be talking about the first two chapters of my book manuscript today. Which looks at the role Public Opinion played during the new deal and specifically the constitutional controversy of the new deal. It is worth telling you one thing about why i am not writing this book. Court packing has gotten back in the news, both during the democratic primary season when iowa caucus winner Pete Buttigieg endorsed Court Packing. Now it is back in the news again in the general elections following the passing of justice ginsburg. I am not writing this book because Court Packing is back in the news. I have always been interested in the new deal. It is a constitutionally significant error in our industry. It never received quite as much attention as it deserved on that front. In the new deal schola
Have ordered a copy of the book, please consider grabbing one nationally, internationally, Curbside Pickup thats open now at limited capacity. Heads up, weekends are busy. The share guidelines and also some to the books. Easy access to purchase. Remember your purchase goes towards our staff. Our guest for the night will be joining us on the screen. We will take questions from the audience to please submit your questions below. If youre looking below all the way to the right, lucy little bubbles, thats where you should put them. We will try to keep track of all the questions. Also, if youre watching via facebook, submit your questions on the comment field and well go from there. I like give a warm welcome to our guest for the night, eddie, phd is an associate professor of Higher Education and organizational change at ucla. College president and the struggle for black students published by Princeton University press. You can find him on twitter at eddie. Also phd, historian of black wome
Stay in the 60s. Well get a look ahead to the weekend forecast coming up in a few minutes. All right, well look forward to that. Thank you, kari. Retailers are marking mayday by protesting what they believe are unsafe working conditions. This morning workers from Companies Including amazon, target, fedex, walmart and instacart plan to hold mayday strikes. A group of traders joes workers tweeted asking customers not to cross picket lines and to join the protest by boycotting. Several of the Companies Including amazon released statements saying in part the safety of their employees is their top priority. Organizers of one mayday protest in San Francisco today plan to call for a full reopening of california businesses. The group calls itself women for america. The plan to march through the streets of San Francisco. Organizers plan to keep social distancing in mind during their protests. We have to look at what is best for each state, and thats why our first principle is to reopen america
Featuring the winners of our studentcam documentary competition. Middle and high school asked the question, what issued you most issues do you most want 2020 candidates to address . Our second prize goes to night ninth graders from Long Beach Polytechnic High School in long beach, california, where cspan is available through spectrum. Their winning entry is titled, opportunity for all. We want president ial candidates to talk about tuition should be free. We chose this topic because we believe education is important to our future. Opportunity, who gets it in america . Is it something reserved just for those at the top . Opportunity. Opportunity, for every one of our kids. And i underline every one of our kids, to get a first rate education. You have kids coming out with 100,000 or 200,000 of student debt and they cant survived we are taking away opportunities from them and that is wrong. Statistics show when they have the opportunity to go to college, even if they dont go through that,