Historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice may appease the port. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions, once that the court took quite unpopular. Let us go through a few places that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of different people who helped stick together because they believed in a rule of law. Good evening. Tonights landmark cases, 1960 fives griswold v. Connecticut, with a seven to two decision, the justices in this case establish a constitutional right to privacy. Its set in motion the expansion of privacy rights that continue till today over the next several decades. To give you a sense of continuing importance in our society, we put together a short video that is a modernday reference to the grizzle case. There is wild v connecticut, which recognized a right to privacy in the constitution i agree with the griswold v. Connecticut that marital privacy extends to contraception griswold v. Connecticut griswold v. Co
Our logo and in this case here, this is the second least awarded badge with the exception of the astronauts badge. The astronaut badge is in the low 200. Today, we are giving badge number 634 to a young man who has completed his training and is ready to be considered a badge holder and of the fraternity and sorority, brotherhood or fellowship of tomb guard. We are a 501 c 3 organization and part of our bylaws is that we do Community Outreach to educate the public about the tomb. I find that your generation, sort of a sweeping generalization, that your generation knows about the tomb. I talked to School Groups and it is appalling how little they know of our history. It is not their fault. We have failed them because we have allowed all of this testing and teaching to the test and not put history on the test. I will get off my soapbox. Just think of that. I do speak to a lot of School Groups pro bono. This is my 81st speech this year. I will have well over 100 by the time veterans day is
of two veterans and two women in monroe, georgia, where they were taken out to a clearing and then lined up and just slaughtered. when you read the autopsy reports, they talk about at least 60 bullets in each body. it it just kept and this was what was driving, part of what was driving the black community as they are looking, and i go to the frederick douglass quote, that power concedes nothing without a demand. it never has, and it never will, so when we talk about the presidents in this civil rights struggle, it s also important to understand that they are in complete conversation with a completely mobilized black community that refuses to take it any longer. [ applause ] so i said at the beginning there s the civil rights the thought process and what was happening with the presidents, both truman and eisenhower were informed by two wars. the first was world war ii. the second is the cold war. we don t think about that in terms of civil rights, and carol anderson, y
yes, exactly. but it was all of this that we were looking at. it just didn t i mean, part of the problem today is that everybody thinks that dr. king made the speech on the steps. and that was it? that was it. everybody held hands. and my hope is that events like this get people to bore down deeper to understand what else was going on and why, you know, we felt we could step forward, and we had the support of family, that we could do something different. well, we re going to get to your moment big moment in the sunshine in just a minute, ernie green, but did i want to highlight something for people who don t know, because i don t assume everybody knows. emmett till was 14 years old. he s part of the whole lynching thing that was going on. he was lynched in mississippi for allegedly whistling at a white woman. those people that lynched him later said that they did it, but it was, of course, after the trial, and it was a rigged trial, but this was a signifying
william brennan, potter stewart, charles evans whittaker is probably his weakest appointment. all five of them committed to the enforcement of brown. and william brennan, any of you know your supreme court history, was not a far right conservative in any way, shape or form. eisenhower actually nominated him when he was in the midst of an election campaign in the fall of 56, and he did that partly for political reasons, too. he wanted a catholic, so a catholic democrat, but eisenhower s judicial appointments lasted decades later, and felix frankfurter said that the supreme court during this era was the eisenhower court. we all know it as the warren court, but it was the eisenhower court, and i ll tell you one of the great myths was that eisenhower didn t know what earl warren stood for. that is factually incorrect. he knew him well. his attorney general brownell socialized with warren and had run two presidential campaigns for him. he knew exactly who he was. and these books