Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall discussing his personality and skill as a storyteller and impact on their careers well hear from judges and harvard law professor and elena kagan. Im Doug Ginsburg and since nobody else seems here to do it, ill introduce our panel for this evening. This look back at Justice Thurgood marshall. To my immediate left if you have not guessed it Justice Elena kagan. Justice kagan was with Justice Marshall in what year. 87. Seems like yesterday, after having attended princeton and then oxford and then harvard for law and serviced in judge mcvaus chambers and all of our panelists served on a court. It was a good court. It was a great court. And was in the White House Council office and then Clinton Administration and then in the policy council as deputy director. Couldnt she keep a job apparently. Taught at university of Chicago Law School and then after getting tenure there moved on and settled at harvard. Not very long after that became the dean of Har
Act. This is just under two hours. The committee on the judiciary subcommittee on the constitution civil rights and Civil Liberties will come to order. Welcome everyone in attendance. Normally what we would do if i could give an Opening Statementt and the Ranking Member would give one a. Ms. Clark one of the witnesses has a 3 40 train which would have been easy to accomplish if it werent for the house of representatives schedule and with the permission of the member we are going straight to the statement and back to the traditional i talk, he talks, somebody else talks. Ms. Clark and thank you for being here. President and executivpresident r of the civil rights law under the civil rights organizations. Previously worked for seven years at the naacp Legal Defense and Education Fund where she helped lead the Organization Work in the voters rights across the country and worked on cases defending the constitutionality of the Voting Rights act. Prior to joining the Legal Defense fund she w
Counsel of a newspaper. In fact, i dont know of any precedent for this but david mccraw is not just any deputy general counsel. Hes the newsroom lawyer for the New York Times where he has worked for a decade and a half now. That means he gets to do a lot of interesting and stressfulthings. He gets to defend the times against actual and threatened suits, advise reporters on stories, file suits seeking government documents, hidden from view and work for the release of journalists kidnapped by extremists or detained by hostile governments. As david says in the first chapter of his book truth in our times, its been a hell of a time to be a lawyer for the new yorktimes. David gained notoriety himself after the fall of 2016 in the waning days of the president ial campaign. The times had published an article about two women who said from and groped them. A lawyer for trump to manage our attraction and threatened to sue for libel. David responded with a letter that suggested trumps reputation
Today, what is going on with Donald Trumps criminal cases. From delays in new york to rulings in South Florida and a major shakeup in georgia, the timelines keep changing. President biden taking his reelection message on the road. Swing state representatives are here is the president sells himself to the American People. And it is a week of chaos at the Republican National committee previewing of what is to come in a potential second trump term. The chairman has many thoughts on the matter. Grab your coffee and settle in. Welcome to the weekend. As we come on the air this morning, The White House has a message for congressional republicans. It is time to move on. The white House Counsel is telling Speaker Mike Johnson come in an unprecedented letter, to drop the Impeachment Inquiry into President Biden. The top critics are already looking for off ramps. Joining us in d. C. , staff contributor and msnbc political analyst. Welcome to you both. So mckay, how do we assess this very kind of
Cigarettes wouldnt exist and now im in congress realizing how we were targeted to smoke the cigarettes and might hurt them with some voters but, i mean, its going to save so many lives, so many lives. Thats all i have for today. Thanks so much to everyone for watching a long and thanks for being here. Thank you. [applause]■k hello. Im here to with the hs secretary. We have a lot to be■ getting. Congress is still wrestling with the healthcare budget and the f. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on two major abortion cases. We are, of course, coming up on a pivotal election. We have a different vision for healthcare looks like. The secretary is in the middle of all of these fire storms. We are excited to have him weighin on drug prices and ivf and still fighting over obamacare and what a second term healthcare agenda looks like for the Biden Administration. Thank you so much for joining us. Very much. So to focus on the news. You are headed to capitol hill to argue for budgets th