Vietnam in 1975. In many ways, it reminds us of images that we might see on the news today. Its hard to ignore the human stories of families perishing at sea. Refugees are suffocating in meat trucks. They are crowding onto leaky boats. They are drowning. The bodies of those who are unable to cross to safety are washing up on mediterranean beaches. Refugees have been in the news for the past few years, particularly related to the crisis in syria, but refugees are being uprooted by conflict all around the world. So were not just talking about refugees coming from syria but from other wartorn regions. Especially in the past couple years, it has also been very difficult to ignore the public response to refugees. Refugee resettlement, like so many other topics today, has become a polarizing topic. On one hand, opposition to refugees has been fierce and even hostile. Politicians at the local, state and federal level have linked refugees to terrorism and have pursued antirefugee policies in t
exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic supreme court decisions. number 7:59 . since row against weighed. quite often, and very famous decisions, are ones that corked took that were quite unpopular. let us go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. good evening and welcome to c-span and the national constitution center s landmark cases. tonight, we are going to be examining a 1944 war powers case of the supreme court. it is the story of korematsu v. united states. aaa iaea detained through the course of the war. mr. korematsu said that was wrong. we have two people helping us learn the story. peter irons is the civil rights attorney and editor of ten books including justice at war, the story of the japanese american internment cases. in the course of researching his book
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captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2008 this is not something that 40, 50, 70 years later we were saying that was a mistake back then but they had their reason for it, they had no reason at the time except to uphold what they thought was a patriotic duty. for the record, i want to get some of this on the screen so people can have the reference. first of all, the chief justice at the time was hare land fisk stone? hare land fisk stone. he was appointed by herbert hoover. he was a republican but he was he wouldn t be a republican today because he was, in fact, one of the great chief justices we ve had. there were also a number of other names that have become famous to people who don t even know much about the court. you mentioned william o. douglas. frank murphy and robert jackson. 7 of the 9 members with the exception of justice jackson and justice stone had been appointed by franklin roosevel
his time in wyoming. the library of congress is the host of this event. welcome to the eskin family. to all of you, the eskin s who are so generous to make this program possible. marsha, barney, and lee. welcome to all of you. thank you for being here. and welcome to all our young visitors from washington area schools. so nice to have you here. and welcome, of course, to the cspan audience that is will be watching this in the future. who among you has never been in this library? okay. quite a few of you. well, in the event you haven t been in this building before, welcome to the world s largest library. the greatest and most extensive cultural institution on the planet. the nation s very own, your very own library of congress. it was founded in 1800, not long after the founding of this country. it was conceived as a place that would furnish congress and the american government with the information it needed as it carried out its duties of representing all of us. initially