To donald trump and january 6th. Jasmine crockett joins me live on the site. Trump in court. What to look for as the first trial of a former president l heads to the jury next week, and why Special Counsel jack smith is taking bold new action in trumps classified documents case. And reality check. You believe trumps rally in the bronx was about reaching out to black and latino voters . I dont. I am jonathan capehart. This is the Saturday Show. For decades, democrats have tried and failed to make the court a voting issue for its base. Well maybe this Election Cycle they will succeed, because this week in washington we are seeing two very different visions for the american justice system. President biden reached a major milestone in his mission to diversify the federal courts. The Senate Confirmed his 200 and 201st judicial nominees, adding two more women of color to the bench. Biden has appointed more black and brown judges than any president in history. He thinks the senate in a statem
today on the program, we ll get the latest live on the israel-hamas war. plus, the world watching as two major wars are fought, one minute middle east, and the other in europe. in each war one side is heavily funded by uncle sam. and it is ukraine s fight against russia that is about to run out of american funding. what does the gop have to do with it? i will talk to aie s kori schake and ann applebaum of the atlantic. and also bernard henri levy on anti-semitism rearing its very ugly head again. and former harvard president drew faust on racism in america. but first here is my take. when one thinks of america s great efts strengths, the kind of strengths with admiration and envy, american s elite universities would have long been at top of the list. but the american public has been losing faith in these universities for good reason. three university presidents came under fire this week for their vague and indecisive answers when calling for the genocide of jews would v
He realizes potential is far better among his own race. and quote. falwell went on to assert the integration quote will destroy our race eventually. in the aftermath of brown v. board segregation became a motivating factor, including for the evangelical movement. more than 3000 private schools in academies popped up in the years after the ruling, white students instructed separately at a park from glatt students despite the court decision. some of those institutions include falwell s lynchburg christian academy, which was founded in 1967. years after the brown v. board decision, when the government tried to deny tax exempt status to segregated private schools, folks like jerry falwell were enraged. other schools like the fundamentalists bob jones university went to court over the matter arguing that racial segregation was a religious matter.
Friends end quote. that was the plan to. bottle up all of that ire that evangelicals felt about segregation and concentrate it on abortion. making sweeping moral arguments against health care that they claim was founded in religion. that was the plan to build political power. and republican politicians campaigned accordingly. in 1980, the republican candidate for president, ronald reagan, campaigned on a constitutional amendment prohibiting abortion. one of the issues that helped send him to the white house. he gape gained the support of those opposed to abortion and ousting jimmy carter and won the presidency. the reagan administration focused increasingly on abortion and the rise of the federalist society and the trend toward strict textualists like this man robert bork, a failed supreme court nominee, who criticized the justice who wrote the brown v board decision. that trend continued through the trump administration, in 2015,
And other people should all come down, and there is never been any problems [inaudible] . this may be a bit of an ironic foreshadowing there because there were of course several critics of the relaying. mostly from southern segregationist states. one of the of that decision even years later, was this man, jerry falwell, one of the most prominent leaders of the evangelical america. this is a little bit of a serving that he gave his congregation and lynchburg, virginia, years after that ruling was quote, if chief justice warren s associates had known god s word and his desire to do the lords will, i am quite confident that the 1954 decision would never have been made. the facility should be separate, when god has drawn a lot of distinction, we should not