Achieve, to participate in and contribute to society violates the equal protection clause. 81, massive victory. I thought it was very interesting her points she often made in the dissent. The Supreme Court argued in the 2007 case ledbetter versus Goodyear Tire and rubber company, the majority saitd, you know what . If you have been discriminated against in pay in your job, and you learn about it years later, you can no longer appeal for redress because you had to have come to the court at the moment the discrimination first occurred. Of course, that was a catch22, an impossible situation. If you didnt know about it, you couldnt possibly come to the court. And she addressed this, and she said comprehend she said the majority does not comprehend or is indifferent to the insidious way in which women can be victims of pay discrimination. So she called on congress to act to address really this mistaken opinion of the court, and we did in 2009, the first year i came to the senate. And anothe
Guests will review 12 historic cases featured in the new city. That will be live at 6 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan, cspan. Org, and the cspan radio and give their attention. Landmark cases. Cspans revolutionary series produced exploring the human story and constitutional dramas behind 12 Supreme Court decisions. 759. Mber numberear arguments from 18, roe v. Wade. Some of our most famous decisions are the ones that the court lets 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 stick together because they believe in the rule of law. Welcome to cspans landmark cases what we have been learning about cases in the Supreme Court that affected the court and the country. Of mapp the 1951 case v. Ohio. Involved in ohio woman named dollree mapp who refuse to let the police searched her home. One of aa case in series that changed policing in america. And we to the program hope you have been here with the se
[ applause ] live to the white house for a briefing this afternoon on the president s tax reform plan. We expect to hear from treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and the National Economic director gary cohn at this briefing live on cspan 3. Never thought so many people would be turning out for the intick weties act. Good one. I had to use it. Were here to talk about the president s effort to provide tax relief to our corporations that will grow jobs and middle americans. Two people to explain it, gary cohn is going to walk through why were doing and what were doing then the personal side. And secretary of the treasury Stephen Mnuchin will walk through the business and corporate side of what the president is doing to bring jobs back to this country, to make our businesses more competitive and help our economy grow. At the end well be glad to take questions on this. You are being provided a one pager that provides the top level of the plan and both the director and secretary will go into fu
Proud san franciscans the didntn franciscan dutch live in san francisco. Both ofappointed them still serve on the court today. Pretty much part of the liberal block of the court. Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who just turned 84, has now surpassed by few months. In terms of longevity. Stephen breyer had an he served in the 1980s. As the chief dutch both he Ruth Bader Ginsburg congeniality on the corporate he got along with everyone. He was able to get on famously orrin hatch on the other hand. Kennedy and orrin hatch agreed on not many things. They greet in their admiration with respect to steve breyer when he was nominated in the last days of jimmy carters administration. Domination. Anyones later who could get along with orrin hatch and ted kennedy must have been doing something right. From replace to elena cage, so we get through the introduction portion. Ok. Kagan, who is a graduate of princeton university, and Harvard Law School, was also a marshall scholar at Oxford University as was steph
Im going to read you a paragraph, just in case any of you wandered in without actually checking your program or the door, and you can guess what that paragraph what this panel is about. It is a fearful thing to lead this great peaceful people into war, into the most terrible and disastrous of all wars, civilization itself seeming to be in the balance. But the right is more precious than the peace, and we shall fight for the things which we have always carried nearest to our hearts, for democracy, for the right of those who submit to authority to have a voice in their own governments, for the rights and liberties of small nations, for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples and shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free. To such a task we can dedicate our lives and our fortunes, everything that we are and everything that we have, with the pride of those who know that the day has come when america is privileged to spend her