Johnsons condition. For the latest. Pandemic is the biggest test that has ever faced but she promises to do all she can. From the crisis. Welcome to the program god knows george pell has walked free from prison after australias highest court overturned his convictions for child sex abuse the Senior Church figure was serving a 6 year but had maintained his innocence the now 70 of them felt was the highest ranked catholic cleric to have been convicted for sex abuse when he was jailed just over a year ago. Correspondent rather may not joins us from sydney for more on this rather good to see you what did the judges have to say in todays decision was certainly this was a list important and controversial judgment by the Australian High Court judge is found unanimously in code to expose favor they found that it was reasonable doubt reasonable doubt built and it was therefore a significant possibility that an innocent person had being convicted the evidence did not establish guilt rick was it
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Sandford and you all read chief Justice Roger tawnys opinion in dred scotts case. And you have read that opinion, and its notorious in American History, right . For the blatant racism in it, for the sanction that tawny gives to the concept of human property under the constitution, and for denying black citizenship, not only denying black citizenship, but denying even blacks as free, as persons under the constitution. And so, dred scott was one type of freedom suit, right . It was based on his physical presence in a free state, illinois, and his physical presence in wisconsin, a free territory. And its often presented in American History textbooks as if it were the only freedom suit in American History. To go to the Supreme Court. The only, almost uniformly, presentedup are, presented as dred scott, one man bringing a freedom suit. But when we look into it a little more closely, there were thousands of freedom suits in american courts. All of them challenging the notion of slavery under
Good afternoon. Good afternoon. Thank you, peg. I appreciate that. Im tuajuanda jordan, president of st. Marys college of maryland, the National Public honors college. It makes me smile the say that. I am happy to welcome you to this discussion with the authors of this book. This event is sponsored by the center for the study of democracy here at st. Marys college of maryland and our department of history. The center is a skbroint initiative of the college in st. Marys city, the site of marylands first capital. The centers goal is to promote understanding of democratic values, traditions and institutions through the exploration of contemporary and historical issues. Dr. Antonio ugas yur is the director of the center. He joins us here this afternoon. Thank you, tony, for being here. Charlie musgrove, chair of the department of history here at the college, is also with us this afternoon. Our History Department at st. Marys college is pretty active, offering many opportunities for researc
Concha cohen in atlanta province and a disgraced Catholic Cardinal is heading back to court in australia to appeal his abuse conviction. Italys Prime Minister just have because he has announced his resignation with a better attack on his deputy mattels selvin a who he branded an opportunist italys president will now talk to Party Leaders to see if a new government can be formed but salvini is eager to capitalize on his partys growing popularity with a snap election so i go reports on this now from russia. As leader of the government because they had overseen one of the most challenging coalitions in recent times battling one political crisis after another aimed at being a stabilizing force between 2 vastly different Political Parties the far right leak and the anti establishment 5 Star Movement it proved to be an Impossible Task and called the said he would be offering his resignation but there was no question over who he thought was responsible. Let me say that interior. Who showed th