unconstitutional dramas behind 12 historic supreme court discussions. quite often in many of our most famous decisions, the court made a unpopular decision. let s go through a few cases that illustrate dramatically and visually what it means to live and a society with different people who stick together because they believe in the rule of law good evening and welcome to landmark cases tonight we re going to look at 1886 case in which the supreme court ruled the equal protection guarantees apply not just to citizens but noncitizen s in the next 90 minutes will learn about what led to the case and the effect of its decision on american society our two guests will help us understand all of this a professor of american. . ,. . . , she will help us to understand the issues around chinese immigration and the chinese exclusion act in the. the president and founder of the organization that creates historical material for has. give us the most basic facts about this case. so t
.. . . well, it said the law said that all new laundries had to be constructed out of brick or stone, but existing laundries, which were made out of wood, which they all were, practically all were, could only continue to operate if they got a permit from the city. and this is what led to this charade, really, where they approved all the permit applications that white people made, say for one, and they denied all the chinese. so in a way this is not really about fire safety. it was one of quite a number of municipal ordinances that were passed to harass the chinese. if we make life so miserable for them, if we make it impossible for them to earn a living, maybe they will leave. so enter lee wiyick, who is e of the proprietors, he had been running it for 20 years. his name was not yick wo, his name was lee yick. that was the name of the laundromat. when the original case was filed, no one bothered to fix it that they didn t get the guy s name right, which
now, landmark cases. tonight looks at the 1873 slaughterhouse cases. lead marquesas, c-span special history series produced in cooperation with the national constitution center exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic decisions. number 759, ernest miranda petitioner versus arizona. argument 18, rule against roe versus wade. quite often, famous decisions took to that the court be quite unpopular. let s 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 live in a rule of law. landmark cases. of series will look at some the supreme court s most interesting and impactful historic decisions. tonight, we are talking about a case you might not know very much about. it is called the slaughterhouse cases. it was the first time that the supreme court reviewed the newly enacted for to them in the to the constitution. i m
would you be interested in being the chairman? rep. blackburn: we have a great chairman and fred upton, and he is doing a great job. the lead to do is focus on getting some of the energy legislation, telik medications and internet legislation done this year, the privacy and data security bills. people want us to take action, you are not worried about personalities and leadership positions. peter: representative marsha blackburn, vice chair of the dnc committee. the washington journal. this is the communicators. johnis week house speaker boehner spoke about abortion decision of planned parenthood. representative blackburn will serve as chair of the committee. landmarknal series cases is next, with a look at the supreme court s 1873 decision in the slaughterhouse cases. later this evening, we will be live from des moines, iowa. is is quite unusual for me, but i do want to thank all of you for your friendship and your loyal support and for planning this wonderful evening for
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