The alliance did not. And india posses are grim milestone in the coronavirus pandemic the country has now topped 3000000 cases and made a spike in new infections. Im tired right its great to have you read this doctors here in berlin a trying to save the life of russian Opposition Leader alex saying the valmy he arrived here in the german capital on saturday morning from siberia 2 days off to becoming seriously ill on a flight in russia now his supporters allege that he was poisoned european leaders have made Public Office of support as doctors from germany and russia obviate about whether he was fit enough to fly it took 2 full days of frantic diplomacy to get him transferred. All the action now is here while doctors at Berlin Charity hospital try to save alexei their values life his health has become a political and diplomatic issue the world is watching. Germanys president called for an urgent explanation. As i live by no good all those who can contribute something to clear this up d
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 cspan and the National Constitution centers 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 on this case, he found th
Statement from me and from mr. Cole then well go tow our distinguished witnesses. Today the rules committee will hold a hearing to discuss how the constitution separated powers between the legislative and executive branches and how the balance of power between these branches has shifted over time. We are doing this in the hopes of finding concrete Bipartisan Solutions to better ensure congress is playing the role our nations founders envisioned. Thats a lot, i know. And while a constitutional debate may be fun for law students and legal scholars and mr. Raskin [ laughter ] the it wasnt fun when i was yeah. For the rest of us, it could feel a little in the weeds. So, so for the rest of us, let me simplify. You know, we throw around the phrase, the peoples house, a lot around here, but this really is but this really is about whether we remain the institution that our nations founders created to be the voice of the people. The constitution entrusts congress with deciding how to spend fede
Impeachment story told by john f. Kennedy in his 1957 book profiles in courage. This event was part of a symposium on reconstruction hosted by the u. S. Capitol historical vosociety. Brook thomas is a professor in the English Department at the university of california at irvine. I think you just took emeritus status, which means he has more time to write and more time to talk and more time to educate all of us. Im honored that he has come here again. He was here a couple years ago. Im honored that he is back today. Thank you. I have about 25 minutes so i hope we have time for question and answer. But were moving towards the end. Reconstruction stayed alive in the popular memory largely through its portrayal in popular media. I want to look at the politics of the portrayals of Andrew Johnsons impeachment. My primary works are the clansman, the film tennessee johns johnson. My thesis is that these works portrayal radical reconstruction as misrule reenforced highly held belief that althou
You can catch up with us on social media. On twitter it is cspanwj. On facebook it is facebook. Com cspan. Very good monday morning to you. You can start calling in on this question of war Power Authority. Here is the basics. The constitution and powering the president to wage wars as commanderinchief. The constitution empowering congress to declare wars and fund wars. President s can order u. S. Troops when the country is attacked or attack appears imminent, but the war powers resolution requires a president terminate combat unless there is congressional passedzation to continue over the veto of richard nixon. The war powers debate has stemmed from how much the war power authorizations have been stretched and some argue stretched too far. In particular, the 2001 authorization of use of military force a week after the september 11 attacks. That said the president is authorized to use all necessary and appropriate force against those authorizations or organizations in order to prevent f