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the case is submitted. to an item book tv, summer reading pics starting at 8:00 p.m., patricia bell scott and her book. eleanor alert roosevelt and the struggle for social justice. then when the west and shrill. then simply bold, a mother s reckoning living in the aftermath of tragedy. at 11:00 p.m. grunt, the curious science of human at war. all of this tonight on tv, prime time on c-span2 this week on q&a, documentary filmmaker discusses her latest film about the late american businessman and pulliam therapist. aviva kempner, why did you do a document on a man named julius ? i was lucky enough 12 years ago to be at martha s vineyard to attend the lectured for religion at the state department. the title was blacks and jews. i thought i was going to a talk about the civil rights era but i was very surprised to learn about julius and as soon as he talked about him the light bulb went off in my head because i make films about unbeknownst euros and he is the most under ....
usually straddles the middle and whose vote takes the middle. he wrote a concurring opinion saying, let s lower the temperature here. the decision doesn t mean as much as my colleague ruth ginsberg with the dissent has said but it s, you know, it s narrower the way justice alito says and like he tried to bridge the rhetoric in the moment more than the substantive issue. justice ginsberg is not normally an alarmist and having achieving the goals that bob said might have been part of the reason for the dissent. she saw it the way she saw it and that kind of alarmist dissent, there s history for it. you remember that justice scalia in two big gay rights decisions said, if you buy this, then the next thing you know, same-sex marriage and he turned out to be right. somewhat broader question still focusing on hobby lobby, the case involved four separate issues, any one of which could have been determinetive. whether a corporation was a person for the religious freedom res ....
i stayed. i stayed. do you have the same time pressure to get something out to your publications? not quite as much as some of the folks who need to get something out within the hour. i have daily some of the papers i write for are daily and needed to get something out but, you know, the editors also realize i m one person so i do the best that i can and we all make it work. well, you know, you sit there and making so many judgments because i had my colleague knows more about business cases and he was going to cover aerial coming second. i said i ll do the susan b. anthony first amendment one and not knowing that justice sotomayor is about to present this great dissent which matters to me both in my day job and in this side project book on her. so after she says what she says and i know it s huge, i m thinking, i promise i ll stay for the susan b. anthony oral arguments so my editors are hoping for that but i also know i have just observed this big moment i ....
and there is not a lot of public or public policy leadership around this issue. i think king would feel proud there were victories in the civil rights movement, many of which happened after he passed. and there are people fighting to make sure those victories remain, even when there are massive efforts to overturn those victories. host: coverage of the 50th anniversary of the march on washington takes place on c-span and will also take place on wednesday with special coverage on this program as well as the president giving a speech. the president s impact on civil- rights to date? guest: that is interesting. my students try to draw a link between martin luther king and president obama. senses a link in the they re both african-american leaders and have had massive followings. they are seen as their opinions having an impact. but they exist in very different times. president obama exists in a time when there. demographicndous changes going on. the role of the u.s. in the ....
[indiscernible crowd noise] indiscernible crowd noise] indiscernible crowd noise] looking at downtown d.c. just off the national mall commemorating the march on washington for jobs and freedom led by martin luther king jr. on august 28, 1963. the anniversary itself is wednesday when another gathering is planned and president obama will be here. we ll have live coverage on c-span and c-span radio of that appearance. if you missed any of the rally that just ended we ll show you ighlights from that rally. for those of us who are from the south, 50 years ago we received our marching orders hen the prophet dr. king jr. quoted the prophet isiah, that have a dream. this is our hope. this is the faith that we go back to the south with. those are our marching orders. this is the faith that we go back to the south with. yes, the south where some are still trying to fight the civil war. yes, the south. where we are witnessing this vicious attack on voting rights an ....