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good evening ladies and gentlemen as director of the library we have professor of history at the university of north carolina nominated twice for the pulitzer prize in the author one of the great books about the civil war talking about the importance of religion of american politics leading up to the civil war with the decline of evangelical religions after the civil war with the post- reconstruction era and jim crow. it is a great book that refrains for race and religion in america. in his new book when government was good that may seem like a distant past we heard about the place of government and with executive leadership it is a book about truman and eisenhower with those who came after with the truman presidential library we know a lot about truman and his executive leadership with form policy with the great decision-making without domestic policy and in particular with race and those inequalities that we are very concerned with today but to use those executive p ....
guests will review 12 historic cases featured in the new city. that will be live at 6:30 p.m. eastern on c-span, c-span.org, and the c-span radio and give their attention. landmark cases. c-span s 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 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 stick together because they believe in the rule of law. welcome to c-span s 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 ho ....
inmates have been put on death row for. that was my thinking. as this illustrates, there is no perfect, ideal way to do it. things are going to be slightly different. most of us are in the same place. when i look at my story david s story, my story, they look alarmingly similar. you might think we colluded. they often have a very similar lead, a similar first quote. newspaper work is, in a way a fairly narrow kraft. wouldn t you concerned, though if we actually differed on the outcome, who won and who lost? the thing is, they are both wrong. what you really found from that that there are seven justices who didn t question the constitutionality of the death penalty. what i thought was stirring was that it was a narrow but i thought the end of my lead was unequivocal directive that states could experiment with ways to execute people and the court wasn t going to get in the way of that. obviously, as you said i this i i put it in the fourth graph that the two of them ....
koch s belief in a free and prosperous society. and going back to some of the last panel which i thought was excellent as well talking about removing obstacles for opportunity talking about disadvantaged, the poor. if you want to help the poor, as we do, i think probably everybody in this room does, everybody on this panel does. there s no better way than to reform our criminal justice system because they are the most adversely impacted by that system that is so broken. so that s one part of it. the other part is we had some negative experiences ourselves with the criminal justice system. back in the mid-90s. that we learned from. and we wanted to see whatever we learned and how the process went for us. if it s happening to a big company with a lot of resources like us what s happening to the small business owners what s happening to the average citizen, what s happened to the average joe in the street out there, and so that got us involved working with the nacdl, natio ....
2015. on our three-hour program this morning, we ll be talking about police reform, u.s. national security challenges in the middle east, and the state of the u.s. auto industry. but we begin this morning with the renewed debate in the country over the 14th amendment and birthright citizenship. with republican presidential candidate donald trump and several of his fellow gop contenders now calling for an end to the practice of granting automatic citizenship to anyone born on u.s. soil, we re asking our viewers to weigh in on this latest debate over immigration policy. should the u.s. end birthright citizenship? if you think yes, the number for you is 202-748-8000. if you say no to ending birthright citizenship, the number is 202-748-8001. we also have a special line this morning for americans whose parents were foreign born, those first-generation americans can call in at 202-748-8002. a very good thursday morning to you on the washington journal. we begin this mornin ....