kimberle crenshaw will be joining us. we're talking about the death of justice scalia and what happens next. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. with saturday's death of justice antonin scalia, the most conservative voice on the court of decades, the nation may be heading into a constitutional crisis. senate republicans around to block president obama from filling justice scalia's's. we're joined by three guests, linda hirshman is still with us from phoenix, arizona, lawyer and historian, authors of "sisters in law: how sandra day , o'connor and ruth bader ginsburg went to the supreme court and changed the world." we are joined here in new york by scott horton human rights , attorney and contributing editor at harper's magazine. he is also a lecturer at columbia law school. in a moment we will be joined by kimberle crenshaw, professor of law at ucla and columbia university. we're going to turn to scott horton. juan: scott, i want to ask yo

kimberle crenshaw: howard lawyers, the howard machine. that was the think tank that created the civil rights warriors who then spread out across the country and changed the face of law. narrator: in june of 1933 marshall graduated at the top of his class. as he waited for the results of his bar exam, charles houston was busy planning a road trip to new orleans. along the way he would document the inequality of southern black schools to support his developing legal strategy. juan williams: they need to document this in order to build a case. to make a brief. and so you get charles hamilton houston, in his car, bags of food, books, blankets, typewriter on the back seat - because he is going to be traveling through the south, and you know the hotels and restaurants don't always accommodate black people for sure. and he invites thurgood marshall to go with him. it's a powerful moment in thurgood marshall's life. rawn james: marshall was astounded by the abject poverty they encountered. in the deepest recesses of the jim crow baltimore was seg