lewis powell in his $971.00 memo which he wrote when he was an attorney for the chamber of commerce he later became the supreme court justice talked about what he called the assault on the free enterprise system. and he called on corporations to use their power and in particular their money to build counter institutions and to take over and destroy liberal institutions. institutions that traditionally gave a voice to the working class and cared about the rights and needs of the citizenry . but i dropped later charges that applied car companies with running risks that countered them but do. quote perhaps the single most effective antagonist of american business is ralph nader so if they do it to help new york city it will be to help the banks. who thanks largely to the media has become a legend in his own time and an idol of millions of americans. and on are justified in any way to getting us to matter i don't want to have a climate in this country where i want to ask the avonex aesthetic. exist and steely determination in order to speak truthfully and candidly critically of american in

he discusses the various deliberations and the fact that marshall was particularly offended by lewis powell's draft opinion, from marshall's point of view. >> it failed to look at the larger inequalities. >> >> if all you are doing is passing those laws, and not changing the structure, you are reapplying or reasserting the same kind of structural inequalities that have negative african-american progress. for justice powell, if you turn to the letter he wrote one day before they announced his opinion, this letter is an attempt to try to cobble together one or two more opinions. i think he knows it is unlikely to work out at this 11th hour as he is putting up this memo. he ends the memo "i should be in the rear rank, not upfront." ironically, powell's opinion despite the fact it had no other fully co-signed justices on it, is the one that exists throughout the century. susan: we are going to look at how that decision turned out, it was split on the two. constitutional was the majority of justices. >> on the question of whether or not the uc davis program was constitutional, yes or no, powell, b

nixon appointee, the chief justice harry blackmon, lewis powell, and william rehnquist, would become chief himself. the ford appointee, and president what it was an office and 76 was john paul stevens. the oral arguments were heard over two days, march 30th and 31st. and they have more than four hours of argument. is that surprising considering the number of cases? >> you have a prosecution and defense attorney for each case, and then to front of the court arguments, one for the united states, and one by the california attorney general. >> a question for both of you. what was the overall attitude of the court toward criminal justice cases? we learned about the warren accord, out of the burger court established a world view during its time? >> people talk about the kind of revolution and criminal procedure rot by the burger court. the warren court had been known for establishing many procedural protections and criminal cases, such as the famous miranda warnings, the application of the exclusionary rule to the states for unconstitutionally seized evidence, the extension of the right to

, i do know how this came within my being, but he had a teacher in this teacher was named john lewis powellphilosopher teacher at american baptist college. he would run around the blackboard with certain ideas and he was like a flying saucer. he would just run with a lot of energy. he was not a very young man but he could move. like something was hitting him. i just have this belief that whether you want to go someplace or not, you may want to go in another direction, or maybe you just want to stand still. but there's some force, and i call it the spirit of history, that track you down and said this is the way you must go. this is what you must say. this is what you must do. and i feel today, i felt it back during the '40s and '50s when i was growing up very, very poor on that farmn i had to ansr the call. when i heard the words of martin luther king, jr., i was already young. but when i read about rosa parks, i knew then that i had been -- i do know what to call it but i lay there, started calling it the spirit of history. that's it. this is your calling. this is what you must do. dedicate

lewis was a leader of that movement. we focused specifically on him. i had the opportunity to meet him. he was courageous and inspiring. general powellumanity, generosity, kindness spirit, how wonderful it was to have a person so kind and thoughtful as an individual, and at the same time, so courageous .nd committed to making this s y >>an: i'llo to put yourinistratyou're at uc, they e taken high profile steps to attempt to increase diversity in the school system, one of the more controversial ones was the decision to do away with the requirement of sat's or act's tests in the future. despite some arguments within the university that doing so would result in lower grade averages or lower congratulations rates. and i wonder how you think about addressing these concerns that eliminating a standard somehow lowers them. >> well, we're in no way attempting to lower standards at all. we have a variety of things we consider in admissions. i was the admissions charger of admissions for the ucsf medical school ms the past and we use a variety of things to determine the qualifications for students who will be admitted to the university. we're

lewis in atlanta. federal reserve chair jerome powell held a virtual news conference to discuss the us economy and monetary policy during the pandemic, announcing interest rates, remains unchanged for the recent rise in covid-19 cases. this runs an hour. >> the pandemic continues to cause tremendous human and economic hardship in the united states and around the world. the most important response to this public health crisis has come from our healthcare workers and remaining grateful to them and many other essential workers for putting themselves at risk day after day in service to others and our country. all of us have a role to play in our nation's responsibility to the pandemic. the federal reserve remains committed for using tools to do what we can to do as long as it takes to relieve stability and be as strong as possible. and lasting damage to the economy. in recent months economic activity picked up as the economy began to reopen. many businesses opened their doors, restarted production and more people left their homes to engage in various activities which as a result household spending looks to hav

lewis went along with them and decided he wanted the job. nick, thanks. now it's time for a look at the weather with susan powell. hello.day today. make the uk stuck und coherent why make the uk stuck under a coherent blanket of moisture in the cloud, making things misty and murky, particularly across the high ground and some of our coasts. this is anglesey a little bit earlier in the day. and it's those western hills and coast that will continue to struggle with lingering cloud on into thursday, pulling a lot of moisture across the uk from the atlantic. it will continue to pull away eastwards. 0vernight, a lot of cloud lingering however. that cloud will make for a very mild night in some spots, with temperatures dropping down no lower than 14-15dc. temperatures dropping down no lower than 14—15dc. more in the way of wetter weather for the northern isles after some decent sunshine here through the day on wednesday. thursday doesn't look too promising first thing, but look at the change in the wednesday our temperatures could shoot up to 24-25 our temperatures could shoot up to 24—25 degrees, making it the warmest spotin

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