supreme court called batson versus kentucky, and i talk about it in the book, the court has said, with peremptory challenge is questioned, the person who did the challenge has to give a race neutral explanation for removing the juror, but then it is up to the judge to determine if that explanation is plausible. more than 30 years after batson , trial judges continue to accept superficial, and in my view, outright ridiculous race neutral excuses, usually from prosecutors for their preemptory challenges. thurgood marshall, once again said, any prosecutor can easily assert facially neutral regions for striking a juror and trial courts are any good to second- guess those reasons. >> judge cordell, you talk in the book how racism used to be the elephant in the courtroom. could you give us an example of that from your own life, from what you have seen? >> sure. so, when i was on the bench, and really, this has gone on until recently, nobody talks about it. indeed, i write about in the book when i was in a judges meeting and brought up the subject when we were deciding that we wanted to do a

so when you look towards batson, ford, where russia faces ukraine, how close is europe to war there? well, i know you just mentioned that when i was the diplomatic advisor to transfer america. and of course, i lived through the period 20131415. the aggression of russia for the invasion of ukraine by rushers. so when you look at the situation today, you, you know, you remember what happened 8 years ago when the sanction cit then rusher scaled back their, their attacks. and you know, we don't want to have this and see that repeated. so what we want this time is to have this very strong, massive react.

supreme court called batson versus kentucky, i talk about this in the book, the court said, when a peremptorychallenge is questioned, the person who did the challenge has to give a race neutral vaccination for removing the juror. then it is up to the judge to determine if that expedition is possible. more than 30 years after@, trial judges continue to accept superficial and in my opinion ridiculous race neutral excuses, usually from prosecutors for the peremptory challenges. thurgood marshall once again said, any prosecutor could easily insert facially neutral reasons for striking a juror and trial courts are ill- equipped to second-guess those reasons. >> you talk in a book about how racism used to be the elephant in the room. can you give us an example of that from your own life and from what you have seen? >> when i was on the bench, this has gone on until recently, race was always there, nobody talk about it. i write in the book about when i was in a judges meeting and brought up the subject when we were deciding we wanted to do a search to find someone to be a commissioner on the court.

can demand from one another and back in russia, for example, if you take the issue of vaccination i batson has been, see, is a big deal. many people don't want to, don't trust the hastily produced vaccines. but for the employers, formal employers, that's the best way against impose low downs. and frankly, all the losses associated with those down the businesses are bearing the brand a bit. so one inevitably bronson check question of whether people's how should it be a personal issue and explicitly personal issue, or whether an employer should have some sort of a capacity to discriminate against those to make certain decision, simply because he bears the bronze of the costs and responsibilities and he needs that business to be operational in order to secure those the same labor rights. all of us in our own work places struggling with the respective responsibilities of the individual vaccination of the employer who has not only an interest in the financial viability of the enterprise, but also a responsibility to provide a safe working place for the people who, who do that and then of the st