i would love to write a really great biography of john marshall. the problem is he destroyed all his correspondence with his wife. you don't have the same level of information that you have -- you have all this legalistic information about his cases and the papers that have been published at the college of william and mary, which is home to the marshall school of law, but this is a guy who was a real stud. , and this is a guy who at valley forge had a high jumper, something, you know, won all the athletic competitions, and he was the leader of what was the equivalent of a special forces team throughout the war. he had six or seven platoons shot out from under him. he goes on to be a major figure in virginia politics, secretary of state under adams, and greatest chief justice in american judicial history serving from 1800 to 1835-36. i used to tell a story about how when marshall dieded #, he was visiting his daughter up in new york, and they carried the body down to his home in virginia, and when it passed through philadelphia, they rang the libert

i would love to write a really great biography of john marshall. the problem is he destroyed all his correspondence with his wife. you don't have the same level of information. you have all this legalistic information about this case is in the papers published, which is home to the marshall school of law. this is a guy who was a real stud. this is a guy who like at valley forge was known -- he was off the athletic competitions. he was the equivalent of a special forces team throughout a war. he has six or seven platoon's shot from under him. and then goes on to become a major figure in virginia politics and secretary of state for a brief time. the greatest chief justice and american judicial history. starting from 1800 to 1835, 36. i used to tell a story, and marshall died he was visiting his daughter in new york and they carried the body down to someone virginia. when a pastor in philadelphia they ring the liberty bell and it cracked. it's a great story. it turns out not to be true. but everything about him that is written now tends to be from a p

he's no now the president and founder and one of the contributors to gideon's army, he's from john marshall law school where he teaches law and criminal procedure. he was in the post katrina and new orleans center. he trained people in the film. he received an advocacy fellowship and named a public interest fellow by harvard law school. next we have maurice call well. he was convicted in the housing project here in san francisco. there was no physical evidence linking him to the crime yet he was still convicted based on the false testimony of a single neighbor. he was sentence to life behind bars. in prison mr. colwell contacted the center for help and located two witnesses who saw the murder and said mr. colwell was not involved in anyway. they located the real killer who confessed and he committed the murder. that man is serving a life sentence for a subsequent murder . on march 28, 2011 after more than 20 years in prison, maurice colwell is free. thank you for being here. [ applause ] linda star is the legal and cofounding in the santa clara law, law center clerk received her ph.d.. she

chief justice john marshall selected. want to go back to the passage of the alien and sedition act. what is the view of both adamses >> the alien sedition acts were a reaction to some of the international problems at that time. there was a believe on the part of some people that we were about to be overrun by french revolutionaries and they were influencing people in america. there were rumors that cities would be burned. it was terrorism they were anticipating. for example, the opposition party, the democratic republican party was very enthusiastic about the french and some of the ideals of the french revolution. >> jefferson in particular. >> this is where they begin to go in different directions. also, some of the press is very vehement in their criticism of the administration. so they muzzled the press and said that this is probably the thing that john adams is most criticized for. abigail, i believe, supported it was not john that started it. it came out of congress, and he signed the legislation. abigail was even mo

from john marshall to thurgood marshall. i ask each of you to take up the cause and -- in your practices and communities. your neighbors and local leaders about voting rights. write an op-ed, called a congressman. tell them you believe in the right to vote, not just ourselves but for your fellow citizens, and tell them that our government cannot fully represent the people unless it has been fairly elected by them. [applause] so as you go home to your local bar association, courthouses and offices, please ask what more you can do on your own with your local bar association to be that advocate for justice. how can we bring a lot to people's lives and help it serve and empower them. one of my early mentors as a lawyer was drawn forth who argue pivotal cases for the justice department. 1963 in jackson, mississippi, john stepped between angry protesters and armed the police to prevent a potential massacre after the murder of medgar evidence. that was the kind of lawyer and leader he was. years later he gave me a photograph would

where legal texts contradict one another, where the contradiction is between two statutes, says john marshall, the more recent statute prevails, it has implicitly repealed the older one, but where the conflict is between a statute and a super statute, the constitution, the constitution must prevail. so that is our approach to the constitution is the same as our approach to statutes. you start with the text, it is lawyer's work. it is not politician's work. it is not sociologist's work. it is not economist's work. it is the work of interpreting, giving the fairest reading to a text. without which democracy doesn't work. , you know, the only way you can have democracy in an extensive nation is through its laws, and if you don't give those written laws the meaning that they were understood to have by the people who adopted them and, more importantly, by the people to whom they were promulgated, democracy doesn't work. >> rose: it is a dead document to you? >> i like to say an enduring document. >> rose: but you don't say it is a living document? >> it is not living. it is not living. >> rose: bu

john marshall was selected. i want to go to 1798 with the passage of the alien and sedition act. what is the view of both adamses on this? >> some people thought we were about to be overrun by french revolutionaries and the a were influencing people in america. there were rumors that cities would be burned. it was terrorism they were anticipating. for example, the opposition party, the democratic republican party was very enthusiastic about the french and some of the ideals of the french revolution. >> jefferson in particular. >> this is where they begin to go in different directions. also, some of the press is very vehement in their criticism of the administration. so they muzzled the press and said that this is probably the thing that john adams is most criticized for. abigail, i believe, supported john. abigail was even more vehement during i think she is even more conservative than john during that time. >> the upshot of this, the people who were breaking the alien and sedition acts -- >> you could be jailed. >> it was said that the press made things up. he had no standards.

by that point, the census in 1800, interestingly, was done by john marshall who went on to the supremeourt, and ultimately done by secretary of state james madison. all such familiar names from history -- the job of census chief at that time. the population was 5.3 million across 16 states. they were 998,000 blacks, about 19% of the population, only 12% of them free. that 5.3 million was a 35% growth in the country in 10 years since the 1790 census. one interesting thing though, the average life expectancy if you were born in 1800 was just 39 years. the largest cities were in the country new york, philadelphia, baltimore, unchanged from 10 years ago. what are some of the things we should take away from those statistics, that snapshot of america? >> one of the things is there is an expansion going on. this is one of the things that is very difficult for the adamses because politics are changing, and the changing politics means they are new englanders. they are federalists. as time goes by, as the population moved south and westward, it makes it more difficult for politics that they beli

and marshall by john kerry who saying we have evidence. and have evidence that is better than what i call them presented on the fifth of february two thousand and three to the u.n. security council which turns out to be totally faulty and the then should go ahead and release that evidence in the security come hans von sponeck for my us assistant secretary general u.n. humanitarian coordinator for iraq in your time thank you for your a most experienced screwed up in the program thank you. saying goodbye to get mo coming up to date detainees are finally being transferred from a notorious facility that still isn't being closed had got their story and more on that as well as the rest of the day's news in just a minute or two. with the. technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia. the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome

john jovita. >> [applause] >> thank you so much dr. joseph marshall. i know new kid on the block because i'm the one [inaudible]. it is an honor. it is an honor to be dean of the school of law and it's great to be home in san francisco. i'm grateful to father and the law school community or the opportunity to lead the law school forward. i had my special welcome to our students. we are your law school. we will be taking special efforts to be a more visible and present member of the university community and i welcome you to include us in your usf experience. a special welcome to all of you who come from outside arkansas or are visiting this evening. we take seriously our mission to be the university of san francisco. today we look back half a century ago. idsa the vast majority of the people in this room assembled here today were not present then. increasingly, when i asked students about whether their parents were involved in the civil rights struggle of the 1960s, becoming their grandparents were. in order to make real are increasingly multicultural n

he's a graduate of john marshall law school in chicago. >> welcome, please proceed. >> it's an opportunityday is on behalf of not just a 16,000 lawyers who are directly interested in the federal court system. but really the people and the businesses we represent. my comments; therefore, will be directed as to the people and their right for a strong and independent american judiciary that uphold the rule of law. i know, we share that interest. it truly is, we the people. it's the ability of our court to provide fair, -- prorcht and respected. our founding fathers wisely recognize a compelling need far strong federal judiciary. establishing as a separate coequal branch of government, but independents and promptness of decision making paroled are the federal judiciary lack the resource when properly danger the constitutional responsibility. the long stray addition of excellence in the american judiciary is in jeopardy. as an attorney who practices there regularly. i want to focus on three points. there are true economic and cost implications related to scwes translation effect our commerce, i

john mosby's comments. he defended stewart and was bitterly critical of charles marshall who was leave the secretary and the principal finger pointer at jeb stuart. then they go back and forth over stewart. stewart is of course dead. he was killed in may of 1864 but mosby kept pointing out and i think much to the point that stewart's absence was not a critical factor in his decision to fight at gettysburg. the decision to fire was not by default because of jeb stuart. we are hoping to understand us and the thing that amazes me is that on the 26th of june, my question is had he known as early as the 26th and 27 that the potomac is what it was, could he have concentrated beginning then and be in much better shape as he was on the first of july? >> we does not order his concentration until the evening of the 27th of june. it is not until that point that he finally has sufficient intelligence the conference to him that the army is strung out and vulnerable and has been learned that he can now turn it for what it was at carlisle and bring up hell hell from where they had been position. to bring them all together

john schwartz, the constitution as written original intent up to scalia levels of originalness. and there it is. we do have marbury versus madison and the right established under gene marshallck times. >> exactly right. somewhere the ghost of john calhoun is smiling. it's a cherished view of people who don't like the balance that was set in marbury versus madison that was set after the civil war. but there you have it. the states come behind the federal government on laws of this nature. >> well, let's talk about the history yesterday, ron. and you can do this as well. yesterday everyone paid tribute, everybody was there. the democrats, at least and the independents, and hollywood paid tribute to dr. martin luther king and his great speech of course included a reference to lips dripping with interposition and nullification. and here we have it in real life terms in 2013, 50 years after the speech, 150 years after the emancipation proclamation. here we have a state in missouri which is a border state saying to hell with washington. nullify it. >> yeah, it's amazing that we sometimes seem to still be fighting the civil war, still be fighting and slogging through the civil rig

john mosby's comments. he defended stewart and was bitterly critical of charles marshall who was leave the secretary and theprincipal finger pointer at jeb stuart. then they go back and forth over stewart. stewart is of course dead. he was killed in may of 1864 but mosby kept pointing out and i think much to the point that stewart's absence was not a critical factor in his decision to fight at gettysburg. the decision to fire was not by default because of jeb stuart. we are hoping to understand us and the thing that amazes me is that on the 26th of june, my question is had he known as early as the 26th and 27 that the potomac is what it was, could he have concentrated beginning then and be in much better shape as he was on the first of july? >> we does not order his concentration until the evening of the 27th of june. it is not until that point that he finally has sufficient intelligence the conference to him that the army is strung out and vulnerable and has been learned that he can now turn it for what it was at carlisle and bring up hell hell from where they had been position. to bring them all together

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the amendment which was opposed by house leader john boehner in the white house was defeated by a vote of 205-217. this town hall held in marshallmichigan is just over an hour. [applause] >> hello everyone. he is my chief of staff. he doesn't just work for me so if you have questions or concerns here in the district you can always reach ben. he is primarily in my grand rapids office my main district office. you can find that on my web site. we have a satellite office in battle creek so if there is something you would like to schedule or an appointment you would like to schedule contact her grand rapids office so we can make sure we have someone down here to meet with u.s. well in calhoun county. by district director is not here today but he is also a valuable resource. if you want to contact my grand rapids office to reach him please feel free to do so. he is always around except for today but for a good cause he is not here today. but, he is a great resource and he is going to help you with any number of issues. i do telephone town halls from time to time so if you would like to get on those phonecalls when i do them please let