oliver wendell holmes some of the greatest justices went on to consider people in their early 30s and40s makes very little sense. >> one federal judge did note that perhaps having a bar mitzvah might be sufficient qualification. >> there was nothing about a young age limitation. you have to be 35 to be the president that you can be a justice of the supreme court. since the governor signed the legislation which says that it will not do business to the entities that engage with people who boycott strategic partners what is the universities responsibility with regards to its students and professors in light of the professor and graduate students refusal to write a letter of recommendation for those -- >> a professor refused to write a recommendation when he found out the students that were prepared to write the recommendation was going to israel. you have the right to advocate. that is a first amendment right that i think historically, legislation has always forbidden the actual boycotts. there's all kind of legislation permitting these back in the 60s and 70s there was legislation forbi

mitchell palmer, who makes jeff sessions look like oliver wendell holmes, launched raids. so within the last 100 years we had the power of the federal government be martialed to suppress and curb american descent in the press and the public arena. so this is a difficult moment, but it's part of a tradition of reaction that requires, if i may, people like you and me, people who believe that ultimately america, for all its faults, is right to understand that having this cacophony of voices is good. and to attack the institutions is, in fact, american in the sense of following our least good instincts, our worst instincts, instead of our best. >> and only jon meacham would know the name of the postmaster general. >> henry burleson. i'm very big on dork jeopardy if you need me. >> so i think some of us -- i mean, the reason i -- one of the many reasons i was delighted to have a chance to talk to you this morning is we're all at this moment, i think, looking back at history, looking for ways to put not only what's happening today put in context, but to understand it and to see

they focus on andrew, a young slave owned by oliver wendell who said he saw a man he thought was attucks rush forward, grab a musket and club a soldier over the head before he was shot dead. robert treat pain scoffed at the account. unless all the other witnesses were stone blind, this detail did not exist anywhere but in andrews on the brain -- andrew's own brain. adams set skepticism aside. the story of the aggression was just a detail he needed to defend the soldiers and protect boston's reputation. set upon, adams argued, by "a stout mulatto fellow whose looks were enough or terrify any person." adams placed responsibility on attucks. the jury returned its verdict in 2.5 hours. it brought manslaughter convictions against montgomery and matthew killed a kilroy. -- matthewd it will follow that the other three were killed not by the other six prisoners, but by three of them only and therefore they cannot all be found guilty of it. on the strength of this argument, six were acquitted and discharged. nine days later, montgomery and kilroy returns to court for sentencing. the normal senten

oliver wendell holmes when he was 60 years old, some of the greatest justices went on and an advanced age, the fact we're considering people in their 30s and 40s makes little sense. >> i would make a slight correction, one federal judge would note that perhaps having your bar mitzvah might be disqualification to be age-appropriate. >> as far as i remember there's nothing in the constitution about a young age. there's a limitation on congress, you have to be 25, 30 to be a senator, 40 to be president you can be 13 and the justice of thesupreme court . >> and i have two sons area. >> this is for professor dershowitz. since the governor in michigan signed legislation that says it will not do business with entity which engage with people who boycotted strategic partners, what is the university of michigan's responsibility with regard to a student and professors of the professor and a graduate students refusal to write a letter of recommendation or students. >> it's a great question. a professor refused to write a recommendation when he found out the student was prepared to write a recomme

was wondering -- >> it was all in the deliberate speed which he lifted from an early opinion of oliver wendell holmes. frankfurter agreed on it that it would give the states leeway, but they were both terribly disappointed and one in particular became more and more disappointed that the state didn't submit desegregation and she was very disappointed in that. the unanimous decision that was one of his great contributions i think the supreme court and certainly to brown v. board because it was argued earlier and the court was split with the chief justice presidents who was a very poor chief, good friend of harry truman who appointed the chief justice secretary of treasury and so on, but he was a lousy chief justice and he could not bring the court together and he really didn't have his mind in the ground so with stanley reed of kentucky and tom clark of texas and even robert jackson of new york had concerns about the constitutional underpinnings of brown v. board and finally when one came up, he knew how to bring the court together and worked on it. he said we are not going to vote for the first

was a passive bystander but instead he focused on the account of andrew, a young slave owned by oliver wendell who claimed he saw a man he thought was attics rush forward and clubbed a soldier over the head before he was shot dead. he scoffed at the account. and left the other witnesses stone blind he contended to the details not existing anywhere except in his own brain. adams, however had skepticism high the story of his aggression was just the detail that he needed to defend the soldiers and protect boston's reputation at the same time. because he was no bostonian. set upon, adams argued, by "a stout lotto fellow whose very looks were enough to terrify any person what had not the soldiers then to fear?" he asked the jury. whose behavior in all probability the dreadful carnage of that night is chiefly to be ascribed. the jury returned its verdict in 2 1/2 hours and brought manslaughter convictions against matthew kilroy and hugh montgomery the men who shot most certainly felt victim. after accounting for montgomery shot who was believed to kill it will then follow the judgment in the trial n