take a break in the set on the road to new york city and we set up shop right outside of the thurgood marshall courthouse downtown where groundbreaking trial was taking place and what might be one of the most historic civil liberties pieces of our generation and group of activists and journalists are seeking justice in a lawsuit against the federal government it's called hedges versus obama and it's a lawsuit that was filed last year over section ten twenty one b. of the national defense authorization act one that authorizes the military to indefinitely detain american citizens without due process while the lawyer lawsuits main plaintiff is journalist chris hedges the case is also being fought by revolution through founder pandering bolen pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg author noam chomsky and many others yesterday i heard the second round of oral arguments against the white house and that healed to a decree made by a judge who agreed with the plaintiffs on the n.b.a. is on constitutionality so today you'll see my exclusive interviews with the plaintiffs and more so stay tuned fo

reporting from the thurgood marshall courthouse in new york r.t. . after attending the second round of oral arguments and what's shaping up to be a landmark case against indefinite detention at an opportunity to meet with a powerhouse of plaintiff's lawyers and activists who are directly working on the case against the national defense authorization act i spoke with one of the plaintiffs who spearheaded the lawsuit tangerine bowl and i asked her why she felt personally compelled to take it on. i have pending wiki leaks i have an international team i have an organization called revolution truth and we started a campaign for them we got twelve thousand signatures in a letter to the government and quite extensively directly with wiki leaks stuff a couple of my staff members had as well some less than i had and you know i found myself in the arena. hearing things and just you know being close to things that the government is very worried about and the government has engaged in a secret grand jury investigation against wiki leaks so i don't even have the

that's why king was there when thurgood marshall was sworn in.oth johnson and kennedy are people who learned from the movement, instead of running away from it, johnson embraced it, make me do what i have to do. >> he was not on a trajectory to do those things anyway. recognized that he could become one with that movement. >> what's smart about it, he said look, by doing this, the voting rights act, the civil rights act, thurgood marshall, the supreme court, we the democrats are probably lost to the south, he was right about that, it was a big reaction to that. it made america a better place. those opportunities would never have existed if not have been for lyndon baines johnson. >> you taught both michelle and barack obama at harvard law school. i know you're still close to the first family, and both of them, you're in frequent communication with the president. i don't want you to tell tales on your friend. do you have any insight into why he has seen it to be so important to foreground martin luther king so often? he's talked about him dozens o

take a break in the set on the road to new york city and we set up shop right outside of the thurgood marshall courthouse downtown where groundbreaking trial was taking place and what might be one of the most historic civil liberties pieces of our generation and group of activists and journalists are seeking justice in a lawsuit against the federal government it's called hedges versus obama and it's a lawsuit that was filed last year over section ten twenty one b. of the national defense authorization act one that authorizes the military to indefinitely detain american citizens without due process while the lawyers lawsuits maint plaintiffs as journalist chris hedges the case is also being fought by revolution troops founder pandering bolen pentagon papers whistleblower daniel ellsberg author noam chomsky and many others yesterday i heard the second round of oral arguments against the white house and that healed to a decree made by a judge to agree.

take a break in the set on the road to new york city and we set up shop right outside of the thurgood marshall courthouse downtown were groundbreaking the trial was taking place and what might be one of the most historic civil liberties pieces of our generation and group of activists and journalists are seeking justice in a lawsuit against the federal government it's called hedges versus obama and it's a lawsuit that was filed last year over so.

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mike schuh reports, an incident in the air led to a large protest at bwi thurgood marshall. >> it is the quietest protest, this reporter has ever attended. at bwi, about 25 nursing mothers and their 25 nursing children, have attracted worldwide attention. >> it's common that breast- feeding moms are asked to cover up or asked to feed their babies elsewhere. when it's really illegal to do so. they are allowed to breast-feed wherever and however they see fit. >> reporter: they're in front of the american airlines ticket counter. one of the members of their mommy group called "the milk makers." she's not here today. had this lap on -- happen on a recent american airlines flight. >> she was discretely nursing her son. and a flight attendant made her feel embarrassed, asking her to cover up. >> they don't see it as a problem there policy. we see a problem with their policy. because they expect certain things of nursing mothers. >> reporter: now american is clarifying its position. we apologize to the nursing mother who was offered a blanket during a flight. the intend was to make everyone

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

here was speculation that thurgood marshall would step down, then cameras would happen. happen.dn't some justices in the confirmation hearings suggested receptive to cameras and they come back to congress in the,000 hearings, i've changed my mind, over my dead body. what's the situation now? are they ever going to embrace cameras in the courtroom? >> i would like to say its's some day some day, before the medium of television it's es so outdated that irrelevant. but i'm not sure i see a clear except for , possibly congress telling them to. it's just such a -- intransient -- so stubborn about it, they, as you strategy - the media and it's not really a strategy, as to wait for new young justices to come on who weren't afraid of cameras. justices would come on and they were afraid of cameras. it's -- it's something about the aura of the court that descends on new justices once they're in there. and it's not a matter of the itting justices telling kagan or sotomayor, you know, cameras terrible, don't you dare take it another step in that direction. just -- there is this eeli

or you think of goodness gracious, thurgood marshall on the court, clarence thomas.u've got to talk about family breakdown, the fact 70% of blacks are born out of wedlock. i think dr. king would cry. you've got to talk about there is a horrific dropout rate in the country, failure of urban schools. that's the civil rights challenge of this generation. and the culture. i was just listening to your interview with governor fallon. think about the culture. jay-z and his latest album. he's using the "n" word repeatedly. it's pornographic. it's invited for people to think authentic blackness you've got to be hip hop and hard. this is the tragedy of our day. >> david, where are we 50 years after "i have a dream?" >> not only 50 years after "i have a dream," chris but 270 years after the founding of this country. we reversed course on what was a worldwide tragedy. racism exists and we can't pretend it doesn't exists but can't pretend it exists everywhere. all the things juan talks about are true. we advanced to 2013. we need to tackle the new challenges. it's moral decay in

organized, people in factories and farms and those who took their battles to the courts like thurgood marshal willie velasquez, my own parents in the 1960s were very involved in a movement inspired by martin lewter king and the men and women who stood here. they were active in the chicano movement, the latin no civiling rights movement. i want to say thank you to them and all of you. i want to make a promise to you. as somebody of a younger generation of americans, i want to promise you that all of the struggles and all of the fights and all of the work and all of the years that you put in to making our country a better place, to helping our leaders understand that freedom and democracy are prerequisites to opportunity i want to you know that this generation of americans will not let that dream go. that we will carry on and make sure that this country lives up to the values and principles for which you fought so very hard. thank you very much. >>> please welcome his excel lency harry christie the prime minister -- >> that was texas congressman joaquin castro speaking on the national mall. 50

think of senator scott, you from south carolina a black senator or think of goodness gracious, thurgood marshallthe court. clarence thomas that we have someone on the supreme court. again, tremendous change. i think if you look at the realities of today, you have got to talk about things like family breakdown. you have got to talk about 70% of black children were born out of wedlock i think dr. king would cry. tremendous dropout. failure of you are began schools, chris. i think that's the civil rights challenge of this generation. the culture, i was just listening to your interview with governor fallin you think about the culture for a second. jay-z and latest hit album he is using the "n" word repeatedly. you think what is going on here? snoop dogg? it's pornographic and invites people to think authentic blackness is you have got to be hip hop and hard, education not valued. to me, this is the tragedy of our day. >> chris: david, your take, where are we 50 years after i have a dream? >> not only 50 years after i have a dream,chris where we are 237 years after the founding of this country. we re

>> well, you know, thurgood marshal's papers were released a number of years ago and that gave people an insight into the workings of the court, that they probably hadn't had before, and to me it shows an institution of working just the way that you would hope it would, exchanges of ideas, that sort of thing, justice black man's papers covered several years after justice marshal returned to the time justice blackmon retired, and also some of his observations, and i have the feeling still that it shows an institutions working just as one would hope it would, and i think the kind of the minutia that came out in the blackmon papers really was probably a fairly narrow group of people. >> did this behavioral aspect of the study of the court interest you? >> well, certainly it interests me. i don't know that i would ever call it a study. you are thrown in with eight different people who have generally quite different backgrounds than you have, and you obviously you work with them, you get to know them, and i think our present court has very cordial relations among everybody. which hasn't al

greatest fraternity in the world, a fraternity that has members such as jenny -- jesse allens, thurgood marshalldr. martin luther king jr. of alphaman, president phi alphia fraternity. afternoon. the national council of negro was very by dorothy much involved in the historic march on washington. it is an honor for me to be here to represent the thousands of affiliates and all the other woman who participated in that march. there worked closely with the big six. that was the day that dr. king told us of his big dream for his children and for all of our children. what we can be sure of is that dr. king was focused on the nation's foundations, our quest .o form a more perfect union at our birth, america was a nation of people actively involved in creating a place of freedom and democracy. the principles expressed in the preamble, those simple but powerful words are the same theciples which undergird quest for civil, human and gender rights. america is distinguished by its commitment to democracy, democracy whose core ingredients include justice, peace, well- being, equality. our quest for a perfect

or you think of goodness gracious, thurgood marshall on the court, clarence thomas.u've got to talk about family breakdown, the fact 70% of blacks are born out of wedlock. i think dr. king would cry. you've got to talk about there is a horrific dropout rate in the country, failure of urban schools. that's the civil rights challenge of this generation. and the culture. i was just listening to your interview with governor fallon. think about the culture. jay-z and his latest album. he's using the "n" word repeatedly. it's pornographic. it's invited for people to think authentic blackness you've got to be hip hop and hard. this is the tragedy of our day. >> david, where are we 50 years after "i have a dream?" >> not only 50 years after "i have a dream," chris but 270 years after the founding of this country. we reversed course on what was a worldwide tragedy. racism exists and we can't pretend it doesn't exists but can't pretend it exists everywhere. all the things juan talks about are true. we advanced to 2013. we need to tackle the new challenges. it's moral decay in

who organized, people in factories and farms, those who took their battles to the courts like thurgood marshallh as willie velasquez. my own parents in the 1960's were involved in a movement inspired by martin luther king and the men and women who stood here. they were active in the chicano movement, for the latino civil rights movement. i want to say thank you to them, and thank you to all of you. i also want to make a promise to you. as somebody of a younger generation of americans, i want to promise you that all of the struggles and all of the fights and all of the year so you put into making our country a better place, to helping our leaders understand that freedom and democracy are prerequisites to opportunity -- this generation of americans will not let that dream go. we will carry on, and make sure that this country lives up to the values and principles for which you fought so hard. thank you very much. [applause] >> please welcome perry christie, prime minister from the commonwealth of the bahamas. >> greetings from the bahamas. martin luther king jr. holds a very special place in the h

who organized, people in factories and farms, those who took their battles to the courts like thurgood marshallhicano movement, for the latino civil rights movement. i want to say thank you to them, and thank you to all of you. i also want to make a promise to you. as somebody of a younger generation of americans, i want to promise you that all of the struggles and all of the fights and all of the year so you put into making our country a better to helping our leaders understand that freedom and democracy are prerequisites to opportunity -- this generation of americans will not let that dream go. make surerry on, and that this country lives up to the values and principles for which you fought so hard. thank you very much. [applause] please welcome perry christie, prime minister from the commonwealth of the bahamas. greetings from the bahamas. martin luther king jr. holds a very special place in the hearts and minds of bahamians, not least because he spent time amongst us, both in nassau and the tiny island of bimini, where in 1964 while on a brief vacation, he composed his nobel prize acceptanc

some of the award winners from president bill clinton era -- colin powell, thurgood marshall, cesar chavezt is time to hear from william in thomasville, georgia. republican line. caller: good morning. host: who would you nominate? caller: my fellow crew members of the uss scope and andy uss -- and the uss sturgeon. those crewmen did a fabulous job attacking americans freedom they in and day out. host: what are those ships that you just mentioned? caller: those are nuclear powered submarines that patrol the north atlantic. host: are you still assigned to that? caller: no, i have since left the military under honorable terms as did nearly all of my crewmembers. they did a wonderful job, and we loved doing it. host: what is it about that crew that you think would merit a presidential medal of freedom? to go toolunteering see for any number of days, weeks, months, to protect america. anddo it sight unseen unheralded until you see the band on the. -- band on the pier. [inaudible] host: thank you for calling in. from the "hill" host: brad is in columbia, tennessee on our democrat line. who is yo

all men and women are created equal as we walk over from the thurgood marshall judicial building withts of people in tell -- in tow, there was a 10- year-old who ask, what does it say about the supreme court pillars? i remember, it says justice for all. so does every generation have to reclaim and reassert the legacy of social justice? of constitutional protection? yes. absolutely. that is why we are here today. this is the start of of the criminal justice act, a year where each month the defender services and judiciary will reclaim our constitutional values. we will educate. we will call you to action and we will recommit the sixth amendment. i thank you for being here for committing and reigniting that value and principal area -- and that principle. [applause] >> thank you for your five years of service. [laughter] >> i hope i last. >> as a colleague, friend, and mentor of mine said, you come during interesting times. i said, i am not sure i like your definition of interesting. in the midst of all of this sort of chaos and everything, in some ways, breaking apart, we have the opport

of the greatest fraternity in the world, the fraternity that has members such as jesse owens, thurgood marshallmartin luther king jr., and hill harper. mark tillman, president of alpha phi alpha, inc. >> good afternoon. the national council of negro women led by dorothy irene height was very much involved in the historic march on washington. it is an honor for me to be here to represent the thousands of ncnw members and all of the other women who participated in that march. dr. hite worked closely with the leaders of the big six. that was the day that dr. king told us of his dream for his children and for all of our children. what we can be sure of is that dr. king was focused on the nation's foundation, our quest to form a more perfect union. at our birth, america was a nation of people actively involved in creating a place of freedom and democracy. the principles expressed in the preamble, those simple but powerful words are the same principles which undergird the question for civil, human, and gender rights. america is distinguished by its commitment to democracy, democracy whose core ingred

basically, the black leadership had turned on king, most notably roy wilkins and thurgood marshall. a. philip randolph step forward compared remember king was only 34 at the time. and so it was a. philip randolph who said look, back up off of him. i've got a plan that can mobilize the nation. and he bought for the march on washington that he had had on the shelf for 20 years. not only that, he said, i'm going to give dr. king the platform to articulate his view, his message. and that's what he did. cane, now unfortunately for history's sake, who organized the march on washington has been misappropriated to dr. king. team was only the featured speaker. okay? he was not the organizer. the organizer was a. philip randolph and buyer dressed and. but have the team came -- byron rustin. a. philip randolph had the muscle through the union to be able to underwrite the march. and what can have done, remember when the youth began to go to jail, king was obligated to go to jail with him and he wrote the letter from the birmingham jail, essentially calling on white clergy to step forward. so th

ohio in 1968 that upheld stop and frisk and he was joined by thurgood marshall, the first african-americane on the supreme court and an ardent civil rights supporter. there is absolutely nothing in terms of a 4th amendment violation for having a stop and frisk policy. in terms of the equal protection clause, let me say this, the judge based her entire equal protection decision, this indirect racial profiling conclusion, on statistical evidence. she must have missed that particular week in her constitutional law class because the supreme court has made abundantly clear since the 1970's that you can't have an equal protection violation based on statistical evidence like this alone. >>brian: look at these stats in terms of success, you cannot doubt what has happened in new york city. it is flatout a law enforcement miracle. murders are down 27%, robberies down 8%, shooting incidents down almost 30%. look at what's happened in your city of chicago. you're a third of the size of new york and you have triple the murders. >> you know, i agree. that's why i was a proponent and still a believer in

within the students that sat in grones bore yore were protesting the from ce of legal rejust thurgood marshall. king was sent there to discourage the students from continuing civil disobedience. but the students said follow or et out of the way. then we had snick and all of the others. when king went to birmingham, all of the black pastors, everybody opposed him. it was the young people who came out and supported him. they were the ones bitten by dogs and driven back. so there was all great -- that's why we had these organizations, snick, urban league, naacp, all competing with one another in this great debate, character. in fact dr. king confronted j.h. jackson. ahead of the national baptist convention and deposed him and he lost a vote and as a result why t. walker and dr. king left and formed the national rogressive baptist convention. that was great division. so there was progress that defined the civil rights movement. and there was one other thing in common and that is many of those who suffered and sacrificed those in struggle for civil rights did not benefit from the hange and that's w

all men and women are created equal as we walk over from the thurgood marshall judicial building withots of people in tow, there was a 10-year-old who ask, what does it say about the -- above the supreme court pillars? i remember, it says justice for all. so does every generation have to reclaim and reassert the legacy of social justice? of constitutional protection? yes. absolutely. that is why we are here today. this is the start of of the criminal justice act, a year where each month the defender services and judiciary will reclaim our constitutional values. we will educate. we will call you to action and we will recommit the sixth amendment. i thank you for being here for committing and reigniting that valuable friends of full -- valuable principle. [applause] >> thank you for your five years of service. [laughter] >> i hope i last. >> as a colleague, friend, and mentor of mine said, you come during interesting times. i said, i am not sure i like your definition of interesting. in the midst of all of this sort of chaos and everything, in some ways, breaking apart, we have the oppo

thurgood marshall had, when he would go into various communities. he had to fear for his life. in 1965, our lawyers got jailed by justice. who got angry that they were there talking about civil rights. people had to fear for their lives one evening, one of our lawyers had to sleep all night any cane field -- in a cane field because there was a kkk members walking around trying to kill him. you see, our struggle is an integral part of the movement. we as lawyers had to bring our skills, not just our pocketbooks looking for people's money. but we've got to bring our free lawyering skills to be as powerful as possible in this fight. so let's think about it. since the march on washington, we've made a lot of progress but has ago has been talk about, we've got a whole long way to go. because there are so many forces working against them. remember, in 2011, i came to the national urban league and i -- [inaudible] and i talked about the voter suppression that was going on in this country. and we talked about 2012. i came back and i talked about how they had grown, how we now have 40 s

all men and women are created walk over from the thurgood marshall judicial building with lots of people in w, there was a 10- year-old who ask, what does it say about the supreme court pillars? i remember, it says justice for all. so does every generation have to reclaim and reassert the legacy of social justice? of constitutional protection? yes. absolutely. that is why we are here today. this is the start of of the criminal justice act, a year each month the defender services and judiciary will reclaim our constitutional values. we will educate. we will call you to action and we will recommit the sixth amendment. forank you for being here committing and reigniting that -- andnd principal area that principle. [applause] for your five years of service. [laughter] hope i last. >> as a colleague, friend, and mentor of mine said, you come during interesting times. i said, i am not sure i like your definition of interesting. in the midst of all of this sort of chaos and everything, in some ways, breaking apart, we have the opportunity and the obligation to bring it back together again. thin

students that sat in in that greensboro, were protesting the slow pace of legal redress coming from thurgood marshallrom atlantic, and king was sent there to discourage the students from continuing civil disobedience. but the students said, follow or get out of the way. the others,had all when king went to birmingham, all the black pastors and everybody opposed him. it was the young people who came out and supported him. they were the ones bitten by the dogs and driven back. i were always great congress. we had all of this great organizations, the urban league, naacp, competing with each other in this great big. dr. king confronted j.h. jackson, head of the national baptist convention, and deposed dr.come and as a result king left and formed the national progressive baptist convention. there was great division and conflict that existed that defined the progress of the civil rights movement. and there was one thing in common, and that is that many of those who suffered and sacrificed most in this pursuit for civil rights did not benefit from the change. billhat is why in 1965, raspberry did this, and

thurgood marshall had to hide when he would go into various communities. he had to fear for his life. when we opened our oone wice in mississippi and 1955, hours got jailed by judges to get angry that they were there talking about civil rights. people had to fear for their lives one evening. one of our ll ais ars had to lie and sleep all night in a cane field because there were kkk methe sters warising around tryo you see our struggle is an interval part of this mss tthe . we as ll ais ars had to bring hr skills not just our pocketbook of. free ll ais aring skills to be s power as possible in this fight. so let's think about it. sii e the march on washington we have made a lot of progress. as everyone has been talking rmoulso we have a long waiting o because there's so many forces working against us. remethe ster, in 2011i came to e national urban league and talked about the voter sitypression tht was going on in this country. and we talked about in 2012i came back and talked about the new -- sl a how the end groan ad we now have 40 states that were trying