time and again thurgood marshall would journey to parts of america and risk his life to defend someone accused of a crime. they were the only ones who would stand up and speak for the poor and those who were in minority status. well, mr. adegbile joined the naacp legal defense fund, and during his 20-year career he's gained experience and perspective on a wide range of issues, certainly qualifying him for this job at the civil rights division. he has widespread enthusiastic support from a broad spectrum of civil rights groups, law enforcement organizations, police officers, prosecutors, business leaders, government officials and prominent members of both political parties. he has twice been called ton defend the constitution -- to defend the constitutionality of the voting rights act in oral arguments before the united states supreme court. in the year 2013, he was the only -- only -- african-american attorney to argue before the supreme court. there is no question about his competence. he led the naacp legal defense and education fund's legislative outreach and public education effort

with thurgood marshall. that is very important to me. i am a huge justice brandeis fan. he was like the greatest writer ever to serve on the supreme court, and think he was a very deeply wise human being. i love the way justice jackson writes, and i love his sort of very practical and commonsensical and institutional approach to law. i guess those are my two favorites, brandeis and jackson. those are great role models, right? >> they are great role models. we are running out of time. two final questions. is there anything that you didn't know when you graduated from law school that you wish you had known? it's a big question. >> what is your answer to that? [laughter] >> i think the teamwork part. when i graduated from law school, i thought it was all about how smart you were. i thought it was really about doing it yourself. i think that's one thing i've learned over the years. >> it helps to be smart and all that, but it is so much about how you get along with people, it's so much about your emotional intel

the snow grounded 143 flights and bwi-thurgood marshall and 110 flights at dulles international. the snow is really coming down hard in charles county. >> news4's megan mcgrath has been in white plains all morning. she's live with a look at the conditions there. megan? >> reporter: well, yeah, just a little while ago, the snowflakes actually got to be quite large, and still snowing here. you can take a look at the impact that we're seeing on the roads. i wish i had better news to report. unfortunately, the roads are in very sloppy condition in this area. you can see the left lane is a little bit better than the right-hand lane, but neither lane is particularly great. we've seen a number of plows come by, and they haven't had their plows down. they've been salting, but they haven't had the blades down. not exactly sure what that's all about. at least headed in the northbound direction. about 20 minutes ago, though, on the southbound side, we did see sort of a caravan of six plow trucks with the plows down going alongside that stretch of road. that has improved the conditions on th

and we look forward to all of you joining us next year on the fourth saturday in february at thurgood marshal, thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you so much, and students, you are absolutely wonderful, how about another round of applause? >> and her teachers and our parents and grand parents and principals, and teachers, so thank you so much. i want to wrap up the superintendent's thoughts but also thanking everyone that came out to the bay view family night last friday. and it was at the california academy of sciences. we had over 1,200 family members in attendance, enjoying science at the california academy of science, and i want to especially thank the bay view zone team led by assistant superintendent, deedee. and our incredible science administrator emanuel stewart who put it altogether. and so i would want to thank the california academy of sciences for hosting our families and so thank you very much. >> thank you, for that wonderful performance. and recognitions and resolution and commendations. superintendent? >> thank you. we have a recognition, did you want to do the... >> yeah, sur

>> the one who is on my wall is thurgood marshall because first of all my connection with thurgood marshall. that is very important to me. i am a huge justice brandeis fan. he was like the greatest writer ever to serve on the supreme court, and think he was a very deeply wise human being. i love the way justice jackson oftes, and i love his sort very practical and commonsensical and institutional approach to law. i guess those are my two favorites, brandeis and jackson. those are great role models, right? models.are great role we are running out of time. two final questions. is there anything that you didn't know when you graduated from law school that you wish you had known? it's a big question. >> what is your answer to that? [laughter] >> i think the teamwork part. when i graduated from law school, i thought it was all about how smart you were. i thought it was really about doing it yourself. i think that's one thing i've learned over the years. >> it helps to be smart and all that, but it is so much about how you get along with people, it's so much about your -- the eq as opposed to the

i live in district 1 and i attend thurgood marshall [speaker not understood]. e-cigarettes claim it helps people quit smoking. from what i've seen from my friends and other under aged teens, they began smoking because of e-cigarette. me take pictures and post them on instagram which is a popular app. they use hash tag e-cigarette. i have friend 16 and 17 smoking e-cigarettes. when you search hash tag, there are 800,000 posts of people smoking e-cigarette. the reason these minors want these deviceses are because the [speaker not understood] do not have permits perctioner you aring them to ask for ids. my group conducted an experiment purchasing e-cigarettes. all of them we got none of the owners asked for ids. they sold it to us based on our appearance. i hold you supervisors responsible to pass [inaudible]. >> okay, thank you. thats was good. thank you. next speaker. >>> good afternoon, board of supervisors. my name is michelle nguyen, i'm 17 years old. i'm speaking as a resident of the tenderloin that supports e-cigarette legislation. i lived in the tenderloin

it's the organization that gave us thurgood marshall. he argued two voting rights cases in front of the supreme court, and despite all of that, republican senator pat toomey of pennsylvania vowed to defeat his nomination, and he did, getting those seven democrats to go along, including chris kuhn, and heidi hide who sent out a memo saying, if there's one thing we should be able to agree on, it's that every american deserves the right to vote. it's one of the most basic rights but a right that's now under attack. civil rights. so why did they beat this nominee? >> it was 355 a.m. on december 9th, 1981, when 25-year-old philadelphia police officer danny faulkner was brutally murdered in the line of duty. >> a former journalist and black panther was eventually convicted and put on death row for the killing of officer faulkner, though then and now he maintains his innocence. 30 years after the original conviction, as head of the naacp's legal defense fund, he led a successful challenge to jamal's death sentence, getting it thrown out in 2011

. >> when did you clerk for thurgood marshall? >> 1980-1981.the first thing i recall when i think about justice marshall is him sitting in a big chair with his law clerks, half the year we got to be located very close to him. he would talk to us about classes, life, and law -- cases, life and law. his energy and lack of bitterness. he was almost hung once. he told us about his experiences and how he thought about law. it was focus on human consequences. in death penalty cases, he had an acute lawyer sense of what happened in the trial, which law students and supreme court justices often lack because they have not seen trials close up, and he thought about the human consequences in every moment. >> when was he almost hanged? >> he was relatively young. it was in oklahoma. he was taken down to a river. there were a bunch of african-american ex-military who were following him and tried to protect him. they knew he was at risk. they stopped it. >> if a young person came to you, as you are a law professor at harvard right now, and said they wanted t

. >> the real reason the right wing went so hard -- >> the thurgood marshall, the best black civil rightscar

debo is the thurgood marshall of our generation.mply the best black civil rights lawyer in the country, maybe the best civil rights lawyer in the country, period. he's a man who has defended the voting rights act twice and hails from the naacp ldf which is the firm, if you will, if any firm could be credited with writing the vra, it is them. the only time we've seen this sort of spurullous, shameful attack before is the last time an naacp ldf voting rights lawyer, in that case, was up to head up the civil rights division of the doj. >> that's right. >> you know, and so we should know this game. and we should not allow ourselves to be, you know, swayed by the bs rhetoric because quite frankly by their standards, john adams would not have become president. john adams defended the british red coats in the boston massacre. >> oh, i got an even more recent precedent here. here's none other than senator orrin hatch, republican of utah who voted against debo adegbile yesterday defending justice suitor at the time, being attacked for legal

that's the legendary civil rights firm founded by thurgood marshall.at brought us the brown versus board of education case ending segregation in schools. but today critics pounced on the group's defense of a man convicted of murdering a police officer back in 1982. he has always claimed his innocence, but senators voting no today declared the president's nominee guilty by association. even though he was merely given this defendant his constitutional right to a fair defense. how can you hold a lawyer responsible for the alleged crimes of his client? it would have a chilling effect on courts all over the country and undercut every american's right to a fair trial. what does it say about the judges who for all of these years voted to give jamal a new trial or voted another hearing? who were more directly involved than this man who was just a part of the legal defense firm that was there to make sure this man had a fair trial when there were so many questions that were still unresolved. this is a bad precedent. it is bad voting. and those republicans and d

. >> the real reason the right wing went so hard -- >> the thurgood marshall, the best black civil rights lawyer in the country. >> oscar pistorius's e girlfriend talking about his guns and cheating. >> he kept it on him all the time. >> president obama spoke on the phone with vladimir putin. >> urging direct talks between russia and ukraine. >> vladimir putin rejected another appeal from the president. >> let's see what steven segal has to say. >> what's best for russia, hear a lot of political spinning -- >> oh, my god. >> all right, we begin with breaking news this hour. any minute we're expecting a live sheriff's briefing on a story we brought you earlier this week. a mother who plunged her mini van in the ocean in daytona beach with three screaming children inside. we're bringing you that conference right now. take a listen. >> he will announce our charging decision. he'll make an opening state then afterwards we'll take your questions. >> good afternoon. our investigation into the incident tuesday in where the mother wilkerson drove her children into the ocean has concluded. as of t

if you are not inspired after a year of clerking for thurgood marshall, you are the dead to the worldhonestly. [laughter] but it was a lesson in what the law can accomplish. i think he is the greatest 20th-century american lawyer. he had all of these incredible skills, and i don't think there was anybody who combined what he did in appellate courts with what he did in trial courts and all of that. but look, if you are going to measure a person by the degree to which they promote justice in the world, which is one way, one important way to measure lives in law, i don't think there is anyone who approaches him in that. >> i think that is right. having the privilege of working for justice marshall, did that shape your career at all? did it affect the decisions you made? >> i think both he and judge mixa were good lessons about the way in which you could help people and make a difference in the world. and for every individual, that will mean a different thing. but i think there are very few people who have really deep, fulfilling, meaningful legal careers without finding some way to make

because of my personal connection with thurgood marshall and that is important to me i'm a huge fan. i think that he was the greatest writer ever to serve on the supreme court and i think that he was a very deeply by his human being. i love the way that justice jackson writes and i loved his sort of practical and common sense institutional approach to the law. those are ie favorites. we are running ahead of time. the two final questions. is there anything that you didn't know when you graduated law school that you wish you had known. >> what is your answer? >> the team work is huge. it was all about how smart you were and it's about doing it your self, so i think that's one thing i've learned over the years. >> it helps to be smart on all that but it is so much about how you get along with people and it's so much about your emotional intelligence as well as the iq and that is true in pretty much every single child even the ones you think of as more about the brilliance than anything else. it turns out that is not it at all. it's all about how well if you listen to people, how well yo

if you're not inspired by clerking a year for thurgood marshall you're a little bit dead to the worldit was a lesson in what the law can accomplish. the reason i think he is the greatest 20th century american lawyer, i mean he had all these incredible skills and i don't think there was anybody who combined what he did in appellate courts what we did in trial courts and all of that, but just, looking if you're going to measure a person by the, the degree to which they promote justice in the world which i think is one important way to measure lives and law, you know, i don't think that there was anybody who really, you know, approaches him in that. >> i think that's right. so did that, you know, having the privilege of working for justice marshall did that shape your career at all, you know, affect the decisions you made? >> well i think both he and judge mixa were good sort of lessons in thinking about, you know, just, a leading lives in the law that were just not about you. they were about the way in which you could help people and make a difference in the world and for every individu

>> i think was probably right justiceclerked for thurgood marshall. i thought, what i work for the government or law firm? i decided to work for the government for year in the justice department, but i was attracted to the idea being a professor at the university of chicago there is a lot of energy from a lot of intellectual excitement. people were engaged with the world. just seeing their sense of liveliness, that got to me. >> when did you first the president obama? >> i think in the early 1990's. he was a recent harvard graduate. he was an impressive young lawyer. >> how >> how close did you get to know him? >> we were friends and colleagues. we had a cordial and friendly relationship. i certainly felt that i knew him to be a strong supporter. >> was there a time that you thought he could become president? >> very early. he was in his 30's and he was standing outside of 58th street, a bookstore in chicago. when we were both on the faculty. i said to him, you know, i think you should be president. i meant it. even though it was a little absurd to th