:people make that comparison but thurgood marshall's life was in danger. and then to represent someone. let my advocacy was a challenge. and another difference that people understood that racial discrimination was odious but we started to argue the cases to strike down those arbitrary gender lines so as a good has been ended good father they thought that they were protected when they shouted. and then there was that wonderful image that you use to. >> but all too often it turns out that it protects women achieving whatever they could. so getting judges to understand that gender discrimination goes back to the society it is bad for men and four children. none of the cases in which represented second as a complaint and that of those were a test case these were everyday people somewhere from idaho and then to the and whiff those disabled people. and then to have a young son . father applied for custody and then to say the father is becoming a custodian but then one day when he was in a severe depression to a dow one of his father's gun sand committed suicide.

thurgood marshall argued separate but equal. this was felt so plainly as unequal.that c it's not easy when people make that comparison because it's a huge difference in that thurgood marshall's life was in danger and he went to a southern town to represent someone. my advocacy was a challenge, but my life was never in danger. another difference is people understood that racial discrimination was odious. i was arguing cases, endeavoring to strike down arbitrary gender lines in the law. they were arguing and had a hard time getting it because they thought of themselves as good husband, good fathers and they thought women were on a pedestal all too often, the pedestal turns out to be a cage that protects women from achieving whatever they could based on our god-given talent. getting judges to understand that discrimination was bad for the society bad for women and bad for men and bad for children none of the cases in which i represented, none of those cases were test cases. these were everyday people which is how we, the first one,

it could not deny admission to african-americans so it was set up as separate law school and thurgood marshall argued separately that the schools are so plainly an equal but when people make that comparison there is a difference that marshall's life was in danger when he would come into town to represent someone my advocacy was a challenge within was never in danger. and another difference with racial discrimination but when i started to argue cases endeavoring to strike down the law but there is a hard time to get that because they thought of themselves as good husbands and grandfathers and they thought women were offered nate pedestal. justice brennan has that wonderful image that all too often that pedestal turns out to be a cage and protects women from achieving whatever they could from their god-given talent. so getting the judges to understand that gender discrimination was bad for society. for men and women and children but none of the cases in which unrepresented that these were every day people were with the disabled people. to have a young son when he was of tender years. and apply f

circuit and you clerked for justice thurgood marshall. when you talk about the importance of clerkships and what it meant to you to clerk for those two extraordinary justices? justice kagan: i was extraordinary lucky. clerking in general is a great thing to do. not everybody but for many people. it gives you a sense of how the law works, a different sort of sense than you have from law extraordinary lucky. school and if you are like me, you have a chance to learn at the feet of people who have had terrific, exciting careers in law. i want to talk a little bit more about those two people and especially about justice marshall. you become a much better writer as a result. you learn a whole lot about how judges actually make decisions which notwithstanding you have gone through three years of reading judicial decisions, i think actually seeing how judges make decision is pretty eye-opening, at least it was for me. i felt as though just my legal analytic skills got a lot better. my writing skills got a lot better. and then i clerked for these

you have trained our leaders like due voice and thurgood marshall, martin luther king jr. and ella baker. during the civil rights movement of the '50s and '60s, it was the hbcu students that led the way. from the effort of the student nonviolent coordinating committee, that group is close to my heart. it was founded at my parents' alma mater, shaw university in raleigh, north carolina. yes, i am a shaw baby. my parents met and married there and made the friends of their lifetime and learned and got the grounding that would support not just them but our entire family for so many generations. we all remember the lunch counter sit-ins of the '60s, when four young men from north carolina a&t, walk into that segregated woolworths in greensboro, the city of my birth and asked to be treated like anybody else. this has been the story of hbcu courage and dedication and commitment over the years. it sounds like a simple ask, right? all you want to do is to be treated like everybody else but as we all know it is as complicated as the history of this country. the greensboro four, we k

tsa officers say they found loaded gun in the hands bag of smyrna delaware woman bwi thurgood marshall airport yesterday. 9-millimeter gun was loaded with six bullets, including one in the chamber. the woman told investigators she didn't realize the loaded handgun was in her bag. >> bit of scary thought there. >> yes. >> dry weather, drought conditions, across the south, are fueling an explosion of wild fires. >> the fires have burned tens of thousands of acres so far, with no ends in site. correspondent mark vast man shows us some of the hardest hit areas this noon. >> reporter: more than 07 wild fires stretch across eight southern states, those fires have already charred more than 100,000 acres, and forced evacuations. >> oh, i'm concerned. it was just top of the ridge. now it is down to here. it is unnerving, it is scary, it is terrifying. >> in north carolina, flames are threatening at least 1700 structures. >> we have california wild fires in north carolina. >> more than 20 wild fires are burning in north carolina, many of them, investigated for suspected arson. >> the way this fi

we will be back of course at 5:00 and we want the thank the honors class from thurgood marshall middle school for joining us this afternoon. they were a great audience. you have a great day and a >> kevin: oh, this. this is the one. >> chloe: post it, you die. >> kevin: what?! bella looks so adorable! okay, fine. that one. >> chloe: thank you. >> kevin: okay. >> chloe: see, in that one we are both hot. you can post that one and show looks like. >> kevin: okay. uh, uh, uh, uh. you are happy, aren't you? >> chloe: [ sighs ] yes, i am. well, mainly because we finally got all that makeup off and i got to redo my hair, but i am happy. i also feel like a terrible person because of it. >> kevin: don't. i know today isn't an easy day for nick. >> chloe: anniversary of christian's death.

heabidache out of thet of holiday travel season.y travea fox5's melanie alnwick is live at bwi thurgood marshall airport and explains what this is all il about. hey, mel. >> reporter: hey, guys. g you know one of the things thatt my family and i talk aboutkut whenever we're in security lines or even theme park lines we jokk about is this the line for the t line for the line because youau usually start in one line and ad look here at these brand new new security checkpoints at dned and e concourses. no waiting here this morningorni here 9:27 on a tuesday morning right before the busy b thanksgiving rush, and they've ' got all of the securityy checkpoints open.kpoints open. people are literally just getting through.ugh. breezing through without too much trouble. this is exact ly what the state sta of maryland intended when it spent $105 million to put inn this new security checkpoints. n eight security lanes cominges also, adding more of a coveredor connection between the t international concourse, these t gates d and e here. h one of the things that -- one oo the reasons they're doing this is bec

thurgood marshal. as if that should be a black mark against them because he was such an activist. just marshal, who argued against the brown v board of education. sessions is the last of what looked like it would be a die breed of old school, absolutely unreconstructed white southern senators. course of his entire career is part of why he has remained a relatively anonymous low-level senator on capitol hill. there is a reason he is not in charge of anything. but today president-elect trump announced his next pick for the states is senator jeff sessions. joinings us now is the senior writer, ari berman, author. part of why jeff sessions was rejected for that federal judgeship when he was in his 30s, was because of the corroborated report of him making racist statements. but the other part of it was the prosecution he brought in selma. can you tell us more, what should we look at now? >> he prosecuted three people very influential civil rights activists in alabama, people who had marched on bloody selma in 1955, who had been beaten and helped to build political power in alabama, who

thurgood marshall argued separate but equal not before the court today that the schools are so plainly an equal but when people make that comparison there is a difference that marshall's life was in danger when he would come into town to represent someone my advocacy was a challenge within was never in danger. and another difference with racial discrimination but when i started to argue cases endeavoring to strike down the law but there is a hard time to get that because they thought of themselves as good husbands and grandfathers and they thought women were offered nate pedestal. justice brennan has that wonderful image that all too often that pedestal turns out to be a cage and protects women from achieving whatever they could from their god-given talent. so getting the judges to understand that gender discrimination was bad for society. for men and women and children but none of the cases in which unrepresented that these were every day people were with the disabled people. to have a young son when he was of tender years. and apply for custody as they become the custodian. candidate

we were be other day it reminded me of justice thurgood marshall with the naacp with the defense fund to argue cases but then what was it like for you? >> i copied strategy and to develop the law. one you probably remember when texas realized it could not deny it mission to african-americans so to set up a separate law school for them 30 marshall argued before the court today so plainly but i am uneasy when people make that comparison because there is a huge difference in marshall's life was in chain danger my advocacy was a challenge of a life was never in danger. another difference people understood the discrimination was odious but then arguing cases the with those arbitrary genderr lines but they had a hard time getting it because they thought of themselves as good husbands, a good fathers and they thought t that women were on a pedestal and were protected. justice brennan has is that wonderful image that he uses >> that all too often that is a cage that protects women from achieving whatever they could based on their god-given talents. so getting the judges to understand that gen

delane, he's not thurgood marshall.e has a very troubling record. >> congresswoman m. >> the senate will have an opportunity to fully vet him. once again, let's give him an opportunity to have a full hearing in the senate. he's done some good things, as already has been said. with the segregation, he filed those lawsuits. he's done a number of really good things. give him a chance to be seen fully of what he has done. >>> hip-hop but no hooray. the cast of "hamilton" preaching to vice president-elect pence. when a moment turns romantic, why pause to take a pill? or stop to find a bathroom? cialis for daily use is approved to treat both erectile dysfunction and the urinary symptoms of bph, like needing to go frequently, day or night. tell your doctor about all your medical conditions and medicines, and ask if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take cialis if you take nitrates for chest pain, or adempas for pulmonary hypertension, as it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. do not drink alcohol in excess.

elena kagan when she was appointed to the court because of her radical associations and cited thurgood marshall. i wrote a biography about marshall. he said, well, you're associated with these activist judges who are more after their own political ends than justice. if you apply that to jeff sessions and the fact he was rejected for a federal judgeship 30 years ago. we didn't have very sensitive race relations 30 years ago as compared to today, and he was rejected then. >> let me bring in lisa. you want to push back on that? >> well, yeah. as u.s. attorney general, he brought cases to desegregate schools and also led the prosecution -- >> u.s. attorney. >> u.s. attorney, yeah. he also brought cases to desegregate schools. he also prosecuted and got the death penalty as attorney general of alabama for a klansman. that's ridiculous. if you look at the choice that donald trump has made so far, he ran a campaign about being a maverick, of going to washington, d.c., to shake things up. the people he's bringing alongside him are also known for shaking things up. i think the message that it sends by l

elena kagan when she was appointed to the court because of her radical associations and cited thurgood marshall. i wrote a biography about marshall. he said, well, you're associated with these activist judges who are more after their own political ends than justice. if you apply that to jeff sessions and the fact he was rejected for a federal judgeship 30 years ago. we didn't have very sensitive race relations 30 years ago as compared to today, and he was rejected then. >> let me bring in lisa. you want to push back on that? >> well, yeah. as u.s. attorney general, he brought cases to desegregate schools and also led the prosecution -- >> u.s. attorney. >> u.s. attorney, yeah. he also brought cases to desegregate schools. he also prosecuted and got the death penalty as attorney general of alabama for a klansman. that's ridiculous. if you look at the choice that donald trump has made so far, he ran a campaign about being a maverick, of going to washington, d.c., to shake things up. the people he's bringing alongside him are also known for shaking things up. i think the message that it sends by l

she was thurgood marshall justice of the supreme court. after her clerkship, she practiced law for several years. then she abandoned the practice of law at the call of the academy. justice kagan: she spent four years at the university of chicago as a professor of law. then, service to the president. she served as associate counsel to bill clinton and later as deputy director of president clinton semester policy council. then, back to the county. she began as a visiting professor but they decided they liked her pretty well, so she became a permanent member of the faculty there. in 2003, she was named the 11th dean of the harvard law school. there, she was asked by president obama in 2009 to become the 45th solicitor general of the united states. a year later, president obama nominated justice kagan to become an associate justice of our supreme court and she was confirmed. do you remember those days? [applause] justice kagan: importantly tonight, when the court is in session, justice kagan sits in the chair, the same as did louis -- we are v

i remember he said to go up to that podium for him, i mean to say, i'm thurgood marshall and i represent the united states of america was just this stunning thing. it was stunning for him in a way that was not true of me. you know, lots of women had gone up and said they represent the -- but still -- i mean, it's a fantastic thing to go up to the supreme court of the united states and say, i represent the united states of america on extremely important legal issues. and so i -- i had a blast that year. >> and of course, that was the job you had for just a year. justice kagan: i would have loved to have it for longer. and it's not like you can say, you know what, call back in a few years' time. >> and you were confirmed in record time. you were nominated may 5th and was confirmed on august 6th. is that record time? justice kagan: no, it was taking forever. no, i mean, it was great that it happened so quickly. there was a lot to do. you have to prepare a lot. you go on these courtesy visits to pretty much every senator. i think i went to 75 senate offices to meet with senators at the same

intervene to the supreme court of the united states, the only one who seems to want to intervene is thurgood marshall everyone else says no thank you. at every level -- >> questions about how democracy -- at any presidential level on down. at least a conspiracy to cover up a lynching. and this is coming out to demonstrate what happened as we don't live under a military system. what does that say? that so many democratic institutions are their too, so quick, not only to allow this to happen -- i am asking how much can folks handle? how much reality can democratic institutions take? >> what you are getting at is the question, who is a legitimate victim and who really can have the mantle of victimhood and attention put on them? one of our colleagues and friends, khalil mohammed talks about the criminalization of blackness in his brilliant book and take a lot of profound points was one of them is certainly during prohibition prisons began to fill with more and more white folks and prisoners as white and people in power were white people were appalled at what they saw and rolled back a lot of policies and

a.delane or thurgood marshal or a champion for civil rights.blesome record that makes most people who are vulnerable feel trepidation. >> the senate will have an opportunity to back him. once again there are pieces that people want to pick out and say let's look at this and turn it -- let's give him an opportunity to have a full hearing in the senate. he's done some good things as has already been said. with the segregation, he filed those lawsuits. he's done a number of really good things and i think that give him a chance to be seen truly of what he has done. >> everybody stay here. we'll take a quick break. coming up hip-hop but no hooray. the cast of "hamilton" issuing a plea to mike pence about a multi-cultural america. but did the vice president hear them? thanksgiving at the anderson's. i was stoked. that's my holiday. we invented it. so i'm like, "pass the stuffing!" and... it's not stove top. and i'm like, "what?" i wait all year. 364 days to enjoy delicious stove top stuffing. it's what makes thanksgiving, thanksgiving. i had to get o

and, of course something i never really mastered, the ability to give a good speech but thurgood marshall, i'm a fledgling painter, a struggling artist. i have a new appreciation for the artist whose brilliant works are displayed here, people like robert duncanson, henry oswald tanner, charles henry austin. our country is better and more vibrant because of their contributions and the contributions of millions of african-americans. no telling of american history is neither complete nor accurate without acknowledging them. the lesson of this museum is that all americans share a past and a future. by staying true to our principles, righting injustice and encouraging the empowerment of all, we will be an even greater nation for generations to come. i congratulate all those who played a role in creating this wonderful museum. may god bless us all. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, stevie wonder. [ applause ] >> thank you so, so very much. i haven't seen it yet, but i'm going to. [ laughter ] i was born blind, but i was blessed with inner vision. inner vision sees what we all know and feel,

you have trained our leaders like due voice and thurgood marshall, martin luther king jr. and ella baker. during the civil rights movement of the '50s and '60s, it was the hbcu students that led the way. from the effort of the student nonviolent coordinating committee, that group is close to my heart. it was founded at my parents alma mater, shaw university in raleigh, north carolina. yes, i am a shaw baby. my parents met and married there and made the friends of their lifetime and learned and got the grounding that would support not just them but our entire family for so many generations. we all remember the lunch counter sit-ins of the '60s, when four young men from north carolina a&t, walk into that segregated woolworths in greensboro, the city of my birth and asked to be treated like anybody else. this has been the story of hbcu courage and dedication and commitment over the years. it sounds like a simple ask, right? all you want to do is to be treated like everybody else but as we all know it is as complicated as the history of this country. the greensboro four, we kn

from 1866 james frey, thurgood marshall general, got into a spat with an increasingly important member of the house who went on to the senate after that. as a result at the end of the day, finding fry in contempt of congress but how does it enforce that. a writer to an appropriations bill, it is no more. and the bureau he was in charge of. with the personnel power, tugging pursestrings, it is not until the 20th century, and any attempt by the house of congress to go forward. in the myers case, in watergate, the senate select committee and presidential campaign acts, the first congressional committee that seek judicial enforcement of a subpoena and they don't get when seeking enforcement subpoena for the white house taste, for the district of columbia and dc circuit and a lot of reasoning centers around the fact this would interfere with ongoing grand jury investigations, something we heard a little bit about on the previous panel as if the court could not conceive of any higher interest and this is the last point i want to make, i will set up for now. the court is not -- the issue isn'