,dition of time magazine professor cashin was quoted about her reflections on the legacy of thurgood marshall. she described his cultural dexterity, described it as his ability to relate to people who whost change and to those want to be a part of it. she further said this. "i think justice marshall and what he stood for, both before he was on the bench and while he was on the bench, in his ideals represented the best of this country, even if we have not yet achieved them." ladies and gentlemen, the panel, and ourished academics moderator. help me in welcoming this wonderful panel. [applause] >> thank you so much. good morning. how is everybody doing? honored to be here. back when gregory called me about this panel and said he wanted to do something a little different, reflecting on the 50 year anniversary of justice ,arshall beginning on the court and then reflecting on today, i jumped at the chance to do that. i always love talking about the boss, but i also jumped at the chance to be here in green briar, which i had never seen before, and it is lovely. the bios of our wonderful panelists,

but these were the case that first got the attention of thurgood marshall and the naacp and laid the groundwork for brown versus board of education. girls in these cases approached white schools, talked to hostile white principles, turned around did a great job with the press. had endless, meetings with lawyers and if you ever had a meeting with a lawyer you know how long and boring they can be. for young women. my apologies to any lawyers in the room. and they talked about their cases with conviction and concise self-possessed ways. to both the black and white press. the first the white press wanted to know from all the school desegregation plaintiffs, was one thing, do you want to go to school with white students? do you think you will become friends with white students? these were difficult even explosive questions to ask a young person and girls did well with these questions in general. the central question at the heart of the book is, why did girls act as plaintiffs and later as desegregation -- there are two reasons for the first is that girls, disproportionally, believed in th

gerd jackson is the third -- the thurgood marshall constitutional author. constitutional law, comparative constitutional law and federal courts and served as a law court for justice marshall during october term 1977. the endowed chair in a law at the university of texas where he teaches constitutional deathriminal law and penalty law and is director of the capital punishment center. co-author of a recent book on the american death penalty, courting death. for me, this means that he was part of the team of outgoing clerks that trained me. i do not know if you remember that. for justice marshall and his last active year on the court. it is interesting to contemplate whenis going on in 1967 justice marshall ascended to the court. thinking about that and the similarities to today. it was a time of political uprising,urban conflict between residents of high poverty black neighborhoods and the police. there were widespread protests, mainly about the vietnam war and the sense that the existing political order was crumbling and being replaced. president nixon would

this is thurgood marshall trying to and most historians continue to write the history of brown was something that was planned but in fact all of these cases kept coming to the office in new york and eventually marshall had to take it on. after brown girls would continue to lead the way and they would agree to volunteer to desegregate the schools. in 18579 students desegregated central high six or girls and three were boys and in 1864 girls desegregated the first-grade in new orleans. ruby bridges is very well known but also those that desegregated by the end of the first day all of the first day the white children were gone. how did they get in? academic testing, psychological texting long -- testing of two parents were in the home but the final thing you had to do was have an interview with the superintendent of schools who pretended to be -- tended to be extremely pissed off you were there so the girls were very good at this one great example is the segregating charleston high school the 263 in the summer her father came to her and said put on your sunday best we are going to the school bo

the jackson is the thurgood marshall professor of constitutional law harvard. she is a prolific author of numerous books and articles and teaches constitutional law, comparative constitutional law, and federal courts and served as a law clerk for justice marshall during october 1977. jordan doctor is the judge robert m parker endowed chair in law at the university of texas where he teaches constitutional law, criminal law and the law and is director of the law schools capital punishment center. he is co-author of a recent award-winning book on the american the , according to. and the clerk for justice marshall in october 1990 for me means he was part of the team of outgoing clerks trained me, i know if you remember, the ingoing clerks, i justice marshall in his lastyear on the court . and it's interesting to constantly was going on in 1967 when justice marshall was sentenced to the court. and thinking about and similarities to today. it was a time of political upheaval, urban pricing, board of conflicts between residents of highpoverty neighborhoods and police .

that in a special edition of time magazine, professor kashan was quoted about the legacy of thurgood marshall, and describes his ability to relate to people who resist change, and to those who want to be a part of it. i think justice marshall and what he stood for both before he as sentenced to the bench -- ascended on the bench, and the ideas on the bench, the ideas of brown representative or best as for the country -- aspirations for the country. the panel, moderator, please help me in welcoming this wonderful panel. >> good morning, how's everybody doing? i'm so honored to be here. when judge gregory called me back in the winter about this panel, and said he wanted to do something a little bit different honoring and reflecting on justice marshall's, the 50 year anniversary of his, beginning on the court, and reflecting on today, i jumped at the chance to do that. i love talking about -- i jumped at the chance to be here at greenbreier which i've never seen before. i'm going to -- you have the bios of our panelists, but i'll give you a brief introduction, and we'll launch n justin driver to

he's also a former clerk of supreme court justice thurgood marshall. professor kennedy is the author of several books including race and crime and the law for which he received the robert f. kennedy book award and the forthcoming from protest to law, triumphs and defeats of the black revolts, 1948 through 1968. he has been with us quite a number of times. i know you'll find he is a dynamic, wonderful speaker and before we begin, i want to ask that if you have a cell phone, a beeper, please turn it off and also tonight we ask that no one takes photographs. so now for this wonderful gentleman, please welcome randall kennedy. thank you. [ applause ] >> thanks so much for the gracious introduction and even more for all of those who have made it possible for me to be here. i love coming to this auditorium and i love speaking to audiences here. because i find that the audiences here are usually invariably knowledgeable and curious and ask really challenging questions. i always learn a lot from coming here. my remarks this evening are drawn from the book i'm

steve: what role was thurgood marshall playing? traci: challenging civil rights and making gains. it is because of his efforts to allow for the implementation of , that64 civil rights act creates the equal employment inortunity commission and the civil rights act, there is title vii, which outlaws inflammatory discrimination based on gender, race, country of origin and religion. prof. byrnes: when you teach -- when you teach this subject, do they understand what was happening in the 1950's? traci: i think they have some inkling of what was going on. it is complete shock and all want to show photos and get into the details of it. they understand the discrimination that takes place because then the discrimination that they feel is often as shoppers. watching them as they are shopping. theyhave instances where feel like people might not be able to afford to purchase an item. they can connect, but they are learning something. steve: how did we get from the landmark0's to the legislation signed by president johnson in 1964 and 1965? argued that a large part of it has to do with the sit

even her clerkship for justice thurgood marshall. senator grassley, the chairman of the judiciary committee, said at the time -- for the senate to fulfill its constitutional responsibility, we must get all documents and have enough time to analyze them so we can determine whether she should be a justice. i agree. , unfortunately, republicans want to reply a completely different standard to judge kavanagh. they want his documents kept that he cantored so onto the court without having to answer tough questions about what he has written, said, and done. they maintain there is nothing in the documents that would be relevant. well, we cannot know this supposed relevance -- irrelevance, and neither can they, until we all see the documents. for some reason, the republicans seem worried. they seem concerned. they seem apprehensive. we haveican people and what are they, concealing? and why are they scared of it? what is judge kavanagh hiding? why is he afraid of it? that is the question he should answer. they have a responsibility to address.

. >> you are from baltimore and one of your favorite sons, the late supreme court justice thurgood marshall, what role did he play? >> he provided the legal precedent for civil rights and making legal games. his efforts allowed for the implementation of the 1964 civil rights act that creates the equal employment opportunities commission, but also in the civil rights act, there is title vii which outlaws employment discrimination based on gender, race, country of origin, and religion. >> when you teach this subject at umass amherst and talk to african-american students, male and female, do they understand what was happening in the 1950's? >> i think they have some inkling of what is going on, but when i get is an increased shop and all once you start to show -- shock and awe once you start to show the photos. the discrimination they feel is often a shocker. watching them while they are shopping, they have instances where people feel like they might not be able to afford to purchase an item. in that way, they can also connect but they are learning something. >> based on that, how did we get f

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we are pleased to have a panel on the reflections on the legacy of thurgood marshall as well as our traditional review of the term.

remember, justice thurgood marshall had his way of being disruptive his entire life just by being at the supreme court, he was disruptive here people thought he was uncivil. martin luther king in our nation'schoolbooks and histories. we have to remember he made people feel deeply uncomfortable. deeply uncomfortable. when he was speaking truth to power, there were entire segments of america that were out to get him. simple andbout being those rooms and hoping beyond hope that one would listen to one of his sermons beyond the pope -- beyond the pulpit. the kind of america we all deserve. we are all in this together making this happen. >> as we close at the panel we have to elevate our voice to announce policies. we have to vote. if we will change the policies, we have to engage. hopefulto have that vision for the kind of country we know we can be. can have our voice, our vote, and keep that hopeful vision, it will lead to victory. we can win and we can see that america that we know we can be. join me and thinking the incredible group of champions to our community, my dear friend, peopl

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in this panel, law professors discuss the legacy of their gerd marshall -- thurgood marshall and revieworthy cases from the 2017-2018 supreme court.

[laughter] >> a khalsa mind what thurgood marshall used to say. when people wanted him to retire, he would say, prop me up and keep on going. >> every court rules on aspects of presidential power. this next court, it will rule on intensely personal business conduct and other conduct of a president who will appoint the next justice in a way that is more personal, talks about more personal behavior than professional conduct, and how the presidents personal and conduct influences the role. do you see the democrats bringing up a conflict of issue -- of interest issue that is perhaps different from a nixonian behavior? that it will be a different nomination, and also have you see that shipping the nominations in your experience? >> the question for the people who might not have been able to hear, does the panel think the nomination process will be changed in some way by the possibility that whatever justice president trump appoints may be sitting in judgment on questions involving president trump's behavior. anybody? >> it is a fairly abstract, i am no

[laughter] and it calls to mind what thurgood marshall used to say, you know? when people wanted him to retire, he would say just prop me up and keep on voting. >> yes. >> every court rules on aspects of presidential power. this next court in the next couple of terms is going to rule on very intensely personal business conduct and other conduct of a president that's going to appoint the next justice in a way that is more personal -- that talks about more personal behavior than official conduct and how the president's personal behavior and business conduct and campaign behavior interacts with his official role. and do you see that shaping the nomination side in terms of democrats bringing up the conflict of interest issue that's perhaps a little bit different maybe perhaps than, you know, a nixonian type of behavior that we've seen in the last -- it's going to be a different nomination site and also how do you, so how do you see that shaping the nomination site and your experience in coverage. >> so the question for people who might not have been able to hear do

next, law professors talk about the legacy of supreme court justice thurgood marshall and review noteworthy cases from the court's most recent term. was held at the federal judicial conference of the fourth circuit court.

and thurgood marshall. it moved me to my soul. these tableaux of leadership force me to rethink my proximity to the work creating more equitable society today. something inside me began to change. the tipping point came in and experience at dinner after our graduation some money. i sat next to president clinton. humbling,ilarating, fascinating, as i broke bread with a man who not long ago ago carried-- long the weight of the world on his shoulders. his stories were really good, but really long. [laughter] >> i was also moved by the reality that he was just a man. i know this should not have been an epiphany, but in a way, it was a capstone moment. i spent six months being surrounded by the most talented, selfless servants i have ever known. these are the kind of people you see featured for international acts of valor, reshaping the landscape of health care, casting the new normal and expectations of a justice system, they are indeed superstars. but they are superstars who questionedd, who their own worthiness. the meal with presid

up for i have a daughter in transition, currently approaching her third year in transition at thurgood marshall. >> good evening. my name is aleta fisher, and i'm the chierm of the advisory committee, and i -- chairman of the advisory committee, and i'm a parent of three children. first of all, we'd like to thank you very much for hearing us tonight. dr. matthews, president mendoza-mcdonnell, and commissioners, thank you all for your time. we'd like to start with a bit of an overview of special education just as a reminder. i think we've presented this before, but students receiving special education services makeup 12% of sfusd's total population. that's over 7,000 students, and the majority of those students, actually 75% actually receive their services in a general education setting rather than a special day class. so by supporting special education students, we're supporting all students? special education is actually by law a service, not a placement. and the supreme court decided the andrew s. case last march. i'm sure you're all well verse -- endrewf. case last march. i'm sure you're all

racial discrimination, and in a wonderful opinion that not coincidentally was written by their thurgood marshal, the first african-american justice on the supreme court, well-known for having been a lawyer with the naacp who was one of the lawyers who argued brown versus board of education, strike down racial segregation in public schools emthe court said in fact the court based the decision on equal protection principles, explicitly and then said the first amendment is also involved because the first amendment above all else protects equality in the field of ideas. now, i haven't answered you question, jeff, so -- should i good ahead? okay. i think that with respect to speech that is hated or controversial or that conveys hateful ideas there has never been strong support for the constitutional protection. here we are, very close to skokie, illinois, which most people know, especially in this part of the country, in 1977, a group of neokneesies wanted to demonstration in skokie, which had a large jewish population, many of whom are holocaust survivors and the organization i was proud to head, t

on the legacy of thurgood marshall cases and reviewed cases from the 2017-2018 supreme court term. this one is over 90 minutes. >>> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. welcome to our final session for the conference today. we are pleased to have as you look at your programs, panel on

. >>> bwi thurgood marshall airport says it's running out of opular r its most airline, southwest.the airport now wants to expand. accordingo "the baltimore sun," the airport wants the state to spend some $60 million to create more room at concourse "a." e plan callsor five more gates, food and retail spaces as well as more restrooms. it needs approval from the board of public works. >>> tacoma park is a city that marcs to its own beat. the small community declared itself a nuclear-free zone. now there is a growing controversy over a proposedve depment. the area is known as tacoma junction. a group of protesters planned to demonstrate at tonight's city council meeting. chris gordon reports. >> reporter: protesters holding up their giant homemade truck. they are demonstrating against a proposed tacoma park development in the parking lot next to the food cooperative on ethan allen avldue. >> we w like to use this public land for something very special. this is tacoma park. we don't want it to just be a big box, big dig development. >> reporter: tacoma park has been called quaint and

and thurgood marshall. it moved me to my soul. perilousrship in such times forced me to rethink my proximity to work at creating a more just and a global society today. something inside me began to change. the tipping point came in after the at dinner graduation ceremony. it was at was exhilarating, humbling, fascinating. as i broke bread and talked with a man who not long ago shouldered the weight of the world on a shoulders, i was moved not just by his story. they were really good and really long. [laughter] and really good. [laughter] but i was also moved by the reality that he was just a man. i know this should not have been an epiphany but in a way, it was a capstone moment. moments -- blessed months surrounded by these people. >> i was also moved by the reality that he was just a man. i know this should not have been an epiphany, but in a way, it was a capstone moment. i spent six months being surrounded by the most talented, selfless servants i have ever known. these are the kind of people you see featured for international

justice thomas replacing thurgood marshall. that was the big swing but this is basically a slightly more conservative nominee replacing a generally conservative justice in anthony kennedy. the big change is that for the first time since the 1930s, the court could have a reliable conservative majority. that's big. and this partially explains why some democrats are just going completely bonkers today. to block kavanaugh, dems are trotting out a new tactic. i loved seeing this unfold today. they now want to force nominees to answer how they would rule on hypothetical cases. now, this is all meant to pin down a nominee on hot button issues. here is senator richard blumenthal. >> you know, we have heard these phony platitudes again and again. we heard them from gorsuch. we heard them from now chief justice roberts. these evasive, canned, rehearsed answers are absolutely meaningless. no more business as usual. no more deferential or courteous acceptance of these phony platitudes. >> laura: a man who knows something about platitudes.

harry litman is a former district attorney and also a former clerk for supreme court justices thurgood marshall and anthony kennedy. and daniel goldman, with me here in studio is a former assistant attorney for the southern district of new york and a fellow at the brennan center for justice. in the past, he has worked with michael cohen's attorney, guy petrillo. daniel has also just been named an msnbc legal analyst. so welcome to the family. and in honor of that, you get the first question, daniel. the "washington post" has just published a story on this in which it writes some in trump's orbits say the interview was a miscalculation if it was an attempt to reach out to the president, whom cohen had served since 2007 for attention, financial support, or even a pardon that would end cohen's legal predicament. you and i were talking earlier. you don't think this was orchestrated to be a message to the president at all? >> no. none of what came out in the abc news reports it seems to me to be a plea to trump for anything. in fact, the language he was using, the comments that he made distancing hi

has to be through action and organizing to build that hope into our future but ability justice thurgood marshall whole entire life he was disruptive and people thought he was uncivil. with the schoolbooks and history we have to remember that they were deeply uncomfortable. the new to speak truth to power the entire segment that were out to get him. it wasn't about being a bowl and to hope beyond hope and remember we have to filled with hope with america we all deserve and make it happen. >> the key things to take away so we have to use our voice and we have to elevate our voice to renounce policies that we know are unfair and un-american. if we change those policies we have to be engaged and participate. and we have to have that vision for the kind of country we know that we can be. to have our voice and our boat one -- vote that will lead to victory. we can win and see that america. join me to think this incredible group of champion. [applause] for all the work they do every day. thank you very much. ♪ ♪ tonight to get ready for the exciting evening the celebration starts and of course for all

schumer: he thinks justice -- former justice thurgood marshall has a different view of what interpreting the law is as opposed to imposing their own views? or do you think they each do it the same way? i think the judge has made it clear he has a different approach than justice marshall in his testimony before this committee and books he has written since. even though both have respect for the law and understand the legal system? your words. mr. kavanaugh: respect for the law is a necessary qualification. it does not encompass judicial philosophy. that is a separate issue to look at. reason i ask the you this is we rarely get an opportunity to question someone who has sat on the committee in this administration who does this. to me thatus judicial philosophy and ideology make a difference here. you more or less said that. nothing wrong with it. democratic presidents might do it, too. that is clearly happening. would you disagree? mr. kavanaugh: judicial philosophy is part of what the president looks at. he has made clear he wants to appoint judges who interpret the law. sen. schumer: how

bounds to transform himself into thurgood marshall. it's completely reasonable to expect an admission that comparing the promotion of diversity to nazi rallies was wrong. i can only imagine, mr. president, what my late parents, both of whom fled the nazis at a very young age, and all they wanted to do was serve in our military, wear the uniform of the united states. my dad writing propaganda pamphlets that were dropped on the nazis. i can only imagine what my parents would say to mr. bounds' ideas comparing diversity to nazi rallies, dismissing the value of diversity is wrong and insisting that it's not worth protecting the victims of sexual assault because it's impossible to guarantee safety from rape ists. but instead, mr. bounds hid these writings rather than recant, take back their content. the comments he made since they came to light in my view suggests mr. bounds sees this as a matter of clumsy word choice and youthful indiscretion. the -- he only really wrote about it after it became a threat to his nomination. i don't think it

but this is the woman who did for women what justice thurgood marshall did for african-americans in termsuse. although she is the first to say i never had to worry about my life being threatened or taken. so she doesn't see herself in that same category. but in terms of how she has helped change the law, and for women and men, one of her first big cases had to do with the fact that a woman who was an officer in the air force could not get quarters for her male spouse, even though male officers were allowed to do that. so when it says on the proposed era, equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or a abridged by any state on account of sex, that's women and men. and what she wanted to do is say the history of classifications based on sex -- and by the way, she was the one that changed it from sex to gender, because she said there were too many conservative justices -- judges that if she wrote the words "sex discrimination" they could never get off that, so she made it gender discrimination. anyway, she wanted -- remember i told you how in the 14th amendment there is the low, lo

it was he who helped push for the appointment of a young lawyer by the name of thurgood marshal to the second circuit and who of course went onto be a great leader in the supreme court. that was the vision of the prosecutor who was robert kennedy. and then we know that as a leader in our country understanding the beauty of who we are and who we can be, he had a vision that he spoke of 50 years ago. when he spoke out against, and i will quote, the inexcusable and ugly deprivation which causes children to starve in mississippi, black citizens to ri riot in lots, young indians to commit suicide on their reservation, and proud and abled families to wait out their lives in empty idleness in eastern kentucky. kennedy understood. he understood that the fight for justice is the fight to connect all people, understanding we all have so much more in common than what separates us. he understood that this was about the interconnection between all people who need a voice and who must be seen and given dignity. and as a californian, it is a moment of pride for us. nancy knows this, our great leader