Roberts Nomination Hearing Reactions
During a lunch break for the last day of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings, senators and witnesses spoke to reporters about United States Supreme Court nominee Judge John …
234 viewsDuring a lunch break for the last day of the Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings, senators and witnesses spoke to reporters about United States Supreme Court nominee Judge John …
234 viewsThe Senate Judiciary Committee held a confirmation hearing on the appointment of Judge John Roberts to the U.S. Supreme Court seat vacated after the death of Chief Justice William Rehnquist.…
505 viewsDistinguished jurists heard a re-argument of Plessy v. Ferguson, the 1896 Supreme Court case in which the Court found that Louisiana did not discriminate against Homer A. Plessy when it refu…
1,941 viewsAlexis de Tocqueville and Gustave de Beaumont visited Cincinnati on their way down the Ohio River in December 1831. During their stay, they talked with several members of the legal professio…
287 viewsSenior Judge Nathaniel Jones talked about the history of race and the judicial process, and inserted his own experiences and perspectives into the commentary. He focused upon the life and wr…
70 viewsAttorneys and Judges discussed the presence and impact of racism within the U.S. legal system and in U.S. society as a whole. They examined how lawyers, judges, and citizens can deal with an…
281 viewsJudge Nathaniel Jones was honored on the occasion of his donating his papers to the University of Cincinnati College of Law. He has been active in civil rights in the U.S. and in South Afric…
150 viewsPanelists of varied backgrounds, including Charles Murray, co-author of “The Bell Curve” sought ways to explain bigotry and racism in the U.S. and to replace them with a sense of community a…
238 viewsNathaniel Jarrett spoke on the issue of minority equality in the American Bar Association and in the federal judicial system. He focused on the role of lawyers and lawmakers in the convictio…
56 viewsDeval Patrick spoke about the Civil Rights Division and the administration goals to minimize discrimination especially in the Justice system.
74 viewsWilliam Ides introduced Jesse Jackson who spoke on racial injustice in America’s legal system. He proposed a system of “four balls and you’re on” rather than President Bill Clinton’s “three …
67 viewsParticipants discussed the role of race in the American judicial system and their experiences with racism. They recommended methods that might be used to correct these inequalities and contr…
282 viewsU.S. Court of Appeals Judge for the Sixth Circuit Nathanial Jones spoke about racial bias in the American justice system. He expressed that the burden for correcting racial inequality often …
130 viewsU.S. Court of Appeals Judges Elbert Tuttle, 11th Circuit, and Nathaniel Jones, 6th Circuit, discussed the legal aspects of the Civil Rights Movement.
48 viewsSponsored by the Univ. of Mississippi School of Law and the Center for the Study of Southern Culture, the panel discussed the history of civil rights and the law.
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