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GRITtv: Elizabeth Holtzman: Shaping the Supreme Court
Barack Obama already has the chance to nominate another justice to the Supreme Court with the retirement of the Court's oldest member, Justice John Paul Stevens. Stevens was appointed by Gerald Ford, a Republican, but was, as Elizabeth Holtzman says, a member of a long tradition of fair-minded independent justices. Holtzman, a former U.S. Representative from New York, has known Stevens for years and joins Laura in studio to discuss the recent swing of the Court toward right-wing ideology, and what Obama can do to change it. Her recommendation for Stevens' seat? Let's just say it's unexpected. GRITtv with Laura Flanders brings participatory democracy onto your computer screen and into your living room, bridging the gap between audience and advocates. Watch any show, at any time: http://grittv.org Distributed by Tubemogul.
Email this pageGRITtv: Larry Klayman on the Legal System and Corporate Media
Conservative activist Larry Klayman first rose to prominence suing the Clinton administration, but when Bush took office he proved himself an equal-opportunity lawsuit machine. "It's not a left or right issue," says the self-proclaimed conservative libertarian, discussing his new book "WHORES: Why and How I Came to Fight the Establishment." Klayman takes on the corporate media establishment and the legal and political systems, but is he really nonpartisan? Check out Laura's interview.
GRITtv: David Corn: What the Sotomayor Hearings Have Revealed
David Corn, Washington, D.C. Bureau Chief for Mother Jones, on the Sotomayor confirmation hearings and the Justice Department's position on the prosecution of Bush era crimes and the use of torture. Mother Jones and The Uptake have been streaming the confirmation hearings live and writing about them at their blog, on twitter, and everything in between.
GRITtv: The NAACP and 100 Years of History
The NAACP turns 100 and the civil rights organization is celebrating this week in New York. Looking back, looking ahead what?s changed and what hasn't? With the financial crisis disproportionately impacting African Americans, the first black president in the White House, and the nomination hearings of Sonia Sotomayor we review the past few days and the last 100 years. Hilary Shelton, Director of the Washington, D.C. bureau of the NAACP, Sonia Ossorio, President of the National Organization for Women in NY, Derrick Johnson, President of the Mississippi NAACP, and James Rucker, Executive Director of Color of Change on the role of the NAACP and other activist organizations inside and outside the beltway.
GRITtv: The F Word: The Kind of Bias Jeff Sessions Can Support
I said it in June, I'll say it again. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor is up for confirmation and some jackasses are still ? still -- saying she has to explain her "wise Latina" comment? Altogether now - what did Sotomayor say? "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life." And what was she talking about? Trigonometry? The price of milk? No. The topic under discussion was race and gender discrimination. Talking about judging such cases, Sotomayor argued that the experience of facing discrimination might lead to a better decision about discrimination. As I said in June, maybe it?s different on the moon--but here in the real lived USA--for centuries, white males have been the norm and all "others" have had a different experience. A different experience ? not of snow or math or what the constitution says ? but of discrimination. At the time I was finding it hard to believe that in a season that saw the killing of an off duty police officer by an another police officer in New York, in part because he was black, and the planned assassination of a doctor in Wichita because he helped women, it?s hard to believe that anyone in their right mind would disagree with Sotomayor that difference exists in the United States.
GRITtv: The Uptake's Mike McIntee on Sotomayor's Confirmation
The Uptake's Mike McIntee on Sotomayor's Confirmation Hearings
GRITtv: The African American Policy Forum
Sonia Sotomayor's nomination gave media pundits another excuse to shout about the role of race in Obama's politics. The Global Affirmative Action Praxis Project of the African American Policy Forum has convened scholars, professors and students to have an intelligent, inclusive and just discussion on issues of racial and social equality around the world. Today on the show, Prof. Kimberle Crenshaw of UCLA and founder of the African American Policy Forum, Martin Macwan, founder of the Navsarjan Trust of Gujurat, India and recipient of the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award, and Dr. Jurema Werneck, physician and black feminist activist from Rio de Janeiro, Brasil and Founder of Criola.org.
