Howard Berman: “Reclaiming my time. If you had stripped away the right of the U.S. Supreme Court, of the Federal courts to decide…”

“Reclaiming my time. If you had stripped away the right of the U.S. Supreme Court, of the Federal courts to decide whether segregated schools, whether the doctrine of separate and equal should stand or whether it violated the 14th amendment of the Constitution, there are many States in this country where every State court would have affirmed that separate is equal, is compliant with the 14th amendment, and in many of those States, the voters in those States would have been quite happy with that decision. You have eliminated the Supreme Court's ability to review fundamental decisions involving first amendment rights.”