I mean an informed and engaged bar willing to fight for and take risks to protect our basic rights. A bench prepared to recognize those rights and rule consistent with the Constitution. Our courts are meant to be a valid check on the excesses of other branches of government, especially when Congress and our executive overreach and run afoul of our constitutional institutional safeguards, as they are doing now. You know, we're here making more than 100 years since the national the Bar association was founded to support black lawyers, men and women who were excluded from all professional organizations because of the color of their skin, which was flat out unadulterated racism. (04:58–05:16)
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Asserts that courts are intended to check government overreach, implying current overreach by Congress and the executive branch.
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