Finally, what of the hope and promise of Brown? For much of this Nation's history, the races remained divided. It was not long ago that people of different races drank from separate fountains, rode on separate buses, and studied in separate schools.

In this Court's finest hour, Brown v. Board of Education challenged this history and helped to change it. For Brown held out a promise. It sought one law, one Nation, one people, not simply as a matter of legal principle but in terms of how we actually live.

Many parents, white and black alike, want their children to attend schools with children of different races. Indeed, the very school districts that once spurned integration now strive for it. The plurality would decline their modest request.

The plurality is wrong to do so. The last half-century has witnessed great strides toward racial equality, but we have not yet realized the promise of Brown. To invalidate the plans under review is to threaten the promise of Brown. The plurality's position, I fear, would break that promise. This is a decision that the Court and the Nation will come to regret.

Emanuel suggested that if Cheney feels his office is not part of the executive branch "he should return the salary the American taxpayers have been paying him since January 2001, and move out of the home for which they are footing the bill."

Article II, Section 1, of the United States Constitution states that, "The executive power shall be vested in the president of the United States of America." This makes the president the head of the executive branch of the federal government.

PERINO: If you look on page 18 of the EO, when you have a chance, there's a distinction regarding the Vice President versus what is an agency. And the President also, as the author of an EO, and the person responsible for interpreting the EO, did not intend for the Vice President to be treated as an agency, and that's clear.

OLBERMANN: No exemption at all for the Vice President on page 18. So we emailed the White House, which referred us to section 1.3 - which is about something else altogether - and 5.2 - which makes no mention of the Vice President. In fact, there is no exemption for the President or the Vice President when it comes to reporting on classified material.

Since 2003, Cheney's office has failed to provide data on its classification and declassification activities as required by Executive Order 12958, which President Bush has amended and endorsed.

In 2004, Cheney's office specifically intervened to block an on-site inspection by the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO), which is a requirement of the executive order.

The people of the United States have a responsibility to stop the horror of this war, hold American war criminals responsible for their crimes and make amends to the people of Iraq. If we cannot fulfill these fundamental responsibilities as international citizens, we should not be surprised at the inevitable consequences -- more unwinnable wars, wasted and tragic human sacrifice, terrorism, international isolation, crushing debt, helplessness in the face of economic and ecological crisis, and the failure of the political process, not in Iraq, but in the United States.

If we fail to curb the international crimes of our venal and murderous political and business elite, we are effectively leaving the job to the leaders and people of other countries, acting in their interests, not ours, and therefore employing quite different methods. We still have a choice, but, as Gabriel Kolko wrote in Century of War (1994), "There are no easy solutions to the problems of irresponsible, deluded leaders and the classes they represent, or the hesitation of people to reverse the world's folly before they are themselves subjected to its grievous consequences. So much remains to be done -- and it is late."

I stated on the floor of the Senate that it's relatively easy to find those lost e-mails. This brought another blast from the White House, saying that I obviously had no understanding of how the Internet works and of course that couldn't be done.

The White House has now told me they - well, yes indeed, I was right; they were wrong. The e-mails are found. They were there in a backup system, although they have yet to give them.

"It violates the Nuremberg principles, what they're doing, as well as the spirit of the Geneva Conventions of 1949."

"However, the president will certainly exert pressure to support the attorney general, his longtime friend," Schumer added. "We will soon see where people's loyalties lie."