Jami Floyd

Former Director, Race & Justice Unit | New York Public Radio

Jami Floyd appears in the following:

President Obama speaking at the White House on Friday, September 10, 2010

30 Issues: Arianna Huffington & Cornel West on Obama and His Base

Tuesday, October 26, 2010

Arianna Huffington, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post.com and the author of Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream, discusses whether or not President Obama has betrayed his base.   Then, later in the show, Dr. Cornel West, University Professor in the Center for African American Studies at Princeton University; co-host of Smiley & West; and author of Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud, A Memoir, weighs in on the topic.  Jami Floyd, broadcast journalist, legal analyst for cable and network news, and blogger at It's A Free Country, chimes in with her post on whether Obama abandoned his base.

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Don't Tell Me about DADT — I Was There

Thursday, October 14, 2010

By Jami Floyd : Former Director, Race & Justice Unit | New York Public Radio

Don't Ask, Don't Tell is an inane policy, one in which we compel people to lie to their superiors about who and what they are as people. But while many on the left are cheering the r...
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"Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and Snyder V. Phelps

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Jami Floyd, broadcast journalist and legal analyst for cable and network news, and blogger at It's A Free Country, talks about "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" and takes a close look at the legal issues at play in the Supreme Court case Snyder v. Phelps.

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The Inconvenient Truth about Offensive Funeral Protests

Saturday, October 09, 2010

By Jami Floyd : Former Director, Race & Justice Unit | New York Public Radio

All week, I've been listening to the coverage of the "funeral protest" case, Snyder v Phelps. Even though the Supreme Court heard arguments Wednesday, and even though it is one of ...
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Bullhorn: Tea and No Sympathy

Friday, October 01, 2010

By Jami Floyd : Former Director, Race & Justice Unit | New York Public Radio

I love a good tea party as much as the next girl. And I have far more respect for misguided citizen activists than I do for disengaged citizen do-nothings. I find the Tea Party, however passionately engaged, to be dangerously misinformed, misguided and misled.

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Bullhorn: Gaga for Gaga

Tuesday, September 21, 2010

By Jami Floyd : Former Director, Race & Justice Unit | New York Public Radio

As Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert prepare to take Washington, we certainly should appreciate the satire, the cynicism even, as healthy for our democracy. After all, Stewart's viewer...

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Bullhorn: Our System’s as Broken as It Ever Was, and That’s on Purpose

Friday, September 10, 2010

By Jami Floyd : Former Director, Race & Justice Unit | New York Public Radio

Way back in 1790, just a few short years after the real Tea Party, John Adams was stressing that our political system was broken. But it wasn't broken then, and it isn’t now. Here's...

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Brian on Jury Duty

Friday, June 11, 2010

Brian talks with guest host Jami Floyd about his experience serving jury duty.

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New Term of the Supreme Court

Tuesday, October 06, 2009

The U.S. Supreme Court started a new term this week. Today, they're taking up a free-speech case involving the distribution of dog-fighting videos. Jami Floyd, host of "Best Defense" on TruTV, discusses this case and the most interesting of the other cases on the docket in the new term.

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Sonia Sotomayor Hearings Day 2 (Hour 2)

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The hearings continue, as does the analysis. Guests include: Jami Floyd, host of "Best Defense" on In Session and part of the Clinton White house; Burt Neuborne, legal director at the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU; Erica Gonzalez, opinion page editor for El Diario-La Prensa, who is ...

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Sonia Sotomayor Hearings Day 2 (Hour 1)

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The Sonia Sotomayor nomination hearings kick off today at 10am with questioning from members of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Hear live coverage, along with analysis and updates from inside the hearings. Guests include: Jami Floyd, host of "Best Defense" on In Session and part of the Clinton White ...

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Sotomayor Hearings: Day 1 Revisited

Monday, July 13, 2009

Jami Floyd and Todd Zwillich helps revisit some of the highlights from the last two hours of hearings.

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Sotomayor Hearings: Day 1

Monday, July 13, 2009

The confirmation hearings for Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to the Supreme Court begin today. The Takeaway Washington correspondent Todd Zwillich is at the hearings and gives an update. Jami Floyd, host of Best Defense on on the legal News Network In Session, discusses what issues will be key during ...

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Passing the Test

Monday, July 13, 2009

The Sonia Sotomayor nomination hearings begin today: Todd Zwillich and Jami Floyd preview what to expect and put the hearings in context. Plus, the Fresh Air Fund needs help giving kids a summer vacation outdoors. And, how to ace your phone interview. Cast your vote for our ...

Breaking: SCOTUS Pick

Tuesday, May 26, 2009

Live coverage of President Obama's nominee to the Supreme Court -- federal appeals judge (and Bronx native) Sonia Sotomayor. Then, analysis with Jami Floyd, host of Best Defense on Tru TV; Emily Bazelon, senior editor at Slate and founding editor of Double X; ...

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