These cases are very close and you go in on the edge. You dont sit here to make the law, to decide who ought to win, we decide who wins under the law that the people have adopted. By thewill be surprised high level of collegiality. If there are four of the nine of us who want to hear any of these cases, we will hear it. We are here to decide things, the job is to decide and we decide. We cannot have a decision that this court. This Court Decides important questions and that means you have to do your best to get it right, and you have to work as hard as you can to get it right. Why why is it that we have astonishingly beautiful, imposing, impressive structure . It is to remind us that we have an important function and to remind the public that sees the building of the importance and the centrality of the law. It all ways thrills me, amazes me, and gives me faith in our country to know how much people trust the court. I think the danger is that sometimes you come into a building like thi
Was founded in 1894 and has been continuous ever since. Today well be going into the immersive West Virginia state museum. Well be talking about the early frontier and settlement period, the development of the state, becoming a state, the industrialization of the state, and well go into the later century, the 21st century, and see where West Virginia is today. Were in the West Virginia state museum settlement and frontier period. These are some of the earliest settlers of the land. Were standing beside George Washingtons case where it has specific artifacts such as his sword, his powder horn that he carved during the American Revolutionary war, and the telescope that he used to survey land here, as well as in the eastern panhandle. George washington would have been here in the mid 1700s. During this time period frontier and early settlement, this was western virginia. It was part of the state of virginia at the time and it was an area that wasnt greatly developed. A lot of the ideas of
Checking out the West Virginia State Capitol building. It is nearly 100 years old. Coming up, we will learn how trial didnt became West Virginias state capital. Today we are in the West Virginia State Capitol. It is in charleston, West Virginia. We are close to the south bank of the canal river come out river and cannot county canal river in canal county. West virginiain which is in the northern panhandle. It was far enough away from the fighting during the civil war. It was also the location of where the conventions were held. The capital was been moved to charleston for its more convenient location. It is out of the way and a mountainous state. It made it hard to travel there. The capitolaround grounds today, you would notice the most iconic statue we have is this. After Abraham Lincoln was the president that proclaim this. Is done in af it copper color with a lead lining. That is a 43 carat gold leaf. They are done to look like various floors from West Virginia. Currently the capita
In the main reading room. It lends a certain something to the seriousness of what they are doing. That is the way it should be, but scholars are really know the score walk right past the Jefferson Building and go into you may not like the way it looks, but the Madison Building is where it is at. That is where the manuscripts collection is, and there are 60 million items. This is from the website. 60 million items over 11,000 separate collections, truly the greatest manuscript treasure of American History and culture. To talk to us about that collection is Jeff Flannery, an old friend of the society in particular friend of scholars who work in American History, like my former colleagues and i. For 40 years, put together a document history project, and it brought us to jeff virtually every week. He and his staff helped us produce those volumes. Jeff is the head of the reference and services section. He has been in the management for 31 years, and that is all i will say. I know you are mu
Three people killed, two others injured, two homes destroyed. An investigation under way. And bad time to tweet . New information on that big flub at the Academy Awards. Theres a mistake. Moonlight, you guys won best picture. And the twitter post that may have led to one of the most embarrassing mixups in oscar history. Today, tuesday, february 28th, 2017. From nbc news, this is a special edition of today, on the hill, with matt lauer, live from capitol hill, and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to this special edition of today on a tuesday morning. Im matt lauer smackdab in the middle of the capitol in washington. And savannah sackdab in the middle of studio 1a in new york city. There you are. Ive been looking at your beautiful shots of washington, d. C. This morning. And i think, arent they peaceful when they sleep . It looks so good. Such a beautiful spot. It will be a busy night in washington. Im standing just above where t