Landmark cases, cspan special history series produced in cooperation with the National Constitution center. Exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas between 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, earnest hernandez, Petitioner Versus roe v. Wade. The quite often, and many of our famous decisions, there once that the court took quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who have helped skip world together because they believe in the rule of law. Good evening. Welcome to cnns new series, landmark cases. Tonight, and for the next 11 weeks, will be looking at 12 cases that have affected the country and affected the development of the horton society. Now we focus on marbury v. Madison, one of the earliest cases, and its interesting because it came about between the two Founding Fathers who developed and empathy after the election of 1800 and different vie
good afternoon. members of the stevens family, members of the court, members of the bar, and friends. this meeting of the bar, disapprove court of the united states has been called to honor the memory of john paul stevens. who served as it associate justice of the supreme court from 1975 to 2010. in addition to his time on the court, justice stephen served his country as a judge on the united states court of appeals for the seventh circuit, as counsel to the house judiciary committee, and as a code breaker in the u.s. navy during world war ii. over decades on the back edge, he dedicated his life to the rule of law and the judicial craft. he was a jurist who through this exercise independent judgment. guided by experience and the essential values underline the constitution and the american project. he was a person of integrity. blessed with the angular intellect, pragmatic temperament, humble nature, and generative soul. he was a devoted has been, father, grandfather, and
Georgetown University Law center. He has served in all three branches of government and hes argued, remember, the mb cases before the United States Supreme Court. So he brings a really ni,diversa book. The court during this era. Cliff also has worked with the Washington Post company and. He has gosh, youve written extensively in t media about Court Related issues and and other issues sow id like to welcome cliff stone. Well thank you so much, bill thank you. And thâ– ank u all for here. And i just want to say it is an honor and a pleasure for me to here, d as bill was saying, the publication date is the first officialb special place to have it and its so ny days researching at the wonder library here with, the very helpful perso and so its just terrific to be here. And i really appreciate it. We, thatlets just launch righ. As i was saying before, i think e this roosevelttime aligned themselveo perfectly World War Two and the personalities involved here to give a perfect natural framew
Buckeye broadband support cspan is a Public Service along these other Television Providers were giving a front row seat to democracy. Next, testimony on roadway safety before a Senate Commerce, science and transportation subcommittee. From transportation policy advocates and local officials. They discuss roadway fatalities, infrastructure needs, Pedestrian Safety and the integration of Autonomous Vehicles. This is an hour and 40 minutes. [background noises] the subcommittee will come to order. Today the subcommittee for surface transportation, maritime, freight imports will examine the roadway safety crisis. These solutions we must implement and responsive. Boots would like to thank my Ranking Member, senator young as well as chert cantwell and member crews for their help in convening this very important hearing. Every day unfortunately more than 100 americans lose their lives on our roads. If trends continue what we expect more than 40000 fatalities this year. Hundreds of thousands of
[background noises] chair whitehouse good morning, everyone. I will calloke all this hearinge Senate Budget committee to order. Let me begin by expressing condolences to might distinguish Ranking Member for the loss of life in iowa. H no doubt described as a pop rock elliptic touchdown. And cause considerable death and destruction. Today we have a different topic thank you for. Yes, sir. We address how Climate Change is making drought more severe question magnifies so many of the other risks we talked about in this committee. Climate change exacerbates the severity of droughts. Major agricultural regions like the American West of the mediterranean precedent less precipitation in many places art whiplash bite wild swings between drought and delusion. Almost everywhere is experiencing increased heat. The most straightforward of these is increased heat. Hotter weather means higher demand for water to drink, to support agriculture but even to cool power plants. Without cold weather less sn