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Education committee looks at how to open schools safely in the fall during the pandemic. Members will hear from the Dallas School superintendent, the national pga president , and the pediatrics professor. Watch live at 10 15 eastern on cspan three, online at cspan. Org or listen live with the free cspan radio app. All persons having business before the Honorable Supreme Court of the United States have managed to get their attention. Landmark cases. Cspans special history series. Produced in partnership with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice and may please the court, quite often in many of our most famous decisions, are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases to illustrate very dramatically the visual of what it means for different people who have helped to stick together because they created a rule of law. Good evening and welcome t
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