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
The first lecture in this years series. This year, we are examining dissents opinions. Different aspects thereof. You have already been warned about your cell phones and your apple watches and so forth so i will not repeat that. But you will be in the doghouse if it goes off during the period of our evening. I also want to thank this evening our host, Justice Stephen breyer, who against all odds was able to come and introduce our speaker on the first day of a busy term. Justice breyer is one of the most faithful friends of the society. Whenever we have called on him to help us out, he has shown up and done a wonderful job. Him for taking time away from his busy schedule on first day of term. To impose too much on his time so i will abbreviate the introduction of Justice Breyer. Francisco. In san he received an a. B. From stanford. Aba from mod lang college, oxford and an ll. B. From harvard. He served as a law clerk to Justice Arthur goldberg of the Supreme Court of the United States d
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And early 20th century. Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, im from atlanta and i currently serve as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society. Im pleased to welcome you to the first lecture in this years silverman series. This year we are examining dissents not majority opinions. A different aspect thereof. Youve already been warned about your cell phones and apple watches and so forth. So i wont repeat that. But you will be in the dog house if it goes off during the period of our evening. I also want to thank this evening our host Justice Stephen breyer who against all odds agreed to come and introduce our speaker this evening on the first day of a busy term. Justice breyer is one of the most faithful friends of the society. Whenever we have called on him to help us out he has shown up and done a wonderful job. I want to thank him for taking time away from his busy schedule on first day of term. I dont want to impose too much on Justice Breyers time so im going to abbreviate
Economy some more and the dow will hit, wait for it, 32,000 this year. Thats optimism. Were at 29,000 right now. Then theres this, the New York Times issues its endorsement for the democrats nominee. The times is the bible of the Democrat Party and they split their decision. Theyve endorsed Amy Klobuchar and Elizabeth Warren. This is fascinating. Not biden, not bernie, not the former mayor of new york, bloomberg, no, left and far left is the times choice. Later today, the president flies off to the global elite get together known as davos. Picture this, please, the president fresh off trade wins and a growing prosperous economy, addressing over there while the trump haters over here try to impeach him. Im not keen on the expression but you cant make it up. Varney company the tenth Anniversary Edition is about to begin. Stuart watch out. Situation, step aside. I dont have tattoos and i wear a baseball cap the right way around but im going to fit right in, google. Weather, new york today