The answer is in this era, as always, we have a chief justice first and foremost the head of and a steward of our three branches of government. I think there are some unique aspects about that job in the sense that the court is not a political branch, but deliberately designed not to be an the chief has in some because a unique job the chief justice is the first. She has had administrative responsibilities but she cannot control the other justices. The chief justice has the power to control but not control. There are some great areas in history that explain that. Role and whove a writes the opinions . Twof course, those were the distinctions as the chief justice. They reside over the conference which is leading on both which cases to take. I think as you know, a very small number of cases that the court actually takes and hears out of the number that are petitioned every year. It is under 10 . Chief has as role in the discuss list. That and itrculates is presumptively denied. The chief
Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. 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 that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who have helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights a 1954 case of School Segregation, brown v. Board of education. And were going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas city of topeka, where a mildmannered black man took his plump 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly four blocks from their home to the allwhite school and tired without success to enroll his child. That trying to enroll their children in s
Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. 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 that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who have helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights a 1954 case of School Segregation, brown v. Board of education. And were going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas city of topeka, where a mildmannered black man took his plump 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly four blocks from their home to the allwhite school and tired without success to enroll his child. That trying to enroll their children in s
Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. 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 that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who have helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights a 1954 case of School Segregation, brown v. Board of education. And were going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas city of topeka, where a mildmannered black man took his plump 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly four blocks from their home to the allwhite school and tired without success to enroll his child. That trying to enroll their children in s
Arizona. We hear arguments number 18 roe against wade. 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 that illustrate very dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who have helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to landmark cases. Were about twothirds of the way through our 12week series looking at Historic Supreme Court decisions. Tonights a 1954 case of School Segregation, brown v. Board of education. And were going to begin this evening by listening to linda brown on the roots of this case. My memory of brown began in the fall of 1950, in the quiet kansas city of topeka, where a mildmannered black man took his plump 7yearold daughter by the hand and walked briskly four blocks from their home to the allwhite school and tired without success to enroll his child. That trying to enroll their children in s