[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2023] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] in partnership with the library of congress, cspan brings you books that shaped america. Our series explores key works of literature that had a profound impact on the country. In this program, the common law. Written in 1881 by Oliver Wendell holmes junior all of her Wendell Holmes junior grew up surrounded by writers and thinkers such as ralph waldo emerson. When the civil war began, folks answered president lincolns call for volunteers homes answered the call and volunteered. At the end of the war, he enrolled in Harvard Law School and embarked on a legal career. In 1881, a summary of lectures he had given was published as the common law. Balancing legal principles with realities of the emerging modern era. He later served on the u. S. Supreme uras remembered for his writing and his jurisprud
In partnership with the library of congress, cspan brings you books that shaped america. Our series explores key works of literature that had a profound impact on the country. In this program, the common law. Written in 1881 by Oliver Wendell holmes junior all of her Wendell Holmes junior grew up surrounded by writers and thinkers such as ralph waldo emerson. When the civil war began, folks answered president lincolns call for volunteers homes answered the call and volunteered. At the end of the war, he enrolled in Harvard Law School and embarked on a legal career. In 1881, a summary of lectures he had given was published as the common law. Balancing legal principles with realities of the emerging modern era. He later served on the u. S. Supreme court as remembered for his writing and his jurisprudence. The common has remained in print and continues to be cited, yet remains controversial. Welcome to books that shaped america, our cspan series that looks at how books throughout our hist
Host good morning, it is saturday, april 27, 2024. Campus protests are spreading across the country prompting crackdowns by campus officials and in some cases the police. And the continuation of the donald trump hush money trial in new york and here in washington oral arguments before the Supreme Court on just how far president ial immunity should go. We are looking for your top new story of the week. The number four republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents can call in at 202 7488002. If you would like to text us, that number is 202 7488003. Please be sure to include your name and where you are writing in from. You can reach us on social media at facebook. Com cspan and on x cspanwj. Some top stories we have been following, of course the College Campus protests as we mentioned, and the Supreme Court immunity case. We have Economic News with gdp slowing to 1. 6 in the first quarter. The trump hush money trial entering week 2 as well as a gag order debate in that ca
Story of the week. The number four republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independents can call in at 202 7488002. If you would like to text us, that number is 202 7488003. Please be sure to include your name and where you are writing in from. You can reach us on social media at facebook. Com cspan and on x cspanwj. Some top stories we have been following, of course the College Campus protests as we mentioned, and the Supreme Court immunity case. We have Economic News with gdp slowing to 1. 6 in the first quarter. The trump hush money trial entering week 2 as well as a gag order debate in that case as well. Also, President Biden signed a foreign aid package. The package of aid to ukraine and israel and taiwan. That piece of legislation also had a provision that could potentially ban the social media videosharing apps tiktok. Heres President Biden speaking at the white house on wednesday after signing the 95 billion package of aid. [video clip] pres. Biden it is a good day fo
Cliff sloan, your second book is about the Supreme Court but a very different era from the first one. Tell me about the court at work. The court that war is about the Supreme Court during world war ii, and it is a very, very interesting and momentous time for the court, and it is really the roosevelt court. Let me back up and tell you how i got interested in the subject. I was working at as a special envoy for the closure of guantanamo in 2014, and i was reading the decisions on military detention, including the notorious and shameful korematsu case. I noticed that the first of the shameful antijapanese decisions , which was about a curfew targeted at japaneseamerican citizens, was decided exactly one week from one week before one of the greatest Civil Liberties decisions in the courts history, West Virginia for the board of education versus burnett, where justice rep. Jackson gave an opinion that struck down the compulsory flag statute that the jehovahs witnesses had objected to. I no