Landmark cases. Cspans special history series produced in cooperation with the National Constitution center. Exploring the human stories and constitutional dram as behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. As behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, earnest miranda Petitioner Versus arizona. We hear arguments from 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 People who helped stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspans history series landmark cases. Tonight is number 10 in our 12part series and you will hear about the 1962 tennessee reapportionment case and it was one that earl warren called the most important of his tenure and remember this is the court that wrote brown versus the board of education and well learn
Justices earlier years as attorney general and governor of california. Cspan recorded this event at Duke Law School in 2007. Its a tremendous pleasure to introduce a dear friend of mine, jim newton, who is the author of a splendid new biography justice for all, earl warren and the nation he made. Jim is a reporter and a bureau chief at Los Angeles Times, where hes been for over 20 years. I first really became familiar with his writing in the early 1990s when he was the lead reporter for the l. A. Times covering the trial of the officers who beat rodney king and then the o. J. Simpson case. I was always dazzled by his writing, his ability to take a day of complex events in a courtroom and summarize it concisely and clearly. He always wrote with amazing speed and great elegance. I got to know him in another capacity in the late 1990s when he was covering the charter reform process in los angeles as part of covering city government. I was then chairing an elected commission in los angeles
All persons having business before the Honorable Supreme Court of United States landmark cases, cspan special history series produced in cooperation with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759 we will hear arguments from number 18 quite often in many of her 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 stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Susan good evening and welcome to cspans history series, let marquesas. Tonight is number 10. You will hear about the 1962 tennessee reapportionment case. It was one that chief Justice Earl Warren called the most important of his tenure. This is the court that wrote brown versus board of education and we will learn wider the next 90 minutes. It began a re
The l. A. Times, covering the trial for king, and then the o. J. Simpson case. I was dazzled by his writing, he was able to take complex events in a courtroom, and summarize it concisely and clearly. He always wrote amazing speed and great delegates. I got to know him, in another capacity in the late 1990s when he was covering, i was then sharing the elected commission in los angeles, to revise the charter. I saw them that he had this he was amazingly a talented, but also had lots of integrity. At one point the Los Angeles Times was not nearly showing enough tension to try to reform, but according to los angeles weekly, he quit his position at the los angeles time, to protest over this. He put his job on the line, because he believed in the importance of the story. He is then law, and because of that the Los Angeles Times decided to change its approach. Id like to believe that the charter approach, succeeded because of his actions. He was planning some taking some time off from the l.
Of writers bloc. Were so honored be partnering with you today on this very special program. Time to turn it over to you. Thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you, kim, and thanks to the l. A. World Affairs Council for inviting writers bloc to cohost this event with jim newton and governor brown. And for asking writers broc on fer first date with a digital event. I urge you to purchase a copy of former Los Angeles Times Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and editor jim newtons man of tomorrow, the relentless life of jerry brun. Such a great biography of one of californias true visionaries, one ourselves most extraordinary leaders. Man of tomorrow cap tours jerry browns vision for california, his ambition and profound moral grounding. Browns decisions have always been guided by his activist principles, notwithstanding his set for tradition and passionate faith in californias point. Jim newton explores the complexity of browns unconventional and sometimes eccentric permanent and political i