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
As person having being before the Honorable Supreme Court of the United States are to draw near and give their attention. The special history series, produced in partnership with the National Constitution center. Exploring the human stories, and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic [ decisions. Mr. Chief justice, and may it please the court quite obvious in much of our most famous decisions are the 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 different people who helped stick together, because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening. Welcome to cspans landmark cases. This 1969 case of the warren Court Unanimously handed down with you most expansive interpretations ever of our First Amendment guarantees to fry speech and assembly. What are the very basics . Vandenberg was the leader of the ku klux klan in cincinnati, ohio, who held a rally for his members of hi
Exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 7 59. Since row against weighed. Quite often, and very famous decisions, are ones that corked took that were quite unpopular. Let us 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 helped stick together because they believed in the rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspan and the National Constitution centers landmark cases. Tonight, we are going to be examining a 1944 war powers case of the Supreme Court. It is the story of korematsu v. United states. Aaa iaea detained through the course of the war. Mr. Korematsu said that was wrong. We have two people helping us learn the story. Peter irons is the civil rights attorney and editor of ten books including justice at war, the story of the japanese american internment cases. In the course of researching his book on this case, he found th
Justice breyer has always been remarkably generous with his time in supporting society projects. In less than two weeks on june 6 at our annual meeting, he will be delivering the societys 41st annual lecture. Some background on Justice Breyer. He was born in San Francisco and after stanford, he came east. He has a ba from oxford. His law degree at harvard and went on to clerk for justice goldberg. He served with great distinction in the justice department. He served as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee and served in other similar roles during that time of his career. He has taught at Harvard Law School at the Harvard Kennedy school of government, at the college of law in sydney, australia, and the university of rome. In 1980, president carter appointed Justice Breyer to the United States court of appeals for the first circuit, and he was the chief judge there from 19901994. In 1994, president clinton nominated him as an associate justice of the Supreme Court to succeed ju
Good evening and welcome to cspan landmark cases, tonight bundaberg versus ohio. Which was unanimously handed down to free speech and assembly, one of the very basics of this case . Brendan burke was the leader of the ku klux klan and ohio, who held a rally for his small group of members and he they filmed, it unaired it on tv. Showing him in a hood, clan regalia in front of a burning cross. Or brandishing guns and making racist statements about the jews and blacks. And he was committed, and sentenced wanted ten years under ohio statute. As a crime to advocate violence. Were going to dig into the particulars of this case, and learn about its impact in our society. But as we get started we have two pieces of media for you, we are going to listen to a little bit of the oral argument in the case, and you will hear some of the particulars of this case, im pleased to notice that includes some of the offensive language, used by the defendant in this case. But its part of what we are talking