For that. Brief comments about Justice Breyer cant begin to do justice to him, so im going to have to be unjust in light of time constraints that im subject to. Justice breyer has always been remarkably generous with his time in supporting society projects. And indeed, in less than two weeks on june 6th, at our annual meeting, hell be delivering the societys 41st annual lecture. And of course, hes doing these extra projects for the society at a tremendously busy time for him and for all of his colleagues on the court. So Justice Breyer, thank you so much. Some background on Justice Breyer. He was born in san francisco. He eventually, after stanford, came east. Farther east. Hes got a ba from Magdalene College at oxford. He earned his law degree at harvard. He went on to clerk for Justice Arthur goldberg this court. He served with great distinction in the justice department. He served as chief counsel to the Senate Judiciary committee at one point and served in other similar roles durin
Rights on school grounds. Then at 9 35, New York Times versus United States which restricted the governments power over the press and broadened journalists First Amendment protections. Watch landmark cases, tonight on cspan3 and any time at cspan. Org. Wednesday night on American History tv beginning at 8 00 eastern. Congressman john lewis. The 17term democrat from georgia recently died at the age of 80 and will be buried on thursday. Before joining congress he was influential in the 1960s Civil Rights Movement. In 2019 congressman lewis gave the keynote address at a ceremony offering pioneering africanamerican tennis player arthur ashe. Watch American History tv tonight on cspan3. All persons having business before the honorable, and the Supreme Court of the United States admonished who draw near and give their attention. Landmark cases, cspans special history series produced in partnership with the National Constitution center. Exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas be
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
Programs. In 1982 he appeared on book notes to talk about his biography of president truman it won the Pulitzer Prize for biography and to help change the view of the truman presidency. Here he is from 1992. Cspan you start off by saying as far back as he could remember truman held onto the mythical roman heroes. What is that all about . The mythical hero who left in time of war with the great general and was victorious and renounced all of his power and returned to the farm. Thats a theme the country was founded on. If you are at the capital with the great painting of George Washington turning over his powers as commanderinchief of the Continental Army to congress the symbols earth all throughout that painting because they believe this is what democracy entailed that any citizen should be called upon at any time to serve b ultheir country in any capacity and the power belong to the people and would bepo returned to those who held it. He like to say i never forget who i was, where i ca
Landmark cases, cspans special series produced with the constitution center, explore and the human story and constitutional dramas behind 12 Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, Petitioner Versus arizona. Number 18, roe against wade. Quite often in many of our famous decisions were quite unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate are 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. Welcome to landmark cases. Our series of looking at the 12 most important cases in Supreme Courts history. We will learn more about the people in the issues behind them. Tonight, lochner v. New york, 1905. It is one of the controversial cases of the Supreme Court, and in fact the story of a baker from new york whose case gave rise to an era that defined Supreme Court cases for the next 30 years. Let me introduce you to our two guests who would tell us more about this important case