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
the lower courts held that because the law prohibits abortion before viability, it is unconstitutional, no matter what. the people can protect and unborn child s life when she can just barely survive outside the room the womb. that is not the world the constitution promises. the constitution places its trust in the people. abortion is a heart issue : the constitution provides certain aspects of autonomy but in luxembourg going from general concepts of autonomy to her right is not how this court traditionally does due process analysis. the right to abortion is not granted in the text. it is grounded on abstract context this court has rejected. you say this is the only constitutional right that involves the taking of a life. what does what difference does that make in your analysis? a number of differences. one is it marks out the profound ramifications of this area which in many other areas, assisted suicide, it marks it out as a unique area where the court has taken
dobbs versus jackson s women s health organization. the lower courts held that because the law prohibits abortion before viability, it is unconstitutional, no matter what. the people can protect and unborn child s life when she can just barely survive outside the room the womb. that is not the world the constitution promises. the constitution places its trust in the people. abortion is a heart issue : the constitution provides certain aspects of autonomy but in luxembourg going from general concepts of autonomy to her right is not how this court traditionally does due process analysis. the right to abortion is not granted in the text. it is grounded on abstract context this court has rejected. you say this is the only constitutional right that involves the taking of a life. what does what difference does that make in your analysis? a number of differences. one is it marks out the profound ramifications of this area which in many other areas, assisted suicide, it mark
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