Landmark cases, cspan special history series produced in cooperation with the National Constitution center. Exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas between 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, earnest hernandez, Petitioner Versus roe v. Wade. The quite often, and many of our famous decisions, there once that the court took 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 have helped skip world together because they believe in the rule of law. Good evening. Welcome to cnns new series, landmark cases. Tonight, and for the next 11 weeks, will be looking at 12 cases that have affected the country and affected the development of the horton society. Now we focus on marbury v. Madison, one of the earliest cases, and its interesting because it came about between the two Founding Fathers who developed and empathy after the election of 1800 and different vie
The case was about walter nixon. Three articles of impeachment where. Did. Were adopted. Drama focused on what happened in the senate. Impeachmentesented rule 11. Ofre was a Committee Senators appointed to receive testimony and that is what the committee did. And based on the committee report, the senate convicted judge nixon. He was removed from office. He sued and said senate rule 11 violates the constitutional grant of authority for the senate to try all impeachment does it prohibits the whole senate from participating. In the District Court and the court of appeals said the claim was nonjews nonjudicial ball. It involves a political question. Court agreed. Wasin a decision that unanimous although it has some important concurring opinions, the Supreme Court said it is indeed nonjudicial. And they had a bunch of Different Reasons for that conclusion. Host we talk about judicial due process. Is there such a thing when it comes to impeachment . The requirements of the constitution itse
Wellpositioned to win the streaming wars. It is all coming up today on coast to coast. Our top story, new reports say saudi arabias oil out put will indeed return to normal levels maybe the next two or three weeks. That is a lot quicker than the months we originally had been hearing. It comes as iran is now responding to the allegations made by the u. S. Blake burman at the white house to pick up the story from there. Whats the latest, blake . Reporter hi, there, connell. On the political side of things the white house is still walking a fine line saying that they believe iran or at least at this point signs are pointing to iran being behind the attack on the saudi oil complex. They are not yet willing to definitely say that they are absolutely certain that is indeed the case. Remember as part of the response from President Trump over the weekend, his initial response was that he said that the u. S. Was quote, locked and loaded. Yesterday on three different occasions when we heard from
Philadelphia, and the foremost scholar on impeachment, the United States. He is one of only two legal scholars to testify in three different president ial impeachment hearings and served as special counsel to the presiding officer in Donald Trumps second impeachment trial. He the only scholar to address the entire house of representatives on the law, a president ial impeachment. Hes joined in conversation tonight by michael j. Clairmont. Michael j. Clairmont is the Charles Warren professor of legal history at harvard law school. His most recent book, the framers the making of the United States constitution, was a finalist for the George Washington prize. Michael gerhardt is presenting his new book, the law of president ial impeachment. As a result, Donald Trumps presidency impeachment was once again thrust into the spotlight. American political discussion. However, its history goes back to the founding of the nation, when american colonists remembering their grievances, their former ki
Philadelphia, and the foremost scholar on impeachment, the United States. He is one of only two legal scholars to testify in three different president ial impeachment hearings and served as special counsel to the presiding officer in Donald Trumps second impeachment trial. He the only scholar to address the entire house of representatives on the law, a president ial impeachment. Hes joined in conversation tonight by michael j. Clairmont. Michael j. Clairmont is the Charles Warren professor of legal history at harvard law school. His most recent book, the framers the making of the United States constitution, was a finalist for the George Washington prize. Michael gerhardt is presenting his new book, the law of president ial impeachment. As a result, Donald Trumps presidency impeachment was once again thrust into the spotlight. American political discussion. However, its history goes back to the founding of the nation, when american colonists remembering their grievances, their former ki