Before the Honorable Supreme Court before the United States are admonished to give their attention. 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. Number 759, earnest miranda petitioner, versus arizona. We hear arguments of roe against wade. Quite often the most famous decisions are ones 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 helped stick together because they believed in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspan and the National Constitution centers landmark cases series. Tonight case number 11 out of 12 and this is a 1966 case, miranda versus arizona that helped to revolutionize policing in america. Youre under arrest. You have the right to an attorney. You have the right
Online cspan. Org. Heres a look back at the proceedings from today. The next panel will be judge taha, ms. Masameno, judge henry, mr. Jaffer, judge cain, mr. Perkins, ms. Bresack and mr. Calamine. If i pronounced anyones name wrong, correct me when you testify. Im sorry, i thought maybe you werent here. Okay. You are obviously here. Okay. Would you do you swear that the testimony youre about to give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god . I do. Ive seen positive response. So i think please seat and i we never get everybody to honor the five minute rule. If you see the red light come on and you can summarize in about 30 seconds or so, it would be very much appreciated because im sure that there will be some questions of some of you and so we want to move things along, but i think im going to do it in the way youre seated there from my left to my right so would you start out, judge. Im pleased to do so and good morning to the d
Online cspan. Org. Heres a look back at the proceedings from today. The next panel will be judge taha, ms. Masameno, judge henry, mr. Jaffer, judge cain, mr. Perkins, ms. Bresack and mr. Calamine. If i pronounced anyones name wrong, correct me when you testify. Im sorry, i thought maybe you werent here. Okay. You are obviously here. Okay. Would you do you swear that the testimony youre about to give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god . I do. Ive seen positive response. So i think please seat and i we never get everybody to honor the five minute rule. If you see the red light come on and you can summarize in about 30 seconds or so, it would be very much appreciated because im sure that there will be some questions of some of you and so we want to move things along, but i think im going to do it in the way youre seated there from my left to my right so would you start out, judge. Im pleased to do so and good morning to the d
Online cspan. Org. Heres a look back at the proceedings from today. The next panel will be judge taha, ms. Masameno, judge henry, mr. Jaffer, judge cain, mr. Perkins, ms. Bresack and mr. Calamine. If i pronounced anyones name wrong, correct me when you testify. Im sorry, i thought maybe you werent here. Okay. You are obviously here. Okay. Would you do you swear that the testimony youre about to give before this committee will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god . I do. Ive seen positive response. So i think please seat and i we never get everybody to honor the five minute rule. If you see the red light come on and you can summarize in about 30 seconds or so, it would be very much appreciated because im sure that there will be some questions of some of you and so we want to move things along, but i think im going to do it in the way youre seated there from my left to my right so would you start out, judge. Im pleased to do so and good morning to the d
That would be true of virtually everyone who was a nominee over the last quarter century. This is a nominee reflective of the president s party and that is what elections are about and the people that president obama pientd. There has been tremendous consternation about the change that would no longer require 60 votes to end debate. I think a lot of people have a misunderstanding of how we got here. I think it is important for the people of florida to know how i approached it. It is the no something that i am excited or happy about. I would say that is the sentiment of most of the people here in the senate and yet it happened anyway. I saw an editorial cartoon, and it had a picture of both sides saying this is terrible but were going to do it anyway. The senate is unique. There is no other legislative body in the world like it. Unlike most legislative institutions it does not function by majority rule. It actually requires supermajorities to move forward. That was by design. It was not