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Quite often and many of our most greatest decisions are ones that the court took that were quite unpopular. Lets go to a few cases that illustrate very dramatically and visually, what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who help stick together because they believed in a rule of law. Cspan and the National Constitution center. Welcome you to the land more cases. Our 12 part history series. Exploring the people and the stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most famous...

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Coons. Convening under different circumstances than our previous meeting. The were cbc following the guidanc the cdc and the office of the attending physician. So were spaced further apart. Our staff is reduced. Though we are grateful for all of them. The general public is watching online rather than filling up the room. So our hearing today will look a little different. I think we could all agree that the capitol feels a little different, the halls of congress feel a little different. Small bus...

Will give both our authors 20 minutes to speak and we allocate 10 minutes for questionandanswer. Im also admonished to remind you if youre really enjoying yourself, that the southern festival of books depends upon individual donations. If you really enjoy what youve seen over the past couple of days, id encourage you to donate as much as you can. We are in for a treat today. I asked these two jennifer bio gentleman for bios a couple of visio. They are esteemed scholars but also some of the most ...

Now, a conversation on the history of gun regulation and how the Second Amendment has been interpreted over the centuries. We will hear from a historian, and a law professor in this discussion from the National History center. Good morning and welcome. It is a pleasure to welcome you to this briefing hosted by the National History center. Im karen wolf, the executive director of the institute of Early American History and culture at william and mary, and also a professor of history at william an...

Rep. Holtzman just barely. Actually, the irony is that there was a breakin in had i own Campaign Headquarters roughly around that time and a very ugly incident and people actually got beat up and had to get taken to the hospital. So i was worried about my own campaign and worried about my own Campaign Workers and worried about the breakin at my Campaign Headquarters. So watergate was just a kind of far in the distance, thunder far in the distance. Timothy you get elected. Rep. Holtzman i won the...

Timothy we are here on april 5th, 2007 with Elizabeth Holtzman with the Richard Nixon oral history program. We are taping this in new york city. Hello, liz. Thank you for joining us. Rep. Holtzman glad to do this. Timothy lets start, its the summer of 1972. You have toppled a Senior Leader of the Democratic Congressional leadership. Youre running for office. The watergate breakin takes place. Youre very busy running for office. Do you notice it at all . Rep. Holtzman just barely. Actually, the i...

The 2015 usa freedom act banned bulk collection of private records. The Senate Judiciary committee recently held a hearing on reauthorizing the legislation. Among the witnesses were officials from the fbi, the Justice Department and the nsa. This is two hours. 2015. We have two panels, basically, four parts of the act. I want the panel to tell us the good, the bad and the ugly why we need these four people, why we need to reauthorize the program n your view, what happens if we dont. Would you ac...

The hearing will come to order, thank you all very much. Im sorry emily. Today will have a hearing about reauthorizing the freedom act of 2015. We have two panels, basically theres four parts to the act. I want the panels to tell us the good, bad and the ugly of why we need these for tools and why we need to reauthorize the program in your view. What happens if we dont, would you accept any changes, what with those changes be and reset your testimony, im very interested in hearing from the Natio...