All persons having business before the honorable, the Supreme Court of the United States are admonish to give their attention landmark cases, cspans special history series, produced in partnership with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12th historic Supreme Court decisions mr. Chief justice, former mayor please the court quite often, in our most famous decisions, theyre one 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 help stick together because they believe in the rule of law. Hello and welcome to landmark cases. This is the first of 12 historic Supreme Court cases that we will look at this season. Mcculloch v. Maryland is our case tonight, and we will learn more about this significant case in the people and issues behind it and why it is so important in our American History process. Later,
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 first lecture in this years series. This year, we are examining dissents opinions. Different aspects thereof. You have already been warned about your cell phones and your apple watches and so forth so i will not repeat that. But you will be in the doghouse if it goes off during the period of our evening. I also want to thank this evening our host, Justice Stephen breyer, who against all odds was able to come and introduce our speaker on the first day of a busy term. Justice breyer is one of the most faithful friends of the society. Whenever we have called on him to help us out, he has shown up and done a wonderful job. Him for taking time away from his busy schedule on first day of term. To impose too much on his time so i will abbreviate the introduction of Justice Breyer. Francisco. In san he received an a. B. From stanford. Aba from mod lang college, oxford and an ll. B. From harvard. He served as a law clerk to Justice Arthur goldberg of the Supreme Court of the United States d
Professor is introduced by Justice Stephen breyer, then discusses the dissenting opinions delivered in cases between 1810 and 1927. Good evening. I from atlanta. Serve as president of the Supreme Court Historical Society. I am pleased to welcome you to the first lecture in this years series. This year we are examining dissents, not majority opinions, different aspects thereof. You have been warned about your cell phones and apple watches so forth, so i will not appear that, but you will be in the doghouse if it goes off during the period of our evening. I also want to thank our host , Justice Stephen breyer, who against all odds agreed to come and introduce our speaker this evening on the first day of a busy term. Justice breyer is one of the most faithful friends of the society. Whenever we have called on him to help us out, he has shown up and done a wonderful job. I want to thank him for taking time away from his busy schedule on first day of term. I dont want to impose too much on
Hello can i have everyones attention please. Hello, thank you, good afternoon. Let me begin basing to get you all for being here. For those of you who do not know me, i am a fellow Deputy Director [applause] emma fellow inject pretty doctor at the manhattan you. This is good to be a particularly nice treat for me today because in addition listening to an author discussed a new book i have the distinct honor of introducing them into a bring him up to the stage. Michael is one of th most brillt lawyers of our time. Radio from National Security to constitutional and criminal law, is developed his expertise of a long and distinguished career as a federal prosecutor and most audibly as chief judge of the is 81st attorney general of the United States, after leaving Public Office he returned to private practice and is not of cancel and like myron magnet he is a graduate of Columbia University unlike Justice Thomas he took his law degree from you. With that, i ask you to join me in welcoming.