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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. As behind 12 Historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759, earnest miranda Petitioner Versus arizona. We hear arguments from number 18, roe against wade. Quite often in many of our most famous decisions are ones 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 310 Million People w...

Justices earlier years as attorney general and governor of california. Cspan recorded this event at Duke Law School in 2007. Its a tremendous pleasure to introduce a dear friend of mine, jim newton, who is the author of a splendid new biography justice for all, earl warren and the nation he made. Jim is a reporter and a bureau chief at Los Angeles Times, where hes been for over 20 years. I first really became familiar with his writing in the early 1990s when he was the lead reporter for the l. A. Times covering the trial of the officers who beat rodney king and then the o. J. Simpson case. I w...

All persons having business before the Honorable Supreme Court of United States landmark cases, cspan special history series produced in cooperation with the National Constitution center, exploring the human stories and constitutional dramas behind 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Number 759 we will hear arguments from number 18 quite often in many of her most famous decisions, are ones 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 310 million different people who stick toget...

Up next, oral argument from the North Carolina gerrymandering case. This court has repeatedly failed to identify a standard r for partisan gerrymandering claims. The cause is not a lack of judicial imagination or a lack of claims that the particular map before the court was the most extreme ever. Rather, the root cause of this failure is the basic decision of the framers to give responsibility for congressional districting to political actors. The framers consciously chose to give the primary authority to state i would submit that you dont have a one size fits all solution. I took the central ...

commission for students and families at h.h.s. and central director of the office of civil rights within the office of the secretary. we're pleased she could join us to moderate us this afternoon. after our opening remarks we'll turn to audience questions. if you have a question please enter it into the q&a feature in the bottom of your screen. maya, the floor is yours. maya: thank you. i'm pleased to introduce two redistricting expert who was dealt with this issue for multiple cycles. first, professor jeffrey white from the new york university law school -- new york law school as ad...