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Quite often, most of our most famous decisions are ones that the court took that were unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate dramatically and visually what it means to live in a society of 310 million different people who stuck together because they believed in the rule of law. Cspan and the National Constitution Center Welcome you to the landmark cases. We explore the people and stories behind some of the Supreme Courts most famous decisions. Tonight you will be learning more about the dred scott decision. Let me introduce you about the two guests about the history. A professo...

Good afternoon. I am pleased to kick off todays event on education savings accounts and the future of educational choice. Our event today is straightforward, and in a moment, i will give the podium to our speaker, jeb bush. I will join him on stage freight the conversation together, and following that, my former colleague, now the executive director of the center for advancing opportunity will join the distinguished group of panelists, which i will let him introduce the details. Todays event a little housekeeping, it is being livestream and full video will be available later in the day. We als...

An hundred 70 primary schools have experienced a shooting on 1999. Since columbine in our question is, should there be compromise on it Gun Legislation. Owner, 202 gun 7488000. Ll others, 202 7488001 send us a tweet or join us on facebook. Good sunday morning. Thank you for being with us. In a moment we will hear from Vice President pence weighing in on the debate over Gun Legislation. We want to begin with a piece from usa today florida students want to be a Tipping Point in the gun debate. Reads as host Vice President pence yesterday said this. We will get to the bottom of what happened here...

Unfortunately, we saw another tragedy with the School Shooting in parkland, florida. Betsy devos the education , secretary, we just learned, has made comments that Congress Needs to hold hearings looking into these types of issues dealing with School Shootings. Your committee and your leadership you have not chosen , to go that route into gun violence. Do you think that mrs. Devos recommendation is a good one . Rep. Goodlatte we will consider that. We do believe that communities need to make sure that theyre doing everything to keep their schools secure. When i visit schools around my Congress...

Michelle obama. Joined by the artists at the portrait gallery, home to the only complete collection of National Portraits outside of the white house. Here is a preview. Each of these artists had to walk into the oval office yikes i almost wanted to start each conversation by apologizing for putting them through this process. Just to get this job they had to come to the white house, to the oval office, and get grilled by the president and first lady. Im sorry. [laughter] im so sorry. It was not lost on us how unnerving this experience was for each one of them and when amy came and it was her tu...