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Find our complete Television Schedule at cspan. Org. And let us know what you think about the programs youre watching. Call us at 2026263400. Join the cspan conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on quitter. Up next, u. S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer is interviewed by David Rubenstein about the importance of the magna carta on its 800th anniversary. They also discuss the documents influence on american law. They spoke at the library of congress. King john originally signed the documentf vn under pressure fros barrons, american revolutionaries looked to the rights guaranteed by t...

Email us at comments cspan. Org. Tweet us cspan comments. Jon thursday good marshall and the naacp. They explored marshalls early law career as well as his work in the south to expand Voting Rights for africanamericans. Well also hear about his arguments before the u. S. Supreme court and how he became the first africanamerican appointed to the highest court in the land. This program lasts about 50 minutes. Let me introduce our panelists. Youve already met to my far left mick caouette, the producer of mr. Civil rights, distinguished producer of documentary films. Were going to hear from mick a...

Good evening, everyone, and welcome to the Supreme Court. Its great to see so many people here for the Supreme Court historical societys second lecture of the 2014 leon silverman lecture series. The society was formed in 1974 by chief Justice Warren berger with the notion of promoting public understanding of the history of the court. And it does that in many ways, through lectures like these, through the publication three times a year of the journal of Supreme Court history, and through the acquisition of portraits of the justices for display in the Supreme Court building. Id also like to espe...

I find it puzzling. He did vote for lincoln in 1864. Theres no doubt about that. He didnt in 1860 because he couldnt get vote in 1860. But youre quite right that he never really expressed the kind of reverence for lincoln and admiration for lincoln and profound respect for lincolns leadership and what lincoln stood for that one might have thought that, i think, his father, Oliver Wendell holmes sr. , did. And it may have something to do with the kind of skepticism with which he emerged from the war with about so much. Of everything. But it still does puzzle me. I dont have a good answer to tha...

I think the crisis above all else is a clarion call for changing our relationship with one another and the planet earth. Why is the extinction crisis in the clarion call . Because it is loud and clear, as all clearing call clarion calls must be. For those willing to listen, it is almost deafening. With each passing there is a celestial bell that rings endlessly in the heavens marking the passage of the another miracle. It is certainly clear it provides clear evidence, unequivocal evidence, that something is amiss. Sweep,ful, over the long billions of years of multicellular life, there been fiv...