National conversation through cspans Daily Program or through our social media feeds. Cspan created by americas Cable Television companies as a Public Service and brought to you today by your television provider. All persons having business before the Honorable Supreme Court of the United States are admonished to draw near and 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 12 historic Supreme Court decisions. Mr. Chief justice and may it please the court. 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 different people who help stick together because they believe in a rule of law. Good evening and welcome to cspan landmark cases. Tonights case is katz versus the United States,
Having business before the Supreme Court will want to draw near and give their attention. Announcer landmark cases, cspans special history series. Exploring the human story and constitutional dramas behind 12 Supreme Court decisions. Quite often, in our famous decisions, the Supreme Court was unpopular. Lets go through a few cases that illustrate what it means to live in a society of different people who help stick together because they believe in the believe in the rule of law. Tonights case is katz v. United states. It is a 1967 case. Charles katz was an unlikely hero. He took his wiretapping case to the Supreme Court and in a seven to one decision expanded our privacy rights. We will begin by listening to Justice Samuel alito in his constitution hearings where he talked about the importance of the kats case. I was talking about cats versus the United States this morning in relation to wiretapping. You had to look into property law in the interest of an invasion, and then with the de
We are now lucky enough to be joined by scott nelson and Robert Mcnamara. Nelson filed the brief in support of the president of the United States who is a petitioner in the second case we which is bar versus American Association of political consultants. He filed his brief on behalf of Public Citizen in the public foundation. Scott nelson is an attorney at the Public Citizen Litigation Group in washington. Hes been there since 2001. He is a former lawyer for Justice Byron white on the u. S. Supreme court and we are honored to have them today. Is senioramara attorney with the institute for justice and he has filed a brief in support of the state of pennsylvania who is the respondent on behalf of the institute for justice. Since 2006 with them and litigates constitutional cases to protect free speech, Property Rights and economic liberty and we are honored to have him as well. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Thanks. With the basic argument in this case about robo
Cspan friends, welcome to the Nexen Stallman to the National Constitution center and cspans Supreme Court review live. Im jeffrey rosen, the president and ceo of the National Constitution center, the only institution in america chartered by congress to increase awareness and understanding of the constitution among the American People on a nonpartisan basis. Its been so exciting to partner with cspan during these historic weeks, when, for the first time in american history, the Supreme Court is broadcasting its oral arguments live. We have been listening closely to these two important cases this morning. There has been so much to learn and unpacked and unpacked. We are fortunate to be joined by the leading scholars and advocates who filed briefs on both sides of the case to help us understand the arguments we just heard. Little begin with sisters of the poor, the first case that was argued, with great pleasure i introduce our two panelists. Aten is a professor of law the Antonin Scalia
We are now lucky enough to be joined by scott nelson and Robert Mcnamara. Nelson filed the brief in support of the president of the United States who is a petitioner in the second case we which is bar versus American Association of political consultants. He filed his brief on behalf of Public Citizen in the public foundation. Scott nelson is an attorney at the Public Citizen Litigation Group in washington. Hes been there since 2001. He is a former lawyer for Justice Byron white on the u. S. Supreme court and we are honored to have them today. Is senioramara attorney with the institute for justice and he has filed a brief in support of the state of pennsylvania who is the respondent on behalf of the institute for justice. Since 2006 with them and litigates constitutional cases to protect free speech, Property Rights and economic liberty and we are honored to have him as well. Thank you so much for joining us. Thanks for having me. Thanks. With the basic argument in this case about robo