The landmark case concerns a medical school applicant who claimed he was rejected in favor of less qualified minority applicants. ... Katyal was the acting solicitor general in the Obama administration and has argued 37 cases before the Court. ... Other clips include the Library of Congress' Ryan Reft explaining one of Justice Thurgood Marshall's first civil rights cases and his ideas to change the way the NAACP fought for equal rights for African Americans and a portion of oral argument in the case.
Jaffe, the chair of the Federalist Society's Free Speech and Election Law Practice Group, has been involved in more than 100 cases before the Court, and is a former clerk for Justice Clarence Thomas.
Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow talked about Civil Rights Cases (1883). In the group of five consolidated cases, the Supreme Court struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875, a federal law that had granted all people access to public accommodations like trains and theaters, regardless of race. ... Clips of an interview were shown with the great-great-granddaughters of Justice John Marshall Harlan, who wrote the dissent in the cases.
Ohio, in which the court applied, via a 5-4 decision, Fourth Amendment protection against "unreasonable searches and seizures" to state criminal cases.