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Oral arguments in the Nixon v. United States case were played on audio, with sketches of the participants shown on the video. Walter Nixon, a federal judge, challenged the procedures the Sen…

George H.W. Bush was sworn in as the nation’s 41st president at 12:00 noon on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol. Justice Sandra Day O’Connor administered the vice-presidential oath to Dan Q…

Frank Murray discussed the case before and after the audio tapes of the oral arguments for Raines v. Byrd were played with corresponding courtroom drawings. The case was the first Supreme Co…

Oral Arguments were heard in the U.S. Supreme Court case Stenberg v. Carhart. Nebraska Attorney General Donald Stenberg and Simon Heller, who represented Dr. Leroy Carhart, argued whether a …

Attorneys made oral arguments in the case of Planned Parenthood of Southeast Pennsylvania v. Casey. Robert P. Casey was the governor of Pennsylvania. Ernest Preate argued the cause for the r…

Attorneys made oral arguments in the 1989 case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. Then Missouri Attorney General William Webster argued the case for the respondents. Frank Susman ar…

U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument of Rice v Cayetano. The argument was whether the state of Hawaii could restrict eligibility to vote in elections for the Board of Trustees of the Office of H…

Supreme Court nominee John Roberts argued 39 cases before the Supreme Court. This is his Supreme Court oral argument in a case NCAA v. Smith, which he argued January 20, 1999. John Roberts w…

Justices heard arguments in the case of Bush v. Gore, docket number 00-949, regarding the manual recount of “undervote” ballots ordered by the Florida Supreme Court. Among the concerns of th…

Justices heard oral arguments in two cases involving the detention of foreign nationals captured abroad and incarcerated at Guantanamo Naval Base in Cuba. The cases are Rasul v. Bush and Al-…

Attorneys presented oral arguments in the case of Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, docket number 03-6696, which focused on the detention of American citizens captured in hostilities overseas and classifie…

Lawyers for the government, environmental groups, and watch dog organizations argued a case involving the disclosure of documents and information relating to Vice President Cheney’s energy p…

All nine Supreme Court justices posed for a group photograph.

An audio record of oral arguments from earlier in the day in a case over campaign finance reform legislation were played over still images of the participants. Arguments focused on limits to…

A groundbreaking ceremony marked the beginning of the modernization project for the U.S. Supreme Court building. Completed in 1935, the Supreme Court building in Washington will undergo its …

Justice Rehnquist focused on how to maintain and build public trust in the court system. He stressed that while public opinion was important, judicial decisions should not be overturned to s…

Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Sandra Day O’Connor spoke about the personal and public life of the late Justice Lewis Powell. In their eulogies they both noted his initial reluc…

An exhibit at the Newseum in Arlington, Virginia, displayed the Supreme Court Justices reading aloud the Declaration of Independence.

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case Clinton v. Jones.

This moot court concerned the case of Lizzie Borden, who in 1892 was accused of murdering her father and stepmother in Fall River, MA. She was later acquitted of the murders. This tribunal w…