Videos

Theodore Olson and Douglas Smith talked about the 1962 Supreme Court case Baker v. Carr, in which the court ruled that the drawing of election districts was a constitutional rather than a po…

Jeff Rosen and Paul Cassel talked about the 1966 U.S. Supreme Court case Miranda v. Arizona, in which the court ruled 5-4 that criminal suspects must be informed of their right against self-…

Jeffrey Rosen and Tomiko Brown-Nagin talked about the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court case Brown v. Board of Education, in which the court unanimously ruled that separate public schools were not equ…

Akhil Reed Amar and Clifford Sloan talked about the background of the 1803 U.S. Supreme Court case Marbury v. Madison, in which the court ruled unanimously that it was the ultimate arbiter o…

Professors Carolyn Long and Renee Hutchins talked about the 1961 U.S. Supreme Court case Mapp v. Ohio, in which the court applied, via a 5-4 decision, Fourth Amendment protection against “un…

Professors Christopher Bracey and Martha Jones talked about the background of the 1857 Supreme Court case Dred Scott v. Sandford, in which the court sided 7-2 with slavery and declared that …

Paul Clement and Michael Ross talked about the 1873 Supreme Court ruling on the Slaughterhouse Cases, in which the court declined 5-4 to broadly apply the Fourteenth Amendment when New Orlea…

Professors Michael Gerhardt and William Howell talked about the 1952 U.S. Supreme Court case Youngstown Sheet and Tube v. Sawyer, in which the court limited the power of the president to sei…

Randy Barnett and Paul Kens talked about the 1905 U.S. Supreme Court case Lochner v. New York in which the court voted 5-4 to strike down a state law restricting the number of hours that a b…

Beverly Gage and Thomas Goldstein talked about the 1919 Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States, in which the court unanimously ruled that the Espionage Act of 1917 was constitutional, e…

Prior to the president’s annual State of the Union Address, reporter Scott Wong previewed the address and former House Historian Ray Smock talked about the history of the annual event and si…

Clarke Forsythe and Melissa Murray talked about the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, in which the court ruled 7-2 that women have a constitutional, but not absolute, right to termin…

Representative Bill Flores (R-TX), chair of the Republican Study Committee, talked about disagreements among Republicans over a strategy to prevent a government shutdown at the end of Septem…

William Seale talked about the first ladies who have had the most impact on the executive mansion. The conversation was moderated by Susan Swain, C-SPAN co-president and editor of First Ladi…

Peter Irons and Karen Korematsu talked about the 1944 U.S. Supreme Court case Korematsu V. United States, in which the court ruled 6-3 that Japanese internment camps were necessary for the p…

C-SPAN announced the winners of the 2015 StudentCam documentary competition. The grand prize winning video was The Living Wage by Anna Gilligan, Katie Demos, and Michael Lozovoy, eighth grad…

New Hampshire’s Republican and Democratic Party chairs, Jennifer Horn and Raymond Buckley, talked about the 2016 presidential campaigns, New Hampshire’s first-in-the-nation primary, the issu…

Democratic Policy and Communications Committee Chair and Representative Steve Israel (D-NY) talked about his party’s priorities and legislative agenda, including a potential government shutd…

Former Governor Tim Pawlenty (R-MN), chief executive officer of the Financial Services Roundtable, talked about issues facing the banking and credit card industries, including cybersecurity,…

House Appropriations Committee Chair Harold Rogers (R-KY) talked about the appropriations process, which had become increasingly encumbered by partisanship in recent years, and the potential…