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Dean Emeritus of New York Law School James Simon examined the strained relationship between President Dwight Eisenhower and Supreme Court Chief Justice Earl Warren.

James Simon recounts the confrontations between President Franklin D. Roosevelt and United States Chief Justice Charles Evan Hughes. The author reports that Roosevelt’s New Deal proposals we…

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) talked with students in a moderated conversation at the 2014 Sidney Shainwald Public Interest Lecture at New York Law School. Topics included the ro…

Jonathan Turley and James Simon talked about the makeup of the Supreme Court and compared it to the courts of the past. They also answered telephone calls and electronic communications from …

James Simon talked about his book, Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President’s War Powers, published by Simon and Schuster. Professor Simon examined the relation…

Professor Simon is the author of What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States, published by Simon and Schuster. The author described t…

C-SPAN’s Washington Journal examined current news events and political issues through reviews newspapers, interviews, and viewer comments. U.S. The program’s first segment focused on the Sup…

James Simon, dean of the New York Law School, examined the civil liberties movement through the eyes of two 20th century Supreme Court members in The Antagonists: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurt…