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Landmark Cases tells the story of five Des Moines, Iowa students who wore black arm bands to school to protest the war in Vietnam, violating local school policies. The Supreme Court ruled…

Constitutional scholars Katie Fallow and Nadine Stossen talked about the 1969 landmark Supreme Court decision in Brandenburg v. Ohio. In the case the justices overturned the hate speech…

Law professors Jeffrey Rosen and Jamil Jaffer talked about the 1967 Supreme Court case Katz v. United States, which concerned Charles Katz, a bookie recorded by the FBI transmitting illegal bets…

Justice Antonin Scalia and Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) talked about the importance of the Supreme Court’s ruling on free speech cases.

Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton (D-DC) talked about her experience working as a lawyer for Clarence Brandenburg, the Ohio Ku Klux Klan member who appealed his conviction under a 1919 state…

Law professors Helen Alvaré and Rachel Rebouché talked about the Supreme Court 1965 decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, which concerned Planned Parenthood’s challenge of Connecticut’s…

Constitutional scholar Akhil Amar and former solicitor general Paul Clement talked about the 1963 Supreme Court decision in Gideon v. Wainwright. The guests also responded to viewer phone…

A portion was shown from a CBS Reports documentary, Birth Control and the Law, that examined the legal battles around a Connecticut birth control law that eventually led to the Supreme…

Rosemary Stevens, who volunteered to assist Planned Parenthood in the case that was to become Griswold v. Connecticut, was interviewed as part of C-SPAN’s Landmark Cases series. She was a patient of…

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…

Law Professors Ted Shaw and Michael Klarman talked about the Supreme Court decision in Plessy v. Ferguson, which came about after Homer Plessy, an African American man, was arrested in New Orleans for taking a seat reserved…

Professors Mae Ngai and Josh Blackman talked about the 1886 Supreme Court decision in Yick Wo v. Hopkins, a case in which a Chinese laundry owner challenged a discriminatory city ordinance. The…

Howard Law School Dean Danielle Holley-Walker and U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner Peter Kirsanow talked about Civil Rights Cases (1883). In the group of five consolidated cases, the Supreme Court…

Law professors Mark Killenbeck and Farah Peterson talked about the 1819 Supreme Court case McCulloch v. Maryland, which solidified the federal government’s ability to take actions not explicitly…

Kate Dillingham, a great-great-granddaughter of Justice John Marshall Harlan, talked about the justice’s African American half-brother, Robert Harlan.

Kate Dillingham and Amelia Newcomb, the great-great-granddaughters of Justice John Marshall Harlan, told their version of a story passed down through the generations of their family. The…

Historian Edna Medford talked about abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s reaction to the Supreme Court’s decision in the Civil Rights Cases of 1883, including his speech at Lincoln Hall in…

Historian Edna Medford talked about abolitionist Frederick Douglass’s relationship with Senator Charles Sumner and their work on the Civil Rights Act of 1875.

National Constitution Center President Jeffrey Rosen and constitutional scholars Akhil Amar and Michael Paulsen previewed the second season of “Landmark Cases: Historic Supreme Court Decisions.” The…

Sasha Lourie from the Senate Curator’s office and Dan Holt from the Senate Historian’s office talked about the Old Supreme Court Chamber as the site of the McCulloch v. Maryland oral…