Videos

Mary Beth Tinker and Erik Jaffe talked about Tinker v. Des Moines, the 1969 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled 7-2 that students do not lose their First Amendment rights at school.…

Ishan Bhabha and and Nicole Saharsky talked about the legacy of Justice Anthony Kennedy, who announced his retirement from the Supreme Court in June 2018. Mr. Bhabha was a clerk to Justice…

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 terminate…

Floyd Abrams and Theodore Olon talked about the Supreme Court’s 1971 decision in New York Times v. United States. The case concerns the New York Times and Washington Post's successful challenge to the…

Neal Katyal and Randy Barnett talked about the Supreme Court’s 1978 decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke. The landmark case concerns a medical school applicant who claimed he was rejected…

Carol Steiker and Kent Scheidegger talked about the Supreme Court’s 1976 decision in Gregg v. Georgia, the landmark case concerning Troy Leon Gregg, a convicted armed robber and murderer who challenged his…

Ryan Reft of the Library of Congress discussed documents by Supreme Court Justices William Brennan and Lewis Powell that shed light on the behind-the-scenes wrangling over the Court’s…

Ryan Reft of the Library of Congress discussed the process Supreme Court justices used to decide whether to take up Regents of the University of California v. Bakke.

Ryan Reft of the Library of Congress talked about one of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall’s first civil rights cases and his ideas to change the way the NAACP fought for equal rights…

CBS News interviewed Allan Bakke by phone the day the Supreme Court announced its decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, the landmark case that upheld the concept of…

Administrators and students reacted to the Supreme Court decision in Regents of the University of California v. Bakke, which upheld the concept of affirmative action but struck down the use…

Rachael Penman of the Alcatraz East Crime Museum talked about the history and current status of lethal injection in the United States. The interview was part of C-SPAN’s Landmark Cases…

Rachael Penman gave a tour of the Alcatraz East Crime Museum’s capital punishment exhibit, focusing on the museum’s electric chair and gas chamber. The interview was part of episode of…

In this portion of tapes recorded during his time in the White House, President Nixon discussed the Supreme Court’s decision in the 1971 New York Times Co. v. U.S. case with FBI Director J.…

In this portion of tapes recorded during his time in the White House, President Nixon told FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover that he wanted federal law enforcers to target Daniel Ellsberg, the man…

In this portion of tapes recorded during his time in the White House, President Nixon discussed the publishing of the Pentagon Papers by the New York Times with some of his advisers.

Former New York Times reporter Hedrick Smith talked about his weeks sifting through the thousands of documents that make up the Pentagon Papers, a top secret history of the Vietnam War…

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…

John Tinker, co-petitioner in the landmark Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, talked about the case’s legacy and what it meant for his life.

John Tinker, co-petitioner in the landmark Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, discussed the harassment his family received after he and his siblings wore black arm bands to school…