Videos

The 1967 oral argument in the landmark interracial marriage case, Loving v. Virginia. Virginia Tech history professor Peter Wallenstein, author of: Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry:…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

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 baker could…

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

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 Dred…

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 of the…

Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) talked about U.S. Supreme Court landmark decisions and their relevance today.

Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Patrick Leahy (D-VT) talked about U.S. Supreme Court landmark decisions and their relevance today. He also discussed the relationship between the Supreme Court…

House Judiciary Committee Chair Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) was interviewed about C-SPAN’s “Landmark Cases” series, which explores the human stories and constitutional dramas behind some of the most…

Chief Justice William Rehnquist 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 seize property when it ruled 6-3…

Tony Mauro talked about the companion book he wrote for C-SPAN’s “Landmark Cases” series. He discussed some of the cases featured in the series and previewed the Supreme Court’s 2015-2016…

Mark Farkas talked about the premiere of C-SPAN’s “Landmark Cases” series, which examines 12 key Supreme Court cases throughout U.S. history.

Staff members talked about C-SPAN’s “Landmark Cases” series, which explores the human stories and constitutional dramas behind some of the most significant and frequently cited decisions in the…