2001
DECEMBER
December 20, 2001
Compensating Victims
Ray Suarez discusses federal compensation for victims of September 11th with Kenneth Feinberg, special master in charge of allocating those funds.

December 17, 2001
Controversy in Oregon
Lee Hochberg reports on Oregon's resistance to certain aspects of the war on terrorism.

December 12, 2001
Coping with Collapse
Betty Ann Bowser examines how the fall of energy giant Enron has hit home in Houston.

December 12, 2001
American Taliban
Gwen Ifill discusses what could lie ahead for American Taliban fighter John Walker with Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, and Mary Cheh, professor at Georgetown University Law School.

December 11, 2001
Indicted
Ray Suarez discusses the upcoming arraignment of Zacarias Moussaoui, the first indicted alleged terrorist linked to the attacks of September 11th, with New York Times reporter Phil Shenon.

December 6, 2001
Taking Liberties?
Terence Smith examines the civil liberties debate with four editorial page editors: Melanie Kirkpatrick of the Wall Street Journal; Christine Bertelson of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch; Rachelle Cohen of The Boston Herald; and John Diaz from The San Francisco Chronicle.

NOVEMBER
November 28, 2001
Newsmaker: Alberto Gonzales
Jim Lehrer interviews Alberto Gonzales, White House counsel to President Bush.

November 27, 2001
Taking Liberties
Terence Smith examines the debate over civil liberties and military tribunals with New York Times reporter Anthony Lewis and Joseph Perkins of the San Diego Union-Tribune and The United Media Syndicate.

November 19, 2001
Assisted Suicide
Lee Hochberg reports on Attorney General Ashcroft's challenge to an Oregon law allowing physician-assisted suicide.

November 14, 2001
Terror Tribunals
Gwen Ifill examines the debate over trying terrorists in military rather than civilian courts with George Terwilliger, former deputy attorney general for the first Bush administration, and Laura Murphy, director of the Washington office of the American Civil Liberties Union.

November 8, 2001
Locked Up
Ray Suarez discusses the condition of the more than 1,000 detainees arrested in the investigation into the September 11th attacks with Neil Lewis of The New York Times. Then, Ray Suarez examines the fine line between protecting civil liberties and investigating terrorist cells with Victoria Toensing, former federal prosecutor and assistant attorney general in the criminal division under President Reagan, and Randall Hamud, a civil rights attorney representing two individuals now in custody.

November 6, 2001
The Settlement
Gwen Ifill discusses the settlement reached between Microsoft and the Justice Department with two law professors: George Priest of Yale University and Andrew Gavil of Howard University.

OCTOBER
October 31, 2001
Affirmative Action
Gwen Ifill examines Supreme Court arguments in an affirmative action case involving the Secretary of Transportation and a Colorado construction company. For a closer look, Gwen Ifill speaks with Marcia Coyle, Washington Bureau Chief and Supreme Court reporter for The National Law Journal.

October 30, 2001
Ready or Not
Elizabeth Farnsworth examines how cities are preparing for the threat with a panel of police chiefs, including Bernard Parks of Los Angeles, California; Stan Knee of Austin, Texas; William Finney of St. Paul, Minnesota; and Police Commissioner John Timoney of Philadelphia.

October 30, 2001
Terror Alert
Margaret Warner discusses the latest terrorist attack warnings with Neil Lewis, a Washington-based correspondent for The New York Times.

October 26, 2001
Law and Liberty
Ray Suarez discusses concerns about the anti-terrorism bill, which was signed into law earlier, with Jerry Berman, executive director of The Center for Democracy and Technology; Clifford Fishman, professor of criminal law at the Catholic University of America; David Cole, professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University Law School; and Harry Brandon, former special agent and assistant director of counter-terrorism for the FBI.

October 25, 2001
Securing the Mail
Following excerpts from Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge's briefing earlier, Margaret Warner discusses the anthrax investigation with Kenneth Weaver, the Chief Postal Inspector for the U.S. Postal Service.

October 24, 2001
Anthrax Investigation
Margaret Warner examines the anthrax investigation with Stephen Engelberg, investigations editor at the New York Times, and Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's counter-terrorism unit.

October 17, 2001
Newsmaker: John Ashcroft
Jim Lehrer talks to Attorney General John Ashcroft about the federal investigation into the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and the anthrax threat.

October 10, 2001
The Investigation
Margaret Warner discusses the most recent developments in the investigation with New York Times foreign correspondent Tim Weiner and National Public Radio justice department reporter Barbara Bradley.

October 10, 2001
Easy Access
Jeffrey Kaye takes a look at how the attacks have affected U.S. immigration policy.

October 1, 2001
New Supreme Court Term
Gwen Ifill discusses the Supreme Court's new session with Marcia Coyle, Washington bureau chief for the National Law Journal.

October 1, 2001
Forum: Security Vs Civil Rights?
In the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, lawmakers are considering legislation to increase law enforcement's authority. How will the government balance protecting citizens against future attacks with a commitment to protect their civil rights?

SEPTEMBER
September 26, 2001
Racial Profiling
Gwen Ifill examines the use of racial profiling in the hunt for terrorists with Juliette Kayyem, executive director of the Domestic Preparedness Session at Harvard's JFK School of Government; Howard University Law School professor Frank Wu; National Journal and Newsweek columnist Stuart Taylor; and law professor Gail Heriot of the University of California at San Diego.

September 25, 2001
Balancing Act
Gwen Ifill examines the need to balance security and civil liberties in the wake of the terrorist attacks with Anthony Romero, executive director of the ACLU; Douglas Kmiec, dean of the Catholic University School of Law; and Loretta Lynch, former U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York.

September 24, 2001
Anti-Terrorism Act
Kwame Holman reports on Attorney General John Ashcroft's congressional testimony aimed at giving the Justice Department greater authority to track and investigate suspected terrorists.

September 6, 2001
U.S. vs. Microsoft
The Justice Department handed down a decision to penalize Microsoft, but not break them up. Jim Lehrer discusses the Justice Department's decision with Howard University professor Andrew Gavil and eWeek technology editor Peter Coffee.

AUGUST
August 30, 2001
Secret Subpoena
Terence Smith discusses the stir caused by the Justice Department's secret subpoena of a reporter's phone records with Louis Boccardi, president and CEO of the Associated Press; and Victoria Toensing, a Washington, D.C. lawyer who was deputy assistant attorney general in the Reagan administration.

August 30, 2001
Who is a War Criminal?
As Slobodan Milosevic's trial nears, Ray Suarez examines who qualifies as a war criminal with David Scheffer, a senior fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace; Alfred Rubin, professor of international law at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Diane Orentlicher, professor of international law and director of the War Crimes Research Office at American University's Washington College of Law; and Fred Hiatt, editorial page editor and columnist at The Washington Post.

August 28, 2001
Crime and Punishment
A new report reveals that a record 6.5 million individuals in the United States are in prison, on probation or on parole. Ray Suarez discusses the state of America's correctional facilities with David Cole, professor at Georgetown University Law Center and author of the book "No Equal Justice: Race and Class in the American Criminal Justice System;" Richard Willard, former assistant attorney general in the civil division during the Reagan administration; and Loretta Lynch, chair of the New York City Bar Association's Criminal Law Committee.

August 27, 2001
Newsmaker: Asa Hutchinson
Margaret Warner talks with newly-appointed Drug Enforcement Administration head Asa Hutchinson, a former Republican congressman from Arkansas.

August 23, 2001
Three Strikes
A liberal think tank released a report that casts doubts on California's three-strike mandatory sentencing law. After a Spencer Michels background report, Elizabeth Farnsworth discusses the impact of the law with Marc Mauer, co-author of the report; and Gordon Spencer, district attorney for Merced County, California and president of the California District Attorneys Association.

August 21, 2001
Admitting for Diversity
Elizabeth Brackett investigates the controversy over the University of Michigan Law School's struggles to use race as a factor in its admissions policy.

August 15, 2001
Too Young to Die?
In anticipation of the execution of Napoleon Beazley in Texas, Ray Suarez discusses juvenile capital punishment with NYU law professor Bryan Stephenson of the Equal Justice Initiative; district attorney Robert Horan of Fairfax County, Virginia; Nancy Gannon of the Coalition for Juvenile Justice; and Michael Rushford of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation.

August 6, 2001
Keeping Confidences
Gwen Ifill discusses the American Bar Association's consideration to revamp ethics rules with Nancy Moore, a Boston University law professor who helped draft the rule changes; and attorney David Pasternak, a past president of the Los Angeles County Bar Association.

JULY
July 26, 2001
Juvenile Justice
Margaret Warner examines the debate over juveniles tried in adult courts with adult penalties with Professor Marsha Levick, legal director for the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia; and Paul Pfingst, U.S. District Attorney for San Diego County.

July 23, 2001
Racial Killing Revisited
Tom Bearden looks at the arraignment of York, Pennsylvania Mayor Charlie Robertson.

July 6, 2001
Spy Fallout
Ray Suarez discusses Robert Hanssen's guilty plea with Robert Heibel, former FBI deputy chief of counterintelligence; Professor and author Roy Godson of Georgetown University; and Time magazine reporter Elain Shannon.

July 5, 2001
Court in Review
Gwen Ifill talks with National Law Journal Supreme Court correspondent Marcia Coyle about the end of the Supreme Court's session.

July 5, 2001
New FBI Director
President Bush announced the nomination of Robert Mueller to head the FBI. Ray Suarez discusses the move with Dan Lyons, who worked with Mueller at the U.S. attorney's office in San Francisco; Timothy Lynch, director of the Project on Criminal Justice at the Cato Institute; and William Wallace, a reporter with The San Francisco Chronicle.

July 5, 2001
Terence Smith
discusses the session and its cases with law professors Douglas Kmiec of Catholic University, Sheryll Cashin of Georgetown University, Thomas Merrill of Northwestern University and Walter Dellinger of Duke University.

July 4, 2001
Rights of Immigrants
Ray Suarez joins Karen Narasaki of the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium and Mark Kirkorian of the Center for Immigration Studies to discuss the impact of recent Supreme Court decisions on immigration law.

July 3, 2001
Milosevic on Trial
Former Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic appears before the International War Crimes Tribunal. Jim Lehrer discusses the trial with Nancy Paterson, former trial attorney at the International War Crimes Tribunal; former foreign service officer James Hooper; and Dusko Doder, coauthor of the biography Milosevic.

JUNE
June 28, 2001
Supreme Court Watch
Marcia Coyle of the National Law Journal discusses the Supreme Court decisions on tobacco advertising, immigration and property rights.

June 28, 2001
Breakup Overturned
A federal court overturned the Microsoft break-up order. Ray Suarez talks with Howard University law professor Andrew Gavil, Justice Department prosecutor Jeffrey Blattner, and attorney C. Boyden Gray, who filed a brief on behalf of Microsoft.

June 27, 2001
Patients' Rights
Kwame Holman reports on the continuing Senate debate over a patients' bill of rights.

June 26, 2001
Hang Up and Drive
New York Monday banned drivers from talking on hand-held cell phones. Ray Suarez talks with Republican state Senator Carl Marcellino, lead sponsor of the ban, and Martill Williams of the American Automobile Association.

June 25, 2001
Supreme Court Watch
The Supreme Court handed down decisions on campaign finance, immigration law, affirmative action, and copyrights in the electronic age. National Law Journal bureau chief Marcia Coyle provides analysis.

June 22, 2001
Troubled Legacy
Kwame Holman reports on outgoing FBI Director Louis Freeh and his troubled legacy. Then Ray Suarez talks with Kris Kolesnik, executive director of the National Whistleblowers Center; Michael Bromwich, a former inspector general for the Justice Department; Elsa Walsh of The New Yorker; and Clinton Van Zandt, a twenty-five year veteran of the FBI.

June 19, 2001
Equal Justice
Convicted killer Juan Raul Garza was put to death, renewing debate over minorities and the death penalty. Gwen Ifill talks with criminal defense attorney Elisabeth Semel and former assistant U.S. district attorney Andrew McBride.

June 11, 2001
McVeigh's Execution
Convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh was executed. Kwame Holman reports.

June 11, 2001
Oklahoma City Reaction
Betty Ann Bowser reports from Oklahoma City on the reaction to McVeigh's death.

June 11, 2001
Weighing the Death Penalty
A discussion with Wyoming District Attorney Kevin Meenan; Michael Rushford of the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation; Professor Austin Sarat of Amherst College; Diann Rust-Tierney of the American Civil Liberties Union; and Andrew Kohut of the Pew Research Center.

June 11, 2001
Supreme Court
Ray Suarez talks with Marcia Coyle of The National Law Journal about the Supreme Court rulings on separation of church and state, search and seizure, and immigration.

June 8, 2001
McVeigh's Final Days
Timothy McVeigh dropped all appeals Thursday, clearing the way for his scheduled execution on Monday. Elizabeth Farnsworth talks with McVeigh's attorney Richard Burr.

June 6, 2001
McVeigh Stay Denied
A judge denied a stay of execution for Timothy McVeigh. Prosecutor Steve Mendeloff and attorney Elisabeth Semel discuss the case.

June 1, 2001
Forum: Kennewick Man
Who owns the bones of a 9,000-year-old skeleton? Three experts answer questions about the fate of Kennewick Man.

MAY
May 31, 2001
Seeking a Stay
Lawyers for Oklahoma city bomber Timothy McVeigh said they will seek a stay of execution. Federal prosecutor Beth Wilkinson and criminal defense attorney Elisabeth Semel, discuss the announcement.

May 29, 2001
Supreme Court Watch
Marcia Coyle of National Law Journal talks with Gwen Ifill about the Supreme Court decisions on affirmative action, religion in public, and the rights of the disabled.

May 16, 2001
FBI Under Fire
Excerpts from FBI Director Louis Freeh's testimony, followed by a discussion with Senator Charles Grassley of the Senate Judiciary Committee; Michael Bromwich, a former inspector general for the Department of Justice; John Sennett, president of the FBI Agents Association; and Oliver Revell, former associate deputy director of the FBI

May 14, 2001
Medical Marijuana
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously against California's medical marijuana law. Margaret Warner talks with Marcia Coyle, Supreme Court correspondent and Washington bureau chief for the National Law Journal.

May 11, 2001
Execution Delayed
Attorney General John Ashcroft postponed convicted Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's execution for one month. Ray Suarez talks with McVeigh trial attorney Christopher Tritico, former Assistant U.S. Attorney Alan Strasser, and former FBI Special Agent Clinton Van Zandt about the decision.

May 10, 2001
Death Penalty
Elizabeth Brackett reports from Illinois, where the governor imposed a moratorium on executions last year.

May 10, 2001
War on Drugs
President Bush named John Walters head of the White House drug office. Ray Suarez talks with two former assistant secretaries of state for international narcotics matters: Mathea Falco and Melvyn Levitsky.

May 9, 2001
Filling the Bench
President Bush announced his first judicial nominees. Gwen Ifill discusses the nominees with two members of the Senate Judiciary Committee: Republican Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Democrat Patrick Leahy of Vermont, along with Clint Bolick of the Institute for Justice, and Marcia Kuntz of the Alliance for Justice.

May 8, 2001
Race and Justice
Kwame Holman reports on the state of diversity on the federal bench.

May 8, 2001
Pursuing Milosevic
Gwen Ifill talks with Hague Prosecutor Carla del Ponte, who arrived in the U.S. to press the case for international war crimes charges against Slobodan Milosevic.

May 7, 2001
Saving the Children
Despite billions of dollars and decades of reform efforts, many states still struggle to deal with orphaned and abused children and their problems. Tom Bearden reports.

May 2, 2001
Justice in Alabama
Betty Ann Bowser reports from Birmingham, where a former Klansman was convicted of murder in the 1963 bombing of a black church. Then Jim Lehrer talks with Professor Bryan Fair of the University of Alabama and Birmingham native Diane McWhorter, author of a new book on the city's history.

APRIL
April 24, 2001
Supreme Court
Marcia Coyle, Washington Bureau Chief for the National Law Journal, discusses the rulings supporting English-only policies and the arrest powers of police.

April 18, 2001
Supreme Court: Redistricting
The Supreme Court upheld a decision that race was not the main consideration in redrawing some North Carolina congressional districts. Gwen Ifill talks with Todd Cox, the NAACP lawyer on the case, professor Ronald Rotunda of the University of Illinois, and Tim Storey of the National Conference of State Legislatures.

April 12, 2001
Witness to an Execution
Attorney General John Ashcroft will allow witnesses in Oklahoma City to watch the execution of convicted bomber Timothy McVeigh. Ray Suarez discusses the decision with Bonnie Bucqueroux of Crime Victims for a Just Society and professor Robert Blecker of New York Law School.

MARCH
March 30, 2001
Update: Debating Reform
Kwame Holman reports on what may be the final days of the Senate debate over campaign finance reform.

March 28, 2001
Supreme Court Watch: Medical Marijuana
The Supreme Court tackles the medical marijuana debate. Ray Suarez talks about the case with NewsHour regular Jan Crawford Greenburg of the Chicago Tribune.

March 27, 2001
Supreme Court Watch: Death Penalty
The U.S. Supreme Court reconsiders laws on executing mentally retarded criminals. Jan Crawford Greenburg, of the Chicago Tribune reports.

March 23, 2001
The Big Chill?
Stephen Cohen of New York University, Ariel Cohen of the Heritage Foundation, and author Roy Godson of Georgetown University discuss U.S.-Russia relations in the wake of the Mark Hanssen spy scandal and two sets of diplomatic expulsions.

March 8, 2001
Slavery in America
Jeffrey Kaye reports on immigrants smuggled into the U.S. and forced to live as slaves.

FEBRUARY
February 26, 2001
Conversation: Auletta on Microsoft
Microsoft is appealing a lower court decision that could break up the software giant. Margaret Warner talks about the case with Ken Auletta, author of "World War 3.0: Microsoft and Its Enemies."

February 21, 2001
Betrayal of Trust
Margaret Warner follows up on the Robert Hanssen espionage case with former CIA Director James Woolsey, espionage author David Wise, and former FBI counter-terrorism chief Robert Heibel.

February 20, 2001
Spying Charges
A former FBI agent was arrested and charged with espionage. Ray Suarez talks with Paul Redmond, former CIA chief of counterintelligence, and Elaine Shannon, who covers the FBI and Justice Department for Time magazine.

February 14, 2001
Rich Pardon Probe
Kwame Holman reports on the latest from the Senate hearings on Bill Clinton's pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich. Then Gwen Ifill talks with Margaret Love, pardon attorney for the Justice Department from 1990 to 1997, and Duke University law professor Christopher Schroeder, who testified before the Judiciary Committee.

February 8, 2001
Marc Rich Hearing
The House Government Reform Committee opened hearings on President Clinton's last-minute pardon of fugitive financier Marc Rich. Ray Suarez talks with Tom Oliphant of the Boston Globe and Rich Lowery of The National Review.

JANUARY
January 31, 2001
Ashcroft Confirmation
Kwame Holman reports on the latest from Capitol Hill.

January 30, 2001
Ashcroft Confirmation
Jim Lehrer talks about the final stages of the Ashcroft confirmation with Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott of Mississippi.

January 24, 2001
Confirmation Update
Kwame Holman reports on the confirmation hearings of John Ashcroft and Gale Norton.

January 19, 2001
The Deal in Detail
Margaret Warner talks with Stuart Taylor of The National Journal and Newsweek and Tom Oliphant of The Boston Globe about Clinton's future as a public citizen.

January 19, 2001
The Clinton Deal
President Clinton admits he misled prosecutors in sworn testimony but avoids a possible indictment after he leaves office.

January 19, 2001
The Deal in Detail
Margaret Warner talks with Stuart Taylor of The National Journal and Newsweek and Tom Oliphant of The Boston Globe about Clinton's future as a public citizen.

January 18, 2001
Summing Up: Janet Reno
Jim Lehrer talks with Janet Reno about her tenure as U.S. Attorney General.

January 18, 2001
Cabinet Hearings Continue
Judge Ronnie White, who was blocked from a federal appointment by John Ashcroft, testified in the confirmation hearing for the Attorney General nominee.

January 18, 2001
Confirmation Controversy
Margaret Warner talks with Senate Judiciary Committee members Dianne Fienstein, D-Calif., and Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, about the Ashcroft hearings

January 17, 2001
Ashcroft Hearing Continues
John Ashcroft, Bush's nominee for Attorney General, faced more questions from the U.S. Senate. Kwame Holman reports from Capitol Hill.

January 17, 2001
Confirmation Controversy
Media correspondent Terence Smith discusses the Ashcroft hearing with four news columnists: Georgie Ann Geyer of Universal Press Syndicate, Cynthia Tucker of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Richard Hood of The Kansas City Star and Lee Cullum of The Dallas Morning News.