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In part two of a special report on the released tapes of the late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, two legal experts discuss what the Blackmun papers say about the inner-workings of the Supreme Court.

President Bush and Sen. John Kerry are close in age but have vastly different experience and approaches to many campaign issues. Margaret Warner gets perspectives on both candidates.

In the first of two NewsHour reports about the late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun, Ray Suarez speaks with Blackmun's former clerk Harold Koh, who conducted extensive interviews with Blackmun at the time of his retirement. Then, in his own…

Sen. John Kerry dominated Super Tuesday's primary elections, leading Sen. John Edwards to decide to drop out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination Wednesday. Gwen Ifill discusses the progress of the Kerry campaign with two reporters. Jim Lehrer…

Super Tuesday also spelled the end of North Carolina Sen. John Edwards' surprisingly strong run for the nomination. Margaret Warner looks back at the Edwards campaign with Mark Johnson of the Charlotte Observer and Mitch Frank of Time magazine. Then,…

The mayors of Portland, Ore., and Nyack, N.Y., said today that they would begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. Kwame Holman reports on the recent controversy over same-sex marriage in America.