Mar 05 Watch The Blackmun Tapes In the second report on the late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun's oral history tapes, the justice talks about two key decisions during his tenure and some of his colleagues in the court's chambers… Continue watching
Mar 05 Watch The Blackmun Tapes 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. Continue watching
Mar 04 Watch The Blackmun Tapes 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… Continue watching
Feb 25 High Court Upholds State Ban on Religion Scholarships By Admin, PBS News Hour The Supreme Court upheld Wednesday government scholarship restrictions that bar any taxpayer money for college students who pursue a degree in theology, an important legal marker in the rules of church-state separation. Continue reading
Jan 26 Supreme Court to Review Execution of Juvenile Killers By Admin The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider the constitutionality of imposing the death penalty on those who were under 18 when they committed their crimes. Continue reading
Jan 12 Supreme Court Rejects Appeal on Secret Sept. 11 Detainees By Admin The Supreme Court refused to consider whether the government had the proper authority to withhold names and other basic details about hundreds of foreigners detained in the United States in the weeks and months after the Sept. 11 terror attacks. Continue reading
Jan 12 Watch The Power of One The current U.S. Supreme Court is increasingly being called the "O'Connor Court" because of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor's tie-breaking swing votes. Legal experts discuss the first woman justice's pivotal role on the nation's top court. Continue watching
Jan 12 Watch The Power of One: Background The current U.S. Supreme Court is increasingly being called the "O'Connor Court" for the pivotal fifth vote Justice Sandra Day O'Connor often casts. Kwame Holman looks at the unique power of the court's first woman justice. Continue watching
Jan 09 Supreme Court Accepts Case Testing Enemy Combatant Detention By Admin, PBS News Hour The Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether a U.S. citizen seized abroad can be kept indefinitely in a military jail, the latest in a series of legal challenges to the Bush administration's antiterrorism policies. Continue reading
Dec 18 Appeals Court Orders Dirty Bomb Suspect Released By PBS News Hour A federal appeals court ruled that the U.S. government does not have the authority to detain accused American "dirty bomb" suspect Jose Padilla as an enemy combatant, ordering the Department of Defense to release the Chicago native within 30 days. Continue reading