Historians on the Supreme Court Building
In the first part of the program historian Jim O'Hara talked about the idea behind creating a new building for the Supreme Court. Built in the early 1930's and opened in 1935, it's biggest champion was...
View ArticleAttorneys Who Have Argued Before The Court
Two attorneys talked about the numerous cases they have argued in front of the Supreme Court at oral argument. Drew Days III was the U.S. Solicitor General from 1993-96 during the Clinton...
View ArticleJournalists on the Workings of the Supreme Court
Journalists and authors Lyle Denniston and Joan Biskupic talked about their impressions of covering the Court, the process that unfolds there, the role of the Chief Justice, and the impact that a new...
View ArticleSupreme Court Clerk Interview
At the start of the 2009-2010 Supreme Court term, Justices rejected almost 2,000 cases for appeals while agreeing to hear 55 cases so far. On the third installment of C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week, Clerk...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Alito
Justice Samuel Alito was interviewed as part of C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week. He talked about the role of the court, his impressions of the Constitution and of his job. In addition to the process that...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Ginsburg
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was interviewed as part of C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week. She gave a tour of her temporary chambers on the second floor of the Supreme Court building. During the tour, she...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Sotomayor
Justice Sonia Sotomayor was interviewed as part of C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week. In her first television interview since joining the Supreme Court, Justice Sotomayor talked about her first impressions...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Stevens
Justice John Paul Stevens was interviewed as part of C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week. He gave a guided tour through the three distinct parts of his chambers. He began in the area where his law clerks work,...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Scalia
Justice Antonin Scalia was part of C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week. He spoke about a number of topics, ranging from the role of the court, the job of a Supreme Court justice, the process that justices...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Thomas
Justice Clarence Thomas was interviewed as part of C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week. He talked about the Supreme Court building and its symbolism, how his approach to oral argument differs from his fellow...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Breyer
Justice Stephen Breyer was interviewed as part of C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week. He provided a tour through all three parts of his private chambers as he walked through the entire process of how the...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justices Kennedy, Ginsburg, Scalia, and O'Connor
Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Antonin Scalia, and Sandra Day O'Connor were interviewed as part of C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week. Justice Kennedy gave his impressions on the role of the...
View ArticleSupreme Court Chief Justice Roberts
Chief Justice John Roberts was interviewed as part of C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week. He talked about a wide variety of topics, including the history of the court, its role in society, the role of the...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Kennedy
Justice Anthony Kennedy was interviewed as part of C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week. Justice Kennedy, sitting in the West Conference Room of the Supreme Court, gave his impressions on the role of the...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justices Sotomayor, Breyer, Thomas, and Alito
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Clarence Thomas, and Samuel Alito were interviewed as part of C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week. In her first television interview since joining the Supreme Court,...
View ArticleSupreme Court Justice Elena Kagan Interview
In her first interview since joining the Supreme Court, Associate Justice Elena Kagan talked about a number of topics, including why she became a lawyer, the acclimation process at the Court, her first...
View ArticleSupreme Court Chief Justice Roberts and Justice Stevens
Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice John Paul Stevens were interviewed as part of C-SPAN's Supreme Court Week. Chief Justice Roberts talked about a wide variety of topics, including the history of...
View Article[The Supreme Court: Home to America's Highest Court], 2010 Edition
[The Supreme Court: Home to America's Highest Court] takes an unprecedented look into the Supreme Court, its role, traditions and history of the Court featuring interviews with all the sitting and...
View Article[The Supreme Court: Home to America's Highest Court], 2009 Edition
[The Supreme Court: Home to America's Highest Court] takes an unprecedented look into the Supreme Court, its role, traditions and history of the Court featuring interviews with all the sitting and...
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