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The first disc "Conversations on the Constitution" features Supreme Court Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Anthony M. Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor and Antonin Scalia and high school students from across the US discussing landmark Supreme Court cases and Constitutional concepts; three Japanese internment cases; the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, and judicial interpretation. The second disc, "The Constitution Project Documentaries,"...
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[2006]
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English
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In Washington, D.C., on May 16, 2006, U.S. Supreme Court Justices Stephen G. Breyer, Anthony Kennedy, and Sandra Day O'Connor fielded questions from 50 high school students from the Philadelphia and Los Angeles areas. The students and justices discussed the significance of the judiciary and the ways that independence is protected by the Constitution.
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"Disc 1. Freedom of speech: Amid the turmoil of the 1960s, students decided to wear black armbands to protest the Vietnam War, igniting a legal battle that led to a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision, Tinker v. Des Moines Independent Community School District (1969), which defined students' right to free speech in school. This conversation focuses on free speech in light of Tinker and the Morse v. Frederick (2007) case. Jury Service: This conversation...
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2022.
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"The left's partisan push to pack the Supreme Court with liberal justices has fully migrated from the fringes into the mainstream of Democratic politics. It wasn't long ago that liberal icons, including the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, were against the idea of overhauling the court for political gain. But now, in the Biden era, more and more powerful Democrats are getting behind the cause, claiming the high court is broken and actively...
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[2006]
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English
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Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer, Anthony Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor join high school students from California and Pennsylvania to discuss why we need an independent judiciary. Taped in May 2006, the justices take questions from the students and discuss the ways that the Constitution safeguards the role of judges so that they in turn can safeguard the rights of minorities and those with unpopular views.
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