The Supreme Court - Season 1

The Supreme Court - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes4
DatesJan 21, 2007 - Feb 17, 2007

Episodes

One Nation Under Law
Season 1Episode 1

One Nation Under Law

Focuses on Chief Justice John Marshall, who scored a coup for a previously impotent Supreme Court when he seized the power of judicial review in the case of Marbury v. Madison, and his ideological and political conflicts with Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Also briefly highlights the disastrous opinion in Dred Scott v. Sandford, in which Chief Justice Taney's court declared that African-Americans have no rights under the Constitution.
Jan 21, 2007
A New Kind of Justice
Season 1Episode 2

A New Kind of Justice

Justice Stephen Field fights alone to protect private contracts from government interference under the rubric of "liberty of contract" in the late 1800's. When the Court begins to side with Field after his death in the early 1900's, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes tries to roll back what he sees as judicial activism by the court until FDR ends the "liberty of contract" era by threatening to "pack" the Court with his supporters.
Jan 31, 2007
A Nation of Liberties
Season 1Episode 3

A Nation of Liberties

Tracks the Supreme Court's leading role in the civil rights era of the 1950's and 60's, with controversial Justice Hugo Black leading the way. The Court outlaws segregation beginning with Brown v. Board of Education, and protects criminal suspects' rights in Miranda v. Arizona.
Feb 7, 2007
The Rehnquist Revolution
Season 1Episode 4

The Rehnquist Revolution

The efforts of conservative presidents to roll back the civil rights decisions of the 1950's and 60's by appointing conservative justices accomplish little at first, with many appointees thought to be conservative siding with the liberal justices for decisions like Roe v. Wade. A stronger conservative presence emerges when William Rehnquist becomes Chief Justice and Antonin Scalia is appointed to replace Warren Burger. Yet even under Rehnquist, the Court does not overrule Roe v. Wade in Casey v. Planned Parenthood, and strengthens the constitutional status of Miranda in Dickerson v. US. Instead, the Rehnquist court challenges the federal government's powers in U.S. v. Lopez and wades into a political battle in Bush v. Gore.
Feb 17, 2007

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