U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia Dies

NPR's Nina Totenberg, on All Things Considered, provides a history of Antonin Scalia's role on the Supreme Court in a report with many clips of Scalia's voice. 11 min 23 sec, transcript available. A video of President Obama's remarks can be found here.
Justice Scalia was known not only for his views on the Constitution but also for his remarkable prose style. Slate has posted an article "What Made Antonin Scalia a Great Writer". The subtitle says it all: "The novelty of this language, his use of metaphor, and his wicked sense of humor".

Justice Kagan on How to Interpret Statutes

The Scalia Lecture at Harvard Law School this year was a  dialogue with Justice Elena Kagan about the reading of statutes. The dialogue is with Professor John Manning of Harvard Law School. 1 hour, no transcript. You can find the video on SCOTUSblog or directly on YouTube.

Review of 2013 Term - U.S. Supreme Court 

NPR's All Things Considered of July 1 has an interview with Nina Totenberg, their Supreme Court correspondent, and Tom Goldstein of SCOTUSblog who take a look at the work of the Court this term. 8 min 49 sec, transcript available.
Some more stories on NPR on the recent rulings of the Court can be found here and here.
On July 2, Fresh Air interviewed Adam Liptak, the New York Times Supreme Court correspondent about the Court's major decisions this term. 33 min 57 sec, transcript available.

SCOTUSblog has a few videos of interviews outside the Court in the last days of June as important decisions were handed down.

Justice Elena Kagan

Justice Elena Kagan of the U.S. Supreme Court was interviewed by Martha Minow, dean of the Harvard Law School in September. Kagan, a former dean at Harvard herself, spoke very frankly about her new job as a justice. Very interesting for SCOTUS fans. You will find the video here. 1h 18 min, no transcript.

Opera at the U.S. Supreme Court

NPR's All Things Considered of July 10 has a story about a lawyer who has set the words from the opinions of Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg to music. 5 min 23 sec, transcript available
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More Interviews with Justice Scalia 

Following the recent publication of his book Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Texts, U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia appeared Sunday July 29 on Q & A, a C-Span program. 1 hour, transcript available

For those looking for the "lite" version of Scalia's views, short clips (3-4 min.) of this interview can be found here.

Interview with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia

NPR's Morning Edition of July 25 has an interview with U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia by journalist Nina Totenberg. The interview coincides with the publication of a book Scalia co-authored with Brian Garner, Reading Law: The Interpretation of Legal Text. In the interview Scalia speaks about how justices sometimes change their minds when writing an opinion. Other topics include stare decisis, the 14th amendment, Brown v. Board of Education, the commerce clause, campaign financing, capital punishment.
7 min 47 sec, transcript available

U.S. Supreme Court on C-Span

Next week the U.S. Supreme Court begins its new term. C-Span, the U.S. public service cable channel, is planning a special week of programs about the Court.

C-Span Classroom has prepared some teaching resources for U.S. highschoolers. This page also has links to video clips taken from the week's programs:

* Creating Independent Federal Courts

* The Supreme Court As A Human Institution

* Marbury v. Madison and Judicial Review

* “Equal Justice Under Law”

* The Opinion Writing Process

* Being a Chief Justice

* Past Chief Justices

* Granting Certiorari

* Preparing for Oral Arguments

* The Intimacy of the Supreme Court

* Explaining Oral Arguments

* After Hearing Oral Arguments

* Reporting Decisions

* Adding a New Member to the Court

* The Supreme Court’s Building History

* History’s Influence on the Court

These clips are from 1:30 min. to 6:45 min. long, no script, RealPlayer, WMP.

Justice Scalia on the art of persuasion Supreme Court groupies will be glad to know that Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court has given a lengthy interview in which he talks about his new book, Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges, which he wrote with Bryan Garner. The program, aired May 4, 2008, can be found here. 60 min. transcript available here.

U.S. Supreme Court Justices on Legal Argument Brian Garner, current editor of Black's Law Dictionary and author of A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage, and the blog LawProse, has posted interviews with 8 of 9 Justices on the Court about legal writing and advocacy with many insights into how Supreme Court opinions are written. These interviews have been received with great enthusiasm. The interviews are of variable length, cut up into 2 to 5 parts. Windows Media Player or the WMP plugin for Mac is required.

Justice Scalia (U.S.) interviewed on Law in Action (U.K.) Justice Antonin Scalia talks about democracy, originalism, the death penalty, abortion, same sex marriage, sodomy, criminal procedure, punitive damages, Guantanamo, torture. 30 min. no transcript, .mp3 (downloadable for one week)

Justices Breyer and Scalia - again Brought together this time by the American Constitution Society and the Federalist Society, Justices Breyer and Scalia of the U.S. Supreme Court discuss their interpretive methodologies, and in general conduct a "Conversation on the Constitution". The discussion was moderated by ABC News Legal Correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg. You can find the video, in both Windows Media Player and RealPlayer, by clicking here. Links to the video a 2005 conversation between these two justices, more specifically about the use of foreign law by the Court, can be found here.

The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Guantanamo detainee Salim Ahmed Hamdan on March 28. News reports about the oral argument can be found on the PBS program Online NewsHour here (15:15 min, transcript with a few mistakes). Talk of the Nation on NPR has a long (47:55 min.) discussion of the case here. The oral arguments themselves can be heard on C-Span by clicking here. Georgetown University has made them available in .mp3 format here. There is no transcript yet, but a version of the audio with "subtitles" will probably be available soon. The Hamdan case is extremely complicated and has some accessory questions as well. For instance, should Justice Scalia recuse himself because of remarks he made in Switzerland? You can find a discussion on Boston public radio with the Newsweek journalist who broke the story here. Another question — did two Senators try to deceive the Court concerning the legislative history of one of the laws being interpreted? Emily Bazelon, a journalist for the online magazine Slate, raises the question here and can be heard on NPR here.

Panel discussion with two U.S. Supreme Court Justices (Breyer and Scalia), two English Law Lords and one English Court of Appeal judge speaking about their work. Harvard Law School, Sept. 28, 2005. Very interesting. Click here to watch (video, 1:25 min., Realplayer required)