Showing posts with label John Roberts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label John Roberts. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 02, 2014

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.

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

Another Book about the U.S. Supreme Court

Jeffrey Toobin, author of The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court was interviewed on the NPR program Fresh Air.
44 min, transcript available

Sunday, July 08, 2012

The U.S. Supreme Court term reviewed

NPR's Morning Edition of July 6 has a recap of this year's term, "a term to remember", by their legal correspondent Nina Totenberg. 7 min 47 sec, transcript available.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Judicial Activism

For U.S. Supreme Court groupies, New York University Law School has posted a video of a panel discussion of the current (Roberts) Court and judicial activism. Participants included Barry Friedman, professor at NYU and Jan Crawford, CBS's chief legal correspondent. 1 hr, 13 min, no transcript.

Saturday, March 01, 2008

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.

Thursday, March 01, 2007

Oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court PBS Newshour had a piece recently about oral argument at the Supreme Court in which they made the mistake of presenting the release of oral argument tapes as something relatively new. What might be said to be new is that more are being released immediately. They all are released eventually through the Oyez Project (all of the 2005 term is now available). But if you ignore this misinformation, the report does give a good picture of the nature of oral arguments at the Court and the fact that they are punctured constantly by questions. Several different types are described and you can hear the justices asking them. Streaming video, streaming audio or .mp3, transcript available. In an interesting development, Chief Justice John Roberts, answering questions after a speech he gave recently at Northwestern Law School, gives his advice to lawyers about how to improve their chances of success before the Court - in their briefs and at oral argument. You can listen to the speech on C-Span's American and the Courts, available here for at least another month. The advice begins at 50:50 min. The key to success, if you don't want to hear it directly from Justice Roberts, is empathic argument.