U.S. Supreme Court Ends Term
The U.S. Supreme Court has ended its 2018 term. For a 5 minute summary, NPR’s All Things Considered has Nina Totenberg and Tom Goldstein reviewing the Court’s work. Transcript available.
For a longer look, Dahlia Lithwick’s podcast, Amicus, talks with Professors Leah Litman and Pam Karlan and Slate journalist Mark Joseph Stern. 35 min. No transcript.
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Showing posts with label voting. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 04, 2017
Gerrymandering in the Supreme Court
NPR’s Nina Totenberg reports on All Things Considered about a case (Gill v. Whitford) argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this week that is considered to be one of the most important of the year — about how to draw congressional district lines. When the lines are drawn to favor one political party, we speak of gerrymandering. The Court must decide if the way the State of Wisconsin drew the lines recently was so partisan that it was unconstitutional. 5 min, 8 sec, transcript available.
You can hear the oral arguments here. 58 min, transcript available under the recording.
NPR’s Nina Totenberg reports on All Things Considered about a case (Gill v. Whitford) argued before the U.S. Supreme Court this week that is considered to be one of the most important of the year — about how to draw congressional district lines. When the lines are drawn to favor one political party, we speak of gerrymandering. The Court must decide if the way the State of Wisconsin drew the lines recently was so partisan that it was unconstitutional. 5 min, 8 sec, transcript available.
You can hear the oral arguments here. 58 min, transcript available under the recording.
Friday, September 01, 2017
Civics 101
New Hampshire Public Radio began a podcast last January called Civics 101 - a refresher course on some of the basics of American democracy. You can find the list of topics (52 so far) here. Episodes include U.S. voting systems, federal grand juries, presidential pardons, church and state, how a bill becomes a law, gerrymandering About 12 min, no transcripts.
The site also has something called « extra credit » with supplementary information about the topics in the podcasts and even quizzes about the topics covered.
New Hampshire Public Radio began a podcast last January called Civics 101 - a refresher course on some of the basics of American democracy. You can find the list of topics (52 so far) here. Episodes include U.S. voting systems, federal grand juries, presidential pardons, church and state, how a bill becomes a law, gerrymandering About 12 min, no transcripts.
The site also has something called « extra credit » with supplementary information about the topics in the podcasts and even quizzes about the topics covered.
Friday, September 23, 2011
Lady Hale on the European Convention of Human Rights
Lady Brenda Hale, a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, gave a lecture on 16 June 2011 entitled "Beanstalk or living instrument? How tall can the European Convention on Human Rights grow?" This Gresham College page includes video and audio versions of the lecture as well as a transcript. The video has also been posted on YouTube.
Lady Hale begins by presenting the evolutive approach of the Common Law and goes on examine to how "Strasbourg" (The European Court of Human Rights) does this with the Convention.
Lady Hale's lecture is about 45 min. long, and is followed by questions from the audience.
Highly recommended.
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