Week Seven: Freedom of the Press
Our seventh series focuses on the US Supreme Court and civil liberties. This week, we consider the evolution of freedom of the press from Colonial America through the early Internet Age with special focus on New York Times v. United States (1971) – the famous “Pentagon Papers” case.
Week Six: Freedom of Speech
Our seventh series focuses on the US Supreme Court and civil liberties. This week, we use two short videos from C-SPAN to consider questions of free speech. The first video explores limits on free speech when public order is potentially a concern by looking at Brandenburg v. Ohio (1969). The second video considers whether speech can be limited when expression is merely objectionable or offensive using Cohen v. California (1971).
Week Five: Civil Liberties and Public Health
Our seventh series focuses on the US Supreme Court and civil liberties. This week, we use two short videos to explore a question that could well reach the Court this term – the constitutionality of vaccine mandates.
Week Four: The New Term
Our seventh series focuses on the US Supreme Court’s most important civil liberties cases. This week, we take a week off from historical cases to focus on some civil liberties cases that the Court will hear in its new term that began this past Monday.
Week Three: The Exclusionary Rule —Mapp v. Ohio (1961)
Our seventh series focuses on the US Supreme Court’s most important civil liberties cases. This week, Mapp v. Ohio - the case that extended the Constitution’s prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures applied to the states.
Week Two: Right to Counsel at Interrogation — Miranda v. Arizona (1966)
Our seventh series focuses on some of the US Supreme Court’s most important civil liberties cases. This week we consider the second of two cases that produced words that television viewers know well, “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you…”
Week One: Right to Counsel—Gideon v. Wainright (1962)
Our seventh series will focus on some of the US Supreme Court’s most important civil liberties cases. We’ll start with two cases that produced some words that television viewers know well, “You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you…”