July 5 , 2010
PBS Newshour
The 2009-2010 term was was highly consequential. Citizens United gave corporations more First Amendment rights than they ever have before. Sullivan v. Florida prohibited sentencing juveniles to life in prison without parole for non-homicide offenses. And, in McDonald v. Chicago, the Supreme Court, for the first time, invalidated a state law on the basis that it infringed the Second Amendment's right to carry firearms.
Professor Paul Butler joined Newshour correspondent Jeffrey Brown in conversation with Professor Neomi Rao and Tom Goldstein in reviewing the Supreme Court's 2009-2010 term. What does this term's decisions suggest about the Court's future? How influential is Chief Justice John Roberts? How did Justice Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation change the direction of the Court? And how might Elena Kagan change the Court, if confirmed?
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