Audio of the 1963 opinion of the Court in Gideon v. Wainwright.

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Audio of the 1932 opinion of the court in Powell v. Alabama 

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We continue reading the third and final segment of the 1857 opinion of the Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford. 

I omit citations to provide a better listening experience. Find the full opinion here:

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1850-1900/60us393

We continue reading the 1857 opinion of the Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford where we left off in Part 1 . 

I omit citations to provide a better listening experience. Find the full opinion here:

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1850-1900/60us393

*Note: The audio quality of the earliest episodes (like this one) is not the best. Sorry. Don't worry, the quality gets better in the episodes ahead as I learn the new skillset required.

Audio of the 1857 opinion of the Court in Dred Scott v. Sandford. For the next several episodes, I'll be reading an opinion from 1857 that has long since been overturned and relegated to the trash heap of bad Supreme Court decisions - Dred Scott v. Sandford. In the Dred Scott decision, the Taney Court held that African Americans, slave or free, were not citizens of the United States. I've decided to read this opinion over several episodes for two reasons: one is that it is incredibly lengthy and the other is that its contents shock the conscience. By this, I mean that its contents are so racist and offensive that both the listener and the reader are likely to need a little time to recover in-between each segment. I do want to warn those listening, especially those listening with African ancestry, that this opinion is incredibly insulting and no longer has any place in United States constitutional law save for its historical evidence of the stain of slavery.

I omit citations to provide a better listening experience. Find the full opinion here:

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1850-1900/60us393

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Audio of the 1803 opinion of the Supreme Court in Marbury v. Madision.

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Audio of Justice Hugo Black's famous dissenting opinion in Adamson V. California (1947).

This audio includes the primary text of Justice Hugo Black's dissenting opinion

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Audio of the 1947 opinion of the Court in Adamson v California. 

The question before the Supreme Court of the United States was whether a defendant's Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination applied to state courts through the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.

The Court found that it did not - and it would not apply to the states until 1964 in Malloy v. Hogan.

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Audio of the 1937 opinion of the Court in Palko v. Connecticut.

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Audio of the 1966 opinion of the U.S. Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona.

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