The Brian Lehrer Show

Supreme Beings

Monday, June 27, 2005

This could be the biggest week for the Supreme Court in recent years. A host of important rulings are expected on intellectual property, religious displays, cable internet, and more. And it’s rumored there will be at least one retirement from the court.

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Time and Again

Doug Waller, senior writer at Time (HarperSanFrancisco, 2003),
-on the weekend in news
» Time

Stemming the Tide

Mario Cuomo, Former Governor of New York
- proposes an alternative to President Bush's policy on stem cell research
» Mario Cuomo's opinion piece on Stem Cells in The New York Times

Supreme Beings

Noah Feldman, Professor of law at New York University, former senior adviser for constitutional law at the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance in Iraq and author, Divided by God: America's Church-State Problem - and What We Should Do About It (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005)
- on the intersection of religion and politics and the latest supreme court rulings on displaying the Ten Commandments at court houses
» Noah Feldman's bio

and
Nick Thompson, senior editor at Legal Affairs magazine
- reacts to the rulings on file sharing and high speed internet carriers

» Legal Affairs