Letters and Politics

The History of SCOTUS Hearings & Robert E. Lee’s Lost Indictment

A conversation with Carolyn Shapiro about the history of Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice nominees.
Guest: Carolyn Shapiro, associate professor of law and co-director of the Institute on the Supreme Court of the United States at Chicago-Kent College of Law.  Click here to read her article Putting Supreme Court confirmation hearings in context.
Then, a conversation on the failed prosecution of Confederate Army General and icon Robert E. Lee
Guest: John Reeves, author and historian.  Author of the book The Lost Indictment of Robert E. Lee

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