The Oyez Project - a Supreme Court Archive which features oral arguments before the United States Supreme Court - is a civics resource relied on by many teachers - including me. Political scientist Jerry Goldman was inspired by my grad school classmate, lawyer/historian Peter Irons. The star protege of left wing historian Howard Zinn, Irons, a draft resister as a young man, secretly copied the tapes, infuriating Chief Justice William Rehnquist. Irons' edited Supreme Court transcripts and audio were published as the popular May It Please the Court,used in many classrooms, and a popular gift for lawyer moms and dads, and law student children.
One would hope that Google or the like would want to fund the project in the future. - gwc
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