The Oyez Project, at www.oyez.org, has made it possible for anyone to listen to the oral argument in most U.S. Supreme Court cases of the past sixty years. Go to that web page. Choose “cases”. Then choose the decade the case was argued. Then choose the year it was argued. Then find the cases for that year, which are listed in alphabetical order. When one finds the case, one clicks on “oral argument” and then on “Download MP3.”
I just listened to the hour-long argument in Storer v Brown, a very important ballot access case argued in 1973. This resource is very useful for any historian or analyst of U.S. Supreme Court behavior. Although transcripts of these old oral arguments have long been available, listening to the argument is far more useful. The old transcripts don’t identify which justice said which statement, but veterans of the U.S. Supreme Court can know which justice spoke if they recognize that justice’s voice. Thanks to HowAppealing for the news about this resource.
Thank you for sharing this information!
Here is a link of interest to B.A.N. readers http://www.oyez.org/issues/civil_rights/ballot_access
#1, thank you very much. That is a useful link.
However, it isn’t complete. It left off six cases: (1) Allen v Virginia State Board of Elections, which said the federal Voting Rights Act does include ballot access; (2) Hadnott v Amos, which put the Lowndes County Freedom Organization on the Alabama ballot in 1968; (3) Chote v Brown, a procedural victory against California’s mandatory filing fee; (4) Communist Party of Indiana v Whitcomb, which struck down laws that keep parties off the ballot because of their beliefs; (5) Meyer v Grant, which struck down laws that make it illegal to pay petitioners; (6) American Constitutional Law Foundation v Buckley, which struck down laws that require petitioners to be registered voters.
The list does include Tashjian v Republican Party of Connecticut, which isn’t a ballot access case; but if it is taken to be a ballot access case, then the list should have also included Clingman v Beaver. Both cases are on the subject of how much control parties have over who can vote in their primaries.
How about the ravings in Williams v. Rhodes 1968 the first of the major SCREWED up *modern* ballot access cases ???
— causing ALL later ballot access cases to be even more screwed up
— i.e. all sorts of UNEQUAL stuff – times, percentages, fees, petitions, etc. etc. ???
i.e. Jenness v. Fortson in 1971 = near death for minor party ballot access — cited a zillion times by the powers that be since 1971 — to de facto crush minor parties from getting ballot access.
Hmmm. Who is that person claiming to be the Son of Demo Rep ??? Unknown to yours truly.