remind peopleions . i guess we could sit in a bus , andon and not wear robes just take tops, by don't think that creates the image the one for the supreme court of your country. i was looking at a little bit of history before he came in. your earliest chief justices did not wear them -- justice scalia: robes? around 1800.ted justice scalia: john j was the first chief justice, before 1800, and in that portrait, he is wearing the glorious rope. obe. what you are saying is news to me. host: i will go with john j. why the robes, what is the symbolism behind the robes? you continue to wear them in our society? justice scalia: i'm sure we could do our work without the roads. we could do our work without this glorious holding where you are deciding to have this conversation in. buildingrobes and the is the to the people -- in significance that goes on here. that is nothing new. billings don't always look like bus stations, and they shouldn't. host: justice breyer called it the symbol of the american judicial pr