i just think i track both of these as going back to justice anthony kennedy in the last time the court heard a major abortion case was so careful to say we're just worried women are extra frail and sometimes they regret their abortions and we have to be super careful with getting them good information. and it seems to me that that's kind of the pill from which so much of this sentiment that all of first amendment law stops and all of religious freedom stops and everything in the constitutional architecture of this country stops when we're talking about women and their reproductive systems. it's so strange. >> you are both reporters and well respected, but as women, can you be objective about religiously conservative men making it harder for women to get help with birth control? >> i'm not trying to be objective. i'm trying to figure out where they are coming from. these days i'm paid to be an opinion columnist and i like to back up my opinion with facts. >> where do you think they are coming from. >> they are coming from a narrow world view. let's be impolite and point out that five of

it was written by justice anthony kennedy, often the swing vote in critical cases. >> kennedy makes cleart the people of state of michigan whether the justices agree with him or not has a right of matter of simple process to vote on key issues and to resolve them for themselves. >> reporter: same-sex marriage supporters disagree with that interpretation. >> when it comes to our most fundamental constitutional rights, you simply can't pass a law, even if it's through the regular democratic process, that infringes the federal constitution. >> reporter: there are a number of other federal cases currently pending, and it's possible the justices will await the outcome of one or more of those before deciding whether or not to weigh in. >> shannon, thank you. >>> really, this happened. a postal worker in zins was caught on video tossing mail into a dumpster. criminal charges are a possibility. postal officials say the mail was recovered and is now being delivered. >>> president obama in iraq, how much further will we go in? we'll ask the panel when we come back. honey, look i got one to land. uh

her opinion was joined by anthony kennedy republican governor ruth ginsburg a democrat and her conclusion was supported in a separate opinion written by roberts and joined by scalia. the justices that ruled in favor of the boy that turned 21 and emigrated from el salvador from 1998 waited in line for eight years but it was his misfortune he had to go to the end of the line. they were also unlikely bedfellows. clarence thomas, samuel alito, stephen breyer, and sonya sotomayor. that wasn't difficult in the divisive cases you get to these in the usual alignments. there was a decision the book deals with in some detail where kennedy led a 5-3 majority and elena kagen was refused. striking down most of the arizona show me your papers immigration law school he wrote a dissent that called the decision mind boggling. he went out of his way to attack obama for something unrelated to the case. his use to pay for the children as dreamers. the "washington post" which usually selects the president or senator or cabinet member for the honor bestowed upon scalia the worst week in washington price partly

we got a supreme court nominee, anthony kennedy, approved overwhelmingly by a democratic senate, and i know this is going to sound weird, but we had all 13 appropriation bills passed on time. not bad for a b-movie actor. [laughter] [applause]

>> another close decision, on a 5-4 vote, the majority opinion britain justice anthony kennedy, the cower upheld the town's right to begin sessions with legislative prayer. >> this is a thing that people see every day, obviously on c-span, before the logtive body, the house and the senate. what implications does it have for other towns like greece, new york? >> the implication is that it keeps fairly open their opportunities to do what they have been doing for years, and in fact your point is right on the target of where justice kennedy went with this decision help said, going back to the very first come congress, the very people that ratified the first amendments, also established the office of the chaplain for the house. we've been doing this for centuries and this a continuation of common practice. >> part of what he wrote is it's not an unconstitutional establishment of religion so does this sort of put the stamp on, we're not going to hear many more of these prayer in public body, public places cases in the future? >> no. i think the opposite is true. there will be a continuation in

fracking and was joined by anthony kennedy, a republican, ruth ginsburg, a democrat, and elena kagan's -- elena kagan's conclusion was joined by sculley a. the dissenting justices ruled in favor of the boy who turns 21 after his mom who immigrated from oil salvador in 1998 had waited in line for eight years. it was his misfortune he turned 21 and had to go to the end of the line. they were unlikely bedfellows. clarence thomas, samuel paulino, steven briar and sonia sotomayor. that was not that a typical in lots of difficult and divisive cases we get these unusual alignments. there was a decision the book deals with in some detail where kennedy led a 5-3 majority, and elena kagan was recused, striking down most of arizona's show me your papers anti-immigrant law. scalia wrote a dissent fat called the court's decision mind-boggling. he went out of his way and outside the record of the case to attack obama for something unrelated to the case. is use of executive power to favor the immigrant children known as dreamers. the washington post, which usually selects the president or a senator o

>> another close decision on the vote of a majority opinion written by justice anthony kennedy the court upheld the town's right to begin its sessions with legislative prayer. this is a thing people see every day. obviously we see it before the legislative body in the house and the senate. what implications does it have for greece and new york >> it keeps fairly open the opportunity to do what they've been doing for years and in fact your point is right on the target of where justice kennedy was on the decision going back to the very first congress the very first people that wrote and endorsed and ratified the first amendment also established the office of the chaplain for the house and we've been doing this for centuries and this is a continuation of the common practice. the office is true. there will be a continuation of the centuries old struggle to find the right balancing act between the godly society. we cannot proselytize them on the particular regions of the very fact based challenge, this could come back. >> thanks for your analyst is on this and a reminder to the c-span viewers

. >> when you look to the supreme court, you're looking to one justice it almost seems, anthony kennedy. it's a to be continued story. appreciate the time tonight. nancy northup, president of the center for reproductive rights. >>> in the event you were under the impression that august was a sleepy month in news and politics, there is in the great state of kansas, things are getting a little testy. >> you've told kansans, given your word you'd give a debate. you said it multiple times in multiple places. you told us you're tough, trusted. i want you to keep your word. i want you to debate. >> this is not the time. we have a regular scheduled event. this is not the way to conduct myself. >> when would be the time? >> this is not the appropriate time or place. >> where would be the time, senator? i'll go anywhere you like. you've given your word to debate. let's just debate. >> for the record, there was never a debate, but those two guys are going to be on the ballot facing off against each other tomorrow. the whole story coming up after this. >>> one of the strangest and most unlikely st

the winsor case -- doma was decided on the merit, the decision, anthony kennedy wrote the decision. it took all of the arguments that roddy had made and talked about the importance of marriage and why marriage is important, which was very much an argument in the prop 8 case, and so when -- i think it's every ban now. it's under challenge, either at the state or federalle level, so of course the cite to winsor, and in every federal case the judges have cited the perry, the prop 8 -- i'm pretty sure every ever case -- cited to the prop 8 trial record and making judgments whether sexuality is a choice or the harm it's done to gays and lesbians and their children by telling people that you can't get married. and i think that both of those cases have been hugely beneficial, and we'll have to see what the supreme court decides to do in the end. >> one second. you touched on it briefly about the fact that the entire lgbt movement was behind the fact they were bringing it to the supreme court. what your thoughts on that? even princeton's -- the former bishop robinson was against the fact it

respectfully sure absolving lee actually i have such respect for the greater good for or you know anthony kennedy is. just time to retire you know what it's when he said it into who he was saying it to even saying it to donors ok well we got to wrap it up he knew some nights we. thank you very much for these things coming up new research suggests that the keystone x.l. pipeline could be even more environmentally destructive than we first thought and this mean that there's a chance president obama will actually rejected the answer right after the break. do you want to be a t.v. star and talk to me face to face and e-mail me your video questions and comments to your take my take at gmail dot com we'll air them live every thursday night it's easy put your phone in video mode fold and sideways and record your selfie video and e-mail us your take my take g.-mail dot com you can also tweet your question or comment to me it underscore harben sure to use the hash tag our top. well you like me you want your comedy news with some t. points of comedy news to be a bare fisted no holds barred fight to the dad

there was a decision, anthony kennedy wrote that decision. it was -- you know, it took all of the arguments that robby had made and also talked about the importance of marriage and why marriage is important, which was very much an argument that was made in the prop 8 case, and so when -- and i think it's every ban now is under challenge either at the state or federal level. and so, of course, they cite to windsor but also in every federal case the judges deciding it have also cited the perry -- the prop 8 -- i'm pretty sure it's every case they've the prop 8 trial record in making judgments, for instance, about whether sexuality is a choice or about the harm that's done to gays and lesbians and their children by telling people that you can't get married. and so i think that both of those cases have been hugely beneficial and we'll ultimately have to see what the supreme court decides to do in the end. >> we'll stop heckling you in a second, i'm sorry. you touched on it briefly but the fact that the entire lgbt movement was necessarily behind

the winsor case -- doma was decided on the merit, the decision, anthony kennedy wrote the decision. it took all of the arguments that roddy had made and talked about the importance of marriage and why marriage is important, which was very much an argument in the prop 8 case, and so when -- i think it's every ban now. it's under challenge, either at the state or federalle level, so of course the cite to winsor, and in every federal case the judges have cited the perry, the prop 8 -- i'm pretty sure every ever case -- cited to the prop 8 trial record and making judgments whether sexuality is a choice or the harm it's done to gays and lesbians and their children by telling people that you can't get married. and i think that both of those cases have been hugely beneficial, and we'll have to see what the supreme court decides to do in the end. >> one second. you touched on it briefly about the fact that the entire lgbt movement was behind the fact they were bringing it to the supreme court. what your thoughts on that? even princeton's -- the former bishop robinson was against the fact it

we got a supreme court nominee, anthony kennedy, approved overwhelmingly by a democratic senate, and i know this is going to sound weird, but we had all 13 appropriation bills passed on time. not bad for a b-movie actor. in the last two years of his term. [laughter] [applause] >> erskine, you were there. >> we balanced the budget. [laughter] [applause] it is true. and to get that done, i had to spend months and months in conference rooms with newt gingrich, and you all only a lot for that. [laughter] a lot foronlowe me that. [laughter] but president clinton loved being president. he delighted in it. he wanted to use every day to make this country a better place to work and raise your family. let me give you an example of something that shows his humanity. literally almost every day, he would, over from the east wing to the west wing, and he would have articles that had been in various newspapers from around the country, little teeny papers, that he ripped out, and it had been somebody who had gotten some kind of bad deal, and he would give the articles to me and say, "erskine, go fix

may be different if it's ruth compared to one of the conservatives say scalia or who's 78 and anthony kennedyearly in the next two years. we're going to see probability obama forced to pick somebody who would be considerably less liberal than he might otherwise. but it's going to be pushed to the limit, and my guess is if it happens after 2015 into early 2016, there's zero chance that even a replacement of a liberal with another moderate or liberal would happen. and if it's a scalia or a kennedy vacancy, then you're going to get deaf con one and nobody will be confirmed no matter who is nominated. >> it seems like we play that clip from mike talking about the ambassadors on the senate floor. it seems like democrats in some ways were happy to do the, by the result of doing that knew leer option last year on changing the filibuster rules. but the flipside is, clearly republicans remember that. >> well, therm it. you know, there were other options here. unfortunately we didn't have a group of people coming together so to say do a trade-off, allow some more amendments for republicans and bills on

kennedy center for justice and human rights, bernard kerrick, piper kermit, lamont carey, anthony pleasant, and reports from the sentencing project and state level estimates of disenfranchisement in the united states 2010, and from a report from the sentencing project, lifetime of punishment, the impact of felony drug been on welfare benefits, albeit place in the record. >> without objection. and if there's no further business to come before the task force, without objection, the task force stands adjourned. >> thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> here's what's ahead today on c-span2. next we will show you today's washington your program in its entirety. then a congressional hearing looks into phone scams, and later what's the future for domestic drone usage? a congressional committee considers the issue. join us later today when we'll show you our interview with dr. alfredo quinones-hinojosa again in its entirety, from our q&a program. it's one of the author and to use from our latest book sundays at eight. you can see the program today at 7 p.m. eastern here

anthony has the story. >> even with scholarships and loans, it seems almost impossible. >> reporter: a sophomore are at richmond's kennedy high school, luis says the biggest barrier to many students aspiring to go to college is money. >> i think everyone here already knows that they may be able to get in because of their grades, but the paying part is difficult. >> reporter: now if they get the grades to get in, the money will be there. that's thanks to a $35 million grant from chevron, a program called the promise, which ensures funding for every student in richmond who wants to go to college. >> now that we know this money will be here, we need to make sure that our young people are able to take advantage of it. every single adult needs to think about your children, your neighbors, your nephews, nieces, and what we can do to make sure that they are on a track to succeed. >> it has been really successful. >> reporter: the city councilman said he's seen the results of a similar program in one small town in his home state of arkansas. >> 90% of graduates are now going to college. and that's compared to 53% throu throughou

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