amendment says it was ratified back and seven hundred eighty one the second amendment rights justice antonin scalia protection individual right to possess a firearm unconnected with service in a militia and to use it for lawful purposes such as self-defense just a school leo was careful not to throw out all gun control laws stating flatly the second amendment right is not unlimited. what do you see as being the current state of gun laws you know taking into context the history of american gun laws and where you think it's going i think in large measure the fire on the base in america is really over in a kind of a self-supporting and if it's cause goes away it goes away they need a dragon to slay in order to continue to develop their membership in order to motivate their members and in order to fundraise from their members i get a fundraising letter from the n.r.a. about every other or every third week. and some a lot it is and some of them are really pretty intense and here's one from from the summer dear mr feldman some of congress' most powerful anti gunners demanding a registration list of every

here is 10 minutes from the hearing with antonin scalia and stephen breyer. >> i guess i say it is that -- i say as a former law person, why not open it to video recordings? why not come in a federal court, give the public the benefit of seeing it firsthand in your court and other federal courts and still appreciate the quality, as well as the diversity and the extraordinary difficulty of what you do? >> i will start. when i first came on the court, i was in favor of -- you are talking about televising the arguments, right? not the conference. the brazilian supreme court televises the conference. >> i would never. >> nor would i. i was initially in favor of televising, but a lot of i have been there, the less good of an idea i think ideas. the justification usually put forward is, we want to educate the american people about what the court is and what it is not. if i put the -- if i thought the people with the indicated, i would be all for it. -- thought the people would be educated, i would be all for it. they would learn we are not most of the time looking up at the sky and saying, sh

an hour, and look at proposed television coverage of the supreme court including comments from antonin scalia and steven briar. they approved a bill that would require the supreme court to televise the open proceedings. >> here is that wonderful moment when the senator revealed his nostalgia for the state rights segregation. take a look. >> when he ran for president, we voted. we are proud of him. josh marshall on the internet and his emergence into the breaking news business. >> the ecosystem is such a different world today. it is hard to believe it was 10 years ago. things like that happen all the time now. i know there are certainly many big stories that tpm has had over the last decade. and now we have an editorial staff. we are breaking stories right and left. the thing is it ihas almost become commonplace. it is not nearly surprising today as it was back then. >> more about tpm end-marshall sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. -- about josh marshall sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> they have announced a settlement between the five largest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses. und

justice antonin scalia has said he feels strongly there should not be regulations on campaign financesst: mike on twitter writes -- we've got about 10 minutes left with melanie sloan, executive director of citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington. we will go back to mickey on the line for democrats from connecticut. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i have been a 40-year registered democrat. right now, i'm supporting republicans. i really want them to win for 2012. my big thing working in the polls as a moderator, i really do think that we need to have voter i.d. -- proof, you know, that you can vote. we used to do a lot of work as a moderator to research if a person was qualified or not. of course, they have got to let them vote. that's the law. i think that needs to be changed right now, before the 2012 election. i want to know about your comments on that. i would say that the federal election commission is kind of a funny organization, but i think it benefits more the democrats. with the citizens united, the republicans did not do as bad a

take it from justice antonin scalia, one of the most conservative justices of our supreme court. in the majority decision in 1990, employment division v. smith, justice scalia wrote we never held an individual's religious belief excused him from kpwhraoeupbs *f compliance with an other wide valid law prohibiting that the state is free to regulate. that is what we're seeing here. employers cannot pick or choose which laws they're going to follow. employers can't pick or choose if they want to follow this labor law or that labor law. they have to follow the law. this extreme amendment republicans are bringing up for a vote today makes it clear as day, this is a political and identify i don't see -- ideological overreach, not a religious issue. the fact they want to provide all religious from providing care for women. the blunt amendment would allow any insurer or employer to provide coverage for any health care service otherwise required under the health care act jeopardizing vital health care for millions of americans, services like prenatal care that help our babies survive. fert

even surprise some that justice ruth bader ginsburg was confirmed by a vote of 96-3, and justice antonin scalia was confirmed 98-0. that was a different time. today, partisanship has stalled even the most uncontroversial judicial appointments. senate republicans allowed no nominees to be confirmed at the end of the last session, and have allowed but five so far this year. in this environment, even those reported out of committee by voice vote, without any controversy, are unable to receive a floor vote for many months, if they ever receive one at all. let me give you a recent example. a judge that i nominated to the president, judge kathy benjamin avengeo's nomination to the southern district of california was approved by the judiciary committee by voice vote, yet waited four months for a floor vote and then was ultimately confirmed 90-6, showing there simply was no need to hold up the nomination in the first place. this level of obstruction is relatively new, and has impeded the con fimplation process for both judicial and executive branch nominees. let's do a quick comparison. nearly 80% of p