that still does not mean i would support justice antonin scalia aon the supreme court. the approach does matter and that is why i believe voting against -- nothing against commissioner antonini, i think he has a different perspective. thank you. president chiu: if i could remind folks that we do have a board rule against expressing a pause or opposition to statements, to keep the conversation flowing more expeditiously. supervisor wiener. supervisor wiener: i will be supporting this nomination. i think that he has been a superb commissioner and i do not agree with him on everything. there have been times when we have disagreed and as with other commissioners, for example cindy wu, i supported and do not agree with. but four commissioners weren't to work hard and who are committed to the city. i do respect every supervisor's broc if to vote against the commissioner with whom they have policy disagreements. i do not think that is inappropriate. every supervisor has to decide for himself or herself what criteria they use and policy views are a legitimate consideration. i t

antonin scalia has long grounded his opinions in the words of the constitution and the law. now he and lexicographer brian garner have issued a 567 page book laying out for other judges how and why they should do the same. it outlines nearly 60 must-do canons of interpretation and dismisses another 13 notions as wrong-headed. the new book is "reading law, the interpretation of legal text." and justice scalia joins me now. thank you for being here. >> thank you. good to be here. >> warner: you're a busy man, judging 75, 80 major cases a year. what drove you to write this... some would call it a tome. >> oh, well, it's not a tome. well, i've been very much devoted to text wallism and to that branch of tex wallism that's called originalism. that is you not only use the text but you give the text the meaning it had when it was adopted by the congress and by the people if it's a constitutional provision. although i've written a lot of opinions on the subject and spoken on the subject and even written on the subject i've never done hit in the depth that this book does. the book ni

yes that was justice antonin scalia suggesting that and l. rocket launchers might be constitutional under the second amendment and what's his brilliant argument to justify this let's listen again to the amendment does not apply to. arms that cannot be hand carried to keep and bear it doesn't apply to cannons did you catch that school is making the argument this is the founding fathers specifically said the right to bear arms then any weapon that can be carried by someone's hands or their arms is good to go unclear if the same logic applies to remote control for a weapons load of drones since someone can bear a joystick or if it applies to nuclear weapons and someone can bear a triggering mechanism or even shoulder fired nuclear weapons tactical nuclear weapons that many believe will soon be able to be fired from one shoulder this is the sort of wacky logic that comes from scalia when he complains to his original is the argument of the constitution is the argument that the constitution is dead is that living and breathing to adapt to a changin

i was honored to be compared to mitt romney and antonin scalia. i told the reporter i would be just as honored to be compared to president obama or justice stephen briar. we did not make all our elected officials, but we did make the supreme court, judges and commissioners and others, appointed positions that are not subject to periodic votes of the electorate. that's important in a democracy but also has its downfalls because sometimes it keeps officials such as judges are commissioners from being completely objective in their vote or in the positions they take because they are subject to not only the feelings of their constituents but their contributors. it is important we keep the separation of powers and i think this is a key issue when you talk about comparisons to judges. finally, i'm very happy to report that when i go to work coming from the west side to my office, frequently when i'm not taking muni, i will drive, happy there are eight projects under construction along that route. i'm glad to say that is the case. but we are actually seei

antonin scalia is the supreme court's longest serving current justice, also a leading conservative voicenational stage. scalia is well-known for his impassioned dissents including one ta disagreed with the decision to uphold president obama's health care law. he is now promoting a new book and sat down with justice correspondent pete williams. >> there was some question about whether it's proper for a justice having initially voted one way to change his or her mind before the opinion comes out. have you ever done that yourself? >> i have not only done that, i have been assigned to write an opinion and have found that it wouldn't write. and so i've written it the other way, coming out the other way. ultimately persuading my colleagues that that is the right approach. >> anything wrong with that? >> nothing wrong with it, no. >> but the opposite would be wrong. if at the time you released the opinion you think it's wrong, that is wrong. it seems to me, you know. at the time, it's released you have to believe in its correctness. >> and your colleagues accept that you know, here's justice sc

randon all our brave new world buddies like alan greenspan and paul ryan but frankly to paraphrase antonin scalia. if the founders had heard such a proposal it would have run for the exits. and that's the big picture for tonight thursday august ninth two thousand and twelve if you missed any of tonight's show you can now watch it in h.d. on hulu at hulu dot com slash the big picture for more information on any of the stories we covered visit our website to tom hartman dot com free speech oregon r.t. dot com also check out our two you tube channels there are links to tom foreman dot com also at tom foreman dot com check out all the different ways you can send us your feedback and don't forget as tom always says democracy begins with you get out there get active occupy something tag your it we'll see tomorrow. wealthy british style massage holds a spot on the front of the. market . it's going to find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report. and download the official ati application to c

updating your constitutional bama just don't let mr originalists antonin scalia know that such a thing is possible. the bad california assemblyman tim donnelly the california assembly is considering an increase in the texting and driving fines that's because from two thousand and one to two thousand and seven nearly sixteen thousand people were killed by cell phone distracted drivers in california alone but these numbers aren't startling enough for donnelly who railed against the increase saying it's not what the founding fathers intended take a listen. as intelligent rational human beings. who live in a free society. is it too much to ask that we just police ourselves and. it just it just seems that's what the founders intended and i feel like this is just more of the nanny state type government that cost us a lot of money and it ultimately bridges more and more liberty east of course the founding fathers would have been a good against fines for texting and driving after all they didn't find people producing quails and riding a horse at the same time today. moving on and now it's time

when state legislatures elected people elected senators directly and there's been other people antonin scalia the supreme court justice has also voiced some support here along with rick perry who has lots of wonderful views on the constitution and i think this is this new wave is kind of about the tea party you know revisionist history and this kind of fetishisation of the founding fathers and going back to how things were ignoring all the problems that there were in the original constitution and the original founders ideas yeah it seems strange that you're going to be running for senate trying to get votes by telling people they should have a right to vote for you but you can't i just understand the way the tea party operates but we've seen with the tea party this same sort of thing we've seen in trying to repeal the sixteenth amendment for income taxes the fourteenth amendment for the people the. immigration assault and her babies or whatever they call them. what's the overarching goal here is this to make it i mean human kind of i think into that in your article you say something like it's

. >> brown: margaret warner interviews supreme court justice antonin scalia about his new book, a guidefor judges on how to interpret the text of the law. >> the trick for a judge is to see where the balance resides. it's like a murder mystery. there are clues pointing one way, pointing another way. which clues are more persuasive? >> woodruff: we have a report from beijing on the closely watched murder trial of gu kailai, the wife of a disgraced communist party official. >> brown: and we close with a look at the golden successes of women athletes at the london games. that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by:

constitution they did not mean we the corporations no matter what john roberts clarence thomas and antonin scalia say this is no way to run a country and one of the many reasons why the right wing takeover of this country that started with reagan needs to be reversed and we all need to come back to our senses. after the break today nearly fifty million. kings live in poverty the most ever recorded in our nation's history so why is bill clinton to blame for all this and what needs to be done to fix it. pepper spray that just burns your eyes right right i mean it's like a derivative of actual pepper it's a food product essentially. this is much stronger than anything it's used by a lot of sort of loses thousands of times we're stronger than any kind of the body of ever put you know. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture. into that only military mechanisms that do the work to bring

constitution they did not mean we the corporations no matter what john roberts clarence thomas and antonin scalia say this is no way to run a country and one of the many reasons why the right wing takeover of this country that started with reagan needs to be reversed and we all need to come back to our senses. after the break today nearly fifty million americans. live in poverty the most ever recorded in our nation's history so why is bill clinton to blame for all this and what needs to be done to fix it. download the official publication. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's l.t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch our team any time. in iraq. coming up. more news today violence has once again fled out. these are the images. from the streets and candy that. for asians are. one thousand nine hundred six president bill clinton ended welfare as we know it this mantling the last remnants of lyndon johnson's great society legislation passed in the one nine hundred sixty s. it was responsible for cutting poverty in amer

host: we had an interview recently justice antonin scalia, a supporter of the citizens united decision, and in defending it he made two points. first of all, the level of spending in this country is that the $2 billion to $4 billion range. we spend $22 billion in this country a year on cosmetics, so why do people say there is too much money in politics? guest: the sec in preparation for this election said there would be $11 million in spending -- $11 billion in spending, matching our cosmetics spending. we could see anywhere between $7 billion and $11 billion, a huge amount of money. this is the amount of money we are running out advertisements on the internet, in battleground states. the money is being spent in so many different ways. it is also the matter -- the manner in which the way the money's being spent. it is the ways in which it is coming in. we have groups that do not disclose their donors and in some cases do not disclose their spending. the gps group, co-founded by karl rove. the sheer number itself is staggering because this line is accelerating more than it has in recent

hasn't passed new gun control laws since 1999, no less a conservative than supreme court justice antonin scalia told fox news they're allowed under the constitution sometimes. >> there are some limitations that can be imposed. what they are will depend on what the society understood were reasonable limitations at the time. they had some limitations on the nature of arms that could be born. so it -- we'll see what those limitations are as applied to modern weapons. >> eliot: scalia admitted as much in 2008 when he wrote for the court's majority in d.c. versus heller which struck down washington's handgun ban and i quote... but where scalia would draw the line is still unclear. >> obviously the amendment does not apply to arms that cannot be hand carried. it is to keep and bear but i suppose there are hand-held rocket launchers that can bring down airplanes that will have to be -- it will have to be decided. >> eliot: if i'm stronger and can carry a bigger gun, i have more constitutional rights. i don't know where they come up with what is almost unsane legal theory. lautenberg and carolyn mccart

on thursday, margaret warner has an interview with supreme court justice antonin scalia.own: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> this is n.b.r. >> susie: good evening everyone. i'm susie gharib. home prices head higher, as the housing recovery digs in. >> tom: i'm tom hudson. mcdonald's shares tumble. the fast food giant posts its first monthly sales drop in nearly a decade. >> susie: and the u.s. futures market, it's been hit by scandal, but investors are still buying in. we continue our look at confidence and the markets. >> tom: that and more tonight on "n.b.r."! >> tom: there's more evidence the housing market is reco

>>> antonin scalia is the longest serving justice on the supreme court.t mitt romney, forgive me, in iowa attending a rally right now. we have a rare interview with the longest serving justice of the supreme court. justice scalia sat down with our justice correspondent, pete williams. the justice is out with a new book, "reading the law, the interpretation of legal texts." pete, this is fascinating stuff because he doesn't often sit down for an interview at all, and he's a very lively, outspoken justice and that's the way he was with you. >> he was. he was in a very good mood. i think he's feeling good about where the court is right now, where things are headed next term. what we talked about mostly is what's in the book which is how he approaches judging, decideing the difficult legal questions and basically he says he thinks many judges do it wrong. here's what he said. >> you describe yourself as a textualist. what is one? >> a textualist is someone who believes that legal provisions in the constitution or in a statute are to be determined on the basis

on thursday, margaret warner has an interview with supreme court justice antonin scalia.own: and i'm jeffrey brown. we'll see you online and again here tomorrow evening. thank you and good night. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org

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even the likes of antonin scalia invited that actually in his extraordinary opinion in heller. >> billo in an interview on part of his book tour just last week, i think that some restrictions are definitely coming and will come and it is just a matter of judging like each one individually. he didn't say no way no how. >> that's right. even he has admitted that as self-proclaimed originalist whatever that actually means but he himself had to admit the constitution and the founders never envisioned the scope of modern weaponry. i mean -- does everyone have the right to have a shoulder fired rocket launcher in their house? >> you've heard republicans and conservatives, bill crystal said a similar thing the idea of the very high-powered machine guns that can mow down people very quickly, do you expect that this conversation is going to happen from romney and obama or do you feel like there's just going to be a focus on the economy? >> conventional wisdom has descended on our -- that conventional wisdom is to touch this issue is like the third rail in politics. sadly, i don't think we're go

supreme court judge antonin scalia has said as it is written in the 14th amendment does not provide equalprotection to the law for women in the united states. there is the current head of the judicial selection advisory committee for republican nominee mitt romney. in fact, mitt romney said he was sorry. this is an ominous foreshadowing. we need the equal rights amendment, and as well, we are just needing to commit to the united nations convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. it was signed by jimmy carter and supported by barack obama. then senator joe biden held the only hearing on ratification. secretary of state hillary clinton strongly supports it, and yet, because of republican opposition, it has languished in the senate without the 67 votes needed. this leaves the united states as one of only six countries in the world that has not ratified it, and lest you think we would be in good company, the six are the united states, iran, sudan, somalia, and two small island nations. those are the six countries that have not ratified it. in education, presid