everything you wanted to know about justice antonin scalia.ghs in on a number of topics. he says that the devil is real and doesn't know why anyone would want to be friended on the internet and thinks he has gay friends but doesn't know for sure. we have fascinating people to talk about it. christiane amanpour, what did you make of the interview? >> look, he has been quoted and i agree, he is the pinup girl or pinup boy for criminal defense lawyers. and you would not expect that. you would think someone who is that conservative and ideological. >> what do you mean? >> he has come up with and penned cases like crawford and i could go through the cases. he has been the greatest savior for the right constitution rights of the accused of anyone probably in the last 100 years. i let him do whatever he wants to do and the fact that he has bonded with kagan on their hunting trips is not a bad thing. >> i want to bring in jeff toobin. what do you think? >> it is a public service. anyone who thinks that the supreme court is anything but a deeply politi

to mark the occasion, justice antonin scalia an skber view. it was like we'd never heard before.the reality show "duck dynasty" saying he's a hunter and uses duck calls. who knew. it also revealed that he watched "the sopranos." and even saw a couple of episodes of "mad men." feel free to insert your own joke here. but his favorite was "seinfeld." saying quote, i loved "sign feld." in fact, i got some cds of seinfeld. seinfeld was hilarious. oh, boy. the nazi soup kitchen. no soup for you. >> i think you forgot my bread. >> bread $2 extra. >> the one in front of me got free bread. >> you want bread? >> yes, please. >> $3. >> what? >> no soup for you. >> who can forget that guy? but that's where the fun ends. because unlike the show, this interview wasn't about nothing. it was about something. something very serious. his view on homosexuality. he said he had friends suspected to be homosexual, but none had come out to him. he said quote, i'm not a hater of homosexuals at all. but let's look at his record on the bench. he's compared homosexuals to murder, polygamy, cruelty to anima

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see it is unclear when it will be now eugene scalia son of supreme court justice antonin scalia he is known for being a quote absolute bulldog on frank and wall street secret weapon question is how much power does he really have he has a lobbyist and he's a powerful one an. attorney as well but how much power does he really have and how much damage has he done enormous damage in bringing cases based on any little nit he can find his biggest success is to point out deficiencies in what's called cost benefit analysis now agencies don't really have to do a cost benefit analysis but they do and he ran into a judge a guy named ginsberg who famously failed to make this. court because because he was partaking of some controlled substances but he he wrote an opinion that's called business roundtable for short which said that the cost benefit analysis of an f.c.c. rule we can go into some detail was deficient and threw it out that not only freaked out the securities and exchange commission which stifled all rulemaking you can you can watch the curve of progress and it just hits a wall after th

. >> not on this case but what it could take if we have our 77-year-old justices antonin scalia or anthony kennedy decide to step down in the near future, and have a new democratic appointee, then you wouldn't -- gwen: conservatives. i meant liberals on the court. >> they got four of them. and they're on the younger side now. our two newest justices happen to be democratic. so rulings have been reversed before. it would be a very big deal. but it's not like democrats don't have their fingers crossed for possibly another nominee. gwen: we love that first monday in october. some things at least still open this week in washington. i can't recall a time when there has been so much suspense about who would become chairman of the federal reserve. well, the president ended that suspense this week by picking outgoing chair ben bernanke's deputy to succeed him. if confirmed, janet yellen would be the first woman to run the fed. this is how the president described her. >> janet is renowned for her good judgment and sounded the alarm early about how the housing bubble. about excesses in the financial

so he gets them together to talk about free speech to change holmes mind this makes antonin scalia ofoing duck hunting with dick cheney pale by comparison but to actually set up a meeting to change the mind of the supreme court justice outside the formal argument process is quite striking. >> host: last question before the audience. as a former journalist thinking about the first amendment i have to ask you about your thoughts of these issues and what we struggle with today of internet privacy, the nsa, a counterterrorism, the debates over wikileaks there are so many issues give me your thoughts into minutes for i hesitate to ask you what would he think but what you have learned. >> the issues in their specifics are very different today they were then. classified documents that government employs could be prosecuted two weeks those but the larger theme or the larger question of the balance between national security is very similar. to the time period people have very scared and giving government a relatively free hand to do what it wants then sometimes government oversteps with the im

. >> during oral arguments, the justice said -- justice antonin scalia responded sarcastically saying>> and that is the gulf that derives the court on these cases. justice ginsburg thinks we should use campaign-finance reform to advance equality so that everybody has roughly equal political influence. scalia says, look, if you're rich, you're entitled to have as much influence as you can buy. that has now been the illusion and the scalia side has won 5-4 consistently in recent years. >> senator bernie sanders said unlimited private spending undermines u.s. democracy. >> the bottom line here is, if we do not want to move this nation to an oligarchic form of society where a handful of billionaires can determine the outcome of these elections, it is imperative not only that we overturn citizens united, but that we put a lid on how much people can contribute in elections. [applause] freedom of speech, in my view, does not mean the freedom tobuy .. the united states government >> any have shaun mccutcheon's lawyers comments saying -- burt neuborne? >> that is the collision. some like berni

but during oral arguments tuesday, justice antonin scalia reportedly claimed the 14th amendment "protects all races" not quote "only the blacks." the supreme court has agreed to hear a case challenging the obama administration's major regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and factories. the court will review a federal appeals court decision that unanimously upheld the environmental protection agency's ability to curb carbon dioxide and other gases that fuel global warming. in new york city, the trial has opened in a lawsuit by chevron against the victims of its pollution in ecuador. the ecuadoreans won a landmark $18 billion judgment against chevron in 2011 for widespread contamination resulting from toxic dumping by texaco, which chevron later bought. now, chevron is suing the victims and their us lawyer, accusing them of using bribery. critics say chevron is attempting to evade accountability for environmental devastation they say led to some 1,400 deaths from cancer. han shan, a communications consultant for the victims, spoke as the ecuadorean villagers and their s

well, this makes, you know, antonin scalia going duck hunting with dick cheney look tame by comparison, you know? [laughter] to actually set up a meeting to try to change the mind of a supreme court justice outside of the formal, you know, argument process is really quite striking. >> yeah. well, last question before we turn it over to the audience, as a former journalist and somebody who thinks about the first amendment all the time, i have to ask you about your thoughts of the connection between these issues and things we're struggling with today; internet privacy, the debates over the nsa, you know, counterterrorism and your debates over things like wikileaks. i mean, there's so many issues and, you know, in two minutes give me your thoughts about some aspects of these. i hesitate to ask you what would holmes think of these things, because that's just a little bit too trite, but, you know, what you've learned, how it informs your thinking about some of those questions. >> right. so the issues in their specifics are very different today than they were there when we're talking about c

jumps to an interview in the new york magazine earlier this month with supreme court justice antonin scalia. quote, what ever happened to the devil, he asked? this shocked reporter has established her secular credentials. askscalia confronts the questioner saying you travel in circles that are so, so removed from main street america you are appalled that anyone would believe in the devil. most of mankind has believed in the devil for all of history. believing in an invisible power of evil, the devil is an affront of sophisticated modern minds, so supernatural, diabolical horror has found a lucrative place in a godless reality leading younger generations into a world of dark illusions. there can be no notion of the supernatural unless grounded by religion or it ends up in strange places. more than natural powers are arbitrary and seductive, without religious authority chaos is the alternative and chaos is what we have now. happy halloween. >>> getting in on the ground floor of twitter. it is the biggest tech ipo since facebook and we know how that one went. we are going to tell you what the

times" reports that the chief justice of the united states, john roberts, associate justices antonin scaliaelena kagan, and stephen breyer. opening day for the 2013-2014 session. you can start dialing in now with your comments about that. joining me on the phone, the supreme court reporter with "the to talk about the budget for the supreme court. we learn from the court that this year in 2013 their annual budget, 71 alien dollars. what is that used for -- a $71 million. what is that used for? their it is used for all day-to-day operations. they have a quite sizable police .orce, 150 officers processeserk's office additions and cases. i think the people don't realize institutionrt as an is like any other agency that needs appropriations from congress, just to do its business. host: given that, is impacted by the government shutdown? guest: so far, no. the court has announced that especially because this is the , theyg week of its term are determined to keep everything moving is normal. no employees have been furloughed. they have all been on duty. the court is using existing operation.ay in