antonin scalia was a man of strong likes and dislikes. he relished long paragraphs in recoil from single sentence once. paragraph. that was the first paragraph. then comes what ended up being wrote them up into several paragraphs but it was actually one paragraph initially and this is what i wrote in the amsterdam hilton in my little bed in protest. he was a once conservative but non-conformist. temperamental but companionable, at the terry and but admiring, passionate but duty conscience. thoughtful but unrwa mosul, rotund but athletic ultracompetitive but compassionate, serious but impetus. demanding or forgiving taciturn or talk about curmudgeonly or resigned pugnacious or agreeable stubborn or acquiescence. with his perfectly symmetrical faces high for head situated right here colmes straight back his ruddy cheeks and his dimples when he would grant. the protuberant lower lip he was quick to smile when amused and predisposed to guffaw with unreserved gusto. at 5 feet 9 inches he had rounded shoulders and he moved always with purpose a

his most recent book, "nino and me" my unusual friendship with antonin scalia is a fond reminiscence of his experience that he shared over the years with justice scalia whom brian describes accurately enough as a fellow snoot and i will leave it to him to tell you what that term means. please join me in welcoming bryan garner. [applause] >> i need to be over here. it makes me happy, it makes me happy. that was one of justice scalia's favorite phrases. and occasionally that makes me very unhappy. elementary expressions of emotion but he would frequently say it makes me happy to be here to talk about "nino and me." i was going to use this tool. stools appeal to us. it's a book about three things principally. one is friendship. the second is literary collaboration and a third is justice scalia with a fair amount of legal philosophy thrown in. when it comes to friendship johnson said there are many accidents that must happen for the formation of a friendship and i think that is particularly true. the traditional sense of friendship of course, i think we are losing it in modern culture, th

justice antonin scalia was confirmed 98-0 and justice ruth bader ginsburg received support of 96 senatorsrespectful time, judge brett kavanaugh would be overwhelmingly confirmed by the united states senate. what do you think he meant by if we lived in a more respectful time? >> i'm not sure. certainly supreme court nominations have become much more controversial and difficult than when my father was before the senate. things really did change dramatically with robert bork's confirmation hearing in 1987. certainly there's been a change in that. >> there certainly has been. this is going to be a very close contest right now to see if kavanaugh gets more than 50. he needs 50 because the vice president can break a tie if necessary. thanks very much for coming in. >> my pleasure, thank you. >> i know you saw the documentary. i saw it. it's truly, truly excellent. i want our viewers to tune in this monday, september 3rd, 9:00 p.m. eastern for the premiere of the cnn original film, "rbg." you will learn, you will enjoy. >>> finally tonight, the long and painful farewell to a senate legend has be

you want to talk about antonin scalia because in many ways it is still being felt.no area where it is being felt than the idea of original listen becoming not just ideas that are narrowly prescribed by jurists but broadly accepted, this is the way judges should be doing their jobs. talk about his legacy. >> it is an amazing thing we have seen, that this idea, this philosophy of addressing judicial opinions went from being kind of an idea in the corner to being the central idea where every law student today gets to take a look at what this philosophy is about and it is about being faithful to the founding principles, when you think about the constitution, the bill of rights, scalia was right that it was the frame of government, structure of government, that guards our liberties, you don't have anything. that this balancing of power, this is why it is important for the judge to understand that, a powerful position. and take it with that reverence and show judicial restraint to know when something goes beyond the institution, beyond his role and more legislative power.

she was going to win and going to get to nominate the replacement for antonin scalia. and with this issue, being at the forefront of majority mcconnell, putting it out there and let the american people make their voices heard with a vote and with then candidate, donald trump putting out the list and reassuring conservative of where he was is an amazing turn of events that no one could have predicted really at the time. and give us the amazing opportunity to put justice neil gorsuch on the supreme court. but -- now you're getting to replace what has been termed by everybody, the swing vote. even though many media outlets want to portray the justice as a conservative the reality is, he did not have a strong constitutionalist view and we would call it. he would -- in his opinions from what he would do, how he would approach each case. and he basically comes to this two philosophies we have. in the legal circles. right? we have a philosophy that says, the constitution is a living, breathing document. that was written with a purpose that it would be like that it would chang

i want to talk about antonin scalia for just a minute, because in so many ways, his impact is still being felt. there is no area where it is being more felt than on the idea of textualism and original wisdom becoming not just sort of ideas that are narrowly prescribed, but by jurists, broadly accepted that this is the way judges should be doing their jobs. talk about his legacy. >> it is an amazing thing we have seen during his lifetime, that this idea, this philosophy of addressing judicial opinions went from being kind of an idea in the corner to being the central idea where every lawsuit today gets to take a look at what this philosophy is about, and it is about being faithful to the founding principles of our nation. when you think about the constitution, a lot of people think that it is the bill of rights that protects our rights, but scalia was scalia. he was absolutely right that it is the frame of government, the structure of government, that guards our liberties, because when you have a king or dictator, he can ignore the bill of rights. you don't have anything. but it is this ba

neil gorsuch, which we celebrated and we worked so hard for, he wants the replacement of justice antonin scalia, so you are basically replacing a strong alist with a strong constitutionalist. we were trying to preserve the status quo, if you will. it was kind of an amazing thing how you got there. the panel before, she was going to win. she was going to nominate scalia's replacement, and just with this issue being at the mcconnell putting it on the ballot, and saying let's let the american people make their voices heard with their candidate donald trump putting out that list, just reassuring conservatives of .here he stood it was an amazing turn of events that nobody could have predicted at the time, and gave us the amazing opportunity to put justice neil gorsuch in the supreme court. but now, you are getting to replace what has been termed by everybody, the swing vote. outletsugh many media want to portray justice scalia as a conservative, the reality is that he did not help a strong constitutionalist -- he did not hold a strong constitutionalist view as we would call it. he vacillated his opi

in nominating just as gorsuch president trump kept his word, toappointed a justice replace antonin scalia a. and in the early days of his tenure, justice gorsuch has proven himself. commitment to the constitution and the principles of limited government, president trump and i could not be more proud of of justice gorsuch. we also cannot be more proud of , judget justice kavanaugh. i don't have to tell members of the republican national lawyers association that he has impeccable qualifications, but i'm going to anyway. the word needs to get out. it's a critical time. in the process of confirmation in the senate. and the opportunity to gather before you and pay attention to what we are now about this jurist is a timely and goodies. use.d good he went to the same prep school that justice gorsuch 12. i was told that they went to the same school at the same time. , is that one's objective is to be a man for others. worku look the life and and character of judge kavanaugh , you can see that it's always about others. yale, heted from clerked in the third circuit, and then he declared for the man

. >> david: he is nowhere near as conservative as antonin scalia was. antonin scalia was the most conservative justice in my lifetime to be on the court. you know what he was confirmed by? 98-0 by the u.s. senate. 98-0. much more conservative than brett kavanaugh. what are the democrats complaining about? >> harris: a different political climate. disagreeing with the opposite side of the aisle didn't mean you had to hate them. there is mean-spiritedness on capitol hill. not everybody but enough of that disease thinking that it gets everybody saying no, i'll retreat to my corner. what marie said is interesting because not only does the fight hurt the democrats as it gets closer to the midterm, it hurts everybody. people will just decide not to vote. to me that is the greatest crime and the greatest heartbreak in all of this. no matter whom you vote for. there are people who gave it all so we could go to the polls. suffrage, gave life. get to the polls and believe your vote counts. when you see both sides like this, it's over an issue that is settled. >>

] nominating justice gorsuch president trump kept his word, he appointed a justice to replace antonin scaliaand in the early days of his tenure, justice gorsuch has proven himself. he has proven himself with the trust the president has placed in him and in his commitment to the constitution and the principles of limited government, president trump and i could not be more proud of of justice gorsuch. [applause] we also cannot be more proud of the next justice, judge kavanaugh. [applause] i don't have to tell members of the republican national lawyers association that he has impeccable qualifications, but i'm going to anyway. [laughter] the word needs to get out. it's a critical time. in the process of confirmation in the senate. and the opportunity to gather before you and pay attention to what we already know about this jurist is a timely and good use. judge brett kavanaugh went to the same prep school that produced justice neil gorsuch. i was told that they went to the same school at the same time. the motto of that school that judge kavanaugh has reflected on is that one's objective is to

when antonin scalia died, ted cruz was running around saying if you don't elect hillary clinton, the government is going to start chiseling stars of david off of tombstones and the world will be on a cliff. to me that was just blatant sort of fear mongering but what is interesting, they felt that they could protect him much better in some ways a and there's a lot of debate we could have over why in the primaries they chose trump so you are right to make that connection. in terms of the question of people leaving evangelicals i know a lot of people who were kind of you know, abandoning ship. i'm not quite sure what that means because when i talk to people they say i'm not an evangelical anymore and i would bring up you believe those things that i just mentioned before and they say of course i do. so this all needs to be sorted out, but i wrote when i introduced the term core of evangelicals i did it in a "washington post" piece in which i also talked about the realignment of american protestant christianity or christianity in general that we have seen with trump. i think you are going

he recalls his relationship with the legs of her in court justice antonin scalia and talks about hisbook "nino and me" at the heritage foundation in washington d.c.. this is 50 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> welcome everybody to heritage foundation. delighted to have you here today for a very special event on the book by bry g

have a book wrap with christopher scalia like as if his father, the late supreme court justice antonin scaliamarch 26 headliner luncheon with gold medal olympian swimmer. i marched when i will have news anchor and discussion on the centennial commemoration of world war i and fine on april 4 the will be a book event with sheila tate on a new biography of first lady nancy reagan. we can't conclude the night without presenting our guest ryan with the famous national press club coffee mug. peter thiel also as one. it is our traditional gift so thank you so much for being tonight. let's give ryan a hand. [applause] >> for those of you who bought books to make, ryan will be signing books at this table right over here. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> coming up like to see the senate foreign relations committee will get an update on the u.s. relationship with russia. at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span. in the afternoon official testified on cyber threats before a senate judiciary subcommittee at 2:30 p.m. on c-span2 the senate will continue work on 2019 federal spending bills. on c-s

justice antonin scalia was more conservative than he is.a lot of his personal opinions on things and he was much more conservative, but look at this, back in '86, scalia won the vote by 98-0. my question is advise and consent. it clearly meant something different back then, what does advise and consent mean today? >> well, you know, that's a great point. this is clearly somebody who's qualified to serve on the supreme court, and that's why i believe he will be confirmed and it would be good if people looked at it in that context. he is an incredible body of work, he is qualified, and people should recognize that and support him, and that is, i guess, how it used to work, and again, how to should work and but regardless, he's -- i believe will be confirmed. david: i think as well. let me switch gears, facebook is a big story. apparently they were attacked and they believe probable they were attacked from the russians the same group of people who are trying get in, stir up trouble in america. is congress going to get involved in this at all o

this work has made professor whittington along with the late justice antonin scalia and major exponent of the leading school of const duchenne interpretation public meaning original is on. that sounds pretty esoteric, but trust me it's a very big deal. he's written several other scholarly works federalism politics and the presidency, my completing two new books is a very ambitious fellow. one of which is repugnant laws judicial review and act of congress from the founding to the president and the second one is the idea of democracy in america from the american revolution to the gilded age. i've known key for many years and i'm delighted to have you here. >> thanks for having me and thanks for coming out. i don't bear with me policy prescription. on a talk about principles. they matter not only a cause which campuses, but american society more generally. we can think about this free speech as a particular microcosm of larger problems that confront us living in democracies more broadly. these particular principles have some particular importance for those of us who spend a lot of time in

we reported today about his extensive praise that he had towards justice antonin scalia. justice, the icon on the bench. speaking very glowingly about his past rulings, past praises, things he's done. one thing he's singled out in his speeches is his dissent on abortion, gay marriage. we'll see what he says about that. >> two big meetings with democrats this week as they start to meet. we'll continue to track. thanks for joining us on "inside politics" today. >>> hello, everyone. i'm jim sciutto in for wolf. thanks for joining us. the fbi fires the agent who sent anti-trump text messages and was once part of the mueller investigation. now the president is responding with a big suggestion. >>> the west wing drama, the president now firing back at omarosa after she reveals another tape, this one of a call that she had with president trump himself one day after she was fired. was any of this illegal? >>> and giuliani

speech that brett kavanaugh gave in 2016, two years ago, at an event honoring the late justice antonin scalian the course of his remarks, brett kavanaugh brought up two landmark supreme court cases. the first one was planned parenthood v. casey, which affirmed the right to have an abortion. and also allowed states to impose some limits on that right. planned parenthood v casey is sort of part 2 of roe versus wade. but the other case he cited is much more recent. that's the case that ruled that same sex couples in this country have the same right to get married that straight people have. jut scalia dissented in both of those cases. he voted against the ruling to affirm abortion rights and he voted against an equal right to marriage. so what you are about to hear is brett kavanaugh talk about those two supreme court rulings and specifically scalia's dissents. if you are wondering how brett kavanaugh might vote if abortion rights or marriage votes came before him at the supreme court, here more clearly than anywhere else we have found, he spells it out. again, he's talking about scalia's dissent

it changed of course with antonin scalia's vacancy, untimely death, a vacancy which president obama sought to fill during his last year in office. he ended up nominating merrick garland, a d.c. circuit court judge of impeccable credentials to fill the vacancy. the republicans in the senate refused to even meet with merrick garland let alone consider him and vote on him. so for a whole year, the vacancy continued on the supreme court while the republicans broke senate tradition and refused to consider president obama's nominee. then came the election of donald trump, the nomination of judge neil gorsuch, and the process went forward to fill the vacancy which the republicans had kept open for more than a year before neil gorsuch was finally voted on by the united states senate. so here came the second vacancy under the trump administration, a vacancy created by the retirement of justice kennedy, and the question was obviously asked what standard will you use for asking for the documentary evidence of the person's background and public service? many of us assumed it would have been the same s

ruth bader ginsburg and antonin scalia. let's listen in. justice ginsburg: take the worst-case scenario, roe vs. wade is overruled by the supreme court. there will be states, a sizable number, that will not go back to the way it was. at the time of roe vs. wade, there were four states that gave women access to abortion without any questions asked in the first trimester. those states are not going to change. what it means is a woman who can afford a plane ticket, a bus ticket, will be able to decide for herself. whether or not to have an abortion. but the women who won't have that choice are poor women. justice scalia: these are political questions for the american people to decide. that is what democracy is about. do you think abortion should not be prohibited? fine. persuade your fellow citizens to pass a law. you think the opposite? persuade them the other way. but don't tell me the constitution has taken that issue out of democratic choice. it simply hasn't. host: there we have two members of the current court, and also united states sen

but they have done what schumer has not committed to because otherwise -- >> what is amazing is antonin scaliaa was very conservative and he was approved 98-0 in 1986. no democrats at all voted against scalia but he is more conservative than brett kavanaugh. >> a total shift. any other era brett cavanagh would have been unanimously confirmed. >> donald trump sure to take on what he calls fake news among loyal supporters in ohio. this is playing to his base but could it be hurting republicans play for independent voters? >> they can make anything bad because they are the fake, fake, disgusting news. >> earlier this week ivanka trump saying the media is not the enemy of the people, donald trump says his daughter is right, it is the fake news. >> we are doing better in all of these states than we did on election night. much better. despite only negative publicity, only negative stories from the fakers back there. they can make anything bad because they are the fake, fake, disgusting news. >> back with us is harlan hill, always -- alex smith is with us. the point is it is clear ivanka was asked th

antonin scalia would rightly identify this as pure applesauce. [laughter] libertarianism, on the other hand, is guided by the simple principle that individuals have the liberty to live their lives however they want as long as they do not infringe upon the rights of others. conservativism is riddled with inconsistencies. conservatives will rush to the defense of property rights when it comes to the relaishes baker, but many won't when it comes to conservative platforms. conservatives take these approaches with the goal of protecting prosperity, but what has that looked like? the implementation of the patriot act which will continue to violate the rights of our children and children. it looks like countless unnecessary wars that are launched in the name of freedom and protecting strategic interests but end undraining our -- end up draining our treasury and making new enemies. it looks like spending more than $1 trillion on the war on drugs which compounds the the inherent risk of drug use and contributes to the debt that no generation may be able t

we have come from history or justice antonin scalia, and others were confirmed by huge journeys in bothus situation it shouldn't have to be this way we have highly qualified nominees like neil gorsuch and kavanaugh. mike: thank you. >> thank you for having me. ebony: president trump putting andrew mccabe back in his crosshairs. why starting to get involved in a battle over the have the fbi is handling his text messages. and commander and the chief is he ready to wrap up is working vacation? details on all of this straight ahead. and the alzheimer's association is going to make it happen. but we won't get there without you. join the fight with the alzheimer's association. join the fight with the alzheimer's association. i'start at the new carfax.comar. show me minivans with no reported accidents. boom. love it. [struggles] show me the carfax. start your used car search at the all-new carfax.com. bundle and save big, but now it's time to find my dream abode. -right away, i could tell his priorities were a little unorthodox. -keep going. stop. a little bit down. stop. back up again. is thi

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one of the callers earlier said kavanaugh had clerked for antonin scalia.t was back in 1993 he surge -- search for justice anthony kennedy. david is in alexandria, virginia. republican. go ahead. caller: hi. thanks for c-span. -- i think it is , consideringrbole as far as roe v. wade. it is a major law that has been in effect for a number of years, see alland i just don't say the republican side going for that. overall, i think they interpret the law and that is what it is. i think he is an honorable man and i support his nomination. host: about 10 minutes left in this segment, getting your thoughts on brett kavanaugh's nomination and keeping you updated on some of the other stories we have been following and talking about. here is one on that 3-d gun blueprint case from washington. a federal judge in washington state yesterday blocked through print -- blueprints for 3-d printed guns being shared online until the matter is resolved in court. in the preliminary injunction came in response to legal action --19 states seeking to block from distributing the fil