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antonin scalia. now, i don't know that i ever quoted antonin scalia before, former supreme court justice who passed away a few years ago. he had this to say about disclosure. he said, and i quote, requiring people to stand up in public for their political acts fosters civic courage without which democracy is doomed. and then he continued. for my part i do not look forward to society which thanks to the supreme court on which he sat, campaigns anonymously, hidden from public scrutiny, protected from accountability of criticism, this, he said, does not resemble the home of the brave. so here's a very conservative justice saying that without transparency, without public accountability, democracy is doomed. i love the revolutionary idea that power flows up from the people or as abraham lincoln put it, that we are of the people, by the people, for the people. and seven weeks from now, americans are going to go to the polls. and they're going to cast their vote on issues and individuals running for office

mascott is an assistant professorpe of law and professor -- assistant professor of law at the antonin scalia law school and codirector of the gray center for the study -- titles are a mouthful. jennifer has one of those resumes that depresses me with feeling just overwhelm smooth feeling of inadequacy. she has accomplished so much. she has served at the highest levels of government across all threere branches. i'll say this, and a course of researching this introduction someone whosese opinion i i em very much said that jennifer is going to become the greatest most important voice administrative law of her generation, conservative voice. that was profound criticism -- sorry, gracious. that was a profound complement. it camefo from someone whose opinion didn't really matter but i'll note this as well. jennifer is undoubtedly the only professor in the country who teaches not one course of supreme court justice but two courses with supreme court justiceses annually. justice kavanaugh and justice thomas. so that's pretty neat and it puts a a feather inner cat. without further ado professor masco

she was well known for her friendship with the late justice antonin scalia, who couldn't have been more different from her, apparently, in terms of their judicial philosophy. is that kind of friendship possible in today's court, do you think? nina: i'm not sure. i mean, the court now today seems quite riven by divisions and there is no center of the court. in the decades that i've covered the court, there always was a center one, two or three people who were not in one camp or another. and and it sort of made everybody try to reach consensus, i think, a little more. that's not true today. there are six very conservative justices. it's probably a court more conservative than any court in maybe 90 years. and it's it seems to me that after the leak, the celebrated leak especially, that that it's a court with a lot of problems. judy: and what do you think that portends in terms of what this court is going to be able to do? nina: i don't know. i mean, the chief justice has talked about the the people should still trust the court, even when they don't agree. but when the court itself is so in

here's antonin scalia and ruth bader ginsburg on a trip together in india. i mean, i loved it nino scalia, as he was known. he was my friend, too. in that picture-- where is the picture. >> stephen: i'll get it for you. >> he was in front of her. i once interviewed them-- it was my favorite interview i ever did. i did it on stage of the two of them for about an hour and a half. and i asked them about that picture. and he said he was in front of her because of seniority. and she said that she thought it had something to do with the distribution of weight. ( laughter ) ( applause ) >> stephen: "dinners with ruth" is available now. nina totenberg, everybody! we'll be right back. ♪ ♪ ♪ ( applause ) the choice between prop 26 and 2 s t prop, 26 means no money to fix homelessness, no enforcement oversight and no support for disadvantaged tribes. yikes! prop 27 generates hundreds of millions towards priorities like new housing units in all 58 counties. 27 supports non-gaming tribes and includes strict audits that ensure funds go directly to people off the streets a

one whimsical story is that at the funeral of antonin scalia a couple of years ago coming out of the church, the cathedral, commenting on the record about justice scalia when i had served under the d.c. circuit judge and when i served as solicitor general. i say my quick piece and i am leaving. one of the press says, i camped outside your house, and i said, i am sorry. i said, no, it is fine, we made a down payment on our house because of it. so some good came out of it paid i recount some pressures on the family, but our family was strong and we were surrounded by faith and friends. just the support of our church, our neighborhood. we have a great soda involving michael moore. -- great episode involving michael moore. the filmmaker -- i do not have time to tell the story, but across the street neighbor, donna hogan, she is wonderful and had a young kid. the youngest was a future stanford quarterback, kevin hogan. small world, right? this is all captured on cnn. way to go, donna. get out of this neighborhood, you are scaring the children, and everything. michael had colorful things t

a number of years ago there was a challenge to justice antonin scalia who was a hunting buddy of dickrmer vice president, and he issued an opinion explaining why he thought he could decide the cases without it raising issues. to the extent his spouse could be under criminal investigation by the january 6th committee and to the extent she was involved in these activities i think justice thomas owe as similar explanation why he thinks he could sit on such cases without it raising at least the appearance of a conflict of interest. >> even though it is not his words, it's the words of his wife. does this damage the credibility of the supreme court that is already going through a public crisis, if you will,a lot of people's minds? >> right now public opinion about the supreme court is very divided by party. it's not a surprise because for the first time in modern history all the conservatives on the court have been appointed by presidents of one party and by presence of another party. what the justice thomas issue adds is the issue of a kind of personal conflict not just one about ideology

just antonin scalia. i'll continue later, but with i want to defer to my busy schedule -- to the busy schedule of my friend, senator hirono, and i yield the floor. ms. hirono: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from hawaii. ms. hirono: thank you. i want to thank my colleague from rhode island, senator whitehouse, for his long and strong advocacy for cleaning up the scourge of dark money in our country. our country was built on the founding principles of democracy where every person has a say, a democracy where the american people can make their voices heard in free and fair elections, and we the people can decide the direction of our country. but in 2010, the roberts court, in an obvious act of judicial activism, struck down corporate campaign contribution restrictions found in the bipartisan campaign reform act. suddenly, the supreme court said that corporations are people, who had first amendment constitutional rights to make campaign contributions. this decision opened the floodgates to

or consider the.doctrine of substantive due process illegitimate as it later justice antonin scalia. roe didn't start the abortion wars. they thought they could t dislodge from the democratic party successfully brought lonnie richard nixon to campaign against abortion on demand in 72 and what became, what began as a strategy for targeting catholics expanded to make rvconservatives more generally into republicans. roe helped make control of the court a central issue and therefore by republican presidents. it's president reagan who prioritized anti-áuntran7á judicial selection . >> .. you choose the case with no long traditions clarify ambiguous constitutional tests. in washington involving a claim to due process rights to assisted suicide the courts enshrined traditionalism as something to due process law. deeply rooted in the nation's history and tradition and implicit in the concept of liberty would qualify as fundamental. i r claim rights had to be givea careful description. an application careful meant narrow. consider angel rich to challenge thece constitutionality of the control

could just veer a little bit back to your dad, the late, great justice of the supreme court, antonin scalia with, and what you think your dad would make, first of all, on the roe v. wade reversal, but more importantly, the reaction to it and how it has galvanized certainly some democrats in key races. what do you think he would think? >> well,s you know, i think that this supreme court term, neil, it was certainly an important term. and i think it did reflect to a significant extent work that my father had done over decades which was to promote an interpretation of the constitution based on what he would call its original meaning rather than on people's policy ideas on what the constitutional rights should be and also an interpretive method that he called textualism, focusing on the text of's and of statutes -- the constitution and of statutes. think this term is one where, by and large, that methodology had upper hand. he did not like roe v. wade, he thought it was a terrible decision and, i think, would have been pleased to see it overruled as it was. in terms of the public reaction, you

former supreme court justice antonin scalia, never one to hide his opinions, was also a staunch supporter of campaign finance disclosure. in a 2010 case d.o.e. v. reed, he wrote, from my part, i do not look forward to a society which thanks to the supreme court, campaigns anonymously hidden from public scrutiny and protected from the accountability of criticism. this is his words. this does not resemble the home of the brave. you can't get much more conservative than former justice scalia. this is a bipartisan issue. we asked our colleagues to change their minds. ensuring the transparency of our elections has been and should continue to be a bipartisan value. these issues are at the very heart of our democracy, and this commonsense bill would protect the right of voters to make informed choices and no one has been -- and know who is trying to influence our elections. as we move forward, i urge my colleagues to join me in supporting these measures in the future as well as the measures in the freedom to vote act which the disclose act was part of, that i led in the senate, that would give u

i knew antonin scalia well. i'm a friend of thomas's and samuel alito's. they're conservative, originalist. i'm a liberal average. that's what's the difference. well, in part, liberal, they're just tend to pay more attention to the amendment it's amendments that involved more women, more persons of color than at the founding moment and actually finding amendments. talk about the the right to vote they didn't say that the founding because of race and slavery 14th amendment section 2/15 amendment which was mentioned 19th amendment which was mentioned, women's suffrage, the 24th amendment and the 26th amendment. so no poll taxes and and young adults. originalism at its best is about thinking about not just the founding, but the later generations, which and the amendments they've actually almost all made project more free and equal, more participatory and. that project hasn't ended and we need a 28th amendment and the 29th, but we have to come together as a people to do that. and both parties are going to need be involved because it needs two thirds. the house

one who knows anything about native american laws is sotomayo -- i will never ever agree with antonin scalia but he was right when he said this. when it comes to native american law we make it up as we go along. you see justice clarence thomas in -- when it comes to native american law. his latest opinions on native american are embarrassing. i clerked for a federal judge. i know how they think. there is -- they are as biased as you and me. they see the world through their own prison of experience and education. justice is not blindfolded. and never has been. you cannot escape your own life experience. you cannot escape your own life education and you cannot escape how you view life. your parents, how the informed your life. -- they informed your life. to go before the supreme court as a native american is almost two commit malpractice. -- to almost commit malpractice. you don't play the patriots in foxboro and you don't go to the supreme court, this version. you will not find justice there. you will not find it with the states. the states have always been our adversary. they always wanted o

the cog was not always named antonin scalia law school.ther $20 million from an anonymous donor. orchestrated by that same leonard leo. and one of the strings attached was the george mason -- was that george mason rename its law school after scalia. when folks at george mason university, a public university, pushed for answers about all of this, the university after a legal battle had to disclose that renaming the law school wasn't the only string attached to that $20 million doughation. -- donation. leo and his donor wanted input over faculty hiring and that legal battle also unearthed the name of the anonymous donor. barry side. and all of that brings us back to side's $1 .6 billion to the leonard leo dark money apparatus. remember that with $0.6 billion, leo was able to orchestrate a dark money takeover our supreme court, stacking it with far-right justices that have already delivered massive victories for their dons. -- for their donors. overturning roe v. wade, undermining the government's power to combat climate change, throwing out