ruth bader ginsburg speaking with nina totenberg last night. talking about why she basically pulled an all-nighter an friday night in order to put out her dissent in a voting rights ruling in which the court handed don its order at 5:00 on saturday. the majority order from the court means texas' voter i.d. law, the strict nest the country, will be in effect for voting in this election. it's interesting. the majority didn't rule an the merits of that voter i.d. law and whether it's constitutional. they just said the law shouldn't be blocked so close to the election under the principle it undermines public confidence in the election. if the rules about voting are changed too close to the time that voting happens. well, in her dissent, her up all night dissent, ruth bader ginsburg wrote the texas law is so outrageously discriminatory it ought to be blocked ahead of this election. the greatest threat to public confidence in elections is enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely impose an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denyin

last month at the university of minnesota, ruth bader ginsburg was interviewed on stage as part of a and during that event, justice ginsburg basically foretold that the supreme court might do this. they might leave same-sex marriage up to the lower courts to decide, unless those lower courts suddenly started deciding ways that contradicted each other and the supreme court had to weigh in. in the midst of that interview about this very important matter that ended up coming before the court and being decided in this big, surprising way yesterday. in the midst of that, the moderator interviewing ruth bader begins ginsberg praised her for her social media presence and how much people love her. >> all of you, after this lecture, should go out and look at the blog, the notorious -- >> templar. >> templar. >> the moderator there is praising her for being a social media rock star. he says, after this lecture, you should go out and look at the blog that has been created for her. ruth bader ginsburg in that moment, all 81 years of her, corrects the moderator and says, actually, it's not a blog

so ruth bader ginsburg ha had jt endured so those difficult days of her life, and justice sotomayor approaches are, and justice ginsburg shakes her head and says i don't want to get up and dance. justice sotomayor says to her, marty would've wanted you to. now, marty ginsberg was a very big personality. he was the kind of person who was the life of the party. so justice ginsburg actually got out of her seat and danced for a moment with justice sotomayor, and then she puts her hands up to justice sotomayor's cheeks and says, thank you. so there was another mobile. it was very emotional. it was uncomfortable. so people weren't sure what to make of it but mostly they liked it. well, i think most people liked it. there were some who thought wait a minute, this isn't how things work here. the clerks do the entertaining, we are not. so anyway, it was a great scene to find out about and i'm glad it your book you write about justice sotomayor. the justices buried in the personal assessment as this match with any group. some founder warm, amiable. others under a broad and exasperating. at the human lev

there, that is praising ruth bader ginsburg as notorious rbg, but if you don't know the difference between a blog and a tumblr, it's because you are not as hip and with it as 81-year-old ruth bader ginsburg. . >>> good wednesday morning. isis bears down on the turkish border while the fbi wants help "american idol"ing possible isis fighters. >>> a routine traffic stop in indiana turns violent. it's all caught on camera. more on 2014's most powerful storm. and j. law says those cowering with pictures should cower in shame. >>> isis is trying to identify a man possibly from the utz seen in isis video t. man seen here speaks in english and arabic. investigators say his accent could be american. officials hope someone may recognize the man flew his voice and appearance. >>> in turkey, media say at least 14 people have died if fighting between protesters and police. demonstrators tried to approach a police station in istanbul. officers used tear gas, rubber bullets overnight. the u.s. top leader general martin dempsey talking about the topic with abc news, he says he is fearful kobani will fall

because i know ruth bader ginsburg has said so, i agree with her.ion, is in regard to the voting rights act, recently struck down under the argument race system is not really a -- that racism is not really a problem and i clearly think it is a problem. do you think that they ruled badly on that case, striking down parts of the voting rights act? >> host: rebecca, how closely do you follow the supreme court? >> caller: i try to follow it fairly closely. >> host: why? >> caller: i personally went to law school. i'm a political science major that i'm interested in. i'm very interested in the subject. i'm very liberal that i find that the courts, too conservatively kind ever chuckles me. >> host: thank you, ma'am. >> guest: both very goods points. who would have thought in 2014 we would be thinking of deeper, deeper gender divisions on the court and in america. a couple actions by the supreme court toward the end of the term, revealed. the bench split along those lines to some degree. rebecca was talking about the hobby lobby ruling. it involved closely

route bader ginsburg appears to be in great shape and the progressives saying, please, retire now, please president obama a chance to replace you with somebody like roberts was when he came on, still is young, she seems to resist that and said i'm going to be here until i'm here -- until i'm gone, rather. whats your read of 1this? >> she is going nowhere. many including myself is she needs to consider stepping down. if there's a republican president an enthat republican president, a rand paul or a marco rubio replaces her, it hurts her legacy but i think route bader ginsburg, the battle she fought, you have to be an optimist to think you can overcome thousands of years of pay tri ar i can and i think she is an optimist. let's hope she's right. >> to the next term, let's throw cases out that this court is going to hear and you can just kind of top line them as the months roll along we'll follow and see what they say about the cases. he's start with young versus u.p.s. >> this is an interesting case, and one of the big themes of this year and the roberts court will be how to address discri

it's ruth bader ginsburg. hader." [ laughter ] sorry, i don't know where -- >> seth: i'm so glad i was so nice. >> yeah, no. you were very nice, but you were a bit of a dick. no. [ laughter and applause ] no, you weren't a dick. you weren't a dick at all. it was awesome. it was all really good points. and you actually -- yeah, you taught me a lot at the show, actually. you taught me what the phrase "hat on a hat" means. the sketch. so i had a sketch where -- that actually john lutz, who's the writer -- we wrote together. which was peter falk doing -- showing natalie portman how to do "star wars" impressions. [ laughter ] i'm going to let that settle in for a second. [ laughter ] and so i -- the sketch got picked because it did pretty well at dress. and then, you said -- you said, "hader, there's kind of a hat on a hat, buddy." i was like, "what does that mean?" you're like, "it's one funny thing but then another totally separate funny thing on top of it." and i was like, "i don't know. no, it's pretty funny." w

host: speculation continues over whether ruth bader ginsburg will step down. how is her health? what has she been telling you and your colleagues? guest: she has been telling everybody all summer long that she is not going anywhere. her health seems to be good. she is in tip top mental shape. she loves the job. she thinks two things, one, that it is unlikely the president could get some unconfirmed to replace her who would be in a similar place on the ideological spectrum, that he can't get, in her words, someone as good as her. second, she seems to think that a democrat, hillary clinton, i suppose, will win in 2016 and get to a point whomever she point whomevero ap she wants. her legal acumen is beyond dispute. it is not as clear that her political instincts will turn out to be correct. headline this morning, the legacy of chief justice john roberts. vinyl question before we let you go -- final western before we let you go. what is his interaction with his colleagues -- final question before we let you go. what is his interaction like with his colleagues? guest: unlike chief ju

we will talk to "elle" magazine about their wide-ranging interview with justice ruth bader ginsburg. first, a news update from c-span radio. >> u.s. businesses continued hiring at a solid pace in september. it is the sixth straight month of solid gains. employers added 213,000 jobs last month, up slightly from 200-2000 in august. 200,000 areove usually enough to lower the on employment rate. economists surveyed forecast that the government's report will show 215,000 jobs were added in september, while the unemployment rate remained at 6.1%. today marks the first day of whitel year 2015, and ben of politico reports that the white house plans to turn its focus to the economy. officials are strongly touting the presidents address tomorrow at northwestern university's kellogg school of management. the white house communications director writes that the president will make the case for what is always fueled american leadership, and that is american economic greatness. he added that president obama will take a step back from the rush of current events to explain what we have done to recove

so, yes, there is a blog out there, that is praising ruth bader ginsburg as notorious rbg, but if you don't know the difference between a blog and a tumblr, it's because you are not as hip and with it as 81-year-old ruth bader ginsburg. thank you very much for being with us. now stay tuned for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >>> jennifer lawrence wants stronger laws to go after people who stole her private pictures and former defense secretary leon panetta wishes president obama had made some different choices. >> i think we would be in a much better position if we had left the presence inú$npa iraq. >> former secretary of defense, leon panetta says, if no one else will put boots on the ground, the u.s. will have to do it. >> in order for us to be able to win against isis, you have to have some boots on the ground. >> his book "worthy fight" is critical of the president's middle east policy. >> he writes, too often in my view, the president relies on the logic of a law professor rather than the passion of a leader. >> my experience in washington is that logic alone doesn't wo

. >>> supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg who for a long time was the only woman on the supremeourt, says she's often asked how many female justices would be enough on the supreme court. she told nina totenberg of npr, when all nine justices are women, that would be enough. she added, "for most of the country's history there were nine and they were all men. nobody thought that was strange." she says she was lonely after sandra day o'connor left her side on the bench, adding, no one wants to be a curiosity. >>> football fans alive today will be able to say they lived in the time of peyton manning. this is what it looked like last night when he surpassed bret favre to break the record for career touchdown passes. >> and manning guns it. and it is -- we're waiting -- touchdown! >> wait no more. al michaels with the call that was number 509. play was stopped for a manning tribute, appropriately. he threw four touchdown passes last night, ended the evening at 510. said he was honored and humbled by the record. >>> when we come back, the incredible number of dogs our viewers helped to

of course, clarence thomas and sonia sotomayor and ruth bader ginsburg have their different backgrounds through being only the second woman on the court, justice ginsburg, the first lady and and, of course, the second african-american, clarence thomas. so they bring a different perspective to those things but they still come from sort of a narrow range of experience. and the caller has hit upon something that presidents themselves have thought about bucking. bill clinton spent a lot of time trying to persuade mario cuomo who at the time had just recently been new york governor, to be a nominee. he tried to persuade george mitchell had been senate minority leader to be on the court. he tried to persuade richard riley of the time i believe was education secretary. and pieces we considered bruce babbitt who as interior secretary. bill clinton thought about going that route. and i think president obama might have a little way thought about that, but the safer nominees are nominees who have a track record in writing opinions. that's what presidents have gravitated towards. and i think many p

just like supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg wrote in her descent, some people in texas have beenturned away from voting for not having one of seven types of qualifying i.d. >>> hillary clinton was heckled. they are pushing hillary on the issue. >> and over the years of service, you know that anthony brown has earned a bronze star in iraq and, you know, the dream act was passed in this state. >> very unchris christie in how she handled that one. >>> mary landrieu had some candid moments for meet the press' chuck todd. she told him -- >> very, very honest with you in the south it is not always the friendliest place for african-americans. it has been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a positive light as a leader. >> she also said the south is more of a conservative place, which is why women also faced challenges presenting themselves. >>> louisiana governor bobby jindal called her words remarkably divisive. >>> president obama is no match for basketball legend michael jordan when it comes to playing golf. here is how jordan answered host ahmad rashad when he t

but a six-page dissent, written by justice ruth bader ginsburg and supported by justices kagan and sotomayor, said the ruling could keep as many as 600,000 texans from voting, most of them african-american or hispanic. a lawyer for the state of texas has called those estimates "preposterous." early voting in texas begins monday. the white police officer who killed an unarmed black teen in ferguson, missouri, last august has told investigators he was pinned in his vehicle by michael brown and feared for his life. officer darren wilson also said brown reached for his gun during the scuffle and that the gun was fired twice inside the car. forensic tests showed brown's blood on the gun, on the interior door panel of the police car and on wilson's uniform. all this, according to an article in today's "new york times." a missouri grand jury is considering bringing criminal charges against wilson. he shot brown several times outside the vehicle. there's been a sighting of the survivalist accused of killing one state trooper and wounding another in pennsylvania. 31-year-old eric frein reportedly was

enforcement of the law could go ahead, just as ruth bader ginsburg wrote a scathing dissent saying inrt, the greatest threat to public confidence in the elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands. >> the irony is we've already had two elections where voter i.d. was the law of the land and there wasn't any change in minority turnout. so the claim that this law is to dampen minority turnout, just has no basis in reality. >> in texas, isn't the only state involved in this year's fight. arkansas supreme court just overturned that state's law. north carolina and ohio have also been in court over their voter access laws. earlier this month, the u.s. supreme court blocked wisconsin's voter i.d. law. one research product showed about 300,000 voters are eligible voters, roughly 9% of the electorate, did not have an i.d., certainly more than enough in a state where polls show the governor's race is virtually tied. those voters could make a

justice ruth bader ginsburg said the decision risk denying the vote to write -- the right to vote tohundreds of thousands of eligible voters in texas. the obama administration reportedly is considering a move that would continue the bush-era policy ignoring the united nations torture treaty overseas. in 2005, the bush administration disclosed it had secretly interpreted a u.n. ban on "cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment" as not applying to any cia or military prison outside of the united states. president obama, then a senator, opposed bush's policy and proposed legislation to undermine it. the u.s. now faces a hearing before the committee against torture at the u.n. next month. and according to the "new york times," "president obama's legal team is debating whether to back away from his earlier view," and "[reaffirm] the bush administration's position that the treaty imposes no legal obligation to bar cruelty outside u.s. borders." two united nations officials are in detroit for a fact-finding mission over the city shutting off of water to thousands of residents. the city began cu

. >> advocates said there could be 500,000 people disenfrance chized by the decision as ruth bader ginsburglaims. thank you very much. out of time, but that does it for us. tomorrow on the show, pulitzer prize winning science journalist and on the trail, tom davis and minnesota congressman vin webber. follow us online and on facebook and twitter@mitchell reports. ronan farrow has a big interview coming up with malala. >> it's incredibly exciting, her first since winning the nobel. that's an exclusive for us. she should have a range of strong opinions on a lot of news coming out today. we have a big show here including an all-star panel of mayors looking at the white house's efforts to turn out the black vote. that could be make or break in the mid-terms. see you in a few. we wish abov. so we quit selling cigarettes in our cvs pharmacies. expanded minuteclinic, for walk-in medical care. and created programs that encourage people to take their medications regularly. introducing cvs health. a new purpose. a new promise... to help all those wishes come true. cvs health. because health is everyt

while the supreme court said enforcement could go ahead, justice ruth bader ginsburg said in part, the greatest threat to public confidence in election in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposely discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds and thousands of eligible voters. republicans have long held it isn't discriminatory against minori minorities. >> we've already had two elections where voter i.d. was the law of the land. this wasn't any change in minority turnout. the claim that this law is to dampen minority turnout is just not -- has no basis in reality. >> arrived quickly at the supreme court from the lower court ruling. this isn't a ruling of the constitutionality of the law but the implementation which can go ahead now. >> texas isn't the only place where voter i.d. laws have ended up in court. >> not at all. arkansas supreme court just overturned that law and ohio as well and earlier this month, the supreme court blocked wisconsin's voter i.d. law. in wisconsin, research showed about 300,00

justice ruth bader ginsburg is going to be hosting this event in a very short time so we're very honoredk the idea of what the three of us do in making sure the public is aware of the law and sometimes the problem with the law i would like to think contributed to it so it's something we all share together. >> you are so sweet. >> congratulations. well deserved and it is our honor. it's my honor that i have the two of you with me every weekend and that you all bring your expertise. you're smart and your humor, i love that the most every saturday. >> it's an honor and privilege. >> thanks so much. congratulations to you, avery. well deserved. we're so proud of you. it is one of the largest cheating scandals ever uncovered at a major university. details on how students got as without even going to a class and what this means for their degrees. >>> the university of north carolina is reeling after a report showed that thousands of students took fake classes to get their as. the classes never actually convened, students just wrote a paper. the eight-month investigation found that it went on f

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in her dissent of the order, justice ruth bader ginsburg said the rules, quote, may prevent more thangistered texas voters from voting for lack of compliant identification, a sharply disproportionate percentage of those voters are african-american and minorities. this is going to be the first time this law will be used in an election of this size. talk about the impact. what is it going to be? >> this is a sad day for texas and for democracy. the supreme court is allowing a law found by a judge that was enacted purposely to discriminate against the voting rights of latinos and african-americans will be allowed to affect our electoral process. we expect that about 600,000 registered voters in texas, people who are eligible, people who have been voting to not possess the kind of identification that this law will require. we also expect a number of voters to be confused about what kind of identification they need to bring. we need to remember that this law has now been struck down twice by courts. it was struck down under section 5 of the voting rights act and it would still have been st

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you heard a little bit of this sentiment expressed by ruth bader ginsburg in a speech she gave. period at the minnesota law school a couple of weeks ago. she said we shouldn't rush. it was the same justice who thought the court was too quick to rule on abortion. she thought the decision was right but it came too soon. maybe some justices think the country isn't ready for the supreme court to say this. whatever reason. we don't know but these are the possibilities. >> big breaking news there. the supreme court -- we can't thank you enough, pete williams. all the same sex appeals before the court are not going to be heard. the circuits same-sex marriage is legal. very significant. we'll have more about that throughout the day. >>> all right, let's do trivia time. william howard taft is the only person who served as president and supreme court justice. congratulations to today's winner. we'll be right back. delightfulls morsels, the chocolate you know and love now filled with caramel, peanut butter, cherry, and mint. so peanut butter up some brownies. and caramel-ify those chocolat

joining together to oppose the ruling were the court's three women justices, ruth bader ginsburg whosething dissent was joined by soniasonia. writing the greatest threat to public confidence and elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law. one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters. sharon with the naacp defense fund and texas representative trey martinez fisher. thank you both for being here. >> thank you, joy. >> i want to start with you, mr. fisher, because you are -- your group is one of those that actually bright this case because of the prospect of hundreds of thousands of texans, mainly black and latino, who will -- or possibly will be denied the right to vote in texas. do you still worry the number of potential people who won't be able to vote is as high as 600,000? >> absolutely. we know voter i.d. is really a solution looking for a problem. when you stud yt data after 2008 and 2010, 13 million people voted in the state of texas and only two peopl

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secondly, just as significantly, because eric holder, ruth bader ginsburg we assume are liberal minded people. the gao recently released a report in september that showed what people have been saying for a long time. voter i.d. laws in states like kansas and tennessee led to reduction of numbers of blacks and people who voted. that's more independent evidence. i think it's going to make it harder for republicans to pass these laws. the effect on the election is a little harder to analyze because of the fact a lot of times if you don't have the proper i.d., you cast what's called a provisional ballot. then a lot of these states, those end up not making a big difference because i assume in texas the republicans will win those elections overwhelmingly. what i think you might see this year, which is why it's important -- it's important who gets the vote for a lot of reasons, but in north carolina there's going to be a very close election. you see a lot of people who cast provisional ballots and then somehow not allowed to have those votes cast. you might have a florida 2000 like controvers

jeffrey brown explores the endurance of ruth bader ginsburg. >> brown: and i'm joined by legal expertsurt watchers. you wrote an essay in a political magazine calling for justice ginsburg to step down. he's the dean of the court of law. and we're also joined by jeffrey rosen, the legal affairs editor and the president and c.e.o. of the national constitution center. well, summarize the case for justice ginsburg stepping down for us. >> in march of this year, i read an op-ed in the "los angeles times" urging justice ginsburg to step down at the end of the term, which was this past july. i said that's the only way she could be sure that someone with her views and values would take place on the court. if the republicans take the senate in november, president obama picks a successor, i'm greatly concerned. if a republican wins the presidency in 2016, a conservative would then be taking her place. >> brown: so jeffrey rosen, it's a kind of political strategy motive i guess. what's your response? >> well, i asked justice ginsburg what her response was to the calls that she resign, and she sai

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bader ginsburg, sonia sotomayor, and elena kagan dissented from the decision, which will now requireoters in the state to present a driver's license, military id, or passport before casting their vote at the ballot box. in 2011 butenacted was soon blocked by a provision in the federal voting rights as a dot that provision was later struck down by a 2013 supreme court decision prompting texas officials to put the log back into effect. notes thatrk times" the law has been used in several statewide election since the 2013 decision but never in a federal election. now for the race for u.s. senate in colorado, democratic senator mark udall is running for a second term against republican congressman cory gardner. the two recently participated in their third debate. it comes to us courtesy of kusa tv in denver. it is an hour. >> good evening. it has become almost clichÉ to say that the u.s. senate could hinge on this race, but it makes it no less true. our audience here tonight has agreed to refrain from applause and cheering during the debate to maximize the amount of time that we have for

justice ruth bader ginsburg wrote a scathing dissent saying in part the greatest threat to public confidence in the elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law. one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax. and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters. republicans have long held the law isn't discriminatory against minorities. >> the irony is we already had two elections where voter i.d. was the law of the land and there wasn't a change in the minority turnout. >> arkansas supreme court's overturned that voter i.d. law and north carolina and ohio have been in court over their voter access laws. the supreme court blocked wisconsin's voter i.d. law. one research project showed about 300,000 eligible voters, roughly 9% in wisconsin didn't have i.d. it showed the governor's race is virtually tied. >> thanks a lot. leyland vitter from our washington newsroom. >>> well, rick perry now calling for a travel ban from those western countries that are stricken with ebola. you know, the governor previously stopped short

after that, laurie abraham talks about her recent interview with ruth bader ginsburg.us, your phone calls and facebook posts and tweak. washington journalist live every day on c-span. >> here are a few of the comments we have received from our viewers. >> i am a constant c-span viewer. i want to say that when you allow republican senators are, there is a lot going on with that demagoguery. and the attempt they are -- they don't address the issue, they demagogue and a filibuster and i wish you guys would recognize that. the caller asked a specific question, so please answer it. >> my common is a suggestion that i would like to see c-span have a line set up especially when there is a representative on and that will line be set up for the people so they can call them directly and ask questions and i thought that that would be a good idea and a good way order the representatives to be accountable to hear from their constituents. when you have them on, let them be commented to buy their constituents. >> i think that c-span is a great show, but we have republicans and democr

. >> who said this: >> supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg, discussing her disagreement in the citizens united case. we're talking a lot about that because of the voting rights issues that are up front and center. the supreme court is back in session this morning on sunday, six of the justice attended the red mass, kicking off the judicial season. the high court will consider dozens of cases, one big issue is not on the docket yet. randall pinkston is in washington with more. >> the proverbial elephant in the room for the justice is same-sex marriage. some states permit it, a lot don't. legal experts expect the high court to determine the issue. there are dozens of other issues that the justice will consider. >> the supreme court returns this morning with a full plate to consider. the nine justice will hear some 50 cases, hot button issues, ranging from religious freedom and workplace diminution to u.s. foreign policy. on the docket, a prison inmate in arkansas said his muslim faith requires him to grow a board but correctional officers say it pose as safety threat, a place to

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that, we don't know the other thing we do know, a couple of weeks ago, justice ruth bader ginsburg at a speech in minnesota said in her opinion , she did not think the timing was right to hear these cases because there was not a lower court split. have gone cases that on to lower courts have struck down same-sex marriage bans and the supreme court typically waits until it has a split before it jumps in on an issue. reading from justice kim berg's -- justice ginsburg's comments earlier -- that's one vote. but in terms of the others and how they lined up on we just don't know. >> this does not necessarily settle the case and the court down the road could take it up in the future, correct? >> that's right. just because they are not going to get involved now doesn't mean they won't get involved later come a even later this term. if we get one of those rulings that says a ban on same-sex marriages legal, then we have a circuit split and we would have the conditions necessary in justice ginsburg -- justice ginsburg's thinking at least. we have a case going on in new orleans for the fifth ci

i think ruth bader ginsburg is on the record that moving slow is better, letting things play out. were probably four justices who really didn't want to see the supreme court put their blessing on these marriages going forward. but i was going to say, i think this is a very interesting sort of connection back to the fair housing discussion because one of the things that i think is very different about the gay and lesbian community is that they're disbursed. they are -- everyone has friends, family, they're everywhere. and so i think as the world becomes more free and people start recognizing that maybe their brother is gay and they have an aunt or cousins or their neighbors, you don't have the issue of segregation that happens among other communities. so i think people are much more open because if your son comes out and is like john cassik, the governor of ohio who all of a sudden is fine with same sex marriage because his son is gay. well, your son doesn't turn out to be black all of a sudden. i think issues of race are treated very differently because they don't have exposure. >

but, justice ruth bader ginsburg, otherwise known as the notorious rbg joined by sonia society merit alana kagan explained why the decision her colleagues reached was the wrong one echoing the findings of the u.s. district judge who struck down the law last week. justice ginsburg writes that, quote, senate bill 14 operates as an unconstitutional poll tax. senate bill 14 may prevent more than 600,000 registered texas voters, about 4.5% of all registered voters, from voting in person for lack of compliant identification. a sharply disproportionate personal of those voters are african-american or hispanic. joining me now, sandra lily, editor for the latino page at nbcnews.com. cornell brooks, the new president and ceo of the naacp. nicholas confessore and alphonso aguilar, who is executive director for the american principals project latino partnership. so nice to have you all here. i want to start with you. how big and how consequential is this decision? >> listen, the federal district judge in texas wrote an 150-page ruling last week. she basically slammed it and said this is an uncon

ruth bader ginsburg and sotomayor dissented. washington, d.c. is next t gloria. what is your level of confidence? >> caller: not very confident at all. >> host: why is that? >> caller: i can they should shut the borders down and start taking care of the united states for a change and if they handle it like they handling the immigration, then we in trouble. i think they should do you know, look out for us sometimes. they never look out for the people in the united states at all. >> host: joe from maryland. somewhat confidence. tell us why. >> caller: hi is it me? joe? >> host: yes. you're on. >> caller: somewhat confident but i think the problem here is incentives f you're in western africa and you have ebola, i think there is a strong incentive for you to fly to america to get the best care in the world and i'm not sure how you fix that problem. i'm not sure how you prevent somebody from coming here. i can tell you if i had ebola and i was in west africa, that's the first thing i would do, i would gather any resources and fly to america to get the best medical se

ginsburg -- bader in the case that berger wrote --olving the estate holding it was a rational -- irrational to disqualify women. that is a groundbreaking case and i don't think he is given enough credit for that decision and they did not rely on any particular scrutiny, he basically said this is a lot of nonsense. [laughter] >> looking at your confirmation proceedings, should the other -- the other concerned that was raised, people were concerned about your health. >> that's right. [laughter] >> i think you've proven them wrong. two years earlier, i had a heart bypass operation and it was a new procedure at that time. >> in the weight of history and the fact that you were nominated and confirmed, it it was next ordinary moment in the history of the country. for more than 30 years on the bench, you were next ordinary champion of the rule of law and we were all very privileged as our students are starting their legal career, to be able to listen to you. on behalf of the entire georgetown law community, i would like to present -- we have ties, but we don't have bowties. you a clock that commem

host: speculation continues over whether ruth bader ginsburg will step down. how is her health? what has she been telling you and your colleagues? guest: she has been telling everybody all summer long that she is not going anywhere. her health seems to be good. she is in tip top mental shape. she loves the job. she thinks two things, one, that it is unlikely the president could get some unconfirmed to replace her who would be in a similar place on the ideological spectrum, that he can't get, in her words, someone as good as her. second, she seems to think that a democrat, hillary clinton, i suppose, will win in 2016 and get to a point whomever she point whomevero ap she wants. her legal acumen is beyond dispute. it is not as clear that her political instincts will turn out to be correct. headline this morning, the legacy of chief justice john roberts. vinyl question before we let you go -- final western before we let you go. what is his interaction with his colleagues -- final question before we let you go. what is his interaction like with his colleagues? guest: unlike chief ju

he ended up dying a few years later, and her colleagues -- including justice ruth bader ginsburg -- thinkthat she regretted leaving when she did. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. [inaudible conversations] >> founded by former first lady laura bush, the texas book festival has been held in austin, texas, since 1996. booktv's live coverage will resume in a moment. [inaudible conversations] >> here's a look at some books that are being published this week. radio host glenn beck tells the stories of ten americans who he believes are misremembered in "dreamers and deceivers." karen armstrong challenges the idea that violence is an intrinsic quality in many of the world's dominate religions. jill he por tells the story of feminism by examining the creation of the first female superhero in "the secret history of wonder woman." gary crist's book examines the history of new orleans through the struggle to keep the city's vice district operational. in the south china sea, bbc news reporter bill hayton deconstructs the complex history of the important asian trade route.