blackmun is this legend. even then blackmun was a legend. what was it like?very intimidating the first day because you walk in this marbled palace and kind of wind your way through ann you sit down and there's a stack of paper about this high, which are the, what we called the cert ú&titions, the petitions for review. and you're supposed to go through them and tell the jussice which ones look worth pursuing and which ones don't. you hink, he's asking me for an opinion? but -- but you know, you get used to it. you begin to understand what he's lookkng ffr and it's amazing..3 it's the most incredibll education anybody could gett >> it was. >> .for you, yeah. and are you a better judge with regard to your clerks because you had been a clerk for a judge like blackmun or &->> oh i think so, i think so. >> right. >> i mean, it certainly, they, they haveeremained models for me, each in theirú own way my entire career. >> yeahh tell me about that. explain what you learned from blackmun and explained what you learned from goldberg. >> well, maybe onn of thh most impor

i'm just as enthusiastic about baseball as justice blackmun was. would have joined the first part of his opinion. [laughter] when the marshals drove me here to the hotel last evening after they picked me up at the airport, i had a request which i think that may have thought was rather strange. a given street address and i said i want to drive past year. the address was the former location of sportsman's park and the first bush stadium because that is where rogers hornsby and dizzy dean and stan musial and bob gibson and all those great players play. for a fan like me seeing that, it was an experience that i want to have. this will be displayed in my baseball museum in my office. thank you very much. [applause] >> coming up and about 20 minutes here on c-span, we will have house minority leader steny hoyer and maryland democrat who will discuss manufacturing issues for the center of american progress live at 11:00 a.m. eastern. the u.s. house will be in later today, on tap is a vote to raise the debt ceiling by $2.40 trillion requiring a 2/3 majorit

edward lazarus, a former law clerk to justice blackmun wrote quote as a matter of constitutional interpretation is the most liberal jurisprudence, if you administer truth serum, will tell you it is basically indefensible there and you know, we could go on and on, but my question to you is this, do you still believe that roe and its progeny demonstrate what you termed constitutional fidelity? >> senator, it has been reaffirmed as recently as i believe 1992 and the casey opinion by the court, as the president of the court is and how to respect of the precedents of the supreme court aren't have to. in the case of the intermediate appellate judge, if i were fortunate enough to be confirmed, that means that roe is a compelling case under the caselaw so i would have to apply it safely if i were confirmed. >> and so you're saying it demonstrates what you have turned constitutional fidelity? >> senator, the supreme court has said it is an appropriate decision under the united states constitution as an intermediate appellate judge, i'm obligated to respect that. >> thank you, professor liu. want to than