espinel well, justice blackmun over his time he did have more women will clerks than any of his time. i don't know the current statistics but women make up about a third of the clerks and there from chicago and there isn't a lot of educational diversity but it is a major prize especially now that i've read recently the law firms are paying a bonus of almost a quarter of a million dollars to sign as a first-year associate comes it's a pretty amazing situation. >> my question was whether you think that the way that the health care decision was commonly perceived might be somewhat off base just in terms of its untypically interpreted in terms of a kind of partisan issue is it not upheld but the court did strike down congress's spending power which is kind of an extraordinary thing as you alluded to earlier and also cut back on the power under the commerce clause both of which could have very long lasting future affect on the congress power to regulate. i'm wondering if that is as significant as they have done with all law itself.

hugo black left and they were replaced by richard nixon with chief justice warren burger, harry blackmun, lewis powell and william rehnquist and as you think about that list, it illustrates the scene that i think is a very in part and part of the oath but it is the theme of american politics over the past generation and that is the evolution of the republican party. it is the most important story in american politics. it's the most important story in the supreme court because moderate republicans dominated the supreme court for two generations, and moderate republicans are gone. they are gone at the supreme court, they are gone in the united states congress. arlen specter is fighting for his life now and i had the privilege of covering the senator specter who is a great character. often during his tenure in the senate he left the republican party literally but the republican party had left him and as you look at nixon's appointment in the court, the 1970's in a lot of people thought they are granted move away to the right because nixon has these appointments the 70's but what were the bi

this was justice blackmun, who wrote the roe v wade decision, passed away. he is in front of the gates, in front of the pearly gates. all of these babies saying, what trimester were you in? yes, it gets that reaction a lot. my wife and i have been married for 31 years. and to tell you our relationship, in 1998 we were expecting our second child, and she was then labor, ready to burst labor, this was election day 1998, we stopped by the voting place so she could cancel out my vote. [laughter] [applause] that dovetails into how we can be friends in editorial cartooning circles. we disagree on the stuff. i am to the right. i worked on reagan's campaigns. i could bore you with the rest, butbut we still share the same values. we want our kids to go to school that teach them. how we get there, a little different routes. the iraq war, and there is france on the tread. i just want to point out, if you drop a squished poodle,that is cartoon excellence. i do believe in the culture of life. i am against the death penalty, abortion, euthanasia. i think there's room for