indeed, it was three years ago that news of justice breyer's retirement broke and i was commenting all day in my area of expertise my last book as mentioned, supreme disorder, was about the politics of judicial nominations in the supreme court. i was commenting in the media and that night coming back to my hotel room, not a best practice, by the way. here's your and he lawyers. here's your seely component do not doom scroll twitter late at night when you're on the road getting more and more upset as in my case i was about president biden deciding to restrict his candidate pool for breyer's successor by race and sex. you know, i argued that the chief judge of the d.c. circuit, sri srinivasan, who happens to be an indian-american immigrant, was the best choice, meaning by basic operation of logic, everyone else was less qualified. and so if biden kept his promise, he would pick what given twitter's character limit? i in our fully characterized as a lesser black woman now, i deleted that tweet, but still think that biden should have considered all possible candidates as. 76% of the americ

justice breyer opinion whether it's right or wrong at that moment seems correct today. >> justices kavanaugh, alito, barrett, i would look at the district's finding that petitioners appendix 112 -- 114 about all the gaps in texas approached to regulate foreign websites are going to be completely undeterred and unchanged. vpn minors tech savvy minors can used to make sure they seemed like they're outside of texas but you have to search engines, he of social media put all those are decidedly outside the scope of texas law. the only way kids are going to be protected from the sources readily available. >> that is an underinclusive argument. i don't think we've said that as a state have to tackle every aspect of the problem or else they can't do anything. >> all i need to suggest is a genuine effort, a serious effort to regular in this area it would look like the federal laws are honors were considering. irrespective of source of certain content that's sexually implicit inappropriate for minors. >> what you mean genuine and serious? >> anger genuine and their interests. i think their interest is

those were the words of stephen breyer 20 years ago. and i think that it is notable to hear the current vice president not only several years ago, but then to echo those very statements now in the actual position of vice president, suggesting that the executive branch, when it is just for them to do so in defense of the constitution, may defy the courts, and that potentially could even be the supreme court. ali. >> so, melissa, we, we talk a lot and have talked a lot in recent years about things that are constitutional crisis, to the point that people may not really know what what counts as a constitutional crisis here. so we've had a few things that have happened since the beginning of the trump administration, where there have been lawsuits filed and courts have, have, have said certain things. some of them are about the constitution. so birthright citizenship is in the 14th amendment of the constitution, the congressional right to appropriate funds is in the constitution. but then there's this defiance of judges. what part of this is

joining me now, her very close friend and colleague, supreme court justice stephen breyer.ice ginsburg will be remembered? >> i think she'll. >> be remembered. as a as a very. >> brilliant and great jurist and. >> a person who did a lot. >> particularly for women. and for others. >> i've always been. >> an active person. >> biking, running. but yoga, it's really special to me. it's definitely a big part of who i am, and i love the way it makes me feel. but there. >> was. >> a time. >> not long ago when i felt i had to accept the idea of hanging up this old yoga mat. you see, i have symptomatic obstructive hcm. >> which left. >> me. >> so short of breath. >> i just couldn't get out. here making me feel like a bystander in my own life. so i talked to my. >> cardiologist and he. >> told me about. >> cam icu's. he said cam icu's works by targeting what's causing my obstructive hcm. so he prescribed it and i'm so thankful. he did. >> cams icu's. >> is. >> used to. treat adults with symptomatic obstructive hcm. >> cam icu's. >> may. >> improve your symptoms. >> and your ability t

that we saw or the last 200 years, from that point in time to now, i think it was actually stephen breyer about 20 years ago, i think, put it into terms that were very specific, saying that our national history and a recognition by judges, lawyers and the public at large to what the norms of abiding by the rule of the courts and the law, that is what leads us here to this moment. and instead what you hear from jd vance in that 2021 podcast, in that social media post over this weekend, was a harkening back to the andrew jackson's view of the executive branch in the courts. >> now. something i think no one voted to go back to the 19th century. goodie. nbc's vaughn hillyard, thank you very much. last week, white house press secretary caroline leavitt said that it would be up to the world's richest man, elon musk, to decide if he needs to excuse himself from work at the made up doge entity if it overlaps with his personal interests, which were awarded, according to reports, $3 billion across nearly 100 different contracts as of 2023 and account for at least $15.4 billion in government funding

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