and then we will have a wonderful panel that will be moderated by a longtime friend, dick howard. i do not think you can have -- find any other better panelists. it will discuss replacement and retirements. and the past supreme court term. we are very proud that our panelists of this caliber will join us for this occasion and we're delighted as always to have our friend and circuit justice, the chief justice. sometimes it is hard to get the judge's to be unanimous about anything. i think you can say about judges sometimes which you can say about legislators, getting them together on something is like herding cats. if there is one thing that those of us in the federal judiciary argue now, it is our respect, affection for the chief justice. he is someone of great warmth and great humor. and enormous legal skills. and one of the things i think we respect so much about him is he has an essential sense of the dignity of the job. those of us in the federal judiciary anto a person are absolutely -- we feel it is our great fortune to have someone of the chief justice's caliber leading our

we are going to ask our moderator, dick howard, to begin to assemble those. do not go away. we have wonderful commentary ahead, and i would like to thank the chief justice once again for his role in making this such a splendid conference. cloud of -- [applause] >> thank you. >> please take your seats. we are about ready to begin the panel. we have a wonderful panel under the leadership of professor dick howard, professor of law and public affairs at the university of virginia. he has done this now for several years and we have come to admire of the manner in which she prepares the panel and prepares the cases and presents the supreme court term. i understand he is going to not cover many's cases, so you might have some interest in that. but i will call on professor herridge -- howard to come forward. his full resume is in your blue packet, as are the resumes of other panel members. prof. howard. [applause] >> good morning to all of you. i think some of you are veterans of previous sessions like this. we always try to make it worth your saturday morning. if you feel like gett

we have, this morning, and wonderful panel under the leadership of professor dick howard, d miller professor of law and public affairs at the university of virginia. prof. howard has done this now for several years, and we have come to admire the manner in which he prepares the panel and prepares the cases and presents this -- each supreme court term. i understand he is going to not cover many's cases, so you might have some interest in that. but i will call on professor herridge -- howard to come forward. his full resume is in your blue packet, as are the resumes of other panel members. prof. howard. [applause] >> good morning to all of you. i think some of you are veterans of previous sessions like this. we always try to make it worth your saturday morning. if you feel like getting out at 11:30, just to do not tell me, if you do not mind. we will review some of the significant decision spot for the supreme court's 2008-2009 term, which is almost complete. typically, when we do this panel, the term is over, but they have kept us in suspense. i tried to apply the chief justice with an extra

dick howard, professor of law and public affairs at the university of virginia. professor howard has done this now for several years and we have come to admire the manner in which he prepares the panel, prepares the cases and presents this, each supreme court term. i understand that he's not going to cover monday's cases, although i'm not so sure. he may have some insight on, that but i will call on professor howard to come forward and ask him if he would present the panel his full resume is in your little blue book in the back, and as are the resumes of the other panel members. professor howard. [applause] >> good morning to all of you. some of you are veterans of previous sessions like this. we always try to make it worth your saturday morning. i don't want you to wish you had signed up for the spa or the tennis court or the golf links instead of coming here. if you feel that way at 11:30, just don't tell me about it, if you don't mind. we will review, as you know, some of the significant decisions from the supreme court's 2008-2009 term, the term that is almost

and then we're going to have a wonderful panel, which will be moderateed by a long-time friend, dick howard. i don't think you can find any better panelist than jan crawford greenberg and lizzie greenhouse and john mcginnis and ted olson. they are going to discuss replacements an retirements, and the past supreme court term. we're very proud that our pals of this caliber would join us for the occasion, and we're especially delighted, as always, to help our friends to serve as the chief justice. as i mentioned last night, sometimes it's very hard to get judges to be unanimous about anything. i think you can say anything you can say about judges sometimes, which you can say about legislature is getting them together on something is like herding cows, but if there's one thing that those of us in the federal judiciary argue now about in this hour of respect, affection for the chief justice. he is someone of great warmth and great humor, and enormous legal skills, and one of the things i think we respect so much about him is he has an essential sense of the dignity of the job, so those of us in

then, following that, we will move into our traditional panel which is moderated by professor dick howard to discuss the supreme court term. there are still three cases look court to hand down. i understand that we are looking to one day hear about those. at this point, i would now like to welcome to the stage judge wilkinson and the chief justice of the united states. >> thank you, paul. >> the exit. >> thank you do >> thank you. >> thank you. [applause] good morning everyone. we are absolutely delighted to have the chief justice of the united states here to kick off our program on the review of the supreme court term. we will have the audience asking the questions of the chief justice. then, we will have a wonderful panel which will be moderated by a longtime friend. i do not think you can find any better panelists then linda greenhouse and ted olson. they will discuss for placements and retirements. we are very very proud that we have panelists of this caliber. we're delighted to have our friend and circuit justice, as i mentioned, is sometimes very hard to be unanimous about anything.

consent, and following that will move into our panel on the supreme court, moderated by professor dick howard, to discuss the supreme court terms. there are three cases to be handed down and i understand we're looking to monday to hear about those. so at this time, i would now like to welcome to the stage judge wilkinson and the chief justice of the united states. [applause] >> thank-you, col. 90. thank you. us in the judiciary one thing that those of us are unanimous about is our respect and admiration for the chief justice, someone of great humor and enormous legal skills, and one of the things i think we respect so much about him is he has an essential sense of the dignity of the job. those of us in the federal judiciary are absolutely feeling great goodness fortune to have some of his caliber leading our system. i have a few questions of you, chief. you mentioned last night that one of the things you had accomplished was to follow the calendar a little bit so everything would not be jammed up in may and june, but one of the problems you worked on, if there is one aspect of present operati

we will right into our traditional panel on the supreme court, which is moderated by professor dick howard to discuss the supreme court's term. there are still three courses that the court in handed down. i understand we are looking to monday to hear about those. at this time, i would now like to welcome to the stage judge wilkinson and the chief justice of the united states. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. . . and we're going to have a wonderful panel that will be moderated by a long time friend of howard. i don't think you can find any better panelists than london greenhouse, it john mcginnis, and ted olson. we're going to discuss some retirements and the past supreme court term. we're very proud of that panelists of this caliber would join us for the occasion. we are especially delighted as always to have our friend and circuit justice, the chief justice. as i mentioned last night, it is sometimes very hard to get judges to be unanimous about anything. i think you can say about judges sometimes, you can say about legislatures. getting together on something is like herding cattle --

we are going to ask our moderator, dick howard, to begin to assemble those. do not go away. we have wonderful commentary ahead, and i would like to thank the chief justice once again for his role in making this such a splendid conference. cloud of -- [applause] >> thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> now, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg, she spoke at the second circuit judicial conference earlier -- earlier this month and talked about supreme court nominee sotomayor. this is about 30 minutes. >> i'm very glad to be with you, wish i could stay longer, but monday is d-day at the court, the day all dissenting opinions must be in circulation system of sadly i will leave this afternoon and go right back to my work table. i wanted to start by mentioning that beyond our business as usual, there were at least three extraordinary events at the court this term. can you hear me in the back? ok. the first was that in january, the country welcomed a new president and vice president, and ju

howard and the panel. give them a hand. [applause] >> ted, dick, jan, and john. this discussion has, i am sure you agree has been most enlightening and stimulating. we've learned about fish that only die temporarily and other matters. [laughter] and it is no wonder this panel has become one of the popular highlight features of our conference. we now are going to bring the conference to a close, and i think it has been a wonderful conference. we have had a good time. we have learned a lot. and i would now like to call on our chief judge who calls this conference to adjourn, judge karen williams. >> i, too, want to thank each of our panelists today, and also professor howard for the wonderful job that he did add our moderator. this term included decisions on a great variety of subjects, and i thought you all did a masterful job of exploring those decisions and providing us with important take-aways. first, before adjourning, there are several other people i would like to thank. first, chief justice roberts for his willingness to be botha dressed -- both address the