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. >> as you know, composer eric wang who is with us tonight has produced an opera called "scalia ginsburg." to beautiful music, you are both locked in a room and you're unable to get out unless you agree. scalia says, oh, ruth, -- can you read? the constitution says absolutely nothing about this, to which ginsburg replies, how many times must i tell you, dear mr. justice scalia, you are searching in vain for a bright line solution but the beautiful thing about our constitution is that like our society, it can evolve. are you two ever going to agree on big issues and still maintain a friendship? >> we agree on a whole lot of stuff. ruth is really bad only on the knee-jerk stuff. [laughter] she is a really good textualists. where the text is there, she's terrific. she's obviously very smart and most cases, i think come a we are together. i think we are together in a lot of criminal defense cases, of holding the rights of the criminal defendant. ruth and i are quite frequently in dissent from the court's decision.
. >> as you know, composer eric wang who is with us tonight has produced an opera called "scalia ginsburg." to beautiful music, you are both locked in a room and you're unable to get out unless you agree. scalia says, oh, ruth, -- can you read? the constitution says absolutely nothing about this, to which ginsburg replies, how many times must i tell you, dear mr. justice scalia, you are searching in vain for a bright line solution but the beautiful thing about our constitution...
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. >> as you know, composer eric wang who is with us tonight has produced an opera called "scalia ginsburg to beautiful music, you are both locked in a room and you're unable to get out unless you agree on a compromise. scalia says, oh, ruth, -- can you read? the constitution says absolutely nothing about this, to which ginsburg replies, how many times must i tell you, dear mr. justice scalia, you are searching in vain for a bright line solution but the beautiful thing about our constitution is that like our society, it can evolve. are you two ever going to agree on big issues and still maintain a friendship? >> we agree on a whole lot of stuff. ruth is really bad only on the knee-jerk stuff. [laughter] she is a really good textualists. where the text is there, she's terrific. she's obviously very smart and most cases, i think, we are together. i think we are together in a lot of criminal defense cases, of upholding the rights of the criminal defendant. ruth and i are quite frequently in dissent from the court's decision. you have it wrong. >> these 5-4 decisions where she is on one side -
. >> as you know, composer eric wang who is with us tonight has produced an opera called "scalia ginsburg to beautiful music, you are both locked in a room and you're unable to get out unless you agree on a compromise. scalia says, oh, ruth, -- can you read? the constitution says absolutely nothing about this, to which ginsburg replies, how many times must i tell you, dear mr. justice scalia, you are searching in vain for a bright line solution but the beautiful thing about our...
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. >> as you know, composer eric wang who is with us tonight has produced an opera called "scalia ginsburg." to beautiful music, you are both locked in a room and you're unable to get out unless you agree. scalia says, oh, ruth, -- can you read? the constitution says absolutely nothing about this, to which ginsburg replies, how many times must i tell you, dear mr. justice scalia, you are searching in vain for a bright line solution but the beautiful thing about our constitution is that like our society, it can evolve. are you two ever going to agree on big issues and still maintain a friendship? >> we agree on a whole lot of stuff. ruth is really bad only on the knee-jerk stuff. [laughter] she is a really good textualists. where the text is there, she's terrific. she's obviously very smart and most cases, i think come a we are together. i think we are together in a lot of criminal defense cases, of holding the rights of the criminal defendant. ruth and i are quite frequently in dissent from the court's decision. you have it wrong. >> these 5-4 decisions where she is on one side -- >> that'
. >> as you know, composer eric wang who is with us tonight has produced an opera called "scalia ginsburg." to beautiful music, you are both locked in a room and you're unable to get out unless you agree. scalia says, oh, ruth, -- can you read? the constitution says absolutely nothing about this, to which ginsburg replies, how many times must i tell you, dear mr. justice scalia, you are searching in vain for a bright line solution but the beautiful thing about our constitution...