i'm being asked as much about justice ginsberg as she is being asked? is it not enough that i have to answer for? i wish there was more bipartisanship in the current process. with that said, i do agree with justice sotomayor -- the senators of both political parties treated me fairly and respectfully. it is a shame it has come to a pass where republicans feel as though they cannot vote for the nominee the democratic president and a vice versa. >> this may be more of an issue with the appellate and district courts, but do you think it would be helpful if the senate imposed a role on itself to vote up or down on the nominee because some of the appellate and district court nominees strive for over a year in the nomination process. >> i think it is a problem for the courts of appeals and the districts. sonya, you have experience with that. >> it was nothing it was just a couple of months for both of us. >> the supreme court nominee is going to be short. it is one to be top priority and it will go through in a matter of weeks. but it is still the case and ha

i'm sorry so say. >> and justice ginsberg, you have more recent experiences with it. you have any observation, and justice sotomayor, do you have any observations about the process? >> well, it was a much different process with sonia than it was for me because i was the beneficiary of the senate's judiciary's committee embarrassment over the nomination of justice thomas, and they wanted to ensure they were civil. >> yes. >> they wanted to ensure there was women on the jew dish -- judiciary committee, my hearing was rather dull, and the vote was not 99, but it was close. it was 96 to 3. >> uh-huh. >> justice breyer was also a beneficiary of that atmosphere. i mean, the senate back in 1993 and 1994 was truly bipartisan. >> uh-huh. >> senator hatch was, i think, the biggest supporter on the committee. so i wish we could get back to the way it was in those years. >> what about your experience? >> i think what we have fall p prey to is the public's expectations that there are answers to every question, that a hearing is going to be a place where a judge says you or nay to

let's hear from joe ginsberg. -- phil ginsberg. >> it is a pleasure to be here to celebrate our trees and celebrate our community partnership. the recreation and park department has 131,000 trees. 131,000. thanks to voters in 2008. we have $5 million from the park fund that we are using to care for and maintain our trees. he will do it in the 2012 park fund in november. i do what should celebrate the incredible partnership with everyone here today. we like to say that we can't do it alone. at the arbor day, everybody. >> the department that helps us every arbor day to bring community groups out here and make sure that we have the right people educating many of our citizens about the environment and the director. >> let's hear it for the sun that is about to peek through the clouds. i am thrilled to be here today to celebrate arbor day and celebrate our magnificent urban forest with mayor lee, supervisor avalos, dpw and rec & park. it is no surprise that trees are essential to creating truly sustainable communities. there are a whole host of benefits that come from having a robust urba

ginsberg? >> let me dovetail on that and talk about the importance of the partnership backed iraq and parks department has with the department of children and youth, and families. the relationship today is vastly different than it was seven years ago. i wanted to complement maria for recognizing the recreation and parks department role in accomplishing some of the dcyf strategic goals. if you look at the presentation -- maria focused on the core investments. under maria's leadership, she has realized the recreation and parks department is a key player in accomplishing those strategies, which was not historically the case with dcyf. this is a very different philosophy that dcyf has today than it used to have. just to highlight for you some of the success of the in our departments, some of our partnerships include -- marie catoctin and recreation. we find about 120 youth working in the system in the summer and about 35 youth working with us year-round. very recently, and dcyf was also a partner a

ginsberg. i know you support this from the beginning. thank you for that. supervisor chu, i do not want to embarrass you, but when she says time and again -- that was the case before she got there, but when she got there, immediately, we met in a cafe and it was full throttle from there. that is why we are here. i am going to turn it over to two of bryan's classmates that will be able to talk about who is we are honoring here. >> good morning, commissioners. thank you for giving us the a opportunity to speak about bryan tuvera this morning. i want to share a story, to put more of a human face on him. i want to thank the public for showing up. it is great to see a full house for this important hearing. i consider myself a friend of bryan tuvera. he was my classmates and i have the honor of working with him in i want to share a brief story with you this morning that goes all the way back to the days of our academy in 2002 when i first met brian. as i think that, i almost always think of bryan as having a smile on his face appeared his quick wit and humor beca

ruth debater ginsberg and elena kagan live at 6:30 eastern. >> april 13th, 1912, >> caller: hundred perished on a ship called unsinkable. >> the look of bills were sounded. the look out cited an iceberg and struck the bells and the crows nest three times which is a warning saying there's an object ahead. it doesn't say what kind of options. what the lookout did after they struck the bill is went to the telephone and called down to the officer on the bridge to tell them what it is that they saw. when the film was finally answered the entire conversation was what do you see? response was iceberg right ahead. response from the officer was thank you. >> samuel halpern on the truth and myth of that night at 4:00 eastern. part of american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> now a debate over civil liberties and the role of the aclu. this forum, benjamin cardozo law school with health care, same-sex marriage and national security. we will show you as much as we can enjoy our live event at 9:00 eastern. >> we had a grander larger subject tonight as soon as i sat down in this chair. i remember the

ruth ginsberg may have been one of them, but i can't remember for sure. which they -- in which meeting they demanded they focused on the skrukconstruction industry. you don't mean to suggest we would end up with a plan that hire 50% women as operating engineers on steel girders in new york? yes. it was sort of, if you build it, they will come, to use the phrase from a movie. if you demand 50% women, they'll come. i said, wait a minute, there's no showing that women are available to perform jobs such as this. i think that's sort of ridiculous. they went out quite angry, and i was subsequently described in "esquire" magazine and "the washingtonian" as a notorious mail chauvinist pig. and i had been abrupt and rude to women that came to talk to me about this.chauvinist pig. and i had been abrupt and rude to women that came to talk to me about thimal chauvinist pig. and i had been abrupt and rude to women that came to talk to me about thie chauvinist pig. and i had been abrupt and rude to women that came to talk to me about this. one of the my assistants wrot

ginsberg. i am a 12-year tenant of the harbor. i am here to the object strenuously -- [inaudible] oh, no. i was speaking for the harbor. i am sorry. you call me out of -- sorry. >> [inaudible] >> hello. i only have a minute and a half? ok. my name is sally. i am here with the san francisco forest alliance. the discussion about trails in the bond that you heard was not the entire truth. the 2008 bond, they had those three criteria, but the trails the could be paid for were only in natural areas. the trellis and three-quarters of the city's parks were exempt and cannot be considered for any bond money. that is the concern people have with the bond and money going to nap. grandview park was one of the first drilling projects use in than money. there was a lot of problems with the community outreach. they have done a lot more work there than what seems to be just a drill rig construction. for example, they tore out what keeps the sand dunes from moving and replaced it with butterfly habitats but that does not seem to have a lot to do

ginsberg and staff would lead you to believe this is totally public access to property, it is totally paid for by the tenants associations. what troubles me the most is these new landmark rules are probably the toughest of any rules of any marina in the nation. and you are enacting them at a time in what -- most marinas in the united states are at i know you think you have a special situation in san francisco with the america's cup coming and i know park and iraq would like to extract all the moneys they can -- parks and recreation would like to extract all the moneys they cannot of this. but when all is done, you will be left as the city as guarantors if you cannot fill that the marina and these rules are guaranteed to cost you occupancy. i think you need to look long and hard decisions you're making. none of these people on boats. they don't understand the purpose of this harbor other than the general population needs to use it. the general population's are not allowed on the docks. now or under the new rules. i respectfully ask you to vote against this. thank you. >> good afternoon

still ginsberg, the director of the park, thank you. we would not be here today without leadership and guidance of the port commission represented by kimberly brandon. the director of the office and workforce development, my duties include the interest and development, business attraction and retention, small business development, international trade and commerce and workforce development. when you listen to the job description, you understand why this is so important. this is not only a breathtaking spectator event that will mark us internationally, this touches on nearly every aspect of what we do to improve the economic climate of san francisco. the america's cup will help us nationally and internationally. it creates business opportunities and jobs. the contribution to the economy is obvious. visitor's events, international television exposure, tax revenue, the less obvious but just as direct of impacts of this event will last way beyond the 34th america's cup races and the 5th america's cup races and the 36th and the 37th. [applaus

justice ginsberg says the whole purpose of insurance is to spread out the rest. >> -- risk that> there was a lot of in the recommended the problem with some of the people on the court is that they have had government insurance all their lives. most of them have worked for the government of the lives and they have always had easy and good insurance. they don't worry about some enormous thing where the insurance industry says "you have just reached the cap." those caps are already gone as part of this law. if it is struck down, we will go back to having caps on insurance spending, we will go back to having a 26-year-old not covered, 25-year-old not covered. there are also in this bill just thousands of things that have nothing to do with this -- drug regulation, all kinds of things. i kept getting e-mail from people who deal with that stuff would go "wha is going to happen?" as a friend might puts it, legal expression, "god only knows." >> the point nina makes is key to this. no question that congress has the power to levy taxes. does the congress have constitutionally the power to requi

i said i went to chippendales, and justice ginsberg. most countries you can't roast the president like that. so for a year after that at least on foreign travel, heads of state when we were somewhere else would take me aside and say, are you really a desperate housewife? mes it backfires. it was a white tie dinner, the gridiron. where they take themselves so seriously. it was on april 1st. so i worked with my hairdresser and i wore a red wig and came out in my evening dress and george says, you're not going like that, are you? and i said, yeah, i am. so we went to the dinner. some people thought i had cancer. some people said who is that woman with the president? nobody thought it was funny. i had gone through great trouble to get this wonderful wig. but it backfired. >> to what extent do first ladies get involved in the preparing the meals or menus that will be eaten just for your ordinary night? >> none. >> ordinary night? >> no everything they cooked was good. i do wish i was there. only for the meals. we did have tastings for state

she will be joined by ruth bader ginsberg, sotomayor and elena kagan. you can see it live at 6:30 p.m. eastern at c-span 2. also today live coverage of the indiana senate republican primary debate between senator richard luger and the challenger who serves as indiana's treasurer. the primary is held on may 8th. that debate begins live at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span or listen on c-span radio. >>> and as congress continues its two week recess, all this week on c-span 3 we're showing you american history tv in primetime. tonight from our oral history series a look at the life and career of president nixon. you'll see programs on the impeachment charges brought against the president, the oval office meeting with elvis presley and an interview with david guerra again who began his political career on the nixon speech writing team and later wrote the president's resignation letter. that all begins tonight at 8:00 eastern here on c-span 3. >>> april 15th, 1912, nearly 1500 perish on the ship called unsinkable. >> once the lookout bells were sound the lookout s

the breyers and ginsbergs who are on the supreme court that's the right judicial temperment.getting them nominated and confirmed. and being tough-minded enough in the u.s. senate to get these nominations through. you don't have to start imitating the worst of the republican you know, partisanship by nominating a lot of partisan democrats. that's not necessary. >> i don't think partisan democrats is the issue. i think this gets to the bedrock question, are we talking about cementry or a fundamentally different conception of what a judge should be. >> on the fifth circuit court of appealings where jerry smith sits, 16 of the 21 judges on that circuit have major financial holdings in oil and gas companies. now is that the kind of circuit and the kind of court that a victim of the bp oil spill wans to confront? we need -- >> we need to nominate, with all due respect, we don't need to nominate "nation" magazine editors. >> no -- >> that's not the issue. the issue is not that we don't have enough "nation" editors on this court. the nomination of reasonable ginsberg-type justices ar

gone to chippendales, and i wouldn't even have mentioned it, except sandra day o'connor and justice ginsberg saw us there. but that sort of humor doesn't really translate to most countries, because most countries you can't roast the president like that, and so from -- a year after that at least on foreign travel, heads of state, when we were somewhere else, would take me aside and say, are you really a desperate housewife? >> had yumor is such an importa thing. >> sometimes it backfires. i can't remember which dinner, but there is a white tie dinner. >> the gridiron. where they take themselves -- pardon me -- so seriously, you, the press, and it was on april 1st, and i thought, a-ha and i worked with my hair dresser and a wore a red wig and came out in my evening dress and george says you're not going like that, are you? and i said, yeah. i am. so we went to the dinner, and some people thought i had cancer. and some people said who is that woman with the president? and nobody thought it was funny. i had gone to great trouble to get this wonderful wig and that. anyway, it backfired. people we

supreme court justice ginsberg said of by were riding the constant -- constitution today i would now use that as a model but most referred to canada as a more relevant model. even before i begin, how many of you today thing the u.s. constitution u.s. constitution is a good model? of lot of view. can you tell me why? the microphone? >> it has been around 2306. >> so the fact it has been around means it works? i will use you as a foil. how many of you think the federal government works fine and dandy? [laughter] not one hand. is there a disconnect? no. why? >> [inaudible] people are speaking out to and this has been a stable country. we did have a civil war but putting that aside, there has been us stability and we are a blessing to the world. >> the federal government largely dysfunctional but the constitution does find? the government is stable. >> i will address two questions. is it a good model? there are themes including separation of powers better excellent and worth considering for any new entity making a constitution. in terms of a possible disconnect between the constitution a

ginsberg and staff would lead you to believe this is totally public access to property, it is totally paid for by the tenants associations. what troubles me the most is these new landmark rules are probably the toughest of any

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you're asking me about justice -- >> ginsberg spent justice ginsburg? >> right. advised to drafters of new constitution in egypt to use canadian and south african. i mean, i couldn't find it hilarious. >> what he's referring to is a talk that justice ginsburg a in egypt urges i state department mission, and her remarks have really been taken greatly out of context and distorted. she certainly was not running down the u.s. constitution. she was suggesting simply that there's always room for improvement, and she's somebody who in her own career has brilliantly managed to expand the meaning of the equality under the constitution. and i don't know of anybody in our public life he believes more deeply in the constitution, so i'll have to take issue with the premise of your question. >> thank you so much for a wonderful and rich talk. there's so many issues that i think you have raised that i think you'd probably go on for longer. but he made an interesting comment about the justices themselves who are, they are who they are. i guess what what i'm leading up to without

but she and justices stephen breyer and ruth bader ginsberg did voice concerns that even those here illegally be caught up in the sb-1070 net. justice breyer presented a hypothetical case of a new mexico man arrested while jogging in arizona without sufficient i.d. can you represent to us he will not stay in jail and defence for a significantly longer period of time than he would have stayed in the absence of section 2b of the law? opponents of sb-1070 say they are encouraged. >> it became clear through the court of today's argument, that the justices are concerned about a system of mass incarceration that is going to catch u.s. citizens and immigrants who are lawfully in the united states. >> though arizona governor jan brewer is feeling optimistic. >> i think that we will succeed and looking forward to june. >> justice elena kagan didn't take part of the case because she served as solicitor general when they prepared the case against arizona. if this ends in a tie, the ninth circuit provision striking down key provisions of the law will stay in effect. bret? >> bret: shannon bream live outs

we heard from justice ginsberg. she was as the question whether she would recommend the american constitution for a country starting or try to draft a new constitution. she said she would not agree should recommend the south african constitution because it was more up-to-date. she also gave a lecture not too long ago where she talked about all of the court cases that she would overturn or that would be overturned if they were able to get that fifth of those rich listed a whole point of them but to spend most of the time talking about one case and that of course was the helen decision. she talks about that case as the principal case that she would like to overturn. this election is the most important election in your lifetime. it is vitally important for the second amendment but it is important for all of the amendments and it is important for the very foundational principles and freedoms of our country. as always said earlier, you are all in. berets and i drove around iowa in a pickup truck with a guy named schock -

supreme court justice ruth better ginsberg said if i were writing the constitution today i wouldn't use the u.s. constitution as a model either. most pointed to the constitution in canada as a more relevant model today. i am just wondering before i begin my formal presentation, how many of you today think that the u.s. constitution would serve as a good model for constitutional creation in other nations? anyone? a lot of you. a whole lot of you. can you tell me why? is the microphone out there? i saw a lot of hands go up. right over here. >> it has been around 2 is 36 years. >> so the fact that it has been around a long time means to you that it works. okay. i will use you as a foil for a second. how many of you think our government on the federal level is working fine and dandy these days? oh dear. not one hand goes up. how many of you think our constitution works just fine? hands are going up? is there a disconnect their? who says no? tell me why? can you tell me why? i already have the microphone. [inaudible] >> going on in the national dialogue. even if you are on opposite sides peo

chairman ginsberg had a good analogy. imagine if the nfl quadrupled the number of teams but didn't increase the number of refs. would you end up having havoc on the field and it would diminish the game. it wouldn't be fair. >> what is the president proposing specifically? talking about more funding for cops on the beat at the cftc and he would like to see technology upgrades for regulators so they can compete with some of the high-speed traders on wall street and look to boost civil and criminal penalties for market manipulation and raise margin requirements in oil futures markets. larry, a big suite of initiatives from the president. most of what he proposed today would have to be approved by congress and with republicans in charge and on the house of representatives. not very likely all of this would move any time soon on the hill, larry. >> eamon jaifers, thank you very much. later in the show, i'll bring in my exclusive interview with mitt romney. take a listen to what governor romney had to say about speculators. >>

he was joined by justices ginsberg, society mayor and kagan. justice breyer felt there wasn't enough evidence here to justify strip searching people who committed minor offenses. he said reasonable suspicion should be required if the minor offense was related to drugs or unrelated to drugs or violence. he pointed to empirical evidence showing these strip searches really don't end up identifying a lot of contraband. >> warner: two of the justices, chief justice roberts, and justice alito, joined in the majority opinion but also wrote their own. what was that about? what was the thrust of theirs? >> they actually see a limit, a narrow opinion here. at the end of justice kennedy's opinion, justice kennedy said that the court did not have to decide that a strip search of someone who is not going to be sent into the general prison population was reasonable or unreasonable. and also he said there may be concerns raised if there were touching of someone who was being strip searched by prison officials. justices... justice alito and chief justice rober

[applause] we are honored to have with us this evening justice o'connor, justice ruth ginsberg, sonya stoudamire and elena kagan. this is the first time they have come together for a public program and we're grateful they have done sort to join in this celebration. we also want to thank the ceo of the freedom forum for making this magnificent space available to us. prior to being ceo has a history with the supreme court historical society dating back to his time as an minister of assistant.dt. -- frank was a president from 2002 to 2008. our panel this evening consists of the four women that come up to date, have served on the supreme court. even to summarize each of their careers would take far too long, so i will be brief. wasice sandra day o'connor nominated to the court by president ronald reagan on july 7, 1981, and confirmed by the senate on september 22, 1981, to succeed justice stuart. she retired on january 31, 2006. justice ruth bader ginsburg was appointed to the court by president william clinton on june 14, 1993 and appointed and confirmed by the senate and assume her role

we heard from justice ginsberg. she was as the question whether she would recommend the american constitution for a country starting or try to draft a new constitution. she said she would not agree should recommend the south african constitution because it was more up-to-date. she also gave a lecture not too long ago where she talked about all of the court cases that she would overturn or that would be overturned if they were able to get that fifth of those rich listed a whole point of them but to spend most of the time talking about one case and that of course was the helen decision. she talks about that case as the principal case that she would like to overturn. this election is the most important election in your lifetime. it is vitally important for the second amendment but it is important for all of the amendments and it is important for the very foundational principles and freedoms of our country. as always said earlier, you are all in. berets and i drove around iowa in a pickup truck with a guy named schock -

when ruth bader ginsberg, who has every right to do it, again, i -- >> she asked a question like theestion? >> well, ruth bader ginsberg realed and even ezra klein said this in "the washington post" at some point that she was going to have to carry the argument for the solicitor general because the solicitor general wasn't doing his job for the white house. ezra klein said she felt it was her job. now, i don't see this as a negative. i have the greatest respect for all members of the supreme court. i just question those on the left now saying that the right is doing things it's never happened before. of course, the right says that about the left when -- and just wait until anthony kennedy upholds the law. >> i don't know how he's going to go. >> and wait for the hell to rain down from the heavens from the right. >> which is more likely, that a liberal votes to strike it down or that kennedy or roberts votes to uphold it? >> what is more likely? >> well, we all know the answer to that. >> ok. but that doesn't solve the question that -- >> that's just more politicized then. >> oh, that