look at scalia and ginsberg, the difference is values, not law. >> let's talk about justice ginsberg,two-time cancer survivor, but if she doesn't leave the court in the next two years or so, during the obama administration, she then possibly leaves her seat open for a republican president to fill with their justice of choice. and we know that there have been justices in the recent past who have said i'm going to stay until there's a democratic president. how much does that play into the decision of these justices to stay on maybe too long? >> i'm not going to give justice ginsberg advice, she's one of the great american people. but here's the thing -- justice marshall couldn't hold on long enough. they a thurgood marshall, he was almost there to clinton, but he couldn't make it. george bush 1st got to name his replacement. that was clarence thomas, if marshall had hung on until clinton, there would have been no citizens united. the affirmative action landscape of this country would have been totally different. so if justice ginsberg asked me as a friend, what should i do? i would say

and now steve clemens, nbc contribute tore and former usa investor mark ginsberg. mark, what is the israeli calculation with glouround troo now? especially at the end of what's been a few days of the world's perception of what's going on there has not been in israel's favor. >> agreed, lawrence. there is no doubt that right now, as richard just said, it's conceivable that this is a limited time to launch missiles into israel. but there may be more here. there is no doubt that what israel would like to do see an end to hamas' political rule over gaza. israel would like to see the palestinian authority back in control of gaza. we have to wait and see yet, and it remains to be seen whether, indeed, this is a few weeks or it could turn out to be several months. the more israel gets deeper into gaza, the deeper it is basically to try to rule out hamas. the israeli cabinet, just a few hours ago, and i just read this off the hebrew text that came out of that cabinet meeting. there are ministers who are saying that our goal is to rid gaza of hamas' political control. and t

ginsberg said. i do want to ask, i know sometimes there is contentious battles on affordable housing on the sites. i know they considered landmarking the cottage and also building 200 units 50 percent affordable housing. i know the neighborhood has gone through various discussions on this. i see equity as having open space for low income southeast neighborhood, but i know that housing is such a big goal. i'm just wondering what the history of that discussion from five 5 years ago and now we are considering this as open space, but if mr. uptike could talk about the need for housing and now we are moving towards this open space project? >> yeah. actually randy would be good in the tenderloin housing clinic. >> thank you, supervisor mar. i will say that there has been very strong support for this park and we are at a planning commission hearing in 2010 where joe fox laid out her plan for the next chrissy field for san francisco and i said, that's fine with us, but no one is offering us any money for a

and now steve clemens, nbc contributor and former usa investor mark ginsberg. mark, what is the israeli calculation with ground troops now? especially at the end of what's been a few days of the world's perception of what's going on there has not been in israel's favor. >> agreed, lawrence. there is no doubt that right now, as richard just said, it's conceivable that this is a limited military engagement to destroy tunnels but also to deplete hamas's capacity to launch missile s into israel. but there may be more here. there is no doubt that what israel would like to do see an end to hamas' political rule over gaza. israel would like to see the palestinian authority back in control of gaza. we have to wait and see yet, and it remains to be seen whether, indeed, this is a few weeks or it could turn out to be several months. the more israel gets deeper into gaza, the deeper it is basically to try to root out hamas. the israeli cabinet, just a few hours ago, and i just read this off the hebrew text that came out of that cabinet meeting. there are ministers who are

alito said the decision covers only the contraceptive mandate, but ruth bader-ginsberg called the decision sweeping, and asked . . . >> at the white house, the president declined to comment. but his spokesman said mr. obama feels the decision puts women's health in jeopardy. >> we believe that the owners of for-profit companies should not

ginsberg we understand we are still working on the budget. we'll see you back next wednesday. colleagues, no other comments or questions? thank you very much. up next we have the war memorial. mr. clerk? it's part of our budget. could you call items 12 and 13, please. city clerk: sf sf 12 item 126789 ordinance appropriating an additional $14, 496, 0112 for the veterans building seismic upgrade and improvement project of the department of war memorial for fy 2014-2015. item 13: [issuance of tax exempt and taxable lease revenue commercial paper notes - war memorial project - not to exceed $14,500,000] 13. 140641 sponsor: mayor resolution authorizing the execution and delivery, from time to time, of tax-exempt and/or taxable commercial paper notes in a aggregate principal amount not to exceed $14,500,000 to provide interim financing for the costs of seismic upgrade of and improvements to war memorial project and authorizing other related actions.1234 >> thank you. thanks for holding off for parks and recreation. >> thank you. i'm beth murray for the war memorial performing arts c

justice sotomayor joined by justice ginsberg. justice breyer did not adopt the reasoning of the majority that held this ban from michigan but he did vote for it and the fourth liberal justice elena kagan was out of the case and some felt that justice kagan and formerly was a solicitor general and had a hand in some lower court litigation on this probably was relieved in part to be out of the case because it was a very thorny issue, very difficult issue and certainly inspired passions among the justices as played out in that room that morning, so yes, art, i have talked to her and it will be in the book. >> okay. i'll read the book. there was one sentence in her dissent that particularly caught my attention after going on for eight or ten pages about the benefits of affirmative action and the great decrease in diversity that has been the result of anti-affirmative action legislation or constitutional amendments in places like california, she then has a sentence and says, to be clear, i do not mean to suggest that the virtues of ad

there's a way in which one has to look at and justice ginsberg called this a mine field. what he's opening up is a pandora's box. and clearly if you read the opinion, there is no limiting principle, he's just asserting for purposes of this case, contraception isn't a compelling thing not just to protect and privilege, but to discuss in the opinion. he just e lieds over the problem of it. to me it raises one terrifying possibility that contraception isn't a real medical need and that scares me. the other is that maybe this religion is somehow just a real religion and that the court is inserting itself into the business of deciding when the witnesses come along and the scientologyologists that their claims are less privileged. . >> you left out a whole bunch of other stuff. for instance, gay rights is the court's silence on that was rather thunderous. that's really the next frontier because we have seen this even before the hobby lobby case where religiously motivated employers will say i don't approve of this lifestyle. so i don't need to hire or do business with, i don't

what do you say to justice ginsberg and the dissenters who lambasted the opinion. she said that this could lead to a parade of hor ibles, including that a whole slew ofkm could come -- of companies could come forth saying any law they don't like is a burden on their religious freedom, and brought up skypetologists who don't believe in psychiatric medications and jehovah witnesses, that it could open consequences. >> the religious freedom information act has been on the books for 20 years, and courts balanced claims against the government's interest. in a cas of blood transfusions - i have been practicing in the area for a while. i never heard of a jw trying to limit someone else's blood transfusions as opened to their own. these cases have never come up. skypetologist, gentlemen heava's witnesses - they were free to bring the claims, they didn't do it. let's talk about what is going on. the government is trying to impose a mandate on the little sisters of the poor and mother angelica. he was facing millions in i.r.s. fines and refused to back down. only because the

ginsberg is right. we need to take the long view of san francisco here. once we lose plots like this in this development we lose it forever. we need more and more open space to really enhance our quality of life and protect it quite frankly as our city changes. i know the community process and the work at supervisor cohen's office and i have seen it firsthand as my office doing the san francisco reservoir at the same time and i think it's tremendous. the ability to connect that part of the city that is really now starting to emerge i think is a really unique opportunity at this time and these projects come up in opportunity. from my perspective, i think we should be all over it. colleagues, i would like to entertain a motion and i am supporting this. >> supervisor wiener? >>supervisor scott weiner: i move for positive recommendation. >> before can we take the amendments by mr. rhodes? so moved. >> i want to make a comment? supervisor mar? >>supervisor eric mar: i want to understand for an acquiring a property on open space for yellow stone oh #9 -- yosemi

ginsberg talked about in terms of the water fronted and this is the biggest picture and in terms of our open space acquisition situation there is, i have always understood it to be this property as part of a broader strategy. the board was i think correctly and thank you colleagues unanimously supported the acquisition of the future side of the knowey valley square which they worked on for several years and grants and fundraising was almost totally funded for the actual construction of that project. it was very exciting. i understood at the time when we moved fore with that site, that moved forward first because there was a time sensitivity about purchasing because if we didn't purchase it that we were going to lose it to development. i always understood the other pieces to the strategy for the purchases where the eunice property, francisco reservoir and as yet unidentified parcel in district 6 which definitely needs more open space but at the time and even now we don't really have anything concrete in mind. i'm sure that will change and i know i'm very committed to making sure district

and the potential to drive issues in relation to women voters got a lift thanks to judge ginsberg. she gave an interview so katie couric and grit tiffed the five judges that ruled companies do not have o provide contraception. >> i am hopeful if the court has a blindspot tomorrow, it will be open tomorrow. >> do you feel that the five justices had a blindspot. >> in hobby lobby - yes. >> ginsberg went on to say the conservative justices also ha a blindspot about equal pay for women. in the battle for control of the u.s. senate voters in kansas are getting ready to decide on their republican nominee. the primary between incumbent senator pat roberts and tea party challenger wolf. wolf wants to debate, roberts refused. yesterday, wolf in the red tie walked up to roberts in the glass, confronting him on the sidewalk. >> i want you to debate. keep your word. >> mel, this is not the time that. we have a regular scheduled event. this is not the way to conduct yourself. >> when is the time? >> this is not the time. >> i'll go anywhere you like, senator. you have given your word to the deb

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>>foned afgeornt nall me edanted t tai arnl0li.ionmay ce t fosbiaghose'v go bneer tlp, nosgibeic ginsberg, the five foot tall powerhouse on the supreme court has given a rare interview to yahoo!'s katie occuric, answering the questions a lot of people have asked, would she ever step town from the highest court in the land? keep in mind the justice is now 81 years old. >> all i can say is that i am still here and likely to remain for a while. one of my mottos is louie brandeis who was appointed to the court when i was. we were both 60. he retired at 83. i expect to stay at least that long. >> when will you know it's time to hang up the jibeau. >> when i can't do the job full steam. >> that's the frilly neck piece she wears on the top of her robes. katie talks to her about religion, the workplace, contraception. the full interview will post on yahoo! news tomorrow. >>> up next tonight, the limits of forgiveness, kelsey grammer, his murdered sister, and the new decision about whether the murderer should go free tonight. >>> and the hall of fame broadcaster, the big announcement that had fans

in every one of them, it's just what marc ginsberg said.eapons go across the border as well as men. and in the cameron readout, they said, putin and russia have not followed through on any single one of the commitments that they've made. so they've been signaling they were moving this way, and for putin not to yield means that putin has a bigger plan in place. and i don't think that what we've initiated is going to easily knock him back on to a different course. >> and ambassador, how do you read the fact that we're acting alone? that means we've tried to get more european allies on board with the next step and seen it's not happening? >> it's a shame, because in effect, the europeans, particularly the french and the british, let alone the germans, have a significant financial stake in not imposing sanctions with russia. but at the same time, their neighbors, poland, the baltic states, where i just was, as well as some of the other states on the periphery, that are facing putin, as well as poroshenko, the new president of ukraine, realize t

and we have abby ginsberg. so we're excited about guests that we're having. we had a little correction according to wikipedia, -- he is actually polish born. >> with all the different guests that you have with the films, what goes on with the guests and the audience? >> i think that is what separates film festivals in general in general from just going to a movie. you have an event and you get to talk to the maker of the work. and there's nothing like that you can ask questions and get them answered immediately. and there's time to talk to people after, lobby, see them walking the streets and talk to them so it is really special. >> it is a much more engage being experience. >> absolutely. >> believe it or not we're coming to the end of our time together. >> is this one of our young adult programs that everybody is welcome. and joshua moore found this at south by southwest. it is a gem of an independent film directed by steve mimms. and both the stars will be joining us at the castro and there will be a meet and greet. >> here we go. >>> we have come to the e

justice breyer filed an opinion concurring in part and dissenting in port and ginsberg, sotomayor and kagan joined and justice alito concurring in part and dissenting and justice thomas joined. so how do you even figure out -- >> your editor's on the phone moments saying 5-2 or 7-2? >> so what's the -- >> correct answer, 7-2. but -- but -- >> look at what really matters going into it and the interesting thing about the epa and recess opinion case and harris v. quinn on monday, we have certain expectations of how far the court might go, the union one, we knew what was at risk here. the idea that maybe public employees weren't going to have to pay union dues, the whole free rider question that we thought the court was going to challenge. they didn't end up reversing aed in intobood but a set back anyway and you have to figure out what to do and adam was saying that you kind of have to figure out what vote really matters here in the recess appointments, the unanimity of the setback to president obama and his nlrb appointments mattered and the 5-4 rationale is key and work them in both to

women get that. >> that was put front and center by the ginsberg dissent. thank you. >> that is all in. good evening rachael. >>> thanks for joining us. today at the white house they held a viewing party for the world cup. for whatever reason soccer is one of the sports where everybody feels better if we all watch together in a large group. not every sport is like that. today at soldier field in chicago and kansas city, missouri and piedmont park in atlanta and city hall plaza in boston and san francisco there were really big public groups of fans gathered together in the literal public square to cheer for the american team in their big historic match today versus belgium at the world cup. the big gatherings of people watching together included this

how important was this opinion, because justice ginsberg in her decent said it was a radical purpose that would create havoc? >> that's ridiculous. this is an important vindication of the religious liberty. and congress passed a law called the religious freedom restoration act which said if the government is going to interfere with the free exercise of religious they have to use the least restrictive means as possible, and they said this is an important public interest, but you are infringing on the rights of hobby lobby and you are drawing a distinction, giving one set of rules for profits and another set of rules for nonprofit, so extend that. >> what do you make of justice ginsberg's dissent? she said they could bail out of any distinction if they cited the excuse? >> it was incredibly -- alito said this does not apply to everything and it's a narrow decision and we are making clear here the real issue is that religious freedom shouldn't be determined by a company's tax status. he writes that the administration had already made clear that it's going to do a carve out for nonprofit

it could be narrow or as justice ginsberg warns, it would be lots of companies, depending on who wantso avail themselves of their opinion and how the court applies the ruling in the full court. >> the concern is it will use this as a precedent. >> at the same time let's look at the whole issue of corporate person hood, and something that was written - the majority, justice samuel alito wrote the corporation is: >>> you heard what the hobby lobby judge told me, she said that, you know, that this has never happened, that a corporation has taken this any further than this, and that this is exceptional. >> that was a terrific interview, she's a great spokesperson. the 20 years she talked about were pre-affordable care act years, and now there's lots of companies coming to the court about the affordable care act, which is brand new legislations, and that which they have to follow. >> as justice ginsberg points out. this has been established as constitutional law by the u.s. supreme court. you point out that the majority, the four justices represented by justice samuel alito in his majority

justice soto myier joined by ginsberg. a fourth justice was out of he case and some felt that justice kagan had a hand in lower court litigation was of eved in part to be out the case because it was a thorny difficult and inspired passions as played out morning. oom that >> there was one sentence that caught my attention after going or 10 pages that the benefits of affirmative actions decrease in diversity that is a result of nti-affirmation action in places like california. she then has a sentence and mean to be clear, i do not to suggest that the virtues of adopting policies should inform before the estion court today. and that was the first time i ould remember someone having written more than a passing sentence or two about some topic nd then saying, but it doesn't -- we shouldn't think about it in connection with the criticizing. does anyone remember another situation like that where not ce says, well, i'm writing what i just -- what i told you is not relevant but i it anyway? y do you think this is anything that?ropr

ginsberg says he was able to keep all of his employees.tigators are still looking into what ignited that april fire. >>> just in time for the fourth hero's women come private first class joe jones the third is now home. he spent 11 months deployed in afghanistan and family and friends turned out in his hometown of audubon, new jersey torque say thanks for his service. jones says he had no idea what was going on. >> this was -- this was insane. i weren't outside and i thought something was going down outside. i saw the cop cars and everything. iran outside and i saw the warriors watch behind them and it was breath taking. >> jones has been a member of the national guard since 2012. he took time this evening to thank those who served before him. >>> what great thing. >> big doings in camden. the city honoring the men and women who serve our country. with its second ever freedom festival. active -- >> gun, absolute. nice job. >> active duty and former members of military signalled the start of the festival from the battleship new jersey today

justice ginsberg articulated in her opposition statement. >> did we in this decision enter a new territory where people because we have no established church, because there are so many denominations with so many interpretations of religious teaching that really a boss in a family-held operation can say, you know, i don't approve of this. i don't like this ivf or other forms of operations that have come to line. gene therapy, who knows. rather than saying i object to tampering with nature. it's against my religion. i don't like it. >> there is no threat of that. as ira mentioned organizations, churches, corporations have been exercising religion for a long time. but aca was enacted it was always the law that employers to include whatever drugs or product s, services they want and exclude other services and products. in all that time it's been legal to do that, and we've never had these kinds of claims that had raised concerns that had been weird or damaging exclusions from insurance coverage. what the court said in this case it balanced the government's interest against the interest of reli

we've never saw so many people that were waiting for to you open up. >> ginsberg says he was able to keep all of his employees and investigators are still looking for cause of the april fire. >> back to your weather authority and what's brewing right now and there is a lot first hurricane of the atlantic season is gaining strength. you can see it right there. and right now, hurricane arthur is near georgia south carolina churning up all kinds of waves all kinds of actions up and down the coast. people are preparing for heavy rain, gusty winds and pounding waves. fox meteorologist nick is live in atlantic beach, north carolina tonight. nick, we talked to you live at 10:00 last night and the conditions have definitely taken a turn for the worst. >> reporter: they absolutely have. really they've taken the turn for the wore the here over the last hour or so. all day long the sky was dark, but it was completely dry. it looked like rain but it wasn't quite raining. over about at last hour, hour and a half torrential downpours have finally started to show up with the rain bands of arthur. t

ginsberg. >> just to comment briefly, supervisor, i think we agree with you. i think the issue regarding housing and open space where the parks department where our goal is try to support increased density and to make sure we have the open space to accommodate and ensure the quality of life as more homes are being built in this city. but to your point, if we look at the patterns and acquisitions we have been leveraging outside dollars with our acquisition event and we have date of -- done it in a number of ways. there was some private fundraising and a proposition in 84. the 900 eunice we have received a grant and that park will be developed with a combination of public funding and maybe hopefully some community. >> i understand and i think those are really significant efforts, but i feel like we fine tune what high needs are in order to match the neighborhoods that have the significant amount of ability to raise funds greater than other neighborhoods where there are other high needs area that aren't being done. that's the reality of how it works. i do feel th

ginsberg you raised an important point at the beginning of this conversation. so i would welcome a response from either mr. durham or mr. web. but if a plan looks at its network and says we have 30 ophthalmologists in our network and they are looking at the specialty designation but not looking aing aing a at subspec. should they be doing a little bit more of a deeper dive. if for example someone needs to see a retina specialist but that ophthalmologist doesn't provide a lot of retina services. should they be taking it down to the cpt level to find out? do we have, you know, an adequate number of retina specialists in our network to be caring for patients with very specific needs? so i think that is really important point. and you know i've heard of health plans using the geo access reports to help determine network adequacy. that doesn't go to the subspecialty level. so i'd welcome any thoughts that mr. web or mr. durham have or even mr. ginsberg on ascertaining whether truly there is network adequacy. >> let me say something quickly about the subspecialties a

ginsberg and some others, and we were told we could not have any kind of finding against the head of park and rec because it was the under lingses that did the work in the violation was and now we're told that in regard to planning department -- excuse me, the sunshine ordinance task force they were advised by the deputy city attorney at the time that they should pursue this with the underlings rather than mr. rahaim and now they were told well, no you should have been did it with mr. rahaim. this is like lucy and the football. >> [inaudible] >> sorry about that. >> let me -- but i want to pursue something further. i think we have enough evidence here and mr. rahaim violated the ordinance and it can be based on a willful or non willful violation. there is evidence to sustain a non willful violation given that we have in the record tonight that mr. rahaim is the head of this organization. he has one midlevel supervisor between him and these underlings who do these tasks. they report to the one midlevel person. we have been hold that mr. rahaim will discipline them if they do things th

ginsberg, can you tell me you plan to take responsibility of this property for certain from the department of real estate? >> yes. >> it will be under your portfolio? >> yes. and it's part of a lot of neighborhood planning that has gone on in the indian neighborhood and perhaps cohen's office can speak about that. this is right at the hub of several other parcels of open space. we have the real potential to create what some people are referring to as a green crescent. other people call it the chrissy field of the southeast. several parcels of over space along the water front in a neighborhood that is transitioning at a time when the city is partnering to invest in housing and transportation and as density in creases in that neighborhood we have an outstanding opportunity before us to plan not just a park, but open space that really could become a signature park of the city's open space portfolio. >> one of the other things that i brought up the last time when we acquired property was the fact that we don't have sufficient park controls, we don't have sufficient maintenance staff and with s

i mean, i think certainly justice ginsberg dissent is correct. this is full of minefields. i was actually there for the hobby lobby argument, and it was stunning to see the lack of regard for women. but from that decision, and other decisions that have, that, you know, certainly had the buffer zone decision, you know, it's better to be a corporation today than to be a woman in front of the supreme court. and i think that the hobby lobby decision is just the beginning of giving corporations free license to obey those rules and laws that they agree with and not ones that they don't agree with. >> giving the owners -- >> absolutely. >> -- or the managers and share -- >> the ceos, that's right. >> it's the ceos. >> that's correct -- >> they will be calling the shots more often? >> that's exactly right. how could the rights of one ceo, you know, or the beliefs, the religious beliefs of one ceo and his family trump the right of thousands of women to make their own decision? nothing about the affordable care act requires women to use birth control. but as we're already seeing, mil