to my second right is ben ginsberg the distinguished fellow at the hoover institution and nationally known political advocate representing participants in the political process. my goal ginsberg on the republican party of virginia and the executive committee he was very involved in the nomination process that had some consequences and finally elaine is the senior fellow with the studies program as well as the director of the centers for public management at the brookings institution. the author of primary politics everything you need to know about the presidential candidates. actively involved in the campaigns and ten nominating conventions. i want to start with john updike and what do you have in mind? in the third party movement that was an incredibly woeful learning experience. one of the things i've learned, which anybody that gets involved in the party movement learns the extent that the democratic and republican parties have instituted themselves not just as mcdonald's and burger king were the biggest organizational politics. they literally controlled the process itself. everyt

barrett after voting had already started in the senate confirmed her, she had a party with trumbo for ginsbergas buried in they denied merrick garland to even meet with senators. the majority of the american people said they did not want her appointment or anyone appointed until after the presidential election that was ongoing. how does he respond to that? guest: i think you are correct to be concerned about the state of the confirmation process. i would direct you to article two of section two that gives the president the joint responsibility to nominate and appoint or confirm a supreme court justice. the senate has its own independent role and he gets to decide, whoever's in control of the senate, how they want to use that role. how they want to use that power. the senate is within his right to not hold hearings are not allowed boats and other senators get to push back on that. you mentioned merrick garland, they decided to not hold a hearing to become a supreme court justice. democrats could've voted on that. they could've forced republicans to take a stand and the people would've had a cha

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marshall saying the sg job is the best when you reshape american law and this is -- and justice ginsberg, transformative on discrimination law, particularly with respect for women when she was a judge and justice. as a justice now, do you look back on clerking for and getting to know justice marshall and the -- marshall. our the things you learned from him in the way you do your job now? talk about that a little bit. justice kagan: what i learned from justice marshall is not peculiarly relevant to my job now as compared with the rest of my life. i learned an enormous amount from him. but he was one of the very few supreme court justices where his actually -- importance actually had a great deal more to do with what he did in a non-judge capacity than in a judge capacity. he was a good justice, by the time he got to the court, he was in a lot of important cases and dissent rather than the governing majority. even in dissent, he was junior to justice brennan, which in the supreme court, can mean something. justice ginsburg, for the last years of her life, was sort of the senior justice oft

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we've lived with the consequences of ruth bader ginsberg's late life arrogance.ed away during trump's term and was replaced by conservative justice amy coney barrett. >> rich: thank you. >> julie: pete buttigieg is facing bipartisan criticism how he is handling the meltdown of southwest airlines. some democrats say he could have done more to prevent the mass cancellations that left thousands of americans stranded coast to coast. let's bring in our panel kevin walling former biden campaign surrogate and the vice president of hg creative and colin reid, former spokesperson for governor chris christie and campaign manager for senator scott brown. thank you for talking to us. first off i never quite understood what level of expertise pete buttigieg brought to the table when it came to transportation. so i'm not exactly shocked or surprised at his lack of experience is backfiring. colin, all the tends tens of travelers wanted was to get home and get reimbursed. buttigieg hasn't levied any charges against the airlines for canceling and reimburse customers. why is that?

i was jokingly asked benjamin ginsberg who's an eye to see if interesting you did see again a kind of spreading and variety of primaries, and it was both something pushed by some reformers outside parties but also pushed by reformers within parties. it was a reaction simply put against the convention system which had taken over essentially in america as a we would pick candidates. not only at the presidential level, again national convention, but at the state and at the county level. and again these reactions about the sort of insider game in the corruption and other things in the party and the sense that the people needed to be involved was key in moving these things forward. i also want to just put on the table how unique america is in terms of primaries. there certainly are primaries and primary like elections around the world, but they are more the exception and will. hours per meter whole system course there are some nonpartisan elections and some more systems that kevin has discovered that maybe move away from the direct primary in a certain way. but if you think about at every

clear clear >> today's special guest michelle ginsberg. >> i'm chris and you are watching san francisco riegz the show that focused on reguilding and reimagining our city our guest is the general manager of the san francisco rec and parks, with us to talk about new parks, music and other developments. mr. ginsberg, welcome. >> thank you a pleasure to be here >> nice to see you again. >> last time was during the pandemic and virtual. so it is good to be back here. >> indeed. before we get in specifics, let's start with a broad question, how can will park's system play a part in the economic recovery? >> well, our parks system playing an important role throughout the pandemic. parks were here when people in san francisco needed them the most. a place where people could gather and could care for mentality health and fizz cat health and have a sense of community and a sense of place during a really weird time. and now that things are reopening and figure out how to recover, parks are going to continue to play a significant role >> people are out and having a good time. there are special eve

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apply and may even reach delegations to state officials, which would a dramatic change, as the ben ginsberg amicus brief explains. justice alito: thank you. chief justice roberts: justice sotomayor? justice sotomayor: counselor, could you deal with the examples, the historical examples your colleague spok about as supporting his position, virginia's 5 le, maryland's nineteenth amendment rule? i think your brief does an adequate job on the story issue, but -- mr. katyal: so -- so the mala one is just about the amendment process, and that's ser, and that's just a totally different text and so onnd certainly doesn't bear on the original meaning of the elections clause. with respect to virginia, it absolutely cuts the other way. that'the 1830s. justice sotomayor: that's what i thought. mr. katyal: so it's not the bruen, u know, time period of the founding, and we have provio after provision start even before the founding with the articles of confederiowhich i think blow apart their historical theory. but, with respect to virginia, yeah, one rs said this would violate the elections clause and, y

close -- be open until 8 p.m., that sounds very concrete, buashe amici briefs say, like the ben ginsberg brief, what about a hurricane or a plumbing leak or a terrorist attack, every clause is going to have open-end stuff in them and you're opening pandora's box if you side wi any version and he's got nine different versions. justice kagan: right. i was asking a somewhat different thing. whether this decision in this caseanemotely be understood to runntthe constitutional corollary of the rnqst principle. mr. katyal: miles away from it, which is why i think he's disclaiming it. i mean, that was thorough judicial interpretation for reasons our brief explains. chief justicrts: justice gorsuch? justice gorsuch: first, just a point of clarification, mr. katyal. you take the position that virginia correctly understood the constitution wn adopted its three-fifths requirement for purposes of calculatg rican american persons in its constitution. mr. katyal: no, your honor. there's several ffent provisions being debated in 1830. one is the teeifths provision. we're not talking about three-fifths.

i read justice ginsberg dissent to actll accept the principal or at least not dispute the principal vigorouyisputed principal and tt case and then i go to your brief on 40 to 50 and i thought, is that is unremarkable proposition and did notee your brief distinct standard between theth constitutions and i don't think that'she own 40 - 50 and i guess following up on justice kagan is what we what we have to rk on th' adverts if we follow somethin le that but why would we say, significant departe statutes and defensible for the constitutional interpretation and is thatin of really vi a causal. >> what i do think it's in a brf versus palm beach campus according about constitutions and state constitutions and just as kavag and the reason for that i tfold, number one, their scary fer serious concerns generally in the contest that you gave me before about adequate independence, those are actually reviewing ocural rules and state statutes and the like revieng the state constitution and apex state soveity andra federalism is general dferent and then in this unique context, whehe congress already has america

barrett after voting had already started in the senate confirmed her, she had a party with trumbo for ginsberg buried in they denied merrick garland to even meet with senators. the majority of the american people said they did not want her appointment or anyone appointed until after the presidential election that was ongoing. how does he respond to that? guest: i think you are correct to be concerned about the state of the confirmation process. i would direct you to article two of section two that gives the president the joint responsibility to nominate and appoint or confirm a supreme court justice. the senate has its own independent role and he gets to decide, whoever's in control of the senate, how they want to use that role. how they want to use that power. the senate is within his right to not hold hearings are not allowed boats and other senators get to push back on that. you mentioned merrick garland, they decided to not hold a hearing to become a supreme court justice. democrats could've voted on that. they could've forced republicans to take a stand and the people would've had a chanc

we thkthat the history shows that these programs can -- in the early, programasustice ginsberg has mentioned, the program in hockey, and the federal program contract explicitly included n americans as among the beneficiaries. it wod ach a point now where we feel that we e able to mentally consider race. >> i don't see how youan say that the program will ever and. osition is that race matters, because it is necessary for diversity, which is necessary for the sort of education that you want. it's not going to stop mattering at some ptilar point, you always havtoook at race because you say th re matters to give us the cessary diversity. >> i think there's two different questions there. we don't think that the compelling interest in diversity will ever expire. i think the question is whethera conscious measures need to be taken in e admissions process to reach -- >> but you'll have to check, right? you will not know whether you have a sufficient number of afcaamericans to give you the diversity thayo say is necessary if you don't look and check. >> i think that there will be some attention to nu

she became treasury secretary, i said to myself, this is clearly a historic figure, the ruth baden ginsberg a nobel prize and became janet yellen's traveling spouse. they med at the fed in 1976 and decided it was an equal partnership. >> just like everyone else. >> pretty heavy duty conversations at the dinner table, but it's a full-on partnership. >> and go further with that because this is actually, they're ahead of their time, and also it made many things possible for both of them. >> absolutely. certainly in terms of ahead of their time. this is why the relationship is so interesting. the husband, george, has always been ahead of his time in research, too, and they got married in the late 1970s, when, you know, women were just kind of first the workforce. people were figuring out how to do it. and they were figuring out how to do it. and they said from the very beginning this is an equal partnership. janet has kind of all the rights and provisions of the workplace but also georges has the rights and privileges of being a parent. he would pick the son up from school very often. and when

a deeply flawed precedent that prominent liberal legal scholars, including even the late justice ginsberg herself, long acknowledged was badly written and poorly reasoned. i'm confident the smear campaigns and baseless fishing expeditions will keep roping around, and i'm just as confident that justices alito, thomas, and the entire court will continue to ignore the noise and the smears and practice judicial independence. we also see growing evidence that the attacks on members of the legal profession who dare to upset the activist left are actually not limited to judges and other public officials. private citizens are not safe. earlier this week a longtime female partner at a major law firm explained in an op-ed how she was forced out of the firm after she dared -- dared -- to enter into a, quote, safe space for women and share her own personal views on the dobbs ruling. as she tells it, simply being a woman who agreed with the five-justice majority of the supreme court was a fireable offense. some of her colleagues claim that merely hearing her express a dissenting view caused them, quot