if there is, please come forward. >> on the legislation, phil ginsburg mentioned that there is a rulingere has to be a half mile distance of walking to get to a park. that is totally out of sync with reality. i think that has to be changed. because that is archaic. how can every person walk a half mile to a park? it is a possible. i think that has to be considered for change as soon as possible. >> is there anyone else who like to make public comment? please come forward. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen, members of the recreation and park commission. and the manager of the rec and park commission. i am going to put an order of the termination

justice ruth bader ginsburg, a supporter of abortion rights, is among the critics of roe versus wade, believing abortion should be protected under the right to equality, which is broadly identified in the constitution, rather than under the right to privacy, which is ambiguous. what if ginsburg were to have the votes for a broad ruling finding abortion laws discr bopp: if the right to abortion was reformulated in that way, it would mean that all the current restrictions on abortions that are saving perhaps a hundred thousand or more lives a year-parental notification, abortion funding restrictions, informed consent, waiting periods and all-would be struck down. so, losing is not risk-free. o'brien: this has raised a philosophical conundrum for at least some abortion opponents: do you stand up for what you believe is right, even if it means a step back for the cause you passionately embrace? lt. gov. bryant: we believe that it may not be perfect, but don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good, and we believe this is a good place to start. prewitt: i think we have to have a long

if there is, please come forward. >> on the legislation, phil ginsburg mentioned that there is a rulingere has to be a half mile distance of walking to get to a park. that is totally out of sync with reality. i think that has to be changed. because that is archaic. how can every person walk a half mile to a park? it is a possible. i think that has to be considered for change as soon as possible. >> is there anyone else who like to make public comment? please come forward. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen, members of the recreation and park commission. and the manager of the rec and park commission. i am going to put an order of the termination from the sunshine or dance task force, and i am going to speak to you about a resolution that was pants -- past 10 years ago, around the middle of september 2001. before i do that, i would like the public to take note of the people in front of them today, the quality of the people that are representing the san francisco and san francisco values. i would like everybody to specifically take notice of a david lee, president of the chinese politi

ginsburg spoke about this a little bit. it is quite challenging today's kids in san francisco. there are issues about affordable housing, the public school system and the lack of amenities in our neighborhood that provide our children with opportunities to play. i think that in a playground is a tremendous community asset. -- i think that a playground is a tremendous community asset. it strengthens community ties so that families have fewer reasons to look to leave the city and moved to the suburbs, so i think that is something that will really strengthen our community, and it is something that is sorely needed. supervisor chiu: thank you. could we hear from our next speaker? if folks could line up as i call your names. >> thank you very much for listening. i have been a resident of the golden gate with for over 10 years. i have raised my two girls there. they are twins. they are now 12 years old. i also have two older boys and now a grandmother of three grandchildren that live in the area, and i need that park very badly and i could use it all the time. i can attest to the fac

justice ginsburg: mr. lewin, what you've argued is that you are skipping over the question that the d.c. circuit decided. i take it your view is it's not a political question, so the court should resolve the merits? mr. lewin: our view is it's not a political question because it is like many other questions that affect foreign policy. and the court said in baker and carr, not every decision that touches on foreign affairs or foreign policy is a political question that can't be determined. it -- it -- arguably, according to the government, this affects foreign policy. we say it is simply congress having passed a statute which either is unconstitutional -- we say it is constitutional -- either is unconstitutional or the court should simply enforce it, like in the japan whaling case. in the japan whaling case, this court rejected the claim that the outcome of a determination by the court might very well affect foreign relations and said it's not a political question. i would like to reserve the remaining time

the government --justice ginsburg: but he wouldn't -- he wouldn't be protected against a surveillance camera that could get information, and is this really different in kind from the surveillance camera? mr. leckar: yes. first of all, you have a physical invasion. that's bond v. united states. you have an invasion of his possessory interest, placement on the car. physical invasion of a possessory interest, justice ginsburg, is more significant, has always been viewed by this court as more invasive than mere video --mere visual surveillance. and even with a camera, it depends on the type of the video camera. we are not saying that the police are prohibited from having individual video cameras or several video cameras to surveil people. what we are saying here is this device, this device that enables limitless, pervasive, indiscriminate --justice kagan: what is the difference really? i'm told -- maybe this is wrong, but i'm told that if somebody goes to london, almost every place that person goes there is a camera taking pictures, so that the police can put together snapshots of where e

ginsburg. i am the brother of betty ann ong. my family and i would like to take this opportunity to thank the park and recreation center. supporters who are here and in attendance, those who are unable to attend, petition signers, and all citizens of this great nation at large. we urge you to support the renaming of the recreation center. the ong family would be extremely honored to have the chinese recreation center renamed the betty ann ong recreation center. thank you. president buell: thank you. >> gloria or cathy, would you like to speak? >> good morning. i am the older sister of betty ann ong. i live in bakersfield, california. it's a real honor to be here today. i want to thank you all for your consideration in renaming the chinese recreation center to the betty ann ong recreation center. i would also like to thank all of the supporters that we have had and to everybody for being here. i can still remember growing up in san francisco chinatown and playing at the chinese recreation center very clearly. the playground was a

ginsburg for time to review, respond to, and probably more than likely for time to edit. that was before the report was released to the public. to me, it seems there need to be a separation of non-profit survey reviews, and the department they are reviewing it the survey is to be objective. i want to add there is a lot of great work. i see that gardeners working hard on a daily basis making ever park pretty, which i totally appreciate, is that a ways give thanks to the hard working janitors who keep the bathrooms clean. on the other hand, many of the top management under the supervision of mr. ginsberg, i believe has behaved in an irresponsible, and i believe unethical behavior has taken place, especially with my experience in the past two years in regard to boathouse contracts of which our group pointed out a lot of errors. as mentioned, it has been reported now that lying has taken place about emails in regards to commonwealth club meeting, that the sunshine commission has reported there has been unethical behavior on that. i request that you as a commission really look

pleasure to work with bill ginsberg and all of you in the rec and park department -- to work with phil ginsburg. beverly is our new managing director. we are expanding and becoming more of a force in the city. we have hired beverly. >> thank you. nice to meet you all, commissioners and staff. i have been hired by them for a nominal fee, i might add, to hurt the pact, if you will. the artist guild is near and dear to my heart. i moved here seven years ago and became involved with many members of the proceeded to open three galleries in the city for different entrepreneurs. individually, each artist indeed is a business. that is what i am trying to help them with some other business of being an artist and working in conjunction with rec and park. i have come to be the point person. their two other guilds or organizations also. now i will be point person for all three. i have met with the other two members. it is to ease and to streamline our process with rec and park. because you are doing things that are huge. we are a small part. but as your nurturing flowers, i am nurturing and helping our won

he has the best i doubt -- philip ginsburg has for this department. he has the best ideas, and he is always thinking about ways to raise money for this department. and we're really grateful for his leadership in this department and looking forward to new and more ideas from phil in the upcoming years. i chaired the capital committee at the recreation and parks commission. we do a lot of the fix-ups in the city. we fix our playgrounds. we fix our recreation facilities, and we are administering the 2008 bond that is going into fixing up recreation centers all across town. i had an idea just talking to lia from the san francisco bicycle coalition. as we were out here, thinking it may be one of the things we could be doing is installing more bicycle racks. the reason being is that people are renting bicycles, people from the neighborhood, come to the facilities, and have a place to lock up a bicycle. if you enjoyed the facility and the get a fabulous part in our city and neighborhood, even right here in the concourse, it would be a great advantage for peo

a very dim view of how they handled interviewing certain witnesses, like gavin newsom and philip ginsburg. also, i would like to find out what ever really happened with my district supervisor's residency, since it was a written complaint. also, i would like to find out what really happened with regards to the infamous tony hall witchhunt. things like this should not be allowed to happen. i think that when there is transparency, people, in a certain sense, know that they're not going to get away with it. in regards to getting away with it, even the famous coach joe paterno cannot get away with it and not talking to police peter i am sure if there was an active watchdog agency, he would have done the right thing in long time ago. unfortunately, he decided not to do it. so i think we need to set an example for future san franciscans, and also because san francisco was supposed to be a leadership city, we should send out the word that it is not just the fbi that puts the bad guys in jail. we need cooperation from watchdog agencies like the ethics commission, and they should be doing their job

a very dim view of how they handled interviewing certain witnesses, like gavin newsom and philip ginsburg. also, i would like to find out also, i would like to find out what ever really happened with

justice ginsburg said, well, you know,lo÷ many cities have cameras attached to traffic lights.they monitor the movement of cars to look for traffic violations. but the attorney insisted that what's different here is this is a physical invasion of property. it's a greater intrusion on your privacy than cameras or video observation. >> woodruff: finally, marcia, the sense is what? that the justices could draw a line, privacy, high tech device, that they could choose to draw that narrowly, broadly? >> they could. there is a narrow way to resolve the case. and that is just to look at the attachment of the g.p.s. device. was that a seizure? and not deal with the more complicated issue of search and reasonable expectations of privacy in the world today. i thought justice alito had a really... really hit the nail on the head when he said before the internet age, much of our privacy resulted from difficulty in traveling and gathering information. but with computers you can now amass a huge amount of information. he said so what now? is everything fair game? or where are the limbs? that

>> our position, justice ginsburg is that the recognition power is exclusive to the president. >> whatif the recognition of a breakaway province of the foreign country by the united states will clearly provoke a war with that country? would congress have the power to decree that the president shall not recognize that breakaway province? knowing that if he does recognize that, that country will declare war in the united states. >> i think justice glia, that is the situation in which the president would exercise that should power. >> we have a foolish president. [laughter] contrary to our entire history -- [laughter] >> although i just don't think that in a situation like that the president would recognize power. i could get back to your question. >> i am willing. our cases say repeated the the president is the sole instrument for the conduct of foreign policy, but to be the sole instrument to determine the foreign policy were two quite different things to say he's the sole instrument of congress traveling abroad were presidents, no one except president of the united states pronounces th

joining us from washington, mark ginsburg is a former u.s. ambassador to morocco, a former white house middle east adviser to president carter. and karen finney is an msnbc political analyst and former dnc communications director. now, karen, we'll get to the name game in a minute. let's start with newt gingrich on immigration. did he put himself in the conservative dog house defending long material undocumented workers? we saw how well that worked for rick perry. >> yeah. but newt gingrich is crazy like a fofl. i think it was a politically calculated move. it gives him an opportunity to move more to the center. this is clearly a play for a general election issue. knowing that the latino vote will be very important. it moves hill to the center a little on an issue where mitt romney is trying to be more to the right. and remember, newt gingrich has plenty of other crazy that he talks about when he talks about things like, little children scrub toilets and telling peel to go take a bath. i have to say that was part of, though, why i think again

justice ginsburg said, well, you know,lo÷ many cities have cameras attached to traffic lights. monitor the movement of cars to look for traffic violations. but the attorney insisted that what's different here is this is a physical invasion of property. it's a greater intrusion on your privacy than cameras or video observation. >> woodruff: finally, marcia, the sense is what? that the justices could draw a line, privacy, high tech device, that they could choose to draw that narrowly, broadly? >> they could. there is a narrow way to resolve the case. and that is just to look at the attachment of the g.p.s. device. was that a seizure? and not deal with the more complicated issue of search and reasonable expectations of privacy in the world today. i thought justice alito had a really... really hit the nail on the head when he said before the internet age, much of our privacy resulted from difficulty in traveling and gathering information. but with computers you can now amass a huge amount of information. he said so what now? is everything fair game? or where are the limbs? that's w

this saving the president is exclusive authority. >> and justice ginsburg in the absence of section 214ithink would be clear from belmont but the judgment on the recognition is explicitly committed to the executive and would be a political question of the party came and said i want my passport to see something different about your does a woman and says. >> detention i see here and i think it is what justice breyer is getting out is the label is important because if we call this a political question and don't address the merits of the outcome is that the president is saying that he is entitled to ignore the congress. i don't know what kind of message that sends but it is a little unsettling that a court charged with enforcing the law passed by congress we are not going to determine whether this law is constitutional or unconstitutional. let's switch your definition of the political question is becoming. where does that stop? what situations, only in foreign policy do we decide not to. senator think justice sotomayor is actually quite narrow and the problem isn't a significant win because

. >> well, under your theory, and this is just a following on justice ginsburg's question, i think. under your theory, what foreign relations determinations are for the president alone to make? >> foreign relations determinations are not left to the president alone. >> are there any foreign relations determinations that are for the president alone to make under your theory of the case. >> yes, justice kennedy. >> and those are? >> those are diplomatic communications. in other, it's the president you makes -- >> in other words, who gets the telegram? >> well, who issues the communication to the foreign government, who determines; there are certain things that the president alone does because he's the one who implements foreign policy. >> is there any treatise writer or decision of this court that supports such a narrow, crabbed interpretation of the president's foreign affairs power? >> well, with all respect, justice kennedy, we don't think it's crabbed. we think that that is exactly what justice jackson was referring to, and that's what this court has said in the medellin case and