ginsburg. >> a point of clarification the waiver has been signed by the human rights commission this morning. >> thank you. >> i wanted to add my comment to congratulate the parents, the teachers, the administrators and particularly the students of town school. it is a vibrant, educational community and it's been a pleasure to have you before us. rarely do we have testimony that doesn't have someone who opposes what we are doing and i think that is a reflection on the work that the staff did. so i want to congratulate nick and the rest of the staff because i think the proper outreach was done to make it a reality and with that, it's been moved and seconded. all of those in favor? >> aye. >> thank you. >> we are now on item 9. the golden gate park phase ii tree removal contract no. 3033v. >> good morning commissioners, jeffries & companying, melinda stockmann assistant project manager capital improvements division, san francisco recreation and park department. i am here for 13-001 in amount of $435,000 to arborwell professional tree management. i just want too clarify that i did prese

ginsburg from the romney campaign to try to head up a commission like this? >> first of all, if you're going to have a commission like this, you have to have credible democrats and republicans. there was a question whether there would be a credible republican who would be interested in doing something like this. the fact that ben ginsburg, who is a well respected republican lawyer is willing to sit down with bob bauer and sit down with this commission and try and hash things out is an achievement. but they've set the bar really low. if you look at the press release that the white house put out about this, all they're going to do is issue some guidelines for states and localities about best practices. it doesn't look like federal election reform, which i think is something we really need, is on the agenda. so it may just be that it's going to put out some ideas. then they're going to sit on the shelf, like the ideas of the carter baker commission, the carter ford commission, what the u.s. elections assistance has done and it may get us nowhere. >> in terms of

. >> can i go back to justice ruth ginsburg's question. what i hear the florida supreme court's saying is there is no national certification for training. >> that is correct. >> there is no national standard that defines the training. >> that is correct, that is right. >> let me finish my question. so assuming there is no national standard, how do you expect a judge, without asking questions about the contents of the certification process, the contents of the training process, and what the results would and how they were measured -- how do you expect to judge whether the certification with the training is sufficiently adequate? >> i think that the central inquiry that we look to undertake is to determine whether or not the dogs was performing successfully. after all, that is why we train the dogs. >> the judge still has to determine whether the judge believes it is adequate. is that correct? >> your honor, in our view, we do not think it is an appropriate role for the court to talk about the contours of training, what specific methods were

isn't it possible ginsburg will decide to depart? it will matter who is president, as far as that court goes and the implications that are 5-4 or 6-3, you don't dispute that? >> no, not in the slightest. one of the themes of the oath is a theme to resonates not just in the courts but all the american politicians, which is the evolution of the republican party. the moderate republicans who they're all gone. mitt romney with the chance to appoint judges will appoint very conservative judges. >> do you have a sense who he might appoint? >> sure. brent cavanaugh. >> controversial. >> one of the authors of the star reeort. the former solicitor general in the bush administration. >> who litigated -- >> right -- healthcare case. he's going to argue the defensive marriage act case. argued the arizona immigration case. i think lindsey graham, the senator from south carolina. >> who is what passes for a moderate --ish? now centers left. >> i also think there is a lot of demand on both sides of the political aisle for nonjudges on that court. >

ginsburg, we regret that but that's why we're here. when the department doesn't want to work with the union and its members, we know what we have to do. what i would like to submit to the commission, what i would like to submit to the commission are documents and then walk right through them, they're important documents, we think they're self-explanatory, they don't need to be characterized by the union but we think those who are familiar with the labor liabilities, these are -- we are having grievances that have quite a bit of financial claims against this department and the city, so if we go through the package, the first item is a grievance sent by the union, it is a settlement by the rec and park back in the summer, i believe, this was due to problems to settle an eeoc lawsuit emanating from the rangers trailer of overtime, the document behind that is the overtime report, we ask you to take a close look, especially the labor representatives, we're informing you that our contract provides mandatory, that it must be distributed evenl

justice ginsburg, you are in your 20th. year on the supreme court after having served 13 years on the d.c. circuit. you had an equally important career as a lawyer before becoming a judge. you were a cofounder of the woman's right project at the aclu where you were general counsel and in that role, you litigated many important sex discrimination cases including six arguments in the supreme court of which you won 5. further, as a law professor at columbia, you were the first tenured woman at the law school. you have been a leader throughout your career. do judges see themselves as leaders in some sense based on your observations? if yes, in what ways? if not, why do you think not? >> judges are reactive institutions. that is we do not have an agenda. we are not like a legislature or executive. we do not create the problems that come to us. there was a great judge that said, judges are like firefighters. justices are like firefighters. they do not make the conflagrations but they do their best to put them out. being on a cour

. >> a conversation with justice ruth bader ginsburg. later, from the us chamber of congress a4, -- a form on education. on c-span2, simpson and erskine bowles will discuss a federal budget, federal spending and the automatic cuts that will take place on march 1. then at 10:00, we will hear from former ambassador dickinson. last courage from the brookings institution also on c-span2. >>, minnesota and in china is communist in name only. -- communism in china is, less -- communism in china only. it is about preserving the powers party as it continues to grow. in north korea, it is about preserving the power of the military and the kim dynasty as you have there. it has nothing to do with what karl marx envisioned. they get you a book on how communism when it moved into asia diverged into something different in vietnam and other areas than the communism in europe. >> former washington post correspondent keith richburg on 34 years of reporting and insights from around the world. sunday at 8:00. >> now a conversation with ruth bader ginsburg.

next, a discussion with ruth bader ginsburg.later, a form on the white house and climate change. >> at age 25, she was one of the wealthiest widows in the colonies. during the revolution, while in her mid-40's, she was considered an enemy by the british who threaten to take her hostage. later, she would become our nation's first first lady at age 57. meet martha washington, monday night, on the first program of c-span's new weekly series, "first ladies, influence and image." we will visit some places that influenced her life, including colonial when known for -- colonial williamsburg, philadelphia. at is monday night at nine o'clock eastern, on c-span, c- span radio and c-span.org. next, a discussion with ruth bader ginsburg, a speaker at the 13th annual women and the law conference in san diego. justice ginsburg's talks about her experiences in law, including those coming of this year. >> i'd like to begin. can we all be seated, please? excuse me. can we all be seated? we have an interesting question and answer session with thr

if everybody would like to make justice ginsburg's wish to come true, i have a petition to get the equal rights amendment -- if we get enough signatures to go to the white house, if you would like to pile on this -- this revitalizes the 1972 equal rights amendment to extend the deadline. there is some revitalization in an earlier form. >> this has the overwhelming support of the public. >> do we have any more questions? >> i have a question on free speech. there was a protesters in a trade. he was talking about abortion and many other things and we think that should be limited. how do you feel about that? >> i was sitting where you were. i was not up in the tree. [laughter] looking around the world at countries that punish speech that is out of the accord with the thinking of the powers that be, i am glad that we prize speech. protect even the speech we hate. one concern of the police was to get him down from the tree without being injured. we have protests at the court all the time. don't get to see them because my chambers are in the back but just as elena kagan as a front row seat. fo

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he hired ben ginsburg, a glorified election thief. >> ben ginsburg you're not going to get any progressthe issue. >> the other problem of course is that the real problem with voter suppression isn't in washington. it's not states. the only way to get around it is to get rid of the republican governors. the way it's gerrymandered it's going to be hard to do. hanging on by a thread in front of the supreme court in two weeks, for him to come up with nothing better than a bipartisan commission which will meet for self times and pros nothing that anybody has to pay attention to, i thought that was the most disappointing part of the speech for me. >> although i'm going to counter you and get bit there and say i totally agree with your complaints about it. the fact that it was talked about and the fact that these people, he was talking about it in front of the congress that is going to approve justices and circuit court judges, where these matters ultimately going to end up, i think there is some resonance to his point there. this is a state issue. if you hear the president talking about it, i

around at various locations and to learn more come to the richmond athletic cente >> my name is phil ginsburgnd the general manager of the san francisco parks and rec department and i want to welcome everybody to the 83rd annual holiday tree lighting. happy holidays to you all. this is san francisco's official holiday tree right behind us, uncle john's tree and over 100 years old, and tonight it sports over 550 christmas holiday lights. >> five, four, three, two, one! >> yay!

number 1 5-111205 regarding aan action by george wooding and for this item the respondent is phil ginsburg. >> both the complainant and the respondent present? >> complainant? okay. >> mr. wooding. you have up to ten minutes. >> may i shut this? >> yes. >> good evening president hur and commissioners. thank you for listens my name is george wooding. i will start by saying this hearing would have been completely unnecessary had the recreation and parks secretary gong simply reviewed the back up or it or contacted the department of technology and had them review rpd records when they were sunshine requested. within days of sunshine ordinance task force ordering her to do so. my recollection is that they finally provided the e-mails which rpd had previously claimed she had been deleted. i would like to read what miss gong sent, 141 days after my request. >> dear mr. wooding. attached are the documents in response to mr. wooding's request for records. the records were not withheld, they were deleted by staff, before mr. wooding's request was made. the staff received hundreds of e-mails a day a

. >> good morning commissioners, general manager ginsburg. my name is steve rockwell a senior administrative analyst in operations and i have the privilege of coordinating the department's park evaluation program. i believe you will be really pleased with this year's controller's report. we have had some up-and-downs in some of the park scores, but largely, we have been able to remedy some of the lowest-scoring historically low-scoring parks and areas in the city. and at the same time, maintain the bulk of our parks well above that threshold mark that has been set for high maintenance. >> i'm going to introduce sarah swanbeck from the controller's office. >> good morning commissioners >> good morning. >> i thought i would just give you kind of a quick overview of some of the high-level finding from our report and i will turn it back over to steve to give you more details and talk a little bit about what department is doing and is planning to do to respond to some of our recommendations. >> so overall scores this year were incredibly consisten

. >> good morning commissioners, president buell, general manager ginsburg, cassandra castillo with the department and i'm proud to be before you to present a short-term lease agreement with town stool for the palace of fine arts. as you know the exploratorium, which has been a long-term 40-year tenant of the palace of fine arts is scheduled to vacate the premises at the end of this month pursuant to their lease agreement. the department has been working with the palace of fine arts advisory committee, which has been a talented and professional group of individuals and organizations and the public to solicit input on best and potential uses for long-term tenancy at the palace. whoa the department intends to commence a competitive bid process, activating the soon to be vacant site with interim tenants:department has been in conversations with those interested in the space from march through august of this year and those range from international arts exhibition, corporate events or events related to america's cup. beginning in august of this year, through july of 2014, the department is p

well and it's yeah but it's ben ginsburg a guy who's been fighting against voters a guy who worked with the swift boat veterans back in two thousand and four even while he was working with bush cheney is incredibly partisan i don't know what to expect out of this commission i don't expect much but i would be more worried about the supreme court coming up they're looking at the voting rights act in another week and this could really cut the knees out from voting rights across the entire country that's what we have to really keep our eyes on this year i'm afraid ok and we will do that will do that as well on your blog and brad blog dot com brad friedman thanks again for joining us thank you. coming out last week more than three thousand vacation goers were treated to the cruise from hell but i've heard of a cruise ship lost all power and quickly became a giant floating petri dish that lost all of mainstream media coverage of the cruise to nowhere is the story of colonel's employees who are living their own kind of nightmare every day tell you their story of the birth. you know sometimes y

i see phil ginsburg, i know bill is around, others from our da office, richard caranza and others from the women's status as well and the district attorneys from the various counties, the school administrators and instructors and superintendents from other counties as well, as well as our community-based agencies that are so invaluable it all of us. this is a very important topic and it's one that our u.s. attorney, melinda hague and i helped spearhead yesterday with 800 students who came together who watch an incredible film by lee hirsch i've heard the wonderful reports from the kids, seen their laughter and their tears. we are going to honor your making that film by doing what we need to do to stop bullying across the country. because the data shared by our u.s. attorney, representatives from the department of education confirm if we don't do anything about it, 13 million kids will become victims again for another year. some 3 million kids across the country will decide it is better to leave their school grounds than to continue their education. there will be more stupblting of the

wendy ginsburg from the congressional research service discusses the benefits of former presidents of the united states, including pensions, offices, and libraries. "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> british prime minister david cameron talk with members of the house of commons on wednesday. to go slaughterhouses have been rated since the inquiry began last month he also discusses the european economy and the budget code. this is just over 30 minutes >> mr. speaker? the horse meat scandal has undermined confidence in the safety of the food we eat, but threatens a very successful wheat industry. can the prime minister assured me that this government will follow every lead until each individual person or business responsible for any criminal or fraudulent act has been caught, exposed, prosecuted, and then expelled from ever again having any part in the u.k. food industry >> i fully support what the honorable gentleman said. let me join me in praising this constable. she kept people sit in the communities that she is head of a. i would join him in sending my dee

the incident is right near kendall street after a blaze ginsburg wrote. you might want to take rhode island avenue into town. you could take benning road to get past that >> >> the time is 6:12 and 35 degrees and coming up, brianne carter will wrap up the president's state of the union address. >> a bit of a royal boz overseas with reaction after shutterbug's catch prince william [ whirring ] [ creaking ] [ male announcer ] trophi and awards lift you up. but they can also hold you back. unless you ask, what's next? [ zapping ] [ clang ] ] this is the next level of performance. the next level of innovation. the next rx. the f sport. this is the pursuit of peection. >> well, back at 6:16. there is a lot of talk about what happened overnight and that is the state of the union address. >> president obama headed to north carolina this morning and will push with some of the proposals from the address. let's check in with brianne carter. >> many analysts this morning are saying the town is exactly what they expected to hear from president barack obama as he laid

[laughter] >> justice ginsburg, you've had an amazing career and are leaving your legacy in the law. looking back on your life, although there's still more to do, but looking back on what you have done so far, is there anything you would do differently? >> it's a question, and i don't ask myself, and i'll give you two pieces of advice i was given in that regard. when i was a brand-new judge on the d.c. circuit, one of my senior colleagues said ruth, i've been at this business a long time, and one thing i'd like to embark to you, do your best job in each case, but when it's over, when the opinion is out, don't look back. don't worry about things that have passed. go on to the next case, and give it your all. that corresponds to advise my mother gave me which she summed up in the phrase, be a lady. and by that she meant don't allow distracting emotions to overwhelm you. anger will get you nowhere. jealousy is even worse. and remorse, these are all emotions that sap your energy and do nothing productive. so i don't look back. i do look forward to what is on my plate each day. >> justice

. >> an appeal supreme court justice ruth gator ginsburg rejected the first filing to come after that filing. they made the emergency request. the board forced the company to rehire 700 employees. it involved in a labor dispute. they wanted the supreme court to halt that. lance armstrong is going to take the money and run. an attorney says he has no plans to pay back the bonus money for winning the tour defrance. that amounts to nearly $12 million. armstrong confessing he cheated and doped his pway to the title. he says athletes shouldn't have to return the compensation. the company is plan to go file a lawsuit. >> superdome officials say there was a chance the power could go out for the super bowl. tests show the electrical meet feeds were decayed and there were concerns about power failures since back then. they had a backup generator and was just about to turn it on when the power came back. don't blame beyonce for that. the show operated on its own power grid. that is your 5@5:00. >>> in just a few hours president obama will turn his attention back to immigration reform. he's host

just last year supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg speaking with egyptian media after the ousterf president hosni mubarak and as the country was beginning to reshape itself said quote i would not look to the u.s. constitution if i were drafting ago constitution in the year 2012. even those who admit it isn't perfect note the drafters were wise enough to provide an amendment process. >> i think that charges that this is a document written by old white men in the 18th century is not true. it's a document written by we the people over the past two centuries. >> some believe there is already a certain level of disregard for the constitution playing out in washington. >> the fact that someone might not say i want to ignore the constitution, should still be held accountable when, in fact they do ignore the constitution whether they say they are doing so or not. >> when asked how we would guarantee things like freedom of religion without our constitution. the professor says it's up to those who believe in those ideaing to convince fellow americans they are worth withholding. shannon bre

justice ginsburg was heard to say after that argument that she thought some of my colleagues didn't understand -- might not have understood how sensitive a 13-year-old girl might be about her body particularly at that age. now, did that affect the outcome of the case? i wasn't a justice, i doubt it very much. but i do know one thing: not one justice on the court wrote about being searched at 13 as being comparable to undressing in a gym. if someone had written that it would have upset so many young women who would have been -- who would have rightly felt by that comparison. and i think that's what life experiences help with. it's legion among justices on appellate courts and other courts that having a colleague who has had experience as a trial court will ensure that any inadvertent questioning of the capabilities of a district court judge don't seep into an opinion. because people who haven't been trial judges are not sensitive to how insulting certain references -- >> rose: but you were a trial judge at the district court level. >> and, you know, i can't say without disclosing confidences th

. >> and when ruth ginsburg was at the aclu with the women's right program she was fighting for informed. and before sterilization. >> right. >> and fanny lou hamer was the great prophet of this because she was willing to come forward and say she had been sterilized against her will with enormous courage. >> and it's one of the reasons to somehow look like women disagree on this topic because there has been a misunderstanding that reproductive freedom or choice meant that we were against women having children. >> right, right. >> or we looked down on women who wanted to have families. >> right, right. >> and that's been sort of a real touching point for all of us. i'm so glad that you brought that up. there reproductive freedom entails all of that. >> but that's an interesting point. i'm curious if you think this. it's like when you say there's a kind of belief that women disagree on that. they've been manipulated into disagreeing. it also seems that women disagree every these issues. they have different politics. it's not just false consness, right? >> thank goodness. >> right. >> but i

just last year supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg speaking with egyptian media after the ousterf president hosni mubarak and as the country was beginning to reshape itself said quote i would not look to the u.s. constitution if i were drafting ago constitution in the year 2012. even those who admit it isn't perfect note the drafters were wise enough to provide an amendment process. >> i think that charges that this is a document written by old white men in the 18th century is not true. it's a document written by we the people over the past two centuries. >> some believe there is already a certain level of disregard for the constitution playing out in washington. >> the fact that someone might not say i want to ignore the constitution, should still be held accountable when, in fact they do ignore the constitution whether they say they are doing so or not. >> when asked how we would guarantee things like freedom of religion without our constitution. the professor says it's up to those who believe in those ideaing to convince fellow americans they are worth withholding. shannon bre