ruth bader ginsburg speaking with nina totenberg last night. talking about why she basically pulled an all-nighter an friday night in order to put out her dissent in a voting rights ruling in which the court handed don its order at 5:00 on saturday. the majority order from the court means texas' voter i.d. law, the strict nest the country, will be in effect for voting in this election. it's interesting. the majority didn't rule an the merits of that voter i.d. law and whether it's constitutional. they just said the law shouldn't be blocked so close to the election under the principle it undermines public confidence in the election. if the rules about voting are changed too close to the time that voting happens. well, in her dissent, her up all night dissent, ruth bader ginsburg wrote the texas law is so outrageously discriminatory it ought to be blocked ahead of this election. the greatest threat to public confidence in elections is enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely impose an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denyin

justice ginsburg is fascinating. she was born in 1933.ort of beat men at their own game, as justice o'connor did, justice ginsburg tried to change the rules and she did. she argued five or six cases, i think six cases before the u.s. supreme court, winning five of them, on behalf of women's rights when she was with the aclu women's rights project. she tried to make changes and she did. so she came up as an advocate. then she become as professor at rutgers and, eventually at columbia i believe and then she becomes a judge on the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. that is when she first gets to know justice scalia as a pal. she is appointed in 1993 by bill clinton. now she comes on and, very cautious jurist in many ways. but what happens and what the caller is referring to is kind of her more demonstrative liberalism emerges as she becomes more vocal as the senior member of the liberal wing. when justice john paul stevens left the court in 2010, ruth bader ginsburg became the most senior justice. she became power to assign dissenti

justice ginsburg cares deeply about the issues that come before the court. wants someone with her values or justice scalia wants someone with his values on the court, it all depends on who is the president and who is controlling the senate. >> brown: jeffrey rosen, what do you think? should she be looking at the mid-term elections and thinking about the legacy of her point of view? >> you know, justices follow the election return, but i'm not sure they follow the mid-terms, as well. i'm sure she's concerned about her legacy. of course she is. she must be betting on some level that a democrat has a good chance of being elected the next time around, but given that bet, i think it's perfectly appropriate for her at the height of her power, at a time when more than any other justice she's become a galvanizing leader of the liberal opposition, for her to continue the service she's doing so ably. >> brown: do you think, jeffrey rosen, that any particular cases, for example gay marriage may get taken up again, something she might care very deeply about. is that a f

with saturday's court order justice ginsburg joined by sotomayor had a six-page dissent. ginsberg said 600,000 registered voters could be prevented from votinging in person and pointed to the more than 400,000 eligible voters who would have to travel three hours or more to the nearest government office issuing i.d.s. ginsburg noted that from 2008 to 2011 there were only two in-person voter fraud cases in the state of texas. for now on the first day of early voting in texas it is the law of the land. heather mcgee and contributing wrater for "the nation" ari berman. this is one of the most distressing things in our country. does this law ultimately stand given the very salient facts justice ginsburg points out? >> i don't know what it will take because it's already been struck down twice under two different sections of the voting rights act, under two different trials so this law has been scrutinized that's been passed in the past few years. it's the only law i know of blocked twice under two different sections of the voting rights and yet the supreme court still allows it

last month at the university of minnesota, ruth bader ginsburg was interviewed on stage as part of a, and during that event, justice ginsburg basically foretold that the supreme court might do this. they might leave same-sex marriage up to the lower courts to decide, unless those lower courts suddenly started deciding ways that contradicted each other and the supreme court had to weigh in. in the midst of that interview about this very important matter that ended up coming before the court and being decided in this big, surprising way yesterday. in the midst of that, the moderator interviewing ruth bader begins ginsberg praised her for her social media presence and how much people love her. >> all of you, after this lecture, should go out and look at the blog, the notorious -- >> templar. >> templar. >> the moderator there is praising her for being a social media rock star. he says, after this lecture, you should go out and look at the blog that has been created for her. ruth bader ginsburg in that moment, all 81 years of her, corrects the moderator and says, actually, it's not a blo

and mayor lee needs to fire rec and park general manager phil ginsburg. this battle over privatization of the parks has been going on for years and instead of trying to work with his critics he tries to marginalize and dismiss us. he one is of the most divisive figures in the city and with new leadership that works with everyone. [ applause ] >> good morning. my name is [speaker not understood] and i'm a parent. a life-long citizen of san francisco, i was born and raised here. so i have seen several different phases of what is going on with the city and unfortunately this period right now is the saddest and breaks my heart. this issue touches me because i have two young sons, actually in their 20s now and i have a 10-year-old. i have been part of the process of the new park coming up on 17th and folsom. unfortunately you say you have bilingual meetings and i don't think there was any and unfortunately the spanish-speaking parents, the people busy working and raising kids can't come to these meetings. what i witness in the meetings is that the majority of

represents to women, justice ginsburg? pinnacles resents the -- one of the highest positions a woman can hold in american society. precededy o'connor her, but she is only the second woman on the court. she is known for her incredible erudition as well as everyday for theempathy people who, for her in the court -- come before her in the court. if you pay attention to her like i sort of do, she had an incredible marriage, lots of support for doing something back when she became a lawyer and judge was not very typical for women. and she also has been one of the early founders of the women's rights project at the aclu, a lot of that was focused on reproductive rights, focus on other things, too. i think she is one of the more important women in american society right now. of the1-year veteran court, 80 years old. do young women know who she is? guest: well, in the piece, she brought up the fact that some people have made t-shirts with her face on it saying "notorious taking off of notorious b.i.g. she seemed kind of thrilled b

justice ginsburg attended harvard and didn't finish at harvard. she finished up at columbia as of course no bad school itself. they're all ivy league. she's finished at columbia because she moved to new york city with her husband was a year ahead of her or his job at the time in the '50s. so you have all these justices who come from a fairly narrow band of expense. of course, clarence thomas and sonia sotomayor and ruth bader ginsburg have their different backgrounds through being only the second woman on the court, justice ginsburg, the first lady and and, of course, the second african-american, clarence thomas. so they bring a different perspective to those things but they still come from sort of a narrow range of experience. and the caller has hit upon something that presidents themselves have thought about bucking. bill clinton spent a lot of time trying to persuade mario cuomo who at the time had just recently been new york governor, to be a nominee. he tried to persuade george mitchell had been senate minority leader to be on the court. he t

route bader ginsburg appears to be in great shape and the progressives saying, please, retire now, please president obama a chance to replace you with somebody like roberts was when he came on, still is young, she seems to resist that and said i'm going to be here until i'm here -- until i'm gone, rather. whats your read of 1this? >> she is going nowhere. many including myself is she needs to consider stepping down. if there's a republican president an enthat republican president, a rand paul or a marco rubio replaces her, it hurts her legacy but i think route bader ginsburg, the battle she fought, you have to be an optimist to think you can overcome thousands of years of pay tri ar i can and i think she is an optimist. let's hope she's right. >> to the next term, let's throw cases out that this court is going to hear and you can just kind of top line them as the months roll along we'll follow and see what they say about the cases. he's start with young versus u.p.s. >> this is an interesting case, and one of the big themes of this year and the roberts court will be how to address discri

there, that is praising ruth bader ginsburg as notorious rbg, but if you don't know the difference between a blog and a tumblr, it's because you are not as hip and with it as 81-year-old ruth bader ginsburg. . >>> good wednesday morning. isis bears down on the turkish border while the fbi wants help "american idol"ing possible isis fighters. >>> a routine traffic stop in indiana turns violent. it's all caught on camera. more on 2014's most powerful storm. and j. law says those cowering with pictures should cower in shame. >>> isis is trying to identify a man possibly from the utz seen in isis video t. man seen here speaks in english and arabic. investigators say his accent could be american. officials hope someone may recognize the man flew his voice and appearance. >>> in turkey, media say at least 14 people have died if fighting between protesters and police. demonstrators tried to approach a police station in istanbul. officers used tear gas, rubber bullets overnight. the u.s. top leader general martin dempsey talking about the topic with abc news, he says he is fearful kobani will fall

in a scathing six-page dessert justice ginsburg agreed writing, quote, the greatest threat to publicelections this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminate our law one that risks deny the right to vote to hundred of thousand of eligible voters. according to ginsburg, the texas law will prevent more than 600,000 people orr about 4 1/2% of registered voters from casting a ballot. she writes that a majority of those voters are black or hispanic. and joining me now huffington post justice reporter. thank you for your time. >> sure. >> let's talk about the nature and the tone of justice ginsburg's dissent here. very clear language on where she stands and what she sees as the consequences of this. >> yes, absolutely. what is interesting, i think, here obviously the big case it connects to is the voting right case we had last summer. in the opinion when the supreme court struck down the voting right action -- they said section two. there was a case brought under section two but voters aren't going to be protected in the upcoming election. a law found purposefully not on

ginsburg and efforts at damage-control, i'm more concerned about the ideology that frames your policies. keep our parks for our youth. thank you. [ applause ]. >> thank you. [speaker not understood] she talks about how in the soviet union the bureaucracy of the soviet union came to feel that the state was private property. that is a natural tendency of bureaucracies as they think they own thing. rec and park doesn't own the open spaces of san francisco. [ applause ] >> they are there to administer that open space, but they do not own it. it's not theirs to sell or give away. the other thing that is true of the bureaucracy of the soviet union they felt it was their job to decide what was best for the people. it was their job to decide how people should live their lives and use their open space and everything. it's not the job of rec and park or the commission, but their job to facilitate what the people decide is best for themselves. this system isn't working. it isn't working. it's broken down. we should not be coming here, pleading our cause to ask you for stuff. the open space of san

ginsburg was right. texas extreme voter i.d. law is stopping people from voting.just like supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg wrote in her descent, some people in texas have been turned away from voting for not having one of seven types of qualifying i.d. >>> hillary clinton was heckled. they are pushing hillary on the issue. >> and over the years of service, you know that anthony brown has earned a bronze star in iraq and, you know, the dream act was passed in this state. >> very unchris christie in how she handled that one. >>> mary landrieu had some candid moments for meet the press' chuck todd. she told him -- >> very, very honest with you in the south it is not always the friendliest place for african-americans. it has been a difficult time for the president to present himself in a positive light as a leader. >> she also said the south is more of a conservative place, which is why women also faced challenges presenting themselves. >>> louisiana governor bobby jindal called her words remarkably divisive. >>> president obama is no match for basketball leg

it's ruth bader ginsburg. hader." [ laughter ] sorry, i don't know where -- >> seth: i'm so glad i was so nice. >> yeah, no. you were very nice, but you were a bit of a dick. no. [ laughter and applause ] no, you weren't a dick. you weren't a dick at all. it was awesome. it was all really good points. and you actually -- yeah, you taught me a lot at the show, actually. you taught me what the phrase "hat on a hat" means. the sketch. so i had a sketch where -- that actually john lutz, who's the writer -- we wrote together. which was peter falk doing -- showing natalie portman how to do "star wars" impressions. [ laughter ] i'm going to let that settle in for a second. [ laughter ] and so i -- the sketch got picked because it did pretty well at dress. and then, you said -- you said, "hader, there's kind of a hat on a hat, buddy." i was like, "what does that mean?" you're like, "it's one funny thing but then another totally separate funny thing on top of it." and i was like, "i don't know. no, it's pretty funny."

host: speculation continues over whether ruth bader ginsburg will step down. how is her health? what has she been telling you and your colleagues? guest: she has been telling everybody all summer long that she is not going anywhere. her health seems to be good. she is in tip top mental shape. she loves the job. she thinks two things, one, that it is unlikely the president could get some unconfirmed to replace her who would be in a similar place on the ideological spectrum, that he can't get, in her words, someone as good as her. second, she seems to think that a democrat, hillary clinton, i suppose, will win in 2016 and get to a point whomever she point whomevero ap she wants. her legal acumen is beyond dispute. it is not as clear that her political instincts will turn out to be correct. headline this morning, the legacy of chief justice john roberts. vinyl question before we let you go -- final western before we let you go. what is his interaction with his colleagues -- final question before we let you go. what is his interaction like with his colleagues? guest: unlike chief ju

while the supreme court said enforcement could go ahead, justice ruth bader ginsburg said in part, the greatest threat to public confidence in election in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposely discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds and thousands of eligible voters. republicans have long held it isn't discriminatory against minori minorities. >> we've already had two elections where voter i.d. was the law of the land. this wasn't any change in minority turnout. the claim that this law is to dampen minority turnout is just not -- has no basis in reality. >> arrived quickly at the supreme court from the lower court ruling. this isn't a ruling of the constitutionality of the law but the implementation which can go ahead now. >> texas isn't the only place where voter i.d. laws have ended up in court. >> not at all. arkansas supreme court just overturned that law and ohio as well and earlier this month, the supreme court blocked wisconsin's voter i.d. law. in wisconsin, research showed about 300,00

-- justice ginsburg's thinking at least. we have a case going on in new orleans for the fifth circuit which could go the other way, which could come out in favor of the states will stop we've got one at the sixth circuit which could come out the other way. we will be paying close attention to those court rulings going forward and seeing if they do provide the necessary circuit split. >> what kind of reaction has it received from those who support the ban on gay marriage and those who oppose it? >> nobody is happy. really, nobody is happy with this. i shouldn't say that -- i think there are big swaths on either side of the debate that are not happy. obviously the people who are not in favor of same-sex average don't write -- don't like that this tape the way for same-sex marriages to begin an 11 states. the people who do like it, while i think they are happy partly, they are not entirely happy. they were hoping for the supreme court to weigh in on this and bansmably rule these state are unconstitutional and basically pave the

they are pretty good at p.r. >> paul ginsburg, thank you so much for joining me.olutely. thank you so much for being with me here on cnn. again, if you missed our discussion or any other interview you can always go to the brooke blog. go to cnn.com/brooke. i want your thoughts not just on what's happening with isis and also what's happening with this young woman's story in oregon and something i'm sure jake tapper and other shows beyond us will be talking about today, the death with dignity laws and is this something the nation should adopt or not. i'm brooke baldwin. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. >>> the first person on u.s. soil to die from this outbreak of ebola died today. now another person who may have contracted the disease is being raced to a hospital in dallas. i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." >>> the national lead, thomas eric duncan, the first person diagnosed with ebola in the united states is dead, leaving behind a family grieving and still hoping that the virus spares them. so what can we learn from the missteps in treating him? t

. >> reporter: for phil ginsburg, the need to replace the grass with artificial turf begins with a hole in the ground. >> more seriously, this. that's a broken ankle right there. >> reporter: ginsburg says gopher holes and ongoing maintenance keep fields closed for half a year, a problem, he said, that could be solved with artificial grass. >> when this project gets done, it will add 10,000 hours of play, we'll be able to use about 5 million gallons less water a year. >> my daughter is the one in the yellow. >> reporter: soccer mom kathleen mccowan's daughter grew up playing on these fields. she says the natural grass needs maintenance. >> this particular artificial turf that has ground toxic tire crumbs, and the children breathe them. >> reporter: other project opponents like katherine howard worry about how the fake grass and lighting will affect the park's real wildlife. >> the artificial turf course is dead, so it does not provide habitat for the birds and animals that come through here. golden gate park was created to be a refuge for city people. if you start doing things like the

joining together to oppose the ruling were the court's three women justices, ruth bader ginsburg whosething dissent was joined by soniasonia. writing the greatest threat to public confidence and elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminatory law. one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands of eligible voters. sharon with the naacp defense fund and texas representative trey martinez fisher. thank you both for being here. >> thank you, joy. >> i want to start with you, mr. fisher, because you are -- your group is one of those that actually bright this case because of the prospect of hundreds of thousands of texans, mainly black and latino, who will -- or possibly will be denied the right to vote in texas. do you still worry the number of potential people who won't be able to vote is as high as 600,000? >> absolutely. we know voter i.d. is really a solution looking for a problem. when you stud yt data after 2008 and 2010, 13 million people voted in the state of texas and only two peopl

[indiscernible] >> my name is caleb graves, justice ginsburg said she beliefs the worst decision been the court. do you feel strongly about a decision you disagree with to state the same, what you think would be the worst decision by the court? >> well, i think that probably the worst decision that's been handed down while i was in the court was bush against gore. that really was quite wrong and i think it game more and more obvious and specifically the order prohibiting a recount and the state court was appropriate than following state rules. citizens united was bad enough. but the judgment was bad enough. >> and why was bush vs. gore so bad? >> well, i think it gave the public the incorrect impression that courts are political institutions rather than doing their best job at trying to figure out what the law is. thehe case arose out of senatorial election in indiana between two candidates and a recount had been ordered. i dissented from my two colleagues which thought the recount increased the risk of an erroneous count ballots, which i thought was quite wrong. that case was reverse

let me read to you briefly for your response what justice ginsburg said about that ruling on saturday. she wrote independent judges have found texas in violation of the voting rights act in every redistricting cycle from 1970. it's a threat the public trusts in elections to enforce a purposefully discriminatory law, one that likely imposes an unconstitutional poll tax and risks denying the right to vote to hundreds of thousands. 600,000 in texas by some count. what do make of that and the impact in texas where early voting starts today? >> two things that are really important that happened in this voter i.d. issue. one, you have justice ginsberg and people like eric holder using the words poll tax. being very direct about what they think these laws are. secondly, just as significantly, because eric holder, ruth bader ginsburg we assume are liberal minded people. the gao recently released a report in september that showed what people have been saying for a long time. voter i.d. laws in states like kansas and tennessee led to reduction of numbers of blacks and people who voted. that's m

. >> that will be our position on remand, justice ginsburg. >> isn't that what the north carolina law is now? so it would be futile to send it back for them to answer the good faith exception since they have none. >> it wouldn't be futile, justice ginsburg. i think the analogy that i gave earlier about chapman is more or less on point. the court has held if the constitution is violated that the defendant in criminal case doesn't get a remedy unless he satisfied that test. now, all the time in criminal cases you would decide the constitutional issue and then send it back for remedy analysis if the lower court hadn't addressed it -- >> that's because they would be applying federal law. they would be answering the question that you want us to leave unanswered. namely whether the constitution requires that this evidence be stricken from the case. >> well, let me -- >> but if, indeed, they're not going to ask that question when we send it back, it seems to me we have to answer that question here. before we are able to reverse or affirm that the north carolina court, it's a federal question

so, yes, there is a blog out there, that is praising ruth bader ginsburg as notorious rbg, but if you don't know the difference between a blog and a tumblr, it's because you are not as hip and with it as 81-year-old ruth bader ginsburg. thank you very much for being with us. now stay tuned for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >>> jennifer lawrence wants stronger laws to go after people who stole her private pictures and former defense secretary leon panetta wishes president obama had made some different choices. >> i think we would be in a much better position if we had left the presence inú$npa iraq. >> former secretary of defense, leon panetta says, if no one else will put boots on the ground, the u.s. will have to do it. >> in order for us to be able to win against isis, you have to have some boots on the ground. >> his book "worthy fight" is critical of the president's middle east policy. >> he writes, too often in my view, the president relies on the logic of a law professor rather than the passion of a leader. >> my experience in washington is that logic alone doesn't wo

and justice ginsburg's dissent got a lot of attention. out up to 600,000 texans who are eligible voter need to get the eye additional id there are people who live two hours away from the place to get the id. if you don't drive, it becomes a burden. >> it is a whole another country. thank you so much. we appreciate your being here. >>> you can catari melbar here msnbc. >>> a father who vanished at the football game finally found six days later. how did he get more than 100 miles away without money, credit cards, or a phone. >>> clebs are some of the customers of a customer clothing boutique called the harlem has beener dash i are. the president and ceo will join me today. today's born in the usa. [ male announcer ] are you so stuffed up, you feel like you're underwater? try zyrtec-d® to powerfully clear your blocked nose and relieve your other allergy symptoms... so you can breathe easier all day. zyrtec-d®. find it at the pharmacy counter. zyrtec-d®. if yand you're talking toevere rheumyour rheumatologiste me, about a biologic... this is

. >>> supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg who for a long time was the only woman on the supremeourt, says she's often asked how many female justices would be enough on the supreme court. she told nina totenberg of npr, when all nine justices are women, that would be enough. she added, "for most of the country's history there were nine and they were all men. nobody thought that was strange." she says she was lonely after sandra day o'connor left her side on the bench, adding, no one wants to be a curiosity. >>> football fans alive today will be able to say they lived in the time of peyton manning. this is what it looked like last night when he surpassed bret favre to break the record for career touchdown passes. >> and manning guns it. and it is -- we're waiting -- touchdown! >> wait no more. al michaels with the call that was number 509. play was stopped for a manning tribute, appropriately. he threw four touchdown passes last night, ended the evening at 510. said he was honored and humbled by the record. >>> when we come back, the incredible number of dogs our viewers helped to

the decision came without explanation, which is typical in cases like this, but three justices, ginsburg, kagan, and sotomayor, filed a dissenting opinion saying, "the greatest threat to public confidence in elections in this case is the prospect of enforcing a purposefully discriminate torlaw." discriminatory, they say, because minority and lower income voters would face the biggest hurdles, like needing to take time off from work, travel great distances or pay money to get birth certificates or acceptable forms of i.d. a lower cowt judge struck down the law, finding mostly blacks and latinos don't have this type of identification but a federal appeals court blocked that decision saying it was too close to the election to make changes. today the supreme court refused to intervene. the texas attorney general's office said they were pleased with the high court's decision and pledged to continue to defend the law, calling voter i.d. laws "a legal and sensible way to protect the integrity of elections." but, jim, we spoke today with the n.a.a.c.p. legal defense fund, which said texas doesn'

commissioners bonilla and mcdonnell for pushing for meetings with the neighborhood youth and general manager ginsburg clearly the amazing community advocacy warrants a response and with my want to recognize the positive outcomes that have come from having a public dialogue. we think we still have a long way to go and the city can play a critical role in fostering public play and community building. we hope that this public dialogue and action doesn't stop here with mission playground, but continues to the other low-income and impacted neighborhoods struggling to use the limited parks. the south of market neighborhood is an example of a community fighting for for years to engage in public play and organized sportss in their own neighborhoods. those students have grown up to be youth organizers and a new generation of kids have been asked to be prioritize over corporate teams. the youth have repeated asked to play baseball -- even the residents who have tried to go the permitting route have gotten no response or transparent communication from our rec and park department. our office was recently told th

bader ginsburg, sonia sotomayor, and elena kagan dissented from the decision, which will now requireoters in the state to present a driver's license, military id, or passport before casting their vote at the ballot box. in 2011 butenacted was soon blocked by a provision in the federal voting rights as a dot that provision was later struck down by a 2013 supreme court decision prompting texas officials to put the log back into effect. notes thatrk times" the law has been used in several statewide election since the 2013 decision but never in a federal election. now for the race for u.s. senate in colorado, democratic senator mark udall is running for a second term against republican congressman cory gardner. the two recently participated in their third debate. it comes to us courtesy of kusa tv in denver. it is an hour. >> good evening. it has become almost clichÉ to say that the u.s. senate could hinge on this race, but it makes it no less true. our audience here tonight has agreed to refrain from applause and cheering during the debate to maximize the amount of time that we have for

this started in 2005, phil ginsburg had no experience with rec and park, but he was -- [speaker not understoodmark buell made a large donation to gavin newsom and became head of rec and park and suddenly rec and park's budget was cut dramatically and got rid of all of their rec and park employees. what they did, they started to hire 6-figure employees who they gave bonuses to, to find people who would donate to rec and park to help rec and park and all of a sudden rec and park stopped serving the people in the city and started serving people with money. and what you have seen over the last five years with privatization is there is more emphasis on people with money than there are with people in

>> it would be the fruit of the poisonous tree, justice ginsburg, at the stop was illegal. there would have never been an aborigine to ask for consent. does why there's been no argument that the consent wipes away the fourth amendment question. >> oppose the officer had said, all right, i'm giving you a warning, you're free to leave now by the way, mastercard. >> i think that is more less what he did say. >> and you would say then because it would be the fruit of the poisonous tree? >> yes, because the stock would not have taken place. a traffic stop is the seizure. and so upon pulling him over the officer needed to have reasonable suspicion to do so, and the only argument for reasonable suspicion is the mistake of north carolina law as to the bright light in this case. >> if i understood you to say earlier that you don't take distinguishing the issues arrow and qualified immunity, you don't take reasonable us into account when it comes to the state of law. >> i am sorry. i think us said that you don't take their reasonableness of the mistake of law into account when you as

but a six-page dissent, written by justice ruth bader ginsburg and supported by justices kagan and sotomayor, said the ruling could keep as many as 600,000 texans from voting, most of them african-american or hispanic. a lawyer for the state of texas has called those estimates "preposterous." early voting in texas begins monday. the white police officer who killed an unarmed black teen in ferguson, missouri, last august has told investigators he was pinned in his vehicle by michael brown and feared for his life. officer darren wilson also said brown reached for his gun during the scuffle and that the gun was fired twice inside the car. forensic tests showed brown's blood on the gun, on the interior door panel of the police car and on wilson's uniform. all this, according to an article in today's "new york times." a missouri grand jury is considering bringing criminal charges against wilson. he shot brown several times outside the vehicle. there's been a sighting of the survivalist accused of killing one state trooper and wounding another in pennsylvania. 31-year-old eric frein reportedly was

justice ginsburg asked well what about literature? we have a rule that says racially inflammatory literature of a religious nature that incites violence isn't allowed in the prison and justice ginsburg in the footnote in the cutter opinion, you know, seemed to think that of course that is a concern that prisons ought to be worried about. it is not susceptible to any kind of empirical proof i don't think. as i understand my friend's understanding of the rule we're in a land, really a content ased speech analysis where prophylactics is to be condemned, we ought to be using after-the-fact deterrent measures against maximum security inmates. they've already shown themselves not to comport with that view of how to behave and i think that is particularly dangerous in the prison setting particularly in our prisons' environment. thank you, your honor. >> thank you, counsel. professor laycock, you have five minutes left. >> on the issue of the written findings, the magistrate says it is almost preposterous to believe you can hide anything in t

justice ginsburg writes that, quote, senate bill 14 operates as an unconstitutional poll tax.ate bill 14 may prevent more than 600,000 registered texas voters, about 4.5% of all registered voters, from voting in person for lack of compliant identification. a sharply disproportionate personal of those voters are african-american or hispanic. joining me now, sandra lily, editor for the latino page at nbcnews.com. cornell brooks, the new president and ceo of the naacp. nicholas confessore and alphonso aguilar, who is executive director for the american principals project latino partnership. so nice to have you all here. i want to start with you. how big and how consequential is this decision? >> listen, the federal district judge in texas wrote an 150-page ruling last week. she basically slammed it and said this is an unconstitutional poll tax because if you look at how difficult it is for some people in texas, if you are in a rural location and do not have a car and it takes you over three hours to get to a place to get an i.d. and then they'll reject what you bring in, then tha

we don't have a good faith exception. >> that will be our position on remand, justice ginsburg. state may try to persuade the court of something else. >> isn't that what the north carolina law is now? so it would be futile to send it back for them to answer the good faith exception since they have none. >> it wouldn't be futile, justice ginsburg. i think the analogy that i gave earlier about chapman is more or less on point. the court has held if the constitution is violated that the defendant in criminal case doesn't get a remedy unless he satisfies that test. now, all the time in criminal cases you would decide the constitutional issue and then send it back for remedy analysis if the lower court hadn't addressed it -- >> that's because they would be applying federal law. they would be answering the question that you want us to leave unanswered. namely whether the constitution requires that this evidence be stricken from the case. >> well, let me -- >> but if, indeed, they're not going to ask that question when we send it back, it seems to me we have to answer that question her

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