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my question is for jeff rosen. two parts. do you think that roberts taxing decision legally speaking which has not been raised, strategically, is it compelling enough to do the work that it did, or should it have been reprieved if you wanted to ask about taxing power? secondly, how did your opinion of arguments change overtime as there are raised and discussed. randy's arguments in particular before. >> good question. thank you for asking. it is a very legally plausible argument. solicitor general parolee's greatest contribution was making it as strongly as he did. he teed it up very well. yet even on the other side, the legislative history, of course, it was comedy of the fact of the democrats originally said, it's not a tax. it's not a tax. then they said that it was. and then they switched. now the democrats say that it is a tax and therefore is authorized by the constitution. the republicans say it is not. for an original list is not care about legislative history, think that should be less important than the function tha

jeff rosen has written about it a lot. he'll talk more about it later. i think there was a concern on the court, the chief justice in particular, for the court to strike the law down in election year it would open the door for the phot attack darted. and you might say, what is the big deal? the president, you know, talks about everything. well, it's significant deal when we talk about the court's credibility. if he went so hard after the court for the citizen united opinion. he is benefiting from. he attacked the court there. we can manage what he would have said if they struck down the signature legislation. it had to weigh on the legislation. some else will talk about whether or not he switched his opinion. we know he was trying to have -- i think it's a very bad precedent. the chief justice ilya said he sold out. he can d. he rewrote a law. he upheld the law that never passed. ly give him some credit because as a chief justice he has to think perspectively. he has a 30-year term ahead of him if he stays healthy. the president has three years and count

proud of the three da's and they covered it and we worked over the years with the heart power that jeff rosen referred to. when moving into the soft power i recognize we're not experts so i look to people like anne campbell, our superintendent and to cheryl there to educate us and i said this morning "i am interested what we can do as a district attorney's office to help , what we can do to help" because we recognize we're not experts. we have an expertise in certain areas dealing with consequences and accountability and we're good with that. when it comes to soft power with great collaboration we can have a support role and provide to our educators and experts what exactly can we do to assist you getting to the end that everybody talked about today and that's the only different take we would have. >> great thank you. [applause] i would like to say we need to wrap up. we have a late start and need to keep moving. i would like to say what struck me today that even though teachers and principals are in school all day addressing those things in the hallways and they're not here. we have school p

we will start with jeff rosen. [applause] he's the district attorney of santa clara county and the recognized leader in criminal justice reform. he oversees the largest prosecutor's office north of los angeles and prosecute about 40,000 cases each year, so he is on the ground. he sees it all. he is however a green bay packer fan but we will forgive him because they lost. >> you should be very happy. you won. >> next to him is richard carranza and the superintendent of san francisco unified, just started in the summer of july. prior to that he was the deputy superintendent of innovation and social justice. [applause] next to richard is nancy o'malley, district attorney for alameda county. she was appointed in 2009 and elected in 2010 and has an amazing background dealing dealing with violence against women and domestic violence, elder abuse, child abuse and threat management. she's a wonderful addition to our panel so thank you nancy. [applause] next to nancy is tony smith who i loved his biobest of all and started

jeff rosen asked this a lot. he'll talk about it later. i think there was a concern on the court and the chief justice in particular for the court to strike the law down in election year, it would open the door for the phot attack -- president to attack the court. what is the big deal? the president talks about everything. it's significant deal what we're talking about the court's credibility. if he went so hard after the citizens united opinion -- when i might add -- [inaudible] he benefited immensely. but he attacked the court there. we can imagine what he would have said if they struck down his signature legislation. it had to weigh down on the chief justice. we won't get in to -- [inaudible] someone else will taunt that. he was trying to have influence on the court. i think it's a bad precedent. the chief justice, ilya said he sold out. he did. he rewrote a law, he upheld the law that never passed. but i will give him some credit, because as a chief justice he has to think perspectively. he has a 30-year term ahead of him if he stays h