called john paul stevens and independent life. i'm not sure if eight years ago you all considered he would be doing a book agent on the day that justice stevens retired, but it was quite timely and we welcome both of you here. bill is a 30 year veteran of "the chicago tribune" and has a background in financial reporting business worked and worked with pps nightly business report and gene's business backend is a retired lawyer and spent eight years in the general assembly. ties to illinois and as we will get into in the background, justice stevens chicago plays a prominent role in the development of the bald of the work and his jurisprudence over time. we are going to start off sort of broadly looking at the background of justice stevens and then move into the philosophy and some of the ideas about that and then talk specifically about some cases where we see some of this come out. let's talk brought the for both of you. you had written a book prior to this on the former illinois governor. what led both of you to decide to do a book

opinion written by justice john paul stevens. >> a number of democratic congressmen as well as jimmygue in favor of photo i.d.s. nevertheless, others article it's too onerous. >> typically, you have to have a birth certificate to get state i.d. many don't have ability to pay $35 here. >> similar law in georgia took pain to avoid problems. >> we will send photographer to home of anybody that can say they can't get somewhere and get a picture made and photo i.d. >> south carolina law allows people without photo i.d. to vote if they sign aft. >> they refer to this as g.o.p. tactics and says, "photo i.d. mandate are the most per vase i new restriction on right to vote. they are costly and unnecessary. and they disenfranchise voters." the site goes on to say voter fraud is rare. something republicans ridicule. >> we did a quick study. in the last ten years voter fraud conviction in 46 states. >> look in april. committee member of naacp sentenced to five years in jail for voter fraud. >> in rhode island, the photo i.d. approved by the legislature there. mississippi had referendum where 52%

i look 55 next august -- but we have bill bryson coming, justice stephen breyer, justice john paul stevens and diane keaton, so we really, she does give some great stuff and i have to thanked thank jackie for that. [applause] tonight, we are honored to have.or deepak chopra who is the author of more than 60 books including numerous "new york times" bestsellers and among his many distinctions he is a fellow of the american college of physicians. "time" magazine named him one of the 100 heroes and icons of our century. pretty impressive. dr. leonard mlodinow is also not going to be a pushover. he will soon be teaching at caltech. he is a renowned physicist, author of several books including the drunkard's walk, how randomness rules our lives, very interesting subject which is on "the new york times" bestseller list. he is also a writing collaborated with stephen hawkins. the moderator tonight is timothy shriver. we are very lucky to have him tonight. he is the chairman and ceo of the special olympics. he is a social leader, educator, activist, filmmaker and entrepreneur and i found out tonig

. >> this week week on q&a, former supreme court justice, john paul stevens, looks back on his 34.5 years on the court and speaks about his new book,. c-span: justice john paul stevens you have a book called the supreme court memoir, but it's called five cheats. why? s. go well, because it's a book about chief justices of the united states and the reason i have written about five is that i have had personal contact with five of the most recent five chiefs, so they are the five. rieke let me put on the screen a slide that shows these five names and the times that they were serving on the court, and it starts with fred vinson, who was nominated by president reagan in. he served seven years. earl warren by president eisenhower served 15 and a half years, warren berger about 17 years appointed by richard nixon and william rehnquist by president reagan, 19 years and john roberts as the current chief justice by president george walker roche, six years. start with fred vincent. what did you write about him? >> well, two parts of it i guess. i haven't taken a second look at it recently, as i ment

who are coming to light, six but we have bill bryson, jeffrey, justice stephen breyer, justice john paul stevensnd dalia mckeithen so she does get some great stuff and i have to thank jack kiefer that. [applause] to let we are honored to have dr. deepak chopra who is the author of more than 60 books including numerous "new york times" bestsellers and among his many distinctions he'sfe

i'm not sure when it will air but stephen colbert did an interesting interview with john paul stevens. there is quite a bit in their on bush vs. gore. >> some other questions? yes, please. >> i am an independent tv producer. how do you evaluate the scandals and whether there is report by somebody? in some campaigns, somebody will say don't talk about negative things. on the other hand, a governor can get appointed by a elizabeth warren and they cannot. this system is getting worse and worse. it is a vicious cycle. can you comment on this? we say there is no scandal of this administration or whether there is a cumulative scandal of past presidencies. where does it stop? >> are you saying there are scandals in this administration? >> we are talking about scandal but [unintelligible] >> that gets to the point we were making about how the real scandal is often was legal, not what is illegal. maybe we should define certain things as the scandals so we can maybe broaden our notion of what is scandalous behavior. for people to be in the congress and not allow unemployment compensation to be

john grisham testifies. >>> later that hour president obama welcomes steven harper to the white house. >>> we're following lots of developments in the next hour on cnn. let's check in first with paulteinhauser. he is live in washington. >> hey, don, as newt gingrich source in the polls in the g.o.p. race. what does former front runner mitt romney do? details at the top of the hour. >> i'm ted rowlands. in downtown chicago in just a few hours former illinois governor rod blagojevich finds out how long he'll have to spend in prison. >> i'm rob marciano, out west record breaking cold. it snowed in little rock, it snowed in memphis this morning. meanwhile, 60 degrees and raining in new york. detailed forecast in the next hour. >>> all right. thank you, guys. also next hour remembering pearl harbor. we'll talk with a world war ii veteran and a son of japanese immigrants. he was treated as an enemy after the attack but went on to serve with distinction. usa prime credit... this peggy... hi, i'm cashing in my points... peggy? no more points - coupons now. coupons? coupons. coupons? next, you convert coupons to tokens. tokens? then you trade tokens for credits. and then i get the cash? th