the court john roberts, jr. i think these four cases will always be associated with the roberts court. obviously i wanted good back stories. people you wanted to know about. you're going to read, you will read about a seattle mother, kathleen brost, who called herself a mama bear before pail pail coined the term and -- sarah palin coined the term. her effort initially unsuccessful to get her daughter into an oversubscribed high school in seattle. when she found the school district was using race as one of a number of tie breakers, she filed a lawsuit and challenged it and it went all the way to the supreme court. i also found along the way, that, and i didn't start with this in mind, that these four cases also had something else in common. they had very smart, conservative or libertarian lawyers behind them. in some cases, you would call them a agenda cases. these were issues that, the lawyers or the organizations backing them wanted to get to the supreme court for a final decision and they had their eye on an in

in a way this decision... >> stephen: not according to john roberts. we have evidently passed the magic moment at which we no longer have to worry about the jim crow states that used to prohibit minors from going to the polls. they're not going to do that anymore because they haven't done it since the voting rights act was passed. >> that's the irony of this decision. >> stephen: or the magic. the voting rights act actually has prevented racial discrimination in these states that used to basically outlaw african-american citizenship and voting rights so today's decision is really terrible for our democracy. >> stephen: let's tell the folks exactly what the decision says because it affects section 4 of the voting rights act of 1965. >> basically section 4 provided certain states had to have preclearance before changing any of their voting laws, any of their polling places. >> stephen: i'm texas and i want to change something about my voting like where i change my polling stations or what my criteria is, what the hours are in certain parts of my state. t

it is simply john roberts, who do you think would do a good job here? as you might expect from john roberts, out of the 11 judges currently serving on the court, 10 of them were appointed by republican presidents. only one of them was appointed by a democrat. these 11 judges all chosen by roberts, ten of which are republicans, they meet in secret at this federal courthouse in washington. the presiding judge only hears the government's argument before issuing a decision. there's no representative of the people or the other side. no one even tasked with making the argument of the other side which, by the way, is how it is core to how every other court works. you have to hear both sides. the decision this judge, this john roberts appointed judge who only hears one side, can't be appealed by the public, seen by the public or criticized by the public because the public doesn't know it happened. they can't read the rulings. they're not informed of them. nothing. no other part of u.s. law works this way. no other part of the court system works this way. after

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earlier, i sat down with john roberts who is in for chris wallace on "fox news sunday." so much uncertain in egypt today. hutwo key guests from the senate to talk about the u.s. role -- should we have one? >> senator corker and senator reid. the one thing that is certain about egypt is the amount of uncertainty. beyond that, it's anybody's guess. they could name a new prime minister to take over without one of the parties who was supportive of morsi going, saying, no, we are not going to work with this guy. you have to pick somebody else. senators corker and reid both said the u.s. should be a calming influence over the region. now, they may be able to do that in terms of the egyptian military because we give them an awful lot of money. but there is a free for all between the anti-morsity and pro-morsi forces and how do you inject any kind of calming influence, particularly on the morsi side and islamic militants

if this were john roberts and scalia, kagan, clarence thomas, and all the other, all the rest of the gang remaking these laws in public where we can hear what they're saying and read their opinions and congress could react, saying, yes, that's what we meant by relevant or no, it's not, this is what we meant by relevant. that's now how it's happening. this is happenings in secret. laws passed by congress are being rewritten by the secret court without any sort of public comment or public review. over the weekend "the new york times" reported on more than a dozen, a dozen classified rulings from this court that have created essentially a secret body of law totally removed from public scrutiny. the "times" said this court has "quietly become almost a parallel supreme court." that, i think, is a scary quote enough. a parallel supreme court out of view. it is unlike any other court in the country. it would give the "schoolhouse

. >> in his opinion chief justice john roberts wrote our country has changed. >> oh, that's fine then, that's fine. (laughter) >> that's all. we're good, we're good then. because it has changed. we have got ipads, twitter, maxi pads with wings. (laughter) every one is allergic to bre now-- bread now and racially things have got better in the south. it's true, primarily because of things like, oh, i don't know, the voting rights act of 1965. do you remember that? (cheers and applause) >> do you remember that? interesting story. that's the piece of legislation that now has a hole of it the exact shape of john roberts middle finger. (laughter) now you might think, you know, it's so old, the voting rights act. it's probably obsolete. when does the justice department ever need to protect minority voters for invoking section 5. and the answer is basically never if basically never means, and this is true, 74 times since the year 2000. and just in case you needed a reminder of what the voting rights act was preventing, less than two hours after the supreme court's ruling, one of the states fl

of course, folks, not everyone is ready to embrace john roberts the post racial utopia like mean oldginsburg who wrote in her hissy fit throwing out preclearance when it has worked and is continuing to work to stop discriminatory changes is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. oh, don't be such an alarmist. ( applause ) don't be such as an alarmist. i'm sure it will be years before mississippi takes the vote away from damp people. now, thankfully, not everyone is stuck in the past like georgia governor nathan deal, who celebrated the ruling saying, "over the last half century georgia has reformed and our state is is a proud symbol of progress." yes, georgia is a true symbol of racial progress. after all, georgia hasn't had this flag since 2003. so what do these cases have in common? grab a pencil, folks because here it comes. in doma and the voting rights act cases, it was about states' rights, not the people in those states. that's why the first words of the constitution are "we the states." i think it's really hard to read those gay lette

most of them are in the range of john d robert feller -- john d rockefeller. these giant monopolies that are impossible to challenge and they become a vastly profitable. you get a sense of best. 13 of the largest companies in terms of market value are internet companies. 13 of the 32 largest. sometimes it is 14. it fluctuates. comparison, three of the too big to fail banks are the most valuable. only three of them. 13 of the internet companies. all the companies that i mentioned. facebook is still not in the top 32. these are enormous companies. they are monopolies. cap immense political power. they are used to getting their way. have immense political power. they will always get their way

on tuesday john roberts driver -- delivered the opinion parting of the voting right. and ruth reads it and it's an act of arrogance on part of the court to strike down a law that has been passed over whemmingly by congress. the four liberal justices dissent. the next day they strike downtown deafen of marriage act. justice scalia lights in to the defense. he calls it jaw dropping arrogance we are overturning the decision of the congress and in the executive and the defense of marriage act, a popular law. he made fun of the voting rights act. like who would vote against? who would vote against something called the defense of marriage act. pretty easy in the mid' 90s to talk about that. when the justice is talking it's like anybody there the day before that. wait a minute, pal, weren't you exactly on the opposite side of the very much the day before? >> i like the form of reasoning there's something -- you should be skeptical about. the voting rights act was passed 98-0 in the senate. something that pass that overwhelming majority was to be disfavored. >> right. and i w

a lot of our correspondence douglass kennedy, john roberts and other ones. is a piece on a douglass kennedy did on some of these guys who are waiting. >> you applied for benefits from the v.a. two and a half years ago but you got very little response. >> i actually got no response. it's a very, very difficult and tiresome process. >> right now the department of veterans affairs fights against veterans. it's crazy. it's insane. >> shannon: chuck, there has been by bipartisan agreement on the hill that something has got to be done. court cases where federal judges have ordered the v.a. to get it in order. what's it going to take? >> i don't know. i mean, this is a good example though of a problem that can't be solved by sort of either kind of more bureaucracy and the usual more spending or a kind of get rid of government, sort of libertarian approach. in fact, this is a good example of what we need in america, which is effective government. we need government that does the things it is supposed to be doing. no one would argue that taking care of veterans is an

john roberts made a vague reference to the 10th amendment. there is the 15th amendment that says the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race. congress shall have the power to force this to appropriate legislation. congress decided, how could that be unconstitutional? i thought the john roberts opinion may do very good political science commonsense argument. this is all based on data from the 1970's. it is outdated, it does not make any sense today. i thought it was very hard to say as a legal matter, why was that provision unconstitutional? >> the case that not all five of the conservatives subscribed to. the truth is that was part of it. they did not articulate for the five justice majority exactly what the standard was. that will be complicated going forward. >> in several of the cases last week, particularly in the doma case, justice scalia delivered quite an impassioned oral dissent. joan, you recently published a piece about justice scalia's oral dissent. have they become even more impassioned over the years? >>

the latest in a fox news investigation from john roberts. have wiring problems. cheryl: a new england name trying to find a new home in california. planning to expand on the west coast. as we do every day at this time, take a look at oil. ♪ cheryl: broad-based selling across the board right now. alcoa, home depot and intel are in the green. at the end of the week, we actually have an interesting situation going on. if you look at the last three months, really, you have a story here. it is a positive story. just in the last couple of let's bring back nicole petallides from the new york stock exchange. a strong performance for the markets. nicole: we have had a great year. seventeen-18%. we have had a great run. this back half of the year is looking good. there is still a lot of gold out there. and lots of folks who think that there is still room to the upside. let's talk about expedia. they came out with their numbers. 25% to the downside. they missed their second quarter numbers. they are seeing weakness. the profit number fell way below the

. >> and joining me now, john roberts, in for chris wallace this week on fox news sunday. od to see you, john. >> good morning. good to see you, too. it's been a while. >> we had double boxes yesterday with the pro-morsi and the anti-morsi protesters. and the crowds may be a little less today. nevertheless, a lot of people there on both sides. where do these folks see this going? >> well, i mean, the only thing right now that's certain about egypt is the uncertainty as to where this is going. and you just don't know. will there be more violence like there was on friday? will elements of the muslim brotherhood and islamic militants take a greater hand in protesting what has happened in egypt? which more and more people, including ambassador john bolton, who was a frequent visitor on this network, say obviously was a military coup. and how should the u.s. respond to all of that? senators corker and reid say as you say there the best thing the u.s. can do is try to be a calming influence. that may work with one side. certainly the other side's not likely to listen to anything

i believe john roberts was wrong, but maybe he was wrong when he said we are no longer divided alongial lines. i think this week has proven that. >> i think we are still steeped in a racist society. i also think that we have to draw a careful distinction between saying our -- our drone policy and our terrorism policy is the same as what george zimmerman did. it's fair to say that george zimmerman had the mentality of the government, but i don't think that the converse is true. at least in the government's case when you look at some of the targeting that was done it does seem they base that on some set of fact. he based this on this is a kid that give him zero respect and had the wrong clothes on. he has no intelligence and he armed with a gun but not armed with the training that would tell him tray in the car. >> i would agree with that except i would add let's not forget the comparison comes from president obama and the obama administration. when the obama administration was asked why are you counting all military-aged males in a combat zone as combatants. and the answer was because

but the vote decider, chief justice john roberts found a legal loophole to justify its support.the gay marriage front, the court actually got it right when it ruled that marriage should be decided by the individual states. if the folks in vermont for example want a secular progressive society that's up to them. if voters in texas want a more traditional society that sentiment should be respected as well. the gay marriage issue should be decided by each state. california did decide it in november 2008, 52% of californians voted for traditional marriage only but governor schwarzenegger and brown and the powers that be in sacramento refused to support the vote when a judge struck it down. so the supreme court heard the case and once again found a loophole to nullify two votes. not one, two. against gay marriage. the streams ruled 5 to 4 that supporters of traditional marriage had no legal standing to challenge the judge who struck it down. ridiculous? you bet. an ab-surd. it was all a big con. judges finding a way to support their political opinions by manipulating the law. anyone

john roberts made a vague reference to the 10th amendment. there is the 15th amendment that says the right to vote shall not be denied or abridged on account of race. congress shall have the power to force this to appropriate legislation. congress decided, how could that be unconstitutional? i thought the john roberts opinion may do very good political science commonsense argument. this is all based on data from the 1970's. it is outdated, it does not make any sense today. i thought it was very hard to say as a legal matter, why was that provision unconstitutional? >> the case that not all five of the conservatives subscribed to. the truth is that was part of it. they did not articulate for the five justice majority exactly what the standard was. that will be complicated going forward. >> in several of the cases last week, particularly in the doma case, justice scalia delivered quite an impassioned oral >> i think that we do probably all intellectually agree that they were splitting along the lines of how they might see the standing issue, bu

i met robert's john, robert junior at a cam with children with aids in north california.t now has a permanent home in livermore, thanks to the foundation. the founder of camp sunburst is jerry de larosa brooks. she was the first woman in the country to create a camp for children with aids on the west coast. i was privileged to work with you back then. as we talked about this i was the one to first hold a child with aids in this market. it was kind of shocking back then. i'm so glad we've some so far. >> it's really wonderful, cheryl. thank you for inviting me. >> thank you for the work you're doing. you're working in two places. >> that's correct. >> you're still working with teenagers, corrects? >> teenagers and young adults. >> welbring us up to date. >> pretty much in the united states it's been completely eradica eradicated. now we have children born with aids turning into adolescents, so they need to have programming that supports them even beyond that into adult medical care. when the young people turn 18 they still need to have the support to stay adherence to medi

john roberts has worn a different era, it's all over, it's all behind us.s partially right because it's not the same thing. it's not as extreme, brutal and violent. it's not nearly as bad as what happened, but it is still bad. it is a continuation of the same things, a much weaker version of white conservative majorities putting in intended things for no reason other than to suppress the minority vote. it's a much more marginal vote. they're not disenfranchising a majority, they're trying to disenfranchise a minority. you have to be careful with what roberts is doing. they're trying to say there's nothing similar and of course there are some things similar. you know -- >> yeah, and i find it -- i think you'd be hard-pressed to say that this isn't at least nakedly political, to try and surpass the votes of the traditionally voting democratic people. >> absolutely. his basis of a comparison is the pre-mid 1960s south where you had 90% or more of the african-american population disenfranchised. you don't have that policy anymore. you have policies designed to

thanks for watching fox where we remain proud and fearless. >> i'm john roberts in for chris wallace. expose a deep divide in the arab world. >> john: the country's first democratically elected leader forced from office. the military now in control and the path forward unclear as the u.s. walks a fine line with our largest arab ally. >> we are on the side of the egyptian people. we want their voices to be heard. we want all sides to engage with each other and work through a political solution. >> john: we will discuss with two key senators. republican bob corker and democrat jack reed. then, the battle over abortion

for it to go past the supreme court which is shear idiocy, that john roberts had to write an opinion that called it attacks because he couldn't figure out any other way to get it through, the whole thing is a bad idea. they should start all over. >> wayne -- not wayne, but christian, they say we need time, businesses need time to kind of get their books in ready on. books in order. are you kidding me? they have it mandated and they pushed it through the supreme court. now they have more time? >> first of all a little perspective here. this so-called employer mandate applies to fewer than 1% of the firms collectively employ about a million people. this is not about the impact on all of the businesses. this is about a small sliver who have been complaining since day one about the regulatory burden of compliance and the administration has said, you know what, we will make it simpler. we will yield to you yet again because you complain yet again. this doesn't speak to the broader issue of health carrie form or business -- care reform or businesses in general. >> it actually speaks a trem

anthony kennedy was joined by john robert effort junior, clash thomas and samuel eely toe. antonin scalia joined the three women on the court to disagree with the ruling. scalia and justices ruth bader ginsburg, sonia sotomayor and eleanor kagan ruled against the here's what scalia said about his descent "the court has cast aside a bedrock rule of our 4 4th amendment law that the government may not search its citizens for evidence of crime unless there is a reasonable cause to believe that such evidence will be found. question. will the supreme court decision prompt a national standard for the collection of dna? >> eventually it probably will, and here'swhat you need to know to see which direction the country's going. in 2009 e supreme court@ruled thatsomebody con.icted of a crime@does not have the right to he access to their own dna even if it would prove them innocent. so we had a bill of rights set up to protect people. instead@peopledon't have access to their own dna but the government does have the access >> what's dna? >> well, it's your internal fingprint in some way

who are calling for changes in the pfizer courts right now the pfizer courts are appointed by john roberts one guy appoints you know i think it's eleven judges in the pfizer court they are all now appointed officially by john roberts presumably they're all right wing wacko doodles no offense. it's. at least they've been characterized actually as yes men and that that concerns me whether it's right wing or left wing or if it was you know for the ruth bader ginsburg making the appointments do we really want one person to be the gate keeper to the fourth amendment of the united states and i have some serious problems with some of the proposals have included transferring the nomination powers from the chief justice to the president was sort of approval like appointments of federal judges these people are functionally federal judges after all making the court more adversarial by putting at least one citizen on whose you know a representative the american public and making the attorney general declassify some of the court's opinions anybody have thoughts opinions on this and i would love to see

and the i agree with john roberts in the voting rights act we're in mass racism in america we are largely past it i don't think it is a systemic problem i don't think it is of why the rich show has to worry about being shot every time his car is lavar burton you're talking about that example i know a lot of people i do it when i pulled over by the police used to have a fondness for speeding so i would put my hands up on the top of the wheel so that because the state trooper doesn't know what you're about when he's when he's coming up he doesn't know if you're going to pull out a weapon and blow me away he says you know you it's about because you have a fondness for speeding because you're black in a white neighborhood well i have done this for many things and that the police would like to know why i think we should get rid of the war in drugs but this isn't about the war on drugs this is about a situation where you know instead of looking at our inner city schools and stead of having the gun violence debate which i think we should have done on many different fronts and inner cities we're

we have to take it seriously, we have to look at what john roberts said. call out congress. we have to get congress to call him out and punch this through. >> speaking of calling out congress, what i appreciate is the sort of, all hope is not lost. so we actually saw congress actually doing something this week. and john lewis testified, before the senate judiciary hearing, and i want to play this and ask you about what is left of the vra. so let's listen. >> section four and five are the heart and soul of the voting rights act. the day of the supreme court decision broke my heart. it made me want to cry. the burden cannot be on those citizens whose rights were or will be violated, it is the duty and the responsibility of congress to restore the life and soul of the voting rights act. and we must do it and we must do it now. we must act. and we must act now. >> so, four and five, he says, are gutted, but what's left? two is left. what else are left? >> there are a few provisions that remain of the voting rights act. there's section two, a provision that all

thanks f >> i'm john roberts in for chris wallace. a deep divide in the arab world. >> john: the country's first democratically elected leader forced from office. the military now in control and the path forward unclear as the u.s. walks a fine line with our largest arab ally. >> we are on the side of the egyptian people. we want their voices to be heard. we want all sides to engage with each other and work through a political solution. >> john: we will discuss with two key senators. republican bob corker and democrat jack reed. then, the battle over abortion in texas

most of them are in the range of john d robert feller -- john d rockefeller. these giant monopolies that are impossible to challenge and they become a vastly profitable. you get a sense of best. 13 of the largest companies in terms of market value are internet companies. 13 of the 32 largest. sometimes it is 14. it fluctuates. comparison, three of the too big to fail banks are the most valuable. only three of them. 13 of the internet companies. all the companies that i mentioned. facebook is still not in the top 32. these are enormous companies. they are monopolies. cap immense political power. they are used to getting their way. have immense political power. they will always get their way with our government. it is why it's considered by democratic eric to be such an theorye -- by democratic to be such an enemy of government. of cannot deny that sort power. that if the situation we are in. these companies all make their money to varying degrees. degreethem to a certain by collecting data on people and invading privacy. they say online that if you get somethin

fox news's john roberts has been following the story. john, obviously a lot of people have a hard time having too much sympathy for bp but are they getting fleeced at this point? >> you're reading my mind, melissa. it is tough to have any sympathy for bp. but situation is raising a lost eyebrows you mentioned the amount bp paid ou already. the could go up several billion more that the new settlement bp claims is spinning out of control. last year it entered into a new agreement toompensate businesses in the states surrounding gulf area and oil spill for profits that they lost in 2010, the year of the spill but bp complains that the way this new claims administrator, patrick juneau, is interpreting the rules, a lot of business, some hundreds of miles from e gulf are getting millions of dollars for claims completel unrelated to the oil spill. the former solicitor general ted olson is representing bp on this. this is at he told me. >> this system has gone completely off the tracks because the claims administrator is defining terms so loosely