i've been following the bankruptcy issues there with judge rhodes.hey've had some good plug as recently as a couple of days ago with reframing their loans and their pensions. i think detroit is on its way to improvement, but it has a long way to go just like some other cities do. >> james brooks, david, mark and roberta, thank you all for being with me. >> thank you, ray. >> thanks a lot. that brings us to the end of this edition of "inside story." thanks for being with us. now the program may be over but the conversation continues. we want to hear what you think about the issues raised on this program or any edition of the show. you can log on to our facebook page. you can send us your thoughts on twitter. our handle, aj inside story a.m. or reach me directly at ray suarez news. we'll see you for the next inside story. and we'll see you all throughout 2014. so continue to join us. in washington i'm ray suarez. >> we're just going to have to do it, right? i could've chosen better underwear. are you prepared to make the ultimate sacrifice? >> you can

it's a fight it's just really just a dog fight now in the courtroom of judge rhodes he's of the federal bankruptcy judge there you have bond insurers fighting the emergency manager kevyn orr who's fighting the unions who's fighting the pension fund. bondholders it's like any bankruptcy proceeding except that municipal bankruptcy does not have a lot of established law so in many of these cases you're litigating this on sort of the first turn who's going to get preference in this and you are the structure. just been pretty pretty intense fight out there many of us are watching of course very closely we are all watching and it begs the question are there any lessons that we can draw from detroit's problems that apply to other municipalities in trouble. yeah the big one the big legal decision in the detroit case is that pensions can be cut. this is a ruling by a federal bankruptcy judge and in that really he says federal law is going to take precedent over the michigan constitution which protects those pigeons it's imbedded in michigan constitution so you have this legal tango between the r

it's a fight it's just really just a dog fight now in the courtroom of judge rhodes he's of the federal bankruptcy judge there you have bond insurers fighting the emergency manager kevyn orr who's fighting the unions who's fighting the pension fund. bondholders it's like any bankruptcy proceeding except that municipal bankruptcy doesn't not have a lot of established law so in many of these cases you're litigating this on sort of the first turn who's going to get preference in this and you are the structure. just been pretty pretty intense fight out there many of us are watching of course very closely we are all watching and it begs the question are there any lessons that we can draw from detroit's problems that apply to other municipalities in trouble. yeah the big one the big legal decision in the detroit case is that pensions can be cut. this is a ruling by a federal bankruptcy judge and then that really he says federal law is going to take precedent over the michigan constitution which protects those pigeons it's embedded in michigan constitution so you have this legal tango between

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in a landmark decision that could harm retiree benefits nationwide, federal judge stephen rhodes ruledl records the law can override state law to protect public pensions. that clears the way for detroit to make major cuts to health and retirement benefits of city employees. for more we're joined by rachel richard wolf. example of a failed economic system. you have to judge in economic system like ours. not only by the good things it can produce, which it does, but also by the disasters which it sees, which it worsens, in which it does nothing to reverse. cooks across south africa in the world today, people are mourning the death of nelson mandela. the anti-apartheid leaders spent 27 years in prison before becoming south africa's first black and democratically elected president in 1994. south african president jacob zuma deliver the news to the nation in a televised address saying mandela died peacefully surrounded by his family. >> our nation has lost its greatest son. our people have lost a father. knew that this day diminishe, nothing can loss.nse of the profound >> a white house pan

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colleagues from rhode island and iowa for their cooperation in establishing the speaking order this evening. i'd like to speak for a moment about the vote we just cast. we just confirmed judge wilkins to the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. by a -- i voted against this judge and in doing that i joined my republican colleagues for one simple reason: several years ago, when president george w. bush was in the white house, he nominated an eminently qualified lawyer named peter keisler who had bipartisan support, who was not a partisan hack, he was a true craftsman in the law. he was someone that no one had any ideological opposition to but he was blocked by the senate democrats at that time for the simple fact based on the simple reason that according to the senate democrats the d.c. circuit's caseload was not sufficiently robust to justify the filling of this position. now, since that time, not very many things have changed. since that time, if anything, the d.c. circuit's caseload per judge has remained about the same or some would argue has gone down a little bit depending on which metric you use. one thing that has changed is that we have now a democratic presid