i remember covering his confirmation hearings for the mcneil news hour. i was taking what i was seeing in the hearings. i have to say the justice has been on the bench, seems to be fairly common ground with the figure i saw before the committee. i was not among those who was terribly surprised but i might not have predicted he would be as liberal a justice as some people think he turned out to be but as you know, he was called the stealth candidate. he has been, during his time in washington, and commonly disengage from washington's social life of me there is no justice who appears less on the social scene than justice david souter. he will be happy to go back to the farm in new hampshire to which he will be very happy when he sees washington in the rearview mirror. what his legacy will be, historians will say. there are no great grand doctrines produced. i will tell a quick story about him. each year, the road scholars committee to held organized a good bye event for the new been elected road scholar, david souter was a rhodes scholar. they need him at t

i've been asked on behalf of the democratic leader to ask consent that caroline mcneil, nay can keefer and stephanie -- nathan keefer and stephanie lewis be allowed privileges of the floor for the remainder of the debate on the nuclear option of dean koh to be legal advisor to the state department. prosecute. the presiding officer: without objection. a senator: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from missouri. mr. bond: madam president, i rise today to express my strong opposition to the nomination of mr. harold koh to be the legal advisor to the department of state. my concerns with mr. koh arise primarily from his own statements, writings and testimony before congress. in my opinion, he seems more comfortable basing his legal conclusions on partisan political opinions and trendy arguments rather than the facts and the law. we don't need more legal clerics in government. we need more legal realists in government, someone who pays attention to the hard work that we do in this body to pass laws. the department of state and the country deserve better than that kind of ad

in terms of henry mcneil turner, i love bishop turner.was one of the tyumen to really defended her in very critical periods of her career and of course her-- he was also an immigration test. he was a bishop, methodist bishop and believe that blacks should go, need to go back to africa as well. and the radical and also believed as you mentioned, taking up arms. this is quite a radical position at the time, as you can imagine. but, blacks, wells had fought by the late 19th centuries certainly, that there was no reason not to defend oneself. she herself thought a pistol after writing the first into lynching editorials. she said i am going to take someone with me. it was interesting of course she is also this victorian, so all this tension and the contrast makes for a wonderful character. she famously says, and i will end with this, she famously says in her discourse around anti-lynching, she says first of all civil disobedience, the south reconstruction depends on black labor and northern capital. if we can, if we can stop any of it, if we c