but the appearance of impartiality is very important in the process -- >> weekend our court with randy barnett, professor of the legal theory at georgetown law center. professor barnett is a contributed to the book, "a conspiracy against obamacare: the volokh conspiracy and the health care case." here he talks about the supreme court's decision to uphold the constitutionality of the affordable care act individual mandate provision. a reminder they can watch this program in its entirety on our website, booktv.org. >> you are sitting in the location where the first public arguments against the costs and jolly of obamacare were aired. in this very room. in heritage foundation, in december of 2009. i was on a program organized by the heritage foundation in which we presented a paper that would vote for heritage in two weeks arguing for why the offer look at act was unconstitutional which is not been on the committee ar are just come out f committee and is a paper that i wrote with pot of heritage foundation entry and portly nathanael studios then a legal associate who helped to to some of the heav

randy bar net. you can -- barnett. you can watch all of the programs featured here in their entirety on our web site, booktv.org. we begin with harvard law professor lawrence tribe, author of "uncertain justice: the roberts court and the constitution." here professor tribe argues that while the roberts court is widely portrayed as being ideologically split, producing one 5-4 decision after another, there are many less publicized cases in which the liberals and conservatives on the court find common ground. >> one of the research assistants working with me this summer, a terrific kid named max, went them to -- went home to new hampshire in late spring and spent some time talking with his high school music teacher. she knew that he went to harvard law school but didn't know that he was working with me, and she kind of unloaded on him about her great disillusionment with the supreme court. she'd been looking at the headlines about how partisan the divisions seemed to be. a lot of the people whose journalism she respects,