the question was how to persuade bill rehnquist. i went over and had a session with him and persuaded him. he was a little dubious, but i persuaded him. mitchell sent an opinion to schultz declaring the philadelphia plan legal, at which point then the aflcio, which was violently opposed to the philadelphia plan at that the point, violently opposed to goals and quotas in the employment, went to congress. about the same time senator curtis and ruska, i think it was, sent a letter to nixon bitterly attacking me and urging my replacement. at which point george schultz asked me to give a one-page memo, come up with a one-page memo to be provided to nixon defending the philadelphia plan. i stayed up with my executive assistant john irving all night to write that one-pager. and in the defense i relied on with some imagination, creativity, the statement he had made as vice president under eisenhower using the term "affirmative action." i sent that to the president. there was certainly people in the administration, not us, not the labor depa

and what justice rehnquist did in 1995 d.c. said boyd, that is he is really good and i can find something which is not covered by. and that was the country a good city to carry a pistol or a gun within 1000 feet of a school, you're not engaging in not engaged in interstate commerce. why? because it doesn't influence in any real or appreciable way the quality of goods that are shipped, and to his regular precisely because of this. this was a very big deal. if you'd gone the other way on which you would broken the agriculture cartel which would've been an unavoidable good, unfortunately that justices have decided, jackson came right out of the roosevelt administration when he was attorney general and he was not inclined to strike out a program which he had been influenced when he was attorney general. so we have to do that together question, if you can do that then attacking the medicaid mandate becomes much more easy because now you don't have to argue that you can record everything under the sun which influences the price and q

and remember rehnquist did that in the bill clinton impeachment trial when he was later asked what had amounted to, he said i did nothing in particular and i did it very well. the duties of the chief justice or undefined. in much about supreme court initially was undefined. so it really had to create itself and its done so not in a straight line progression, but it's done so true it's cases. the cases that in the early years has to decide because it is very little discussion over what they hear in the cases these years that it chooses to decide. and even that was a choice by the supreme court. most appellate courts today in this country have to take what comes. and so they act sort of as courts to review, courts of appeal, courts of error correction. that was the supreme court's initial feet or so it seemed. but william howard taft, the capstone after his presidency was becoming chief justice of the united states and he says this up and thought the court would greatly benefit from the ability to write his own ticket, create its own docket, not have to take every case it came along. so

and looking up different supreme court cases and the c-span footages of the justices breyer and rehnquistnd talking to eric yamamoto who represented fred karamatsu. >> were people willing to talk to you to be part of your documentary? >> yes. people were really nice about letting me interview them, especially karen karamatsut daughter. she had a it through say about her father's legacy which included standing up for our rights and making sure we stand up and look out for things when they are not right. >> what part of the constitution applies to that part of our history? >> well, in my movie i talked about the due process clause of the fifth amendment and talked about procedural and substantive due process. procedural due process means that the government can take away your rights without a neutral judge and jury. and substantive due process means that the government can take away your natural rights called life, liberty process. procedural. >> your state senator here, what was your reaction when you saw matthew's documentary and the topic that he chose as a japanese american yourself? >>

supreme court historical society dating back to his time as administrative assistant to chief justice rehnquist and before that chief justice berger. i also want to thank society president amare tus frank joenz to support the events this evening. frank was a distinguished president from 2002 and 2008 and only because of illness isn't with us this evening. our panel this evening consists of the four women to date served on the united states supreme court. even to summarize each of their careers with highlights would take far too long, so i'll be very brief. justice sandra day o'connor was nominated to the court by president ronald reagan on july 7th, 1981 and she was confirmed by the senate on september 22 t2, 1981. she retired on january 31, 2006. justice ruth bader ginsburg was appointed to the court by president william clinton on june 14th, 1993. she was appointed and confirmed by the senate and assumed her role on august 10th, 1993. justice sonya sotomayor was appointed by president barack obama on may 26, 2009 and assumed her position on august 8th, 2009. the following year justice elena k

law that had to the indian land grab a whole nother story disagree just judicial activism by the rehnquist courts the roberts courts and arguably all the way back to eighteen zero three is tearing america apart from bush v gore which blocked the recount in florida that it was ultimately done by the newspapers found that al gore actually won the two thousand election to citizens united to turn corporations in super persons and handed our entire political system over to a handful of billionaires and this week strip search decision which created a new law say in the local cop his buddies in strip search and humiliated occupy protesters or for that matter a tea party or to the roberts court socialist scalia thomas showing up at right wing fundraisers and going duck hunting with defendants before the court behavior that would get them impeached and any other court in america or in any other developed country in the world this roberts supreme court is out of control article three section two of the constitution explicitly says that the supreme court shall have jurisdiction quote with such except

then you've got three votes in the minority justice scalia, chief justice rehnquist and justice thomas. justice scalia rights and announces from the bench if you meant to send in which he says basically that court has taken sides in the culture war and it isn't behaving in a very fashion that can be tied to the constitution and any way and this would mean a slippery slope to things like bigamy and widespread of semidey and he said a marriage. and then justice thomas writes for himself saying but while he believes they are silly to, to use his expression, quoting from an earlier justice, and if she were a texas legislator he would vote to repeal, he was a judge and not a legislator and there's nothing in the constitution he says protecting the right of privacy. so, he provides a third vote. >> host: of the kennedy scalia division on these is so interesting because ronald reagan appointees from the late 1980's, both of them catholics born in the 1930's had some similar background, but they agree on a lot of things on the criminal cases, corporate cases and on a sort of cultural war cases

they provided the and then you've got three votes in the minority justice scalia, chief justice rehnquist and justice thomas. justice scalia rights and announces a vehement to send in which he says basically the court has taken sides in the cultural war and that it's not be giving in a fashion that can be tied to the constitution in any way that this would be a slippery slope to things like bigamy and widespread of semidey and she said they marriage and then justice thomas writes for himself saying that while she believes they are silly to use his expression quoting from the early justice, and if he were a texas legislator she would vote to repeal these she is a judge and not a legislator and there is nothing in the constitution he's as protecting the right of privacy. so he provides the third dissenting vote. >> host: the kennedy scalia division is so interesting because the ronald reagan appointees from the 1980's, both of them serve as catholics born in the 1930's had a similar background. they agree on a lot of things on criminal cases, corporate cases, the, sort of cultural cases jus

costa's professional career includes being a law clerk for supreme court chief justice william rehnquist in 2001, as well as his current position, serving as an assistant united states attorney in houston. as the colead counsel for the united states in the prosecution of robert allen stanford, mr. costa secured a conviction of 13 charges of conspiracy, wire and mail fraud. mr. costa has been credited by his colleagues as the glue that held the case together. his dedication to this case and these victims shows the core of his character and the fact that he asked for a delay in his confirmation that -- because he wanted to finish this case and assure that it was done so that the convictions would be obtained, make me proud and pleased to support his nomination to the federal bench. i'm also pleased to support the nomination of judge david come post -- david guaderrama to the western district of el paso, texas. he moved to texas at a young age. he obtained two bachelor's degrees from new mexico state university in political science and psychology, then earned his juris doctorate degree from

he was with the historical society gain back to being administrative assistant to chief justice rehnquistand before that chief justice burger. i also want to thank frank jones for his generous donation this evening. he was the distinguished president from 2002-08, and only because of illness is not with us this evening. our panel consists of the four women who to date have served on the u.s. supreme court. even to summarized each of their careers would take far too long, so i will be brief. justice sandra day o'connor was nominated to the court by president ronald reagan on july 7, 1981, and she was confirmed by the senate on september 22, 1981 to succeed justice potter stewart. she served the next 24 years and she retired on january 31, 2006. justice ruth bader ginsburg was appointed to the court by president william clinton on june 14, 1993 and appointed and confirmed by the senate and assume her role on august 10, 1993. the justice sonya sotomayor was appointed by president barack obama on may 26, 2009 and assumed her position on august 8, 2009. the following year, justice elena kagan