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chief justice rehnquist, justice marshall, all of them, justice brennan. they all gave me sage advice, but in the end, the closest person who made it doable was justice scalia. >> tell us what has changed during your tenure on the court. >> god, i am older. [laughter] the courts change. you know, it is really interesting. i have to take my hat off to people like john stevens, justice rehnquist, people who have been there a long time. after you have been there a while, you sort of come of age with the court and you get used to that. then it changes. new colleagues come on and you make adjustments and they become your family. it is a different court. you have different colleagues. they are good people, all of them. we have been enormously fortunate. justice alito is there now and we were at yale together. [applause] he and martha ann have become family. you meet new people and you get new colleagues and friends. but i have to say that, with all of that, i look back on the days that i came of age as the years that i will treasure. they were really, really har

william rehnquist was chief justice.epublicans nominated vice president george herbert walker bush for president. democrats nominated massachusetts governor michael dukakis. president reagan visited the soviet union. gorbachev visited the united states. barack obama began his studies at harvard law school, hired on as a summer intern in chicago, anmet young lawyer named michelle robinson whom he later married. before he announced his candidacy, mark shields said this on "iide washington." >> i will say this about obama. he is genuine and spontaneous in the e field of teleprompter candidates. >> he has had not take --had to take a position. when he becomes a cacandidate, they will go after him and take him down. he ought to enjoy this while he can. >> hillary has money and all the organization. he has something nobody else has had, the excitement factor. people go wow. >> that was about three mths before barack obama announced. as he ends is on the job, his poll numbers are plummeting. record numbers of americans disappro

justiceat, chief rehnquist passed away from his illness. that left two vacancies. been whenad always chief rehnquist left, roberts promotionme chief by or as it turned out directly. his nomination for her seat was withdrawn and resubmitted for the seat of the chief justice. justice alito was nominated to fill the vacant o'connor seat. host: some discussion on twitter on the subject of the cameras in the court. video coverage would expose the justices and their questions and competence to being judged of by the public and they do not want to that. we have time for one more question. vida is waiting. you are on with mark tushnet author of the book "in the balance." guest: yes, good morning. what a wonderful time for me to say the decision by john roberts absolutely floored me. i never thought he was fitted to be a supreme court justice at all. to think you can tax the american people and to let the like bk gp --e on the kgb, i no longer have faith in the court. this the absolute worst thing that is ever occurred. i saw earlier something on their that somebody sent in

chief justice rehnquist, justice marshall, all of them, justice brennan. they all gave me sage advice, but in the end, the closest person who made it doable was justice scalia. >> tell us what has changed during your tenure on the court. >> god, i am older. [laughter] the courts change. you know, it is really interesting. i have to take my hat off to people like john stevens, justice rehnquist, people who have been there a long time. after you have been there a while, you sort of come of age with the court and you get used to that. then it changes. new colleagues come on and you make adjustments and they become your family. it is a different court. you have different colleagues. they are good people, all of them. we have been enormously fortunate. justice alito is there now and we were at yale together. [applause] he and martha ann have become family. you meet new people and you get new colleagues and friends. but i have to say that, with all of that, i look back on the days that i came of age as the years that i will treasure. they were really, really har

. >> ♪ year in whiche this program began, ronald reagan was in the white house, william rehnquist washief justice, democrats controlled congress, republicans nominated vice president bush for president, the democrats nominated michael dukakis. president reagan visited the soviet union that year. the soviet president visit date he -- visited the united states. barack obama began his studies and met a young lawyer named michelle robinson whom he later married. seven years ago, about three months before he announced his candidacy, mark shields said this on "inside washington." >> i will say this about obama quickly. he is genuine and spontaneous. with thenow, speculation, assuming he becomes a candidate, they will come after him and take him down. he ought to enjoy this while he can. >> hillary has the money and all the organization. but he has something nobody else has had -- the excitement factor. >> wow! that was about three months before barack obama announced. his poll numbers are plummeting. record numbers of americans disapprove of the way he is doing his job. and his signature ac

justiceat, chief rehnquist passed away from his illness. that left two vacancies. been whenad always chief rehnquist left, roberts promotionme chief by or as it turned out directly. his nomination for her seat was withdrawn and resubmitted for the seat of the chief justice. justice alito was nominated to fill the vacant o'connor seat. host: some discussion on twitter on the subject of the cameras in the court. video coverage would expose the justices and their questions and competence to being judged of by the public and they do not want to that. we have time for one more question. vida is waiting. you are on with mark tushnet author of the book "in the balance." guest: yes, good morning. what a wonderful time for me to say the decision by john roberts absolutely floored me. i never thought he was fitted to be a supreme court justice at all. to think you can tax the american people and to let the like bk gp --e on the kgb, i no longer have faith in the court. this the absolute worst thing that is ever occurred. i saw earlier something on their that somebody sent in

chief justice rehnquist, justice marshall, all of them, justice brennan. they all gave me sage advice, but in the end, the closest person who made it doable was justice scalia. >> tell us what has changed during your 10 years on the court. >> i am older. [laughter] you know, it is really interesting. i have to take my hat off to people like john stevens, people who have been there a long time. after you have been there a while, you sort of come of age and get used to that. then it changes. new colleagues come on and you make adjustments and it is a family. it is a different court. they are good people, all of them. i have been enormously fortunate. justice alito is there now and we were at yale together. [applause] he and martha ann have become family. you meet new people and you get new colleagues and friends. but i have to say that, with all of that, i look back on the days that i came of age as the years that i will treasure. they were really, really hard. i feel like you take justice scalia and we were in the trenches together. you learn a lot and you

hall law school and you stand out as one of the most hospitable to the conservative viewpoints, rehnquist and henry i felt comfortable talking in the class and other classes, too, but i got booed a lot and don't get the sense that the tolerance at law school has improved since then. we came in a critical time in a very contentious time when the legal studies were a very strong. i'm a sort of contemporary to the current president goes for a jury on hospitable place. i do not get the sense that that has changed and now academia in general but even harvard law school is an hospitable to the jewish students wear a lot of them now are fewer in number than a lot of the places. you are considered a zionist which is also the same as a racist and if you're a conservative you are a racist every time if you want to advocate against gay marriage for example you are a racist. everything you get labeled and put as an outcast. it was true then and worse now. >> it's better in some ways and worse and others. today of course there are many articulate and brawley and conservatives who are prepared to speak

justice rehnquist did believe there should be some experimentation. that is why we at americans united for separation of church and state go into court to challenge something that might be approved under the federal constitution will go into a state and prevail and defeat school voucher programs using state constitutions. that is an issue right now in colorado and new hampshire. we try to use it. there is a separation and a certain time and place in which the state gets to make its own decisions, many times being more protective of individual freedoms. host: we are talking about the rule of religion and our guests, barry lynn, and dr. richard land. our debate continues for another 25 minutes or so. i want to get both of your takes on the new pope. it is his first christmas. page -- y," editorial let me begin with you. guest: i think he is exciting. he is revolutionary. he is the first non-european pope in over a millennium. that is quite a statement. the first non-european pope in over a millennium. he comes from the southern hemisphere. he will bring

clerked for judge john noonan jr., the ninth circuit court of appeals and chief justice william rehnquist of the united states supreme court. he spent time working abroad as legal assistant to the iran-u.s. claims tribunal in the hague and was legal officer at the united nations kpwepbgs division in geneva, switzerland. he spent time in private practice handling criminal and commercial litigation at the law federal of goetz, madtk-pb and dunn. he served for four years as the state's solicitor general. he was elected to his current position on the montana supreme court in 2004 and demonstrated integrity, fairness and superb analytical skills on mt.'s highest court. justice morris is known for his approachability, evenhandedness and down to earth manner. after all, he's from butte. he can often be found reading to students at smith elementary school in helena. he commanded the respect of his colleagues at the highest level of the law for eight years served the people of montana on the bench in the community. his nomination is an extraordinary mark in his career and i have no doubt he'll con

rehnquist didn't like it. berger didn't like it. roberts i think is a little us -- a little less fearful of the public eye, although he has not been giving interviews lately either. so it's just -- we kept thinking that as the younger justices came onto the court who grew up in the television age they would be more willing and eager to embrace that medium, which is not exactly a medium anymore, but that generally does not vindicate. >> one thing has to be said about c-span, which is that a lot of justices can be seen in their appearances at law schools and other forums like that through c-span. >> fred grimm who covered the supreme court for the new york times and cbs from 1965-97 said only the vatican and the cia were less interested in press coverage than the supreme court. is this still true? >> well, that may be true but i've always said that the vatican and the cia are very interested in the press coverage. the vatican has a press office. the pope tweets. so does the cia have a press office. and maybe times have changed since t

. >> john roberts has been chief justice for eight years and his predecessor william rehnquist i thinkef for 17 years i think it was? so we are early in what we anticipate to be a tenure of maybe 25 years. john roberts was the youngest chief justice ever named to the court since the great john marshall at age 50. so did you ever have the feeling that it was too soon to judge or to offer to take on the roberts court? >> i did actually and i point out in the book and i tried to make it very clear that i do consider this still a young court, even though the oldest justice is 80 and you really only have i think now three justices that are still in their 50's. but i did wonder about that. i guess i should tell you how the book really came about first. i was covering the elena kagan's confirmation hearings in the summer of 2010 when i received really two extraordinary e-mails the one e-mail was from an editor at shimek -- simon & schuster simon & schuster who was very interested in the book about the supreme court and the other e-mail was from a very faithful pbs fan, a young man who attache

justice rehnquist did believe there should be some experimentation.s why we at americans united for separation of church and state go into court to challenge something that might be approved under the federal constitution will go into a state and prevail and defeat school voucher programs using state constitutions. that is an issue right now in colorado and new hampshire. we try to use it. there is a separation and a certain time and place in which the state gets to make its own decisions, many times being more protective of individual freedoms. host: we are talking about the rule of religion and our guests, barry lynn, and dr. richard land. our debate continues for another 25 minutes or so. i want to get both of your takes on the new pope. it is his first christmas. page -- y," editorial let me begin with you. guest: i think he is exciting. he is revolutionary. he is the first non-european pope in over a millennium. that is quite a statement. the first non-european pope in over a millennium. he comes from the southern hemisphere. he will bring a lot