he's so distinctive and his style, the all-pro viewing with ruth bader ginsburg, hunting with cheney but his approach to the wall and life is such a wide embrace that he is distinctive among his black brogue it appears. >> host: i think of him so robust and full of life, you mentioned the opera. i think of justice scalia as someone who might have been in an opera because he is a battalion of course, that fits, and he is larger than life and has a force of personality that when he is in a room everyone listens to him and talks to him and that is true in the supreme court, too is in that? you talk about that in your book you have a chapter about his oral argument and what it's like to be in the supreme court with him. >> guest: it's funny hone in on the opera because at one point i describe him as a combination between the [inaudible] you can see him conducting something. there were times i would go to watch him speak and he would stand up and i would start to laugh because he's got this kind of movement about him that is both operatic but also comical, too. justice thomas said somethi

ruth bader ginsburg is from brooklyn. antonin scalia is from queens. samuel alito is from trenton, new jersey. we just wonder if we will have a little more mixing it up from the bench with the introduction of justice sotomayor. >> that go around by order of seniority after the chief justice has set up the case. this is what we are are to decide, here is the question. then they start casting votes, starting with the chief justice. if someone is not ready to cast a vote, he or she can wait, but typically it is up to the final justice to have his say, and then once every justice has been able to speak, they might have some give-and-take among the others. that is what they do for every case as it has been argued earlier in the week. also they go through on seniority if there is discussion to be had for a case that might be up there on a petition or appeal, and they decide whether to take the case and schedule it for oral argument. no secretaries or law clerks are allowed in the room, just the nine justices. before they start, they start out with a little c

tonight, we will sit down with justices scalia and ruth bader ginsburg. and the processes the justices follow and reaching a decision. ruth bader ginsburg has served since 1993. she gives a tour of her chambers as she discusses her life before serving. see those interviews tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> it is a three-day weekend on an "book tv" starting new year's day. on "afterwards" day new york times columnist talks about five decades of women's history. the best-selling author takes your calls sunday on "in depth." find the full schedule at booktv.org. >> family friends and former colleagues of the late senator edward kennedy gathered in boston in late august for his funeral mass. in attendance were former president jimmy carter, bill clinton, and george w. bush, along with president obama who gave the eulogy. other speakers included senator kennedy's two sons, edward and patrick. musical performances were provided by a tenor and soprano. this runs one hour 40 minutes. the family, your mother, a sister everyone in the world would love to ha

he's, he's so distintive in his style, you know, the opera viewing with ruth bader ginsburg, duck hunting with dick cheney, but his approach to the law and his approach to life is such a wide embrace that he is distinctive among his black-robed peers. .. >> guest: there were times when i would go to watch him speak and he would stand up and i would start to let because he has this showman's movement about him, that's both operatic but also, go. just the way justice scalia even composes his opinion, he said he sits on his computer, he puts on his classical music and he starts to conduct as if he is doing a symphony. so there is something large and operatic about him. >> host: so you didn't think for a moment that he has four law clerks sit down and write opinions and he just signed his name to them? >> guest: well, as you know, he relies on his clerks to some extent for the research. but his writing style is so distinctive, so original that he can hardly be really influenced by clerks or have his clerks to his first draft. even john paul stevens who does his own first draft. justice steven

tonight, we will sit down with justices scalia and ruth bader ginsburg. served on the court almost 25 years, and the talks about the role of the court and the processes the justices follow and reaching a decision. ruth bader ginsburg has served since 1993. she gives a tour of her chambers as she discusses her life before serving. see those interviews tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> it is a three-day weekend on an "book tv" starting new year's day. on "afterwards" day new york times columnist talks about five decades of women's history. the best-selling author takes your calls sunday on "in depth." find the full schedule at booktv.org. >> family friends and former colleagues of the late senator edward kennedy gathered in boston in late august for his funeral mass. in attendance were former president jimmy carter, bill clinton, and george w. bush, along with president obama who gave the eulogy. other speakers included senator kennedy's two sons, edward and patrick. musical performances were provided by a tenor and soprano. this runs one hour 40 m

tonight our interview with antonin scalia and ruth bader ginsburg.interviews with supreme court justices. get your own copy on dvd as part of c-span's icon to collection. >> there is less than one month to enter the c-span2 thousand 10 student -- 2010 studentcam video. highlight a problem that the country is facing. winning entries will be shown on c-span. host: for the next hour we will be talking about the funding the events of the decade with roberts lays in your and -- robert s. schlesinger and carl cannon. robert, your defining moments of the decade and why? guest: i think if you had to choose any similar event, it would have to the 9/11. if any event set the tone for the world in terms of policy, and would have to be the attacks of 9/11. host: carl cannon, your thoughts? guest: it was a very pitiful decade. people are sort of tired -- good riddance. the decade started close to here with the inaugural presidents who had not even won a plurality of the popular vote. then we were attacked on our own soil. it happened in 1941 as well. that is a rar

highest court. 10 supreme court justices, tonight, our interviews with santa and scalia and ruth bader ginsburgwith the supreme court justice, 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. get your own copy on dvd as part of our american icons collection, 83-disc said -- a three-disc set. >> new year's day, a look at what's ahead for the new year. fled abroad prudent discusses his future. the global economy. the creator of the segway and the creator of pixar heguitar h. >> the first african-american elected to the senate was awarded a medal this year. edward brooke. among those attending was president obama, john boehner. from the capitol rotunda, this is one and a half hours. >> president of the united states. [applause] xd[applause] >> latest angela merkel, majority leader of the united states senate, -- ladies and salomon, harry reid. -- the ladies and gentlemen, harry reid. >> please be seated. november 6, 1962 was a special day for president john kennedy. it was the day his brother ted won his old seat in the united states senate, the seat he would hold for the next 46 years, until just two months ago. a s

tonight our interview with antonin scalia and ruth bader ginsburg.interviews with supreme court justices. get your own copy on dvd as part of c-span's icon to collection. >> there is less than one month to enter the c-span2 thousand 10 student -- 2010 studentcam video. highlight a problem that the country is facing. winning entries will be shown on c-span. host: for the next hour we will be talking about the funding the events of the decade with roberts lays in your and -- robert s. schlesinger and carl cannon. robert, your defining moments of the decade and why? guest: i think if you had to choose any similar event, it would have to the 9/11. if any event set the tone for the world in terms of policy, and would have to be the attacks of 9/11. host: carl cannon, your thoughts? guest: it was a very pitiful decade. people are sort of tired -- good riddance. the decade started close to here with the inaugural presidents who had not even won a plurality of the popular vote. then we were attacked on our own soil. it happened in 1941 as well. that is a rar

he is close friends with ruth bader ginsburg. they are quite opposites on the law. she is quite liberal, he is quite conservative. they have very different manners from the bench. justice scalia is incredibly aggressive and the justice ginsberg will ask lots of questions and tends to pride herself on a certain tone of civility. they are very close pals. they go to the opera together. they celebrate new year's eve dinners together. they have deep respect for each other. when they were lower court judges and the d.c. circuit, they would swap opinions and ask each other for advice on some of the language in their opinions. other justices have formed a bridge clubs and travel together. it is a very human institution. remember, they are appointed for life, so there is an incentive for them to get along. all nine individuals very much value collegiality. they are appointed for life. they have to work together. the matter their differences on the law, they want to get along. there were most challenged in 2000 after bush vs. gore. that was probably the biggest challenge in

at 8:00 eastern, interviews with supreme court justices antonin scalia and ruth later ginsburg -- bader> later on c-span, a look ahead at the future with vladimir prudent and his call-in show. -- putin and his call-in show. the creator avi segway and co- creator of guitar hero. >> mr. lott was joined by former president bill clinton, former house speaker newt gingrich, and senate majority leader harry reid. this is 50 minutes. >> i welcome everybody to the united states senate. president clinton, it is real good to see you, of course. speaker gingrich. leader mcconnell. we welcome senator lott and a lot family. i miss having trapped -- trent in the senate. [laughter] of course, i would miss him a lot more if he stayed a democrat. when the son of a shipyard worker and a schoolteacher first came to washington, he came as a congressman that he would ultimately succeed. i have never met anyone in congress that was easier to work with. he was always pragmatic and very pleasant. senator-will told me a long time ago, -- daschle told me along time ago that senator lott is a pleasure to work wit

>> guest: at justice ruth bader ginsburg said, i love nino, but sometimes i could strangle him, and i think that was the sentiment of most of them. justice john paul stevens, who is certainly his opposite on the law, justice stevens, the senior liberal on the bench, said he has been a factor, and certainly been destructive is what justice stevens said. but he took it as part of the intellectual debate. now, justice harry blackburn was offended his justice scalia's tone, and i find in his documentses insure fact case you would you be official familiar with, when justice school gentleman first drafted the opinion, justice blackburn was very offended be the tone, and justice sandra day o'connor, who retired in january of 2006, was also offended by some of the tone, but learned to live with it, and i think that he -- people said to me, is it -- was he effective with that tone? because he pushed people away. but what he has done, he has probably cost himself a little bit with the moderate on the court, but he also issued battle cries to people beyond the court, and he has become a hero to