given me this wonderful opportunity to talk about one of the living giants of american law, ruth bader ginsburg. i am very grateful for that. and my 3.5 years on the court, serving with justice ginsburg, i have come to admire her more and more each day as a judge, a colleague, and a friend. they say life on the court can be a little cloistered and i did not realize until recently that to folks on the outside, justice ginsburg is more than that. to many of them, she is a hip-hop icon. the notorious rbg. [applause] they sell these truly. she is the subject of an opera, a comic book, a tumblr, and the blog, called the ruth bader gins-blog. i'm going to disappear for my second prop. she is a bobblehead. bobblehead because the head bobbles. here she is, i know you won't be able to see this. she is standing on the ground of virginia military institute, a college she made coed. this is a safe. what she is doing is she is pulling from the safe the $.13 less per dollar that lilly ledbetter was paid relative to her lowest paid male colleague. that is justice ginsburg the bobblehead. there is also some re

more than any other individual ruth bader ginsburg is responsible for eliminating sex discrimination from american law. how has she done it? one of the constants of justice ginsburg style extending from the brief in 1971 to the advance decent in 2013 has been a keen attention to the realities of gender discrimination. partly no doubt this comes from personal experience, the doors that shut on her when she graduated, the paid discrimination as rutgers. it also must come from her many years from listening to and fighting for other women who suffered from even greater discrimination. as a it will gator she used this owledge to rebut every dated rationalization to refute gender discrimination. and she relied on it to give the court a full understanding of the justices she was seeking to correct. as a justice too, she cons at that particular timely returns to the realities of discrimination to show how to correctly apply anti-discrimination principles. another equally important feature of justice ginsburg's approach has been her sensitivity to the role of courts in our democracy. now, that

given me this wonderful opportunity to talk about one of the living giants of american law, ruth bader ginsburg. i am very grateful for that. the court,years on serving with justice ginsburg, i have come to admire her more and more each day. as a judge, a colleague, and a friend. they say life on the court can be a little cloistered and i did not realize until recently that , -- twos on the outside folks on the outside, justice ginsburg is more than that. too many of them, she is a hip-hop icon. notorious rbg. [applause] they sell these truly. she is the subject of an opera, a comic book, a tumblr, and the blog. -blog. the ruth bader gins i'm going to disappear for my second prop. she is a bobblehead. bobblehead because the head bobbles. here she is, i know you won't be able to see this. she is standing on the ground of arginia military institute, coed.e she made this is a safe. what she is doing is she is pulling from the safe the $.13 less per dollar that lilly ledbetter was paid relative to her lowest paid male colleague. that is justice ginsburg the bobblehead. there is also some reference

copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> earlier this month, the supreme court justices ruth bader ginsburg and elena kagan attended an annual event hosted by the new york city bar association. justice kagan delivered remarks entitled "ginsburg' sitgreatest hits." >> they say life on the court can be cloistered and i did not realize until recently that the , do themthe outside justice ginsburg is more than that. too many of them, she is a hip- hop icon. for myng to disappear first prop. r.b.g.orious [applause] .hey sell these truly she is the subject of an opera, tumblr, and aa blog. forgoing to disappear now my second prop. she is a bobblehead. but that was part of an event held earlier this month by the new york city bar association. you can see the entire event tonight at 8:00 eastern or any time at c-span.org. atlantic council hold a discussion on emergency crisis management and how to respond to global conflict situations. we will hear from colonel scott benedict who amends a special marine ground task force for crisis response. >> today, we have the pleasure of hosting colonel scott a

not as conservative yet not not as conservative but actually a ruth bader ginsburg is oh shit yes solid so but. then briar can be as well yeah but briar. is kind of more of a little the road come together but given that this whole shift of the court is sort of the right i read lawyers book a couple years ago as fascinated with some of those arguments we're going to write without humans. so this takes us back to justice kennedy it does in justice kennedy did not say a lot he expressed some concern with the pay go too far but he most vehemently defended the rule the ruling in two thousand and seven saying this we have to we have to. follow that ruling and it's reasoning he point in i don't know if he was pointing out more to the other justices even then to the attorneys or anyone else making a stir decisis argument we did this it was it was just in and this is not be challenged here we have to follow that reasoning here which gives me some optimism that he will side with the piano so fast and we'll see how it all shakes out change thanks a lot thanks to chain for it. get the best of the r

supreme court justices ruth bader ginsburg and elena kagan.n a discussion about the three branches of government and the future of democracy. then steve wozniak talks about the creation of apple and the first personal computer. >> tonight we conclude our series "first ladies." a two-hour program on michelle obama. >> she brings financial resources to the marriage as well as her managerial skills, makes mount vernon a successful operation, and makes washington profitable for the eight years of fighting a war. >> there was something about abraham lincoln that he saw the potential and encouraged it and help develop it. she helped polish them up for washington society. the political parties they had were they invited a lot of important people. talking with the wives of very important gentlemen, she will did a lot of powers. >> the involvement of mrs. roosevelt in the political career of franklin roosevelt is right from the beginning. she becomes much more act of in her role after 1921, when franklin roosevelt contracted polio. she would encourage

lounge but only got it after two women were on the supreme court, sandra daye o'connor and ruth bader ginsburg now is a really acceleration of the actions trying to make abortion, if they can't make it illegal, which the opponents would like to do, then they are trying to make it unavailable, and so you see all this legislation in almost every state that's trying to keep women from having access to the procedure or being able to afford it or having a place that's fairly close to them. so they can get to it. and it reminds me at the time before roe v. wade. here in texas, abortion was illegal except to save the life of the woman. that's the only exception. so women traveled to california where it was legal. then governor ronald reagan signed that bill into law. it was only when he started running for president that he became opposed, or they went to new york, but there were very few places, and you had to have money to get there. >> sarah, let me ask you how that moved into the political consciousness, because when you won that case and went on to be in the legislature, it was considered a new

. >> tamari can watch elena kagan -- tomorrow you can watch elena kagan and ruth bader ginsburg. it will begin at 10 a.m. eastern here on c-span. it will befall a discussion of the three branches of the u.s. government, the future of democracy, and the 2014 midterm thations with her faster is at 11:30 a.m. eastern also on c-span. a conversationt, with republican senator bob corker on his early career in business. >> i have started working at most folks when i was 13 doing all kinds of odds and ends. i migrated to being a construction laborer, a rough carpenter. when i graduated from college i ended up being a construction superintendent. after about four years, i had built some reasonable -- regional malls around the country and learn how to build projects. when i was 25 years old, i went into business. i started doing a lot of repeat work come a small projects where i could be paid quickly. the company grew about 80% a year. we ended up building shopping centers around the country, retail projects in 18 states. it was energizing. it was a great place to be. the energy when you c

tonight at eight eastern on c-span supreme court justice elena kagan and ruth bader ginsburg will be talking about the court and women's rights. this is an event is hosted bracelet by the new york bar association coming up at 8 p.m. eastern. next on c-span2, a senate judiciary committee hearing from yesterday examined the federal government's surveillance and data collection program. the committee heard from members of the presidential privacy and civil liberties oversight board which recently released a report calling the bulk collection of phone records by the nsa unlawful and that it should come to an end. the hearing was an hour and 45. >> to begin this hearing of theh senate judiciaryea committee on the report of the privacy and civil liberties oversight board on reforms to section 215 telephone records program and the foreign intelligence court. here appreciate your being heree today, all five members of the board are here. and and most important, your extraordinarily impressivethe me report, which is all the more so because of the less than ideal conditions under which you did

ruth bader blog. -- blog." i will disappear now for my second crop. prop. she is a bobblehead. >> and again, the discussion on the life and career of ruth bader ginsburg starting tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. of justice iance think is more important than justice itself. i believe that. only a very small number comparatively of people ever enter into a courtroom, much less have any entanglement with the law. >> friday, c-span radio continues its series of world with formerrviews supreme court justices. associate justice tom clark at 4:00 p.m. eastern. >> the context here is that lee enjoys a reputation in the modern day as someone who counseled acceptance and submission and resignation to the situation. and that has always struck me as -- it is a sort of series that doesn't add up. we know that he was the most prestigious man in the south. we know the south didn't simply submit to the political will of the north. it began very quickly to contest of northern understanding the plans for reconstruction. to contest them through legal and violent means. what i found is that in the eyes of confederates, lee was not a symbol of submission. he was a symbol of

coming up here on c-span a couple of moments, remarks from ruth bader ginsburg and alito cake and onthe court. --