ruth bader ginsburg showed that it was one of first, too. it is the way for the dissent to call attention to his or her opinion. justice scalia told me in 1988, when he did his major dissent in the independent counsel case and he had that wonderful line, sometimes the wolf comes to us in sheep's clothing, this wolf comes as a wolf. the reason he decided justin byron white had said, we have a practice that if we feel passionately about a dissent, we should do that. scalia went on for nine minutes back in 1988. each year, he does at least one. the doma one, if he could've pounded his fist on the mahogany bench him and he probably would have. >> the great thing from being in the courtroom, he has this great storyteller voice. he was going on and telling the story and he can be very sarcastic. he is really rolling along and then he finishes and he has written the majority opinion of the next case. the chief justice says, justice scalia will give the opinion and he had to recalibrate. sorry about that. he was still using his sarcastic voice. [lau

ruth gader ginsburg resists retirement pressure. she says she's in excellent health and plans to stay several more years on that bench. >>> and topping our news, slowly but surely, firefighters in arizona are quelling the flames to a wildfire that killed 19 of their own. it's now 80% contained. but the firefight in the west is far from over. 37 wildfires rage across the region. 715,000 acres up in smoke. wind driving many of these infernos. >>> and in remembrance, firefighters from across the nation will salute their fallen brothers at a memorial service on tuesday. >>> switching gears to a big find in iowa. these kids wading through a creek found a mastadon tooth. it's about 20,000 years old. and a whopping 5 pounds. so what exactly is a mastodon? they are extinct but kind of look like an inc.ient elephant. the kids say they'll hold on to the tooth and they're going to bring that tooth into class in the fall. okay. >>> key west residents celebrated the fourth with the world's largest key lime pie. was created especially for the ina

don't expect ruth bader ginsburg to be going anywhere any time soon. the 80-year-old justice tells reuters she has no plans to retire adding she's in excellent health even lifting some weights. all right. here's something you probably won't like. it is your tax dollars hard at work. a new report says the state department spent more than $600,000 on facebook likes. the money was used for advertisements to boost its standings on a social media website. well, americans don't think the founding fathers would be too proud how the country is turning out. 71% would be disappointed just over a fourth said they'd be pleased. >>> president obama welcomed members of the military and families to the white house for a july 4 th barbecue. >> what makes us great is not our size or a wealth but values and ideas and the willingness to fight for them. a global defender of peace and freedom. a beacon of hope for people everywhere. >> and first lady has ranked her top ten favorite moments from fourth of julys past and tweeted some from the events including the president w

. >> ruth bader ginsburg, those that cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. charles?> it is a classic statement of reactionary liberalism. the voting rights act succeeded. it changed america. it's day is over. not that the idea of preventing discrimination is over, but what justice roberts wrote in a decision four years ago in looking at the renewal he said i will renew it, but it is based on statistics that are half of a century old and completely changed. if you bring me new statistics that show this -- the states need to be singled out, it will be renewed. congress that not respond. in five of the six states, black turnout is higher than white. this is not america of 1965. the law itself in concept is correct, but if you want to talk about the areas of discrimination, it is not only in the south. you will do it everywhere, or specify with a new statistics the discrimination is happening in -- happening. >> we did not get a black president because of south carolina, alabama, mississippi. they stay true. do not cite a black president as a sign the country is changing

scalia and justices ruth bader ginsburg, sonia sotomayor and eleanor kagan ruled against the here's what scalia said about his descent "the court has cast aside a bedrock rule of our 4 4th amendment law that the government may not search its citizens for evidence of crime unless there is a reasonable cause to believe that such evidence will be found. question. will the supreme court decision prompt a national standard for the collection of dna? >> eventually it probably will, and here'swhat you need to know to see which direction the country's going. in 2009 e supreme court@ruled thatsomebody con.icted of a crime@does not have the right to he access to their own dna even if it would prove them innocent. so we had a bill of rights set up to protect people. instead@peopledon't have access to their own dna but the government does have the access >> what's dna? >> well, it's your internal fingprint in some way. >> what does it stand for? dna. >> oh, boy. >> come on, struggle. >> i don't know.@ >> nucleicacid. i know that. >> that's the best we can do here? >> looks like it. >> does it give y

ruth ginsburg says this is arrogance on the part of this court to strike down a law that has been passed overwhelmingly by congress. the four liberal justices dissent. the very next day, they strike down the defense of marriage act. justice scalia calls it job- dropping arrogance that we are overturning the decision of the congress and the executive in the defense of marriage act, a very popular law. well, who would vote against the defense of marriage act? pretty easy in the middle of the 1990's to vote for that. i am struck by how if justice scalia is talking, if anyone was there, they say, wait a minute. weren't you on that exact opposite side of that issue the day before? >> i like the form of reasoning that there is something you should be skeptical about because the voting rights act was passed 98-0 in the senate. >> justice alito wrote a very interesting dissent on the doma case, but did not announce it from the bench. did that have room for coverage in your stories? did you think it was worth writing about? it was only for himself. >> i certainly mentioned it. he stated clearly t

. >> justice ruth bader ginsburg wrote in her dissent, quote, "hubris," pride, "is a fit word for today's demolition of the voting rights act." was it hubris? >> it's politics. and i think it's also ideological hubris. because if you go back to the critical documents that supposedly protect the right to vote, you know, the 15th amendment passed in 1870, declares that people could not be prohibited from voting because of race, color, and condition of previous servitude and added the congress shall enforce this amendment with appropriate legislation. the first of the line 1965 voting rights act says, this is a bill to enforce the 15th amendment. so this was a power given to the congress, not to the courts. >> the roberts court in effect said to congress, you can rewrite these standards, you can rewrite the voting rights act. and it's your obligation to do so. any chance that this congress would do that? >> it seems almost impossible because e republican party has become the party of the south. and in a strange way, has taken on the appearance of the old white southern segregationist democra

but as justice ruth bader ginsburg said, that's like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. >> let me be clear. this was a deeply disappointing and flawed decision. it dealt -- it dealt a serious setback to the cause of voting rights and like all of you, i strongly disagree with the court's action. >> among those testifying will be civil rights icon john lewis when this hearing is held this afternoon. is congress going to do anything here, matt? >> the house of representatives prepare, do they prepare to do anything is the question, right? it's controlled by the republican party right now. what congress has to do, according to supreme court is coming up with a formula that makes sense in 2013 instead of relying on historical racism from 1963 to 1964. that is within their purview. i think it's an open question of how much of that the supreme court would allow if it was then challenged on similar grounds. but i don't know if we have the political kind of agreement right now between both parties so-to-come up with a new formula to figure out which state

ruth ginsburg, most most every argument should ask the first rushed in and was really sharp with the question. if there are them and say it. she is always well prepared an extremely sharp in the questions. the second woman on the court. after a while, she was the only one. now there are three. are they a voting bloc? -- block? 36 possible combinations of the night justice is. the three pairs most likely to vote together are the three women on the court. they are in that sense a block. they're not about because they're female, but they are liberal. in the term or the right is splintered in little bit, you saw the three of them very cohesive. any pair of those three women you put together they vote together a percentage of the time. he is the fourth the democratic appointee of that crowd. >> in a series of fourth amendment cases, he flipped with scalia. scalia becomes the great opponent of the fourth amendment retractions -- fourth amendment dna ourons in taking blood from duis. and frankie the sniff dog. and all of those cases, breyer takes a conservative side. memberad been original

and that that concerns me whether it's right wing or left wing or if it was you know for the ruth bader ginsburg making the appointments do we really want one person to be the gate keeper to the fourth amendment of the united states and i have some serious problems with some of the proposals have included transferring the nomination powers from the chief justice to the president was sort of approval like appointments of federal judges these people are functionally federal judges after all making the court more adversarial by putting at least one citizen on whose you know a representative the american public and making the attorney general declassify some of the court's opinions anybody have thoughts opinions on this and i would love to see this be really debated and reformed but unfortunately right now i think that wyden and dick durbin all these guys are a sort of someone in the minority the. n.d.a. of the. defense authorization bill you know was close there was a really close amendment that would have sort of defund some of this that's happening but it wasn't close enough and i think you know

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