scalia will be talking and ruth ginsburg will say, you know, that argument doesn't work. he will say, ruth, we are not going to agree on this. i thought they were a lot of fun to write about. as far as the opera, this is -- ruth ginsburg sent me this. it is wonderful to read. the fellow, derrick wang, that did this has footnoted all of this with actual citations of their statements. he has used their words. scalia is singing about, you justices are blind, you find things in the constitution. he gets in prison for excessive dissenting. ruth ginsburg breaks through a glass ceiling to rescue him. maybe i will switch to opera. it sounds delightful. >> i think the line i got from reading your story was that the composer of the opera said that a lot of what he heard scalia saying dissenting from the bench reminded him of these rage arias in the italia opera. >> he was a music major at harvard and yale and went to law school. he actually said he was reading these dissents and said, now, here is an operatic character. >> i mentioned that i served as the marshall of the supreme cou

his trusted colleague breaks in to rescue him. ♪ ruth bader-ginsburg ♪ ♪ it's not the first time i've>> they disagree on constitution interpretation. ♪ just another word for liberal ♪ >> in the opera at least friendship wins out. after watching the premiere notorious rbg had an early review. >> he has a wonderful sense of humor. the song that they sang tonight "we are different, we are one," i think that captures it. ♪ we are different ♪ >> we tend to descent the way the other thinks. ♪ we are one ♪ >> sounds like it's ginsburg approved. >>> for a look at what's happening on the campaign trail, i'm joined by nbc reporter jane timm. good morning. >> good morning. >> we have to talk about the donald, i know. is he not backing down after hearing the mexican drug king pin escaping from prison. now he's saying quote, on twitter, unbelievable corruption and u.s.a. is paying the price. i told you so. i mean, he's just going full speed ahead with this. >> he's doing everything he can to keep this momentum going. we're talking about him every day. he attracted thousands to arizona this weekend

scalia will be talking and ruth ginsburg can say that argument does not work and he will say, ruth we are not going to agree on this. i just got they were a lot of fun to write about. as far as the other, ruth ginsburg sent me the libretto and it is just wonderful to read. the man who did this has footnoted all of it with actual citations of their statements. scalia is singing about how a few justices are blind and you find things in the constitution and he gets imprisoned for excessive dissenting and then ruth ginsburg breaks through a glass ceiling to arrest him -- to rescue him. anyway, i have not seen it yet. it is july 11 and 19 what it sounds -- maybe i will switch to covering operas. [laughter] >> i think the line that i got from reading your story was that the composer of the opera said that a lot of what he heard scalia saying dissenting from the bench reminded him of the rage arias in italian operas. that sounds very good. >> p was a music major at harvard and yale and then went to law school and he actually says he was reading these the sense and he said, here is an operati

this bringing, adam served a marshall with chief justice ruth bader ginsburg recognizing to hear an appeal regarding the affairs of don xuixote. finally, kimberly atkins e-mailed me this morning to say she was home sick and unable to leave the house. so we'll be without her this year and hope to see her again next july. this is not a panel of litigators analyzing case law. there are lots of those that you can go to. although we will talk about some case law but our plan is to talk about the course as an institution and a collection of individuals and about covering the court as journalists. i plan to save some time at the end for questions and answers. there are two mikes set up in the audience. so if questions occur to you during the program, please joet jot them down and i'll give you a heads up when it's time to go to the mikes. finally, there should be evaluation forms from the bar. there are not. but a repeat to the reminder you just got check your e-mails in the next couple of days and you will be getting an e-mail from the bar asking you to fill out an evaluation form and we really

ruth bader ginsburg is 82, scalia 79. kennedy 78, stephen breyer 76.e hunt, that the next president, especially if the next president serves eight years there's a strong possible of replacing three or four of these justices. i'm not sure the court has ever been more important in an election whether the voters realize it or not. >> you mentioned scalia as the person the republicans focus on. i think in the primary one of the names that will come up is john roberts over the health care decision. >> as to who not to appoint? >> right. >> i think jeb bush said that roberts was a man of unimpeachable integrity. he will get pushed whether or not he would appoint a john roberts to the court. i think the court has all been at the crux of the culture wars an the question is what role will they play in the election. a lot of argument over whether the gay marriage decision will line up like row v. wade or go in to the night as the next civil rights battle of our time. i think most people i talk to on the republican side think it is the latter. >> listen to what t

ruth bader ginsburg has said as much that she really wanted the court to speak with one voice on importantcases, and so you saw a situation where we had 40 dissents by conservative justices this year. only 13 dissents by liberal justices. i mean clarence thomas himself wrote more than 13 dissents this year so i think that was also a strong -- strong sign of where the court was going. >> yeah i think that's one of the untold stories, james toronto, the degree to which the four liberal justices vote in lock-step, that means if only one of the conservatives breaks in their direction, then you have a -- then you have a decision that goes with the liberals. and that's not -- that doesn't get a lot of attention in the press, but it's really been the case in the supreme court, not just this year but for several years. >> that is true and there's an additional point here concerning the dissents. the reason you have so many dissents from the conservative justices is because the conservative justices are really interested in legal ideas. so they have -- they'll write their own dissents because they

i think you can make an argument if the pill doesn't come along, we don't have ruth bader ginsburg on the supreme court. even sandra day o'connor. they were able to go to law school and start careers because we're at an age and i don't know about their personal use of birth control, but they're at an age when women are starting to be able to have make more choices for themselves, and the choices are not all controlled by the timing of their marriage. >> i think we may want to take some questions from the audience. >> sure. >> yeah? i asked jon, we were walking over here, about questions he'd been asked, and he said he'd never been asked anything that was too embarrassing about sex, is so don't break that now, okay? [laughter] >> that's okay, bring it on. [laughter] >> i though we have -- do we have a microphone here somewhere? where are people going? yeah. right there. so while somebody's getting to the microphone, how did you find all this stuff out? >> well, you know, the great thing about scientists, they're way better than gangsters and baseball players about keeping records. [lau

again to ruth bader ginsburg great decision for democracy. she says the elections clause is in line with the fundamental premise that all political power flows from the people. haven't heard that from the supreme court in quite some time. i think voters in arizona she says curb partisan gerrymandering where the court noted involved and inherit conflict of interest. politicians choose voters, that's not democracy. it's supposed to work the other way around, and so i think sink language like that from the supreme court is very, very encouraging to i think it will give encouragement to reformers and funders to go out into other states and seek reforms. the last point i want to make is that there were three state issues in the supreme court at the beginning of the term. wisconsin voter id, texas photo id and north carolina. in each case the supreme court stepped in. in my case they granted a stay in wisconsin to a seventh circuit decision to put into place the photo id law that it previously didn't enjoy. this is prior to the election. in texas t

ruth bader ginsburg and then justice thomas sat down with him, spent two hours talking with this kid.at particularly impressed carlos justice thomas was a big dallas fan. for dallas cowboys that was cool. at the end of two hours, justice thomas walked to his desk and had on his desk a super bowl ticket encased that was signed by emmett smith. he picked it up and gave it to carlos. and said tell you what carlos i'm going to give you this. i want you to promise me though you will get a's in school next year and carlos with his eyes big and bright said absolutely sir, i will. and you know justice thomas had moments like that over and over and over again. he is a man with an incredible heart. >> that is amazing. >> heart for people. and in my new book "a time for truth" over and over again i tell stories about the supreme court, what is going on behind closed doors. >> it is great stuff. including the time you watched hard core pornography with sandra day o'connor. that is reason enough to buy the book. senator, thank you very much. and good luck. >> thank you and let me say, we are seein

wisdom as you may notice that jazz that nominate candidates decline in 1986 with robert work or ruth bader ginsburg. some people attribute that to her assaulter famous line don't have the previews. 1980s 1993 people attribute the decline to the nominee candor. nominee candor by at march has hovered the entire time. what we did find is the only real decline was a small decline and it really only is attributed to questions that focus on civil rights and liberties and those are the questions people tend to pay attention. in a later chapter we focus on trying to look at what explains the myth if you want to call it that. why is there a perception people believe the hearings are working to get nominees are still answered between 70% 80% of the question and by and large a number things have changed about the hearings themselves and are asking farmer questions today than they were many years ago. for example, most recent foreign nominees with several hundred questions if you go back to the 1960s and may face roughly six questions. we also find television itself has changed the game and how the rules are s

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. >> arguably the toughest justice on the supreme court is the oldest, ruth bader ginsburg. [ applause ] also known as the notorious rbg. she's tough. >> ginsburg's fans gave her the nickname, a play on the name of late rapper notorious b.i.g. it caught on appearing on a tumblr site and even tattoos. >>> coming up it's the most highly anticipated book in recent memory, but this afternoon there is controversy with the sequel to "to kill a mockingbird." >>> up first it's the annual running of the bulls in spain, and there are already several injuries. >>> i'm spencer christian. we're looking at a partly cloudy western sky from our emeryville camera. clouds may increase overnight but there's still a lot of sunshine ahead. i'll have the accuweather forecast coming up. >>> outside we go. look at the san francisco skyway. pretty sticky in both directions on this monday unfortunately for those stuck in that traffic. stay with us ama ♪music♪ forever young (version) they won't stay young forever. ♪ forever young ♪ but for 60 years there's been a place where we can stay forever young together. d

justice briar reads and delivers a very long dissent saying for him for the first time joining ruth ginsburg saying that the death penalty is unconstitutional. it was a really interesting formulation. he said, what we have learned over the last 20 years, is that there are a lot of people on death row who were innocent or wrongly convicted and it takes 20 or 30 years on average before anybody is executed. so, he said we could speed up the process but increase the likelihood that we are executing an innocent person or we could allow these appeals to go on forever, in which case, there is no actual death penalty system in this country. he said, so i have concluded it simply can't work. i thought it was really interesting dissent. i went back to the office. i actually the way the web works, you get to write two or three different stories during the day. i think the first story i wrote, oklahoma wins. i went back to the office. i wrote, this days i think, is going to be potentially more interesting and more significant because it really sets the stage for a much broader attack on the constitution

and during a conference on aging yesterday, president obama praised supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburgoted she is known as the notorious rbg. [ laughter ] and while clarence thomas is known as old flirty bastard. [ laughter ] this is everywhere. donald trump recently addressed el chapo. >> audience member: woo! [ laughter ] >> steve: is that for el chapo? >> jimmy: i don't know if it's for el chapo. i don't know. the mexican drug lord, el chapo. [ laughter and applause ] he's currently leading in the polls right now. can't technically run for president. donald trump was talking about el chapo, who is the mexican drug lord who escaped from a a maximum security prison, and trump said he would, quote, kick his ass. [ laughter ] then chris christie was like, "i call dibs on any candy that falls out of him." that's not what happened. so -- chris, no. [ laughter and applause ] that's a different thing. and yesterday on fox news, geraldo rivera was debating donald trump's latest immigration comments and things got really heated. check this out. >> it is exploiting and sensationalizing. >> fro

again, ruth bader ginsburg, a great decision for democracy. she says the elections clause is in line with the fundamental premise that all political power flows from the people. we haven't heard that from the supreme court in quite some time. i think voters in arizona she says curved partisan gerrymandering which the court noted involves an inherent contradiction -- cognitive interest. i think singling would like that from the supreme court is very encouraging. i think it will give encouragement to reformers and funders to go out into some other states and seek some reforms. the last point i want to make is that there were three state issues and the supreme court at the very beginning of the term -- wisconsin photo id, texas photo id, and north carolina. in each case, the supreme court stepped in. in one case, they granted a stay in wisconsin to a seventh circuit's decision that put into place the photo id law that had previously been enjoined. this is just prior to the election. in taxes, there had been an injunction issued by a trial judge j

. >> a number of justice on the court, notably ruth bader ginsburg disagrees with that, pointing outhere are still problems for people trying to access their right to vote. your article should be read by everyone. thank you for joining us this morning on aljazeera america. >> thank you so much. >> sold at auction, one of the rarest baseball cards dating back before players even wore gloves fetches a pretty penny. the story behind this piece of history. >> facebook takes flight, the high tech quest to get the internet to remote areas. >> welcome to al jazeera america. it is 8:30 eastern time. taking a look at today's top stories. it will be one more day before french investigators examine a piece of airplane debris found on an island in the indian ocean, but there is increasing confidence this morning that it did come from malaysia airlines flight 370. the jet disappeared with 239 people aboard. >> the israeli army is hunt are for suspects in an arson attack that left a palestinian toddler dead. a home was set on that fire in the west bank. an 18-month-old was burned to death, his par

ruth bader ginsburg. [applause] also known as the notorious rvg. about every field americans who once might have been dismissed as out of touch are past their primes are making vital contributions in every field and all of us as a consequence are able to raise their own ambitions about what we hope to achieve in our golden years. and since i'm living at dog years in the presidency, this is something i pay a lot of attention to. although i do have hair. carly was laughing a little bit too much. [laughter] so since these golden years are coming pretty fast i want to make sure that we briefly focused on what we've done to strengthen already medicare and take a longer look at what we have to do to strengthen retirement even more. we are often told medicare and social security we hear all the time and that is used as an excuse to cut spending on this bedrock programs. but here is the truth. medicare and social security are not in crisis. nor have they cap custom cutting deficits by two thirds since i took office. both programs are facing challenges beca

ruth bader ginsburg. [applause] and also known as the notorious rbg. [applause] >> and just about every field, americans who once could've been dismissed out of touch past their prime they are making vital contributions in every field. all of us are able to raise our own ambitions about what we hope to achieve in our goals for the years ahead. and since i'm living out dog years here in the presidency this is something that i'm paying a lot of attention to. and it probably was something that i was laughing a little bit to too much about. and we have briefly with focus will we have strengthened already with medicare, taking a longer look at what we have to do for the strength and retirement even more and medicare and social security are in crisis, we hear that all the time, that is used as an ex-jews to try to cut spending on the bedrock programs. medicare and social security are not in crisis. nor have they kept us from this into thirds. and this includes the demographic trends that i just talked about and for medicare that means that we have to keep sl

ruth bader ginsburg. also known as the notorious rbg. she's tough.ns who once might have been dismissed is out of touch or past their primes are making vital contributions in every field. all of this as a consequence are able to raise our own ambitions about what we hope to achieve in our golden years. since i'm living in dog years, it's something i'm paying a lot of attention to. look at this here. although i do have hair. carly was laughing a little bit too much. since these golden years are coming pretty fast, i want to make sure that we briefly focus on what we've done to strengthen almost medicare. and take a longer look at what we have to do to strengthen retirement even more. we're told that medicare and social security are in crisis that's something we try to use to cut spending. here's the truth, medicare and social security are not in crisis nor have they made us cut our deficit. for medicare, that means we've got to keep slowing the growth of health care costs. and keep building on the progress we've made in the past few years since i sign

but that grew out of a meme on the internet that ruth cater -- root spader ginsburg was a supreme court justice admire her they feel she is a feminist role model and the pitchers would go all over the internet with various savings and it was turned into a book i believe that justice ginsburg knows about it and maybe doesn't approve of the but understands it and like said it is out there. >>host: what is something else to talk about? >> the third title that abbott like to talk about that is a good question. there were several. among other things we will be having a of a memoir for the actor a couple of months before and that he will be publishing a book called keep moving that is how to live your life with the likes of dick van dyke also the geography heterogeneous is not out and tell jiri but dallas and creativity all the way back to the classic page. suze has published several nonfiction books looked at several case studies to see how it applies to the modern world. >>host: so your team puts this book together you have your own picks as well? >> in addition of more than 30 titles altho

justice brier reads and delivers a very long dissent saying for him for the first time joining ruth ginsburg basically saying that the death penalty is unconstitutional. and i thought it was a really interesting formulation which was that he said what wheelchair learned over the last 20 years is there are a lot of people on death row who are incident, who were wrongly convicted. and it takes 20 or 30 years on average before anybody is executed. so he said, we could speed up the process, but then increase the likelihood that we're executing an innocent person, or we could allow these appeals to go on forever and in which case there is no dethd penalty system in this country. so he said i conclude it really can't work. i thought it was an interesting dissent. i went back to the office, the way the web works, you get to write two or three dirchbs different stories in the day. the first story i wrote, oklahoma wins. but i went back to the office and i said you know this case is actually going to be i think potentially more interesting and more significant because it really sets the stage for a m