sewn yeah -- sonia sotomayor, as you recall in her testimony, she was asked what's her judicial philosophy. and she said, i follow the law. what an insult to our intelligence that comment is. what a cynical use of the confirmation process because you know who follows the law? anton and scalia follow the law. ruth ginsberg follow the law. because they both highly ethical. they're both skilled at the business of judging. but on the constitutional issues we care about, they see things completely differently because they have sircht judicial philosophies. and that's what matters what their philosophies are. following the law is not a philosophy. it's a an excuse not to answer questions. and i i think what we should do as journalists. i recognize y damn had a different job than i do as a diloton who breezes in and write as new yorker story every once in a while, but i think it is imperative that we do our best to uncover the political sources of the key decisions at the supreme court. and that's what i try to do. [applause] >> it's going to seem as though jeff and i ca lewded so seamlessly. am

. >> host: what do you think, larry klayman, of the president's pick of sonia sotomayor for supreme court? >> guest: i thought it was a relatively good pick. i'm a conservative, i'm one of the few that came out and said that. she made a statement at duke university, my alma mater, that was off the cuff, i think she was being cute, but it could have been a lot worse. this is a judge who basically has adhered to the constitution, she's someone that recognizes there are minorities in this country and that there is injustice and bigotry and, frankly, i was very happy because i love the hispanic community. i spent many years in miami and still do, that they now have a justice of their own. so i actually supported the pick, i was one of the few conservative libertarians that did. >> host: we have a couple calls from houston here, first to rick on our republican line, go ahead for larry larry klayman. >> caller: how y'all doing this morning? i got a few comments, but i just want to say that this man is an eagle, and that's what we need. we don't need a bunch of ducks swirling in the same pond be

sewn yeah -- sonia sotomayor, as you recall in her testimony, she was asked what's her judicial philosophy. and she said, i follow the law. what an insult to our intelligence that comment is. what a cynical use of the confirmation process because you know who follows the law? anton and scalia follow the law. ruth ginsberg follow the law. because they both highly ethical. they're both skilled at the business of judging. but on the constitutional issues we care about, they see things completely differently because they have sircht judicial philosophies. and that's what matters what their philosophies are. following the law is not a philosophy. it's a an excuse not to answer questions. and i i think what we should do as@@@@@@'4n @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ >> but, i think it is imperative that we do our best to uncover the political sources of the key decisions that the supreme court and that is what i try to do. >> [applause] >> is going to seem as though jeff and i colluded. so seamlessly am i going to segue to my remarks, but i want to say thank you very much for inviting me to participate on this

sonia sotomayor ruled against them when she served on a federal appeals court.retary tim geithner to appear before them today and on the t.a.r.p. program drew a report came out in anticipation of this hearing, the headlines are the study of this effectiveness is what? guest: there is good news and bad news. the good news, and it is very good, is that t.a.r.p. in conjunction with other federal actions, action from the fed, the fdic, the stimulus, kept this economy from plunging over the cliff into what would likely have been a depression. that is a powerful impact. the bad news is that it was not the only purpose of t.a.r.p. it was not there just to save a handful of large institutions. if you read the statute, it is clear that congress intended that t.a.r.p. was going to get ahead of the mortgage foreclosure crisis, that it was going to restart lending, particularly to small businesses, which would have an impact on employment. and it was going to be used to clean up the balance sheet of the banks. did not happen, did not happen, did not happen. host: i know man

panelists discuss the nomination of sonia sotomayor. panelists include cnn legal analyst jeffrey tubin and "new york times" reporter adam liptak. america and the courts at 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. house minority whip eric cantor discussed ideas for creating jobs at an event earlier this week. more about job characters now with horse minority leader john boehner, he and a group of economists spoke briefly in the capital. this is 10 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone, my name is michael frank, i'm the vice president here for government relations and i want to welcome you to our event this afternoon. as the president hosts a forum to discuss job creation and as leading congressional democrats draw up plans for another stimulus bill which appears likely to include additional billions of dollars in new spending, the republican minority whip eric cantor thought it would be a good idea to consider what common sense steps the president and the congress could take to help grow the economy and create jobs without additional government

alito looks at the role of the junior justice which he recently handed over to justice sonia sotomayorrviews at 8:00 eastern on c-span. tonight, look at the best books of 2009. several news organizations have published their lists and we will look at books written by republican congressman ron paul and linda gordon beginning at 8:00 p.m. on c-span2. to view the best of list visit booktv.org. >> c-span thursday, tributes paid to u.s. and world leaders including the dalai lama, ted kennedy, ronald reagan, walter cronkite, colin powell and robert byrd. then a look at what is ahead for the new year. vladimir putin discusses his future from his annual call in program. and the global economy. the creator of the segway and co-founder of guitar hero on a entrepreneurship and the art of political cartooning. >> michele malcolm is our guest on booktv's index. the author of four books including the best selling culture of corruption, takes your calls. three hours with michele malcolm on booktv. part of a three day weekend starting friday. next, a discussion held earlier this month on recent devel

you think of the future of this court-- which is have the first appointee of barack obama and sonia sotomayor who essentially succeeds another person overseeing liberal philosophy, david souter and the next person who will probably leave this justice john paul stevens probably to be succeeded by another liberal and it will be a wash, but he will have consistently five very strong conservatives, antonin scalia, samuel alitha, chief justice john roberts, clearance thomas and for the most part anthony kennedy. you have got a pretty core group for the average age right now is a decade younger than the average of the liberal so we will hear from barry now and then we will ask each other couple of questions and then i hope he will have some questions to. >> it is great to be here at the miami book fair. this will lived you if you don't have small children but i got to have my picture taken with my young daughters live, olivia the ped so it was a special moment. [laughter] i am thrilled to be here with john who has written a wonderful book about justice scalia. i stayed up too late to many evenings,

thomas, schoola, kennedy, thomas, and alito, and sonia sotomayor, and they all have different approaches to catholicism, but everybody would agree that justice scalia is most known as a catholic. he talks about it most. his friends say he believes it's the one true church. he likes the high mass. he likes the idea that everybody should observe all the holy days and say the rosary. so he is a committed catholic. so one of the chapters about his catholicism, and this views on abortion, and the way i described it is a parallel passion. a real passion for catholicism and passion for the repudiation of roe v. wade that made abortion legal, and he said, i read text. i'm an originalist. my catholic beliefs doesn't affect my thoughts roe v. wade, and i let him say, it is not something that influences my rulings, and i let critics such as the university of chicago's jeff stone counter that, and then readers can take away from that. but at it an historic time for catholics on the court, and he embodies the idea that catholicism can influence a person of the law. >> he says the fact that i'm a cath