sotomayor got 69 votes. there is a broader middle for supreme court justices than some of the other things that they work on in the senate. i think, even though there is good case to be made they will have fewer votes after this, this is actually -- that sotomayor will be the most unconventional choice that he makes of those he gets. chris: what do you mean by in a? >> he'll come back to the center. he won't move to the left. chris: it won't be like a clarence -- >> there is a broader middle in the senate for the votes compared to a lot of the other things they have been talking about all year. i think it's another factor in the timing and the choice. yeah, stevens may step down, but i think he is also going to make that decision based on partially on what happens with ruth bader ginsberg who is the second oldest person on the bench and has health issues. if he thinks she may stay for a while, he may step down. chris: the wars are the most important, life and death, but picking perhaps the future supreme cou

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sonia sotomayor does not really need advice. she has done everything that anyone could do in the legal practice. she knows that my door is always open. i welcome the times that we have. it is a very hard job. it is the best job for a lawyer but it is also very hard. whenever we get together to talk, it is always a great pleasure for me. >> let me turn to the justice sotomayor. how has the job surprised you? >> i will digress for a moment and tell you how excited i am to be with all of you and to say that justice ginsberg has understated her welcome. 80 days after my announcement, i received the package. -- two days after my announcement. instead of her manual, which did in fact arrive i think within the hour of my getting to my chambers was a caller from a per which -- was a collar and there was a note that said "i hope that you will have use of this and." i was glad that she was there at the end of the process. that was comforting. she has offered great wisdom, much welcome and much fellowship. i am eternally grateful to hurt a

sonia sotomayor does not really need advice. she has done everything that anyone could do in the legal practice. she knows that my door is always open. i welcome the times that we have. it is a very hard job. it is the best job for a lawyer but it is also very hard. whenever we get together to talk, it is always a great pleasure for me. >> let me turn to the justice sotomayor. how has the job surprised you? >> i will digress for a moment and tell you how excited i am to be with all of you and to say that justice ginsberg has understated her welcome. 80 days after my announcement, i received the package. -- two days after my announcement. instead of her manual, which did in fact arrive i think within the hour of my getting to my chambers was a caller from a per which -- was a collar and there was a note that said "i hope that you will have use of this and." i was glad that she was there at the end of the process. that was comforting. she has offered great wisdom, much welcome and much fellowship. i am eternally grateful to hurt a

to read the same issue was argued last week and i assume judge sotomayor has lummis surgeon advantagerting of this issue but i will read with the supreme court has to say and when that happens that will be the law as far as i'm concerned. >> i want to address this question of different courts. >> it sort of returns to my point of discriminative and cautious and careful reference to the law of other nations and we do have a law issue, not a political issue in the case that was destroyed in the supreme court of the united states and we have to learn about the courts. goodness, the nation of english just revamped its court system. we need to understand better so that we can be careful and make a correct use of the laws of other nations. >> the other thing i thought you might want to comment on his you have written very eloquently and will constitutionalism, the virtues of defending each state of the u.s. own constitution and its own view. the respective how we interpret even the same phrases in the federal constitution so to some extent you don't care about the debate at the federal leve

y nina es un personaje que nace antes de la jueza sotomayor.xacto, y es sÓlo una esquinita de manhattan. >> tiene razÓn porque es algo tÍpicamente norteamericano, el sueÑo americano que puede soÑar muy cursi pero funciona. tu historia, tÚ llegaste incluso a la casa blanca. ¿quÉ fuiste a hacer? >> tenÍa un show de poesía y mÚsica, y me invitaron a cantar una canciÓn y yo cante una canciÓn de un disco que estoy escribiendo sobre la vida de alexander hamilton que tambiÉn era inmigrante, la gente no sabe eso pero vino a los isionao >> si, y voy a tener que encontrar al rapero para hacer de washington, pero para poder contar el cuento en rap y hip hop, es muy importante para mÍ porque es una pelea de palabras, y batallas de rap sobre eso, en vez de quien es el mejor rapero. >> ¿tÚ papÁ está metido en polÍtica? >> si. al puntounivisional puntn decÍa necesito 60 segundos jazz. >> lo que te querÍa preguntar era sobre el problematernde puerto rico, ¿debe ser un paÍs independiente? veo que tÚ cara cambia, ¿un estado mÁs de estados unidos? ¿tienes una opi

i don't think anyone has called me "justice sotomayor."the solicitor general, an old colleague of mine, a distinguished law professor, it just did not sink in. what enormous difference it makes as for the public out there watching the court proceedings. it wasn't right that there should be only one woman on that bench when our law schools were close to 50% women, when there are women arguing, sometimes on both sides of the case, no one thinks that is an oddity anymore, that there should be just one was wrong. it was wrong for the grade school children to see on the bench. recently, there have been great changes. one is sonia. the other is elena. so, women hold up at least half the world, and they have at least the same brains. i think that i said i expected to see three, four, maybe even five women on our court. people ask if i'm disappointed. i say, i look to our neighbor to the north, canada. there is a chief justice and three other women. we will get there, not as rapidly as some people would like, but what a difference from the way it

afternoon, cloudy, could get a little rain, perhaps some wet snow certainly by sunset, and after sunset sotomayor w some wet snow this evening after midnight, and before then we should reach the mid-40s. we'll look at the rest of the week and weekend. that will be coming up in a few minutes. >>> let's go to jerry edwards for an update on the midday traffic. hi, jerry. >> good morning, everyone. pretty sedate right now. i mentioned this morning the lane markings on the 14th street bridge a little more pronounced with the sun out. this guy just went to the far lane and cut to the left. that's why accidents happen. anyway, particularly it could be raining tomorrow, be aware of that. they're not very clear on the inbound 14th street bridge. elsewhere, south of town to the wilson bridge, both the inner loop and outer loop right now traffic moving along very nicely. >> did he do it twice? >> just one time, but that was almost enough just to create a live scene right here. >> thank you, jerry. >>> well, traffic is starting to return to normal again in northeast washington hours after a pedestrian was ki

justice sotomayor fills that gap. people talk about diversity on the court. there are some areas where we are lacking. in terms of background, we have a great deal of diversity. >> during the state of the union address, the president made some adverse comments toward a decision regarding mccain-fine gold. -- mccain-feingold. is the state of the union address a proper venue to chide the supreme court for its decisions? >> i think anybody can criticize the supreme court without any qualms. we do it. and that is in our defense. i think people should feel perfectly free to criticize what we do. i think it is an obligation, given their office, if they think we have done something wrong. i have no problems with that. there is the issue of the setting, the circumstances, and the decorum. the image of having the members of one branch of government standing up, literally surrounding the supreme court, cheering and hollering while the court-appointed requirements of protocol mean we have to sit there expressionless, it is troubling. it makes the question whether it mak

you have sotomayor. a white latino woman. >> bill: the tea party is demonized because a few people yell people. >> more than a few. i think it's more than a few. >> bill: we don't have tape to reflect that colmes. >> don't get that that trap. if you have the tape to reflect that, i want to hear it we don't have that. everybody had a camera and everybody recording it. we don't have it? >> did you see the signs. the joker signs? >> bill: demonize the tea party people in front of the capitol. code pink shows up at rove in a vial way, that will get no publicity at all. >> code pink does not represent the left. lewis care off and on is not on the left as far as i know. >> bill: code pink what do they represent? >> they are not mainstream liberals. lewis farrakhan is not a mainstream liberal. something else happened in canada, that is not even the united states. jane fonda had a book signing people were in her face did, we talk about that someone -- >> bill: any time jane fonda gets in trouble we talk about it

justices ginsburg and sotomayor speak at the association of women judges. on tomorrow's "washington journal," proposed financial industry regulations. michael cohen, president of the group achieved, will talk about education standards. and a look at a youtube channel explaining the details of the federal budget. that begins at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> our mission is to make the world more open and more connected. we do that by providing people a free tool whereby they can share information with anyone, anywhere, at any time. >> with more than 400 million users online, it is the fastest growing network in the world. the director of facebook, saturday, on." "the communicators." >> rising costs in the health- care system in the legislation making its way through congress. mr. mccallister speaks for about 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. as the presiding officer, i have been asked to do two things. one is to give a brief reflection on the history of the detroit economic club and then introduce our speaker. when i reflect on the 75 year history o

sotomayor probably had the most welcoming attitude about this. specter is a way out in front of this issue, pressing cameras on the court. in the confirmation hearings, she was the one justice who seemed to be willing to accommodate the notion, and said that her experiences have been very positive, and that she would share those experiences with her new colleagues on the court. host: there's an article this morning in "the new york times" that talks about a few times a year, supreme court justices go out of their way to emphasize their unhappiness by reading a dissent from the bench out loud. the practice is on the rise and is suggesting an increasingly polarized court. what is your take on this? guest: it would be more interesting for the american public and for political scientists like myself if it were possible to see the justices read those decisions, especially when they are expressing ayer against the majority of the court. would the novelty wears off sooner, or with the novelty we're off later, or maybe not at all? the court's language is

sotomayor probably had the most welcoming attitude about this. specter is a way out in front of this issue, pressing cameras on the court. in the confirmation hearings, she was the one justice who seemed to be willing to accommodate the notion, and said that her experiences have been very positive, and that she would share those experiences with her new colleagues on the court. host: there's an article this morning in "the new york times" that talks about a few times a year, supreme court justices go out of their way to emphasize their unhappiness by reading a dissent from the bench out loud. the practice is on the rise and is suggesting an increasingly polarized court. what is your take on this? guest: it would be more interesting for the american public and for political scientists like myself if it were possible to see the justices read those decisions, especially when they are expressing ayer against the majority of the court. would the novelty wears off sooner, or with the novelty we're off later, or maybe not at all? the court's language is

now we have -- from last summer, the new sotomayor test, where every nominee has to say no, i only apply the pacts. it's become a bit of a farce. why that is? i refer to you a paper that roger pilon wrote. you can find that on the cato web site. that beyond the scope of our discussion here. now, okay, given what we've just gone through, the keep and bear arms, you look at what it meant. understood to be a privilege or immunity, and it clearly was. in part of the historical reasons that the 14th amendment was put in large part to reserve the individual liberties of unionist in the border and southern states. in part because it's deeply rooted. now the article that josh blackman and i wrote, "keeping pandora's box sealed" that's very similar to what judgedaughter min o'scandal did. but i think that's an appropriate method of seeing whether a particular right is covered by the privileges or immunities clause. it's quite clear if anything, all of us here we might disagree on some progressive or libertarian right is protected. but the right to keep and bear arms, it's so deeply rooted and des

justice sotomayor fills that gap so i think it is very good. people talk about diversity and there are some areas where we are lacking but in terms of background if we are going on the court we actually have a great deal of diversity. >> justice roberts, during the state of the union address the president made some adverse comments toward your decision regarding mccain-feingold. i want to ask you about the opinion of the case, but i will ask, is the state of the union union address the proper venue to chide the supreme court for its decisions that it makes? >> first of all, i think anybody can criticize the supreme court without any qualms. we do it enough in our 2 cents, right? [laughter] i think people should feel perfectly free to criticize what we do. some people i think have an obligation to criticize what we do, given their office, if they think we have done something wrong so i have no problems with that. on the other hand as you said there is the issue of setting the circumstances and the decorum. the image of having the members of one