knelt looking branch new liberal court to we have justice sotomayor on the court and justice elena kagan that has seemed of the court for only a few hours what do you see coming down the pike? a reenergize liberal graying of our son lurking new judicial philosophy to bring the liberal wings together? in the year roach uninteresting peacefully leave so i wonder if you could take us through a low hypothesize saying would get work. >> we have a generation else shift to says they were too young and chest as there were power levels in the careers on the conservative side but also perilous both very strong-willed women and put there where very few men and excelled tremendously also on the supreme court from when they were a 20 years but these have people but then the the will speak for the next 30 or 40 years of their career and because they are strong-willed people to define their views and to some degree use it against each other. they respect each other tremendously that is different than those that i wrote about. [laughter] but recently we saw a justice sotomayor writes the unusual opinion

we are looking at a brand new willing of the court, justice sotomayor in little over year, justice kaganr it seems like only a few hours, what do you see coming down the pike? do you see vv energized liberal court? can you see some of lurking new judicial philosophy that is going to sort of bring a the liberal court to get there? i know you wrote an interesting piece on sleet about the relationship between the two, so i wonder if you can take us through a little hypothesizing about what the future of the fleece the the liberal wing is going to look like. >> guest: i think it is an exciting time because we have a generation shift just as on the conservative side they are too young conservative justices there are also young liberal justices come and just as there were some parallels in the life and the careers of cheese justice roberts of the conservative side there are parallels between the life and career of justice so why your and justice kagan, but strong-willed women, identifiable ethnic background, both went to princeton when there were very few women and the itself tremendously and

the last locker was justice sotomayor. we walked around the building is a little bit and he showed me some other rooms. the maybe to 15 minutes. we ended up back in the robing room again. in that time, what happened was that justice stevens nameplate came off and each of the nameplate had gone over one and another was a justice kagan. he showed me the new locker with the justice kagan nameplate. it was a very effective way to say to me, well, you are here now. your part of the community. your part of the institution. -- you are part of the community. you are part of the institution. >> after all the time you spent in that courtroom, describe the difference when you walked in for the first time. >> it was an odd-inspiring moment -- it wasn't on spiring moment -- it was an awe- inspriring moment. i was always the front row in the audience behind the podium. to be on the bench and to look out at the lawyers and at the public, you very much feel a sense of responsibility and a sense of awe. >> what do you think of this courtro

and alas locker was just as some of my your -- justice sotomayor. and then we ended up back in the robing room again, and what had happened was that justice stevens had come off. each of the nameplates had gone over one. and he showed me the new locker, justice kagan. it was a very as effective way of saying to me, you are here now, you are part of the institution. it was a very powerful thing to do. >> processing to the bench for the first time, after all the time and that court room, describe the difference. >> it wasn't -- was an awe- inspiring thing. i had been there almost daily, but i was always in the front room and in the audience or behind a podium. to be on the bench and the lookout at all lawyers and the public, you very much feel us since of possibility. >> what you think of this courtroom itself? >> is magnificent. i was most surprised when i became solicitor general and i started spending a lot of time there. i have not been there for a number of years before that. what struck me as solicitor general was how close the podium was to the

--la confirmacion de sonia sotomayor como jueza de la corte suprema fue sin duda un logro historico paraaño de aparepareción algunos temen, y vamos con el informe. >>. >> según los expertos en actividad par normal en el cont continente se hicieron notar los espíritus. >> una comunidad en colombia quedó asustada y no fue paras. >> esta figura se pareció en un parque ante ciento de personas, y que suavemente se deshizo hacia el columpió, dejando atrás estas imágenes de niña de pelo largo vestida con cami son. >> y este columpia esta pequeña dice que sintió el toque cuando la consoló una noche que se refugió en el parque llorando. >> cuando estaba sentada empezaron a moverme pero no creía nada porque es normal. cuando sentí que me tocaron y me peinaron es. >> y según los vecinos este parque fue construido sobre un antiguo preostíbulo. >> dicen que fue una niña que la mataron ahí. >>. >> y es que cuando se abre la puerta de lo desconocido cualquier cosa puede pasar,- y esta familia vio como su casa se convirtió en un campo terrenal. >> la tierra comenzó a caer del techo. >> pensé que se esta

. >> san jose police say they think they now know who sonia sotomayor pitbulls that attacked in fronter her home. two dogs still on the lose. >> no fog yet this morning but we do have some rain to talk about and snow in the sierra. good morning. emergency repair work on a pothole has shut down a connector ramp in concord. details coming up. >> it's tuesday morning. i'm jenelle wang in for kristen sze. i'm eric thomas. we start with buyer beware but it's taken on a brand new meaning in oakland after a series of robberies. terry, you always had to watch out buying a used car but this is completely different. >> this is going to the extreme. we're talking about six victims here. two of them have been beaten when what's really alarming is the most violent of all the incidents happened this past sunday night, the most severe beating. take a look where this all begins. the common denominator is craigslist where high end vehicles are posted for sale at incredibly low prices. people call the seller but when they made the exchange, there's no vehicle at all and their money is stolen. police sa

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. >> justice sotomayor, to my mind, there is at least a complete disconnect saying i'm not telling you exactly where the constitutional violation is today. we're not going to get into that. we're going to assume there's a constitutional violation. now, prove to me what remedy will or not work under the circumstances. this is the exact opposite on how to do it. you determine where the violation is -- >> your time is about to expire. thank you, mr. chief justice. >> mr. specker? >> thank you, mr. chief justice, and may it please the court. for 20 years the overcrowding crisis caused prisoners suffering from life threatening illnesses in their cells because treatment facilities have no room for them. prisoners are committing suicide twice the national average enand two-thirds of the suicides are preventable. >> is that current or past? tell us the date of the figures. >> sure, that's from the trial courts. >> that's what i thought. how do you address your adversary's point that the problem can't be measured unless you measure the state of the situation at the time the remedy is imposed? >

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and the last locker was just as the sotomayor. then we walked around the building a little bit and he showed me some other rooms and maybe we took 15 minutes and we ended up back in the robing room again, and in that 15-minute time, what happened is the justice stevens' name plate came off and -- name plate went over one and then there was justice kagan, and he showed me the new locker with the name plate. and it was a very effective way to say to me, well, you are here now, you are part of the community, part of the institution. it was a very powerful thing to see. >> just-in-time for the holiday season, the supreme court, c- span's latest book a big offer directly from our publisher to c-span viewers at a special price, just $5, plus shipping and handling, a discount of more than 75% of the original price. this handsome hardcover is the first book that tells the story of the supreme court through the eyes of the justices themselves. 10 our original c-span interviews with current and retired justices, including chief justice john

i think justice of a mile or -- justice sotomayor captured a.not -- this is not the place for you to come in and say everything is fine, everything is constitutional. with a three-judge panel said considered all the evidence, they have experts from the state, toward the prison in august 2008, the experts' reports, they testified about the conditions, and one of them -- i was the time of the trial, your honor. >> they have a cutoff date of some two months before the trial. but before that, the experts that testified were where the conditions that existed. >> exactly. >> what was the remedy imposed? >> the final word -- the close of evidence was in december 2008. in the three-judge court, they closed evidence in december 2008. we then argue that case in the post-trial briefing in february 2009. then the court came out with a tentative decision about 20 days later, and in august 2009, it issued the 183-page opinion of an order. to get what we keep track here. the evidence was cut off when in 2008? in the trial close in december 2008 after all parti

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and then it just said justice stephen and dennett carried on down, and the last locker was justice sotomayor and we walked around and he showed me some other rooms. we took media about 15 minutes and ended up back in the groome again and in that time would have happened is that justice stevens had come off and each had gone over one and now there was a justice elena kagan and he sort of showed the the new locker with the justice kagan named fleet commander was a very effective way to say to me well, you are here now, you are part of the community, your part of the institution, and it was a very powerful thing to say. >> supreme court justice elena kagan first interview since joining the court hears on c-span this sunday at 6:30 and 9:40 p.m. eastern time. ayaan education program specialist here at c-span classroom. each year we conduct our video documentary competition called studentcam. the competition asks students great 6-12 to think about issues affecting the nation. this year's theme is washington, d.c. through my lens. we chose this topic because you we would like you to explain how th

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and alas locker was just as the sotomayor. then we walked around the building and little bit and he showed me some of their rooms and maybe we took about 15 minutes and we ended up back in the robing room again and in that 15 minute time, what happened was justice stevens' name plate had come off and all of them went over one and now there was justice kagan and then he showed me the new locker with the name plate. it was a very effective way to say to me, well, you are here now. you are part of the community. part of the institution. it was a very powerful thing to see. susan swain sat down with elena kagan -- in her temporary chambers and the supreme court building. the entire interview, her first, will air sunday evening december 19 at 6:30 p.m., 9:30 p.m., and 1230 and a documentary will air sunday, january seconds. go to our website, c-span.org, you can see the supreme court page. joining me now at the table is robert nichols, president and coo of the financial-services forum. i want to begin with the whole tax-cut bill be

. >> i think justice sotomayor has been patient. >> [inaudible] not been responding to the chief justice did the district court not discussed different safe ways of reducing the population -- discuss different safe ways of reducing the population? >> yes, your honor. >> if i look at the state's final plan, i thought they had not only accepted all of the recommendations, but they added a couple of additional remedies that the court had not suggested. >> yes, your honor. >> is it a fair statement that the three-judge panel was saying, if you do these things, that is they're finding? you could do it without affecting public safety -- is that what they are saying? the other question goes back to something that justice scalia asked you, which is that you made statements that no one was stopped from proffering evidence about prison conditions until two months before the trial. so what evidence was excluded? what point is the other side making that they were excluded from making? >> as we said in our brief, there was no evidence that was excluded. in fact, the state's witnesses testified about

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starting to make their case for the impeachment of supreme court justices thomas, roberts, kagan, and sotomayor. in fact, congressman peter defazio said -- quote -- "they've opened the floodgates and personally i'm investigating articles of impeachment against certain justices." if that's the standard, a president would have to raise nominees hydrophonically in the white house base fment they had any hopes of surviving on the bench. you cannot -- base fment they hapossibly hope toraise the impd with the wrong answer on that embarrassment question in confirmation. article iv is an open demand for senators to engage in pure conjecture. if senators can simply assume embarrassment to remove a nominee, there is no standard of proof. our day is over. and there's no standard of removal. threl a just serve at your pleasure, just as madison feared. it's preslice what adams worried -- it's precisely what adams worried about, uncertain wishes and imagination as a substitute for proof. i want to conclude before i sit down and i rest this case for the defense and before my voice gives out. i want to address

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and the last locker was justice sotomayor. and we walked around the building a little bit and he showed me around and maybe we took about 50 minutes and ended up back in the robing room again. and in that 15-minute time the name placed ahead come off and each of the nameplates havhad md over and there was a justice kagan. it was a very effective way to say to me, you are here now. you are part of the community, part of the institution. it was a very powerful thing to see. economy >> "washington journal" continues. host: let me introduce you andrew exum, k fellow at the new american security. he is a former army ranger himself and served as a civilian adviser to retired general stanley mcchrystal. he served on the assessment team and was on active duty in the u.s. army from 2000-2004, leading a platoon of army rangers in 2002 in iraq -- and was in iraq in 2004. what did you hear, what do you think this recent report was intended to signal? a guest: i think it was intended to signal that we need more time before we can determine

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starting to make their case for the impeachment of supreme court justices thomas, roberts, kagan, and sotomayor. in fact, congressman peter defazio said -- quote -- "they've opened the floodgates and personally i'm investigating articles of impeachment against certain justices." if that's the standard, a president would have to raise nominees hydrophonically in the white house base fment they had any hopes of surviving on the bench. you cannot -- base fment they hapossibly hope toraise the impd with the wrong answer on that embarrassment question in confirmation. article iv is an open demand for senators to engage in pure conjecture. if senators can simply assume embarrassment to remove a nominee, there is no standard of proof. our day is over. and there's no standard of removal. threl a just serve at your pleasure, just as madison feared. it's preslice what adams worried -- it's precisely what adams worried about, uncertain wishes and imagination as a substitute for proof. i want to conclude before i sit down and i rest this case for the defense and before my voice gives out. i want to address

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starting to make their case for the impeachment of supreme court justices thomas, roberts, kagan, and sotomayor. in fact, congressman peter defazio said -- quote -- "they've opened the floodgates and personally i'm investigating articles of impeachment against certain justices." if that's the standard, a president would have to raise nominees hydrophonically in the white house base fment they had any hopes of surviving on the bench. you cannot -- base fment they ha