that is how it came about and justice stevens ended up writing the descent because justice souter retire from the bench. >> host: they didn't have him to kick around. you can see that to standing microphones if you have questions you can start to line up. >> guest: there is a lot in the book how the justices do their job and what it means to have four new justices coming in in just five years and how that affects them and in some cases the jurisprudence all the alliances are suddenly gone and before you could depend on certain justices to vote to certain way and now suddenly that is no longer true another talks about how being on the court is like being in a marriage if you were there for a long time you have to learn what things tick off another justice and when to go to zaph and when not to with interpersonal relationships. some like a close personal relationship and others preferred distance so it is interesting how the changeover has affected them >> host: i remember justice stevens lovely in them more he says he thinks the most important thing that happens during the rehnquist court

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yes souter simply disappearing if he's alone with the civilian you. so you know so you. really lose when you move the mission even if you didn't you know who was the one who was. real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the u.s. war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil this is a huge step backwards for the mocker sea it's a step forward for oligarchy carex it is toxic is a look a lot like spraying in vietnam it was a it was not a picture that either the government or b.p. really wanted to have out there i don't want dispersants to be the agent on. this. live live live. live live. live . coming up on our t.v. protest against months and so will soon become global activists ha

for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cons a report on our yo souter's of the disappearing the please along with discipline in a new. store your job you. do. you know he was a good investment you know who was already forsooth. on monday the senate passed the marketplace fairness act which has caused quite the discussions among consumers and retailers this bill would require online retailers to calculate and collect taxes from over ninety six hundred local and state tax jurisdictions the debate now is centered around whether taxing powers of the state and if they should be able to collect taxes across their borders and not i spoke earlier with dan mitchell of the cato institute who does not believe and representative dennis ross let's listen to their discussion. representative ross was also a original co-sponsor of the marketplace fairness act last congress so mr ross can you please explain to us why you believe that state should have the power to collect taxes across state borders. well it's clearly an opportunity to provide the jurisdictional infrastruc

overachiever clerk for not only the clerk of the 7th circuit that the associate justice supreme court david souter sandy hodgkinson was the nerd. she is vice president chief of staff at drs technologies. a defense firm owned by -- a former career civil servant in the united states government and senior executive her per position's included among others distinguished visiting research fellow at the national defense university, special assistant for chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense william lynn the third. deputy assistant secretary of defense and deputy ambassador at-lar for war crimes issues at the state department director for international justice on the national security council. she spent a year in iraq advising the coalition provisional authority and human rights and justice matters. she has authored more than 50 scholarly articles and serves on the board of directors for international law association. she has been teaching national security law at university law school since 2007. she earned her j.d. and masters in 2007 and graduated with her masters degree from tulane and is

associate for the justice of the supreme court, david souter. i am glad you're here.andy hodgkinson was the third da. , a is at ds technologies midsized defense firm. atormer career civil servant the senior executive, her positions included distinguished research fellow at the national defense university. chief of staff to the deputy secretary of defense. deputy assistant for detainee affairs. --bie ambassador at large deputy ambassador at large. she spent a year in iraq advising the coalition on human rights and justice matters. she has opted more than 15 scholarly articles. she has been teaching security law since 2007. she earned her jd and masters from the university of denver. she is also currently a ship mate of mine. to beeek she was selected captain. congratulations must sandy. thank you for joining us today. the fifth and current da is bill, a career marine corps officer. his undergraduate degree from the naval academy before he joined a component of the navy -- the marine corps. he took his law degree from yale and a mams from the war college. he was a deput