justice souter retired at 70. when i asked him why, he said to me, because he had lived at a time when some justices who had stayed longer than they should have. so what is the answer? it is not making fixed rules, because fixed rules are very, very dangerous. they deprive you of the wisdom and the knowledge of people. because of your fear that one or two people might stay a little longer than they should. we have a vibrant court of nine people. if one of them is a little bit not quite at the top of their game, you have another eight that can hold on until they make their decision with big day. -- with dignity. i think the founder's belief that keeping us immune from political pressure by giving us life tenure has made our institution as strong as it is. i think that has value for our society. i am not quite sure that i think there is an actual age. the reality is that age tells you nothing about a person's capacity. it is more complex than age. >> i think this really is going to be the last question. >> i know i

i looked at my assistant, who had been justice souter's assistant at the time. i said, shelley, i think i am going crazy. she said, justice, they took the wall down last night. [laughter] they had been doing construction in the building, and they had balls up in places i did not know were artificial balls, you know? so sci-fi is really important to me, ok? anyway. but that is what i tend to read. question, to your ,his is a line i say in my book about talking to hispanic students who share my background , and who find themselves going into institutions where they are not in the majority, or which are, as princeton was to me, completely alien environments. to --talk about the need to find comfort in your own community, because i do not think that without the latino , who hadin princeton more similar backgrounds to me, that i would have felt at home there at all. i could not have stayed unless i found commonality somewhere. but i also understood that i was being given an opportunity to learn about a world i knew to learn about people who did things and came from p

former justice david souter and sandra day o'connor raised eyebrows when they called out the ignoranceas former justice john paul stevens' turn when asked if the justice should consider the giant oval when they retire. >> do you think it's something that justices should take into account? >> i think so. it's certainly a natural and appropriate thing to think about your successor. >> stevens' comments came after the dean of the law school penned an op-ed in "the new york times" urging ruth bader ginsburg, the court's most senior justice to retire before the november elections this year, ensuring that a democratically controlled administration could confirm that. but seemingly when touched on politics and urge older citizens to rise up in revolt. antonia scala told students while they ask tax, if it goes to a certain level, you should revolt. while a scalia-led insurrection is not something to lose sleep over. the political activity in scalia's wife maureen is cause for concern. in june, the court will rule on the massachusetts 35-foot buffer zone, one that exists outside of abortion cli

president bush 41 appointed justice david sort to souter expecting conservative he was not. v.p. earl expecting conservative he certainly was not. and most recently president bush 43 appointed chief justice john roberts to the court expecting a conservative. do you remember how he voted on obamacare? are you convinced? it just doesn't doesn't turn out how you expect. that's my off-the-record comment tonight. a teacher taking down what he calls a drug dealing student. is the teacher justified? new information on that battle is next. don't forget to watch hannity tonight 10:00 p.m. eastern. sean has duck "duck dynasty" star willie robertson. that's tonight at 10:00 on hannity. >>> paragraph time to speed read your way through the news. deadly bombing, 36,000 runners taking part in today's race. american winning the men's division for the first time in three decades, security was very tight along the 26.2-mile course. last year, three people were killed and more than 200 hurt after two explosions at the finish line. this year, runners vowing to take back that finish line and yes, th

president bush 41 appointed justice david sort to souter expecting conservative he was not. v.p. earl expecting conservative he certainly was not. and most recently president bush 43 appointed chief justice john roberts to the court expecting a conservative. do you remember how he voted on obamacare? are you convinced? it just doesn't doesn't turn out how you expect. that's my off-the-record comment tonight. a teacher taking down what he calls a drug dealing student. is the teacher justified? new information on that watch is next. hannity tonight 10:00 p.m. eastern. sean has duck "duck dynasty" star willie robertson. that's tonight at 10:00 on hannity. i'm k-a-t-e and i have copd, but i don't want my breathing problems to get in the way my volunteering. that's why i asked my doctor about b-r-e-o. once-daily breo ellipta helps increase airflow from the lungs for a full 24 hours. and breo helps reduce symptom flare-ups that last several days and require oral steroids, antibiotics, or hospital stay. breo is not for asthma. breo contains a type of medicine that increases risk of deat

talk about this with ericka souter. editor of the stirred.com. welcome back, ericka. do you agree?hey want to be involved in every aspect of parenting and want to be there with their wives. they want to be more supportive. >> wives want them there. we're not talking about six weeks. we're talking about three days. >> three days. >> and the comments were so outrageous especially the cesarean one where it was suggested she should have made it convenient for the baseball schedule. that's a dangerous and not an elective surgery. >> absolutely and shows the uphill battle these progressive dads face when they want to be move involved. some want to drag them back to that caveman mentality. call me and tell me when the baby's here, i'll buy some cigars. that is gone. we don't need that anymore. women don't need that anymore. >> amen. i'm glad it's gone. >> couldn't agree more. i took paternity leave and i got to tell you, baseball is for now. your family is for life. >> that's right. >> you never know what happens in that delivery room, right? >> that's right. >> you might be needed as a f

thanks to brad souter for that fact.s is from wcti, the pictures from north carolina, the far eastern portions of there and now we can kind of breathe a sigh of relief in the mid-atlantic and southeast as this moves on. the front goes out. the only spot that has the thunderstorm threat today, as this front drags across florida, will be central and south florida. and a little unsettled weather back into the mid and deep south. your local forecast is coming up in just 30 seconds. first, today's tuesday trivia brought to you by edward jones. >>> good tuesday morning. i'm abc7 news meteorologist mike nicco with your bay area microclimate forecast. mostly sunny, a little cooler at the coast into san francisco today, but warmer around the bay and inland. the cooling spreads across our neighborhoods tomorrow through saturday and your next chance of rain is at least 10 to 14 days out. today's temperatures upper 60s to low 70s along the coast, mid-70s in san francisco. you can see the upper 70s to low 80s around the bay and low t

the way i got involved is senate david souter ishmael and he said there really respect to this guy he would give it -- you will read everything he can get his hands on. and to join the organization that was said for the organization of young men so they are arguing about a contemporary policy malcolm x and martin luther king. and as far as the other writers involved with umbra that was ever but a. >> i have a short list. certainly norman, a calvin, lenox, lloyd tom tom, jane, raymond, steve, c harles, art, and others like florence who at the time was married to jack. >> james johnson. >> i'm sorry. of course. i am sure i the us to other people out >> of course, i have a statement his malice said being a up in buffalo he did not know anything about black writers until he got to new york and joined us. i am from new orleans and a growing up in d.c. and in the south with those black professors so you'd never think of booker t. washington or anything else. of the most wonderful thing i remember i went to booker t. washington high school for the first time. and all the young people in my c