susan swain: 40 hours, 60 hours? justice scalia: one of the nice things or the non-nice things, you do not have to be here to be working. i could, and some judges on the court of appeals do only come into court when there is oral arguments. i could do this job from home. the main thing it would deprive me of is consultation with my law clerks. it would deprive them of my company too. so i like to come in. it has no relationship with how many hours i am putting in. i never counted the hours in the week, but i almost always worked weekends. not all weekend, every weekend, but some of the weekend every week. susan swain: is there ever really a break in the summertime? justice scalia: yeah, the summertime is great. we clean our plate before we leave at the end of june, so it is really a summer without guilt. the only work we have to do over the summer is it stay on top of theren petitions because is a monster conference at the end of the summer to vote on all of the circuit petitions that have accumulated during the summ

susan swain: 40 hours, 60 hours?tice scalia: one of the nice things or the non-nice things, you do not have to be here to be working. i could, and some judges on the court of appeals do only come into court when there is oral arguments. i could do this job from home. the main thing it would deprive me of is consultation with my law clerks. it would deprive them of my company too. so i like to come in. it has no relationship with how many hours i am putting in. i never counted the hours in the week, but i almost always worked weekends. not all weekend, every weekend, but some of the weekend every week. susan swain: is there ever really a break in the summertime? justice scalia: yeah, the summertime is great. we clean our plate before we leave at the end of june, so it is really a summer without guilt. the only work we have to do over the summer is it stay on top of certain petitions because there is a monster conference at the end of the summer to vote on all of the circuit petitions that have accumulated during the s

susan swain: we have a few minutes left. we are talking at a time when the court will leave a a member -- when the court is about to say goodbye to a member and except a new one. how does this change during the process? justice scalia: the institution does not change at all. i think the relationships change, you lose a friend, and hopefully acquire another one on this famous stage. i will miss david. i will miss him a lot. he sat next to me on his whole time in the court. he'll -- depending on which side i was sitting on, left or right. he has been a rather constant companion, and we chatted back and forth sometimes during notes back ands forth sometimes during an argument. i will miss him. he is an intelligent, interesting good man. so that changes. i miss a lot of my former colleagues on the court from byron white to bill brennan. but that is the process. they go, people come in. susan swain: during your tenure, there have been seven new arrivals. i was wondering, when you welcome new justices into the system, is there an

susan swain: moving on to the next stage, conference. can you talk about conference and how it works? justice scalia: i can't talk too much about it, but i can tell you we sit down together and there is nobody else in the room -- i am not giving away anything because chief justice rehnquist wrote a book in which he acknowledged the conference is probably a misnomer. it is really not an occasion on which we try to persuade one another very few minds are , changed in conference. each justice states his or her view of the case and how he or she votes, and we go right around the table. and if in the middle of somebody's presentation you disagree with something that that person says, if when john stevens is speaking he says, wait john, why do you say that? that would not happen. or if it did happen, you do have your turn, john. let him finish. when we get all around, at the end you can speak a second time and raise some of these questions. but it is not really an exercise in persuading each other. it is an exercise in stating your views and t

now back to chapin, south carolina, with susan swain. host: i would like to introduce you to emerald. where is home for you? >> columbia, south carolina. my politics are pretty moderate. >> will you be voting on saturday? >> yes. >> have you made up your mind? >> i have not. withground fantastic, eileen toward casey, but it was interesting during the ideas that senator rubio had. >> comedy candidates have you heard so far? >> three. i heard governor bush senator rubio and also senator sanders. >> what did you hear tonight that made you start to think about him differently? toi think his ideas on ensure that anybody who wants to work for somebody, he wants to create opportunity for. i am a supporter of national service. we will work in this country if you give us the opportunity to release some of our student loan debt. what do you think of this >> campaign overall? >> south carolina is known for that -- out sometimes people. it has been interesting. i do not think it will show people in the best light sometimes. hopefully we will get dow

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