she joins us from charlottesville, virginia. talking about yesterday's supreme court decision, the nomination sonia sotomayor sonia, and the retirement of david souter. kay is on the phone from las vegas. caller: i have that as a firefighter in madison, wisconsin and the interest of the of the dynamics of how the court rules. they're not told what manuals to read. in the court transcripts, anybody who went up for the test, they were told what manual to read, what book to read. they were not going in blind. they have the information. they have the tools. it was their choice on how well they wanted to study and how bad they wanted the promotion. i am married to a military personnel. they test all the time for their ranks. they know what they have to do to make that rank. host: thank you for the call. let me take a follow up twittered commen comment. caller: the answer to the twitter question -- they have to meet some new standard. it is not clear what the standard is. justice kennedy's language is that there has to be a strong basi

the candidate from charlottesville has won and will compete this fall. to give us more context, this guest reported on this for the paper. could you tell us what happened and the importance of it? guest: sure, i would be happy