he couldn't sit on the case because his son, at the time, was a student at vmi.s a 7-1 decision, and justice scalia's dissent aimed more at the chief than it did at me. i guess he expected what i would do, but was surprised at the chief. charlie rose: did you consider that the most important decision you had written -- opinion you had written? justice ginsburg: that remains to be seen. charlie rose: maybe want around the corner. i am verynsburg: proud of some of my dissenting opinion. which congress could still do something about, it was the so-called shelby county case, where the court had invalidated a key provision of the voting rights act of 1965, even though that legislation had been renewed time and again by congress, every time with overwhelming majorities on both sides of the aisle. republicans, democrats. said that the coverage formula -- that the states had been a discriminator in the bad old days when african-americans were not allowed to vote, they could not adopt any laws relating to elections unless they precleared it through the department of justi