supreme court and the nomination of merrick garland, we want to welcome wade henderson, president ando of the leadership conference on civil and human rights. that you for joining us. mr. henderson: thank you. host: curt levey, executive director of the freedomwords foundation. mr. levey: it is part of the larger freedom works organization. a libertarian organization devoted to limited government, rule of law free market. host: a lot of names mentioned the president ultimately deciding on merrick garland. your assessment on the president's pick? mr. henderson: judge garland is one of the nation's distinguished jurists. he served on the court of appeals for 19 years. a graduate of harvard undergraduate school were he graduated with honors and law school with honors. he clerk initially for judge henry friendly on the second circuit. one of the most distinguished jurists of his age. he also was the judge who john roberts clerked for. clerked forand william brennan on the supreme court. he is known for his substance. in that regard, everyone, including orrin hatch, ken starr, the prosecut

wade henderson, president and ceo of the leadership conference on civil and human rights, along with kurtz leavy, executive director of the freedom works foundation. they will join us to discuss the nomination of chief judge merrick garland, and the history of nominating and voting on a president's take for the high court. and the u.s. executive director of one campaign will be talking about the efforts to bring greater attention to poverty, and how this can help fight terrorism. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, they getting live at 7:00 a.m. eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. c-span's "road to the white house" coverage continues today, when former president bill clinton speaks at a rally in tucson, arizona for hillary clinton. also scheduled to appear, gabby giffords, and her husband, former astronaut captain mark kelly. live coverage begins at 5:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> as the director of the military and veteran affairs in ohio, people come to my office and talk about it and they want to vote for. regardless of if they want to vote democrat or republica

henderson -- wade henderson will join us to discuss the nomination of chief garland to the vacant seat on the supreme court and the history of nominating and voting to the high court. hart who will talk about the efforts to bring attention to poverty. c-span to watch washington journal beginning. join the discussion. on the communicators. bring broadband the fcc is expected to take of the proposal at the end of march. we will talk with the policy director of the benton foundation and a visiting scholar at the internet policy. we are drawing brendan sasso. low income consumers need access to broadband. it is unclear to me that congress would be able to pass a support that is directly aimed at low income users. this congress has not been particularly supportive of folks in poverty. the conversations on the hill have been hard to decipher. >> there is a potential that the fcc is putting the cart before on the horse. they are adopting broadband service, but we don't know if we need nine dollars a month for 10 million.r $45 and the fcc has simply not done that level of analysis. announcer:

and wade henderson, president and ceo of the leadership conference on civil rights and human rights andrent levy, executive director of the freedom works foundation discussed the supreme court nomination of judge garland. we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on face book and twitter. washington journal at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. court -- outside of the power. the idea that you of individual sitting on the court unfettered does notars is not -- pass the smell test when it comes to a modern democracy. q&a, we talk about the changes we would like to see on the supreme court including opening up oral arguments to cameras and imposing term limits on the justices and root wiring them to it here to the same code of ethics that other judges follow. >> the supreme court decisions affect all americans. the third branch of government has become so powerful. the idea that issues on voting and marriage and health care and and women's rights, pregnancy discrimination, i could go on and on. these issues that 20 years ago, congress and the executive branch would get together a

wade henderson, ceo on the conference on civil rights and human rights and currently be, executive director of the been --foundation, xm examine the nomination of merrick garland. "washington journal" live at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. with that power comes greater responsibility. you have an individual sitting on the court under uttered for 30 to 35 years is not -- it doesn't pass the smell test when it comes to a modern democracy. >> dave roth talks about the changes he would like to see at the supreme court, including opening up oral arguments to the cameras and requiring justices to adhere to the same code of ethics that other federal judges follow. ask supreme court decisions affect all americans. all americans are aware of the third branch of government. in the last 10 to 15 years, the third branch of government has become so powerful and issues on voting and marriage and health and women'sigration rights, pregnancy discrimination -- these issues that maybe 20 or 30 years ago, congress and the executive branch would come compromise. that doesn't happen anymore. the buck stops with t

then, wade henderson and levey.ly be -- curt they will talk about the vacant u.s.upreme court seat. and, tom hart on poverty in the u.s. all of that getting underway tomorrow at 7:00 eastern on c-span. we hope to see you back here tomorrow at 7:00. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> next, senators test self driving cars on washington, d.c. streets, followed by a hearing on self driving cars. senator harry reid discusses auto trump, and later onator jeff sessions populism. >> south dakota senator john soon and bill nelson of florida, the chair and ranking member on the commerce and science committee, tested to self turning cars -- two self driving cars in anar