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FACSIMILE, ARTICLE III TAKES OUT ONLY 17 LINES. I COUNTED THEM THIS AFTERNOON, 17 LINES. BUT A LOT HAS HAPPENED WITH THOSE 17 LINES DURING THE LAST...
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| 00:02:51 |
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PULLED AWAY WITH MORE JOURNALISM ABOUT THE COURT, NOT JUST WHAT THEY DO AND WHAT THEY WRITE BUT HOW THEY ACT. THE SUPREME COURT KNOW NATIONS WHICH...
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| 00:04:27 |
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SUCCESSFUL CAREER AS A STAGE ACTOR
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| 00:04:29 |
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IN MUSICAL COMEDIES TO BECOME AN ACADEMIC AND A JOURNALIST, AND A FINE ONE AT THAT. HE WAS BEST KNOWN FOR HIS ROLE IN JOHN ADAMS IN 1776. REMEMBER, THIS...
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| 00:05:06 |
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BUT YOU'RE STILL, AS FAR AS CONSTITUTIONAL JOURNALISM GOES WHETHER IT'S RIGHT OR WRONG, YOU ARE STILL ON BROADWAY. [LAUGHTER] >>
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| 00:05:15 |
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JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG IS A CORRESPONDENT WITH ABC NEWS COVERING THE SUPREME COURT, THE LAW AND POLITIC. SHE
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| 00:05:23 |
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BEGAN COVERING THE SUPREME COURT FOR THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE IN 1994, BECAME A NEWS
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| 00:05:28 |
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HOUR SUPREME COURT ANALYST FOUR YEARS LATER AND PRIOR TO JOINING ABC, WORKED FOR THE RIVAL LEGAL
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| 00:05:38 |
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ANALYST. JAN'S BOOK THE SUPREME CONFLICT, INSIDE STORY OF THE STRUGGLE FOR CONTROL OF THE UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT IS A VERY WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE...
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| 00:06:40 |
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YEARS. WHEN JUSTICE BREYER CAME ON IN 1994, THAT COURT WITHOUT A CHANGE IN THAT MEMBERSHIP FOR AN 11 YEAR PERIOD WHICH IS THE LONGEST PERIOD IN HISTORY...
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| 00:09:52 |
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OR MAYBE TOO MUCH. WHAT FUN THIS WAS TO WRITE. SO PBS DID THIS SERIES AND THEY SAID WE'RE FOCUSING ON PAIRS OF JUST SISTS. WHY DON'T YOU FOCUS ON THE...
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| 00:10:07 |
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ON THE COURT. SO I CHOSE THESE FOUR PAIRS
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| 00:10:11 |
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STARTING WITH JOHN MARSHAL AND THOMAS JEFFERSON, A DISTANT
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| 00:10:15 |
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COUSIN AND THEN ALL THE WENDALL HOMES HUGO BLACK AND WILLIAM OWE DOUGLAS AND IN THE MODERN AREA, REHNQUIST AND SCALIA. IT'S ONLY A SURPRISE TO OUR LAW...
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| 00:14:29 |
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SCALIA CLONE EVERYONE UT THOUGHT OR STILL THINKS HE IS BUT HAD GREAT DIRECTION ON THE MOVEMENT OF THE COURT MOVING SCALIA ON A NUMBER OF TIMES SO CAN...
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| 00:15:01 |
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THE CONSITUTIONALITY OF
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| 00:15:02 |
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MINIMUM WAGE LAWS. WHEN YOU LOOK AT HOLE MS'S RECORD YOU REALIZE THAT
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| 00:15:06 |
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THIS WAS NOT A NICE MAN. HE IS NOT SOMEONE YOU WOULD'VE WANTED TO HAVE A DRINK
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| 00:15:11 |
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WITH AND THIS IS BECAUSE HIS WORLD VIEW
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| 00:15:14 |
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WAS ASTONISHLY DARK AND NIHILISTIC AND IT WAS SHAPED BY HIS EXPERIENCE IN THE CIVIL WAR. HE WENT TO THE WAR A COMMITMENTED -- COMMITTED ABOLITIONIST....
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| 00:18:09 |
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THAT UPHELD RAILWAY SEGREGATION. >> Guest: AND HE SAID THE CONSTITUTION IS COLOR BLIND AND NEITHER KNOWS 2340ER TOLERATES CLASSES. HE
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| 00:18:20 |
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PREDICTED SOMEDAY THE DECISION WOULD BE AS REVILE ADATHIZE DREAD SCOTT DECISION WHICH STRUCK DOWN THE MISSOURI COMPROMISE AND HELPED PRECIPPITATE THE...
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| 00:18:33 |
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THE ISSUES. THURGOOD MARSHALL USED TO READ HIS DISSENT BEFORE HE ARGUED BROWN v. BOARD OF EDUCATION, AND AS JAN KNOWS IN HIS WONDERFUL BOOK, CLARENCE...
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| 00:20:18 |
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JUSTICE THOMAS WENT ON THE COURT IN 1991 AFTER THE BRUTAL CONFIRMATION HEARING, THE STORYLINE QUICKLY BECAME THAT HE WAS FOLLOWING SCALIA, THAT HE WAS...
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| 00:26:37 |
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I DON'T THINK TO IMPLY IT AS A
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| 00:26:40 |
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PERSON THING. HE SAW HER SELF AS A BALANCING STATE LEGISLATOR. SHE WAS VERY WARY OF WILLIAM BRENEN AND YOU KNOW JUSTICE POWELL HAD ACTUALLY TALKED TO...
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| 00:28:39 |
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HE'S NOT SUCCESSFUL. [LAUGHTER] BASICALLY, THOMAS HAS TO BE CLASSIFIED AS MORE OF THE IDEALOGUE, THE LAW PROFESSOR, THE JUSTICE WHO'S MORE DEVOTED...
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| 00:33:43 |
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LAW. ALTHOUGH ALREADY WE CAN SEE, I MEAN, EVEN FROM THAT FIRST TERM, ONE OF HIS RULINGS ON THE CONFRONTATION [APPLAUSE] WAS SOMETHING THE COURT ULTIMATELY...
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| 00:36:18 |
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MARSHALL BUT IF YOU ARE A COMPETITIVE BICYCLIST YOU ARE GOING TO CHOOSE LANCE ARMSTRONG, YOU ARE NOT GOING TO CHOOSE ANYONE ELSE. I AM CONCERNED THAT...
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| 00:40:33 |
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BECAUSE WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE REHNQUIST COURT, THE COURT LED BY WILLIAM REHNQUIST, AS JEFF SAID, THAT WAS A COURT THAT WAS RUN BYSAND SANDRA DAY...
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| 00:42:35 |
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COULD VERY WELL BE THE NEXT O'CONNOR. >> WELL, THERE ARE TWO THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND ABOUT THAT, THOUGH. >> FIRST OF ALL, JUSTICE KENNEDY IS MORE CONSERVATIVE...
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| 00:42:59 |
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HE'S BEEN MUCH MORE INTOLERANT OF ANY KIND OF AFFIRMATIVE ACTION PROGRAMS.
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| 00:43:03 |
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SO ON A NUMBER OF CASES, HE DUCOME OUT IN A MORE CONSERVATIVE WAY THAN SHE DID EVER, SO THAT KIND OF HELPS JOHN ROBERTS NOW. I MEAN, HE CAN SAY, LOOK,...
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| 00:43:44 |
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MAGAZINE. I CRITICIZED HER IN THE PAST FOR BEING INDECISIVE WHICH I DON'T THINK SHE LIKED VERY MUCH. WE FINISHED THE INTERVIEW AND I BROUGHT A COPY...
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| 00:46:13 |
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THEY DECORATE THEIR OFFICE SAIDMENT JEFF MENTIONED BEING IN O'CONNOR'S OFFICES. IT WAS BEAUTIFULLY DONE WITH THE COLORS OF HER BELOVED SOUTHWEST AND...
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| 00:49:59 |
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BORK, GINSBURG, MIERS, SOUTER, KENNEDY, TURN-COAT SITUATION, AND TO GET SOMEONE ON THE COURT THAT FITS YOUR KIND OF PHILOSOPHY THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO...
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| 00:50:31 |
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SHARE HIS PERSONAL VIEWS ON ABORTION WHEN HE'S VAG STEAK DINNER WITH HIS CONSERVATIVE BUDDIES. AND HIS FRIENDS WOULD JOKE THAT YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T...
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| 00:53:16 |
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CRITICAL OF PARTICULARLY MORE LIBERAL DEMOCRATS WERE QUITE CRITICAL OF INITIALLY DISAPPOINTED THAT PRESIDENT CLINTON HAD NOT NOMINATED A MORE STRONG...
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| 00:53:33 |
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WOULD NOMINATE SOMEONE WHO WAS MORE, YOU KNOW THE LIBERAL COUNTERPART TO ANTONIN SCALIA WHO COULD DISH IT OUT AS GOOD AS SCALIA COULD. AND INSTEAD...
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| 00:55:19 |
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WHICH BUSH DOES NOT RECOGNIZE IS THAT THE ABILITY OF A JUDGE TO HAVE AN EFFECTIVE PERSONALITY AND TEMPERAMENT MAY MAKE HIM MORE EFFECTIVE OVER THE...
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| 00:58:25 |
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AND EXPECTED TO HAVE A NOMINEE WHO WAS A GOOD COLLEAGUE. YOU KNOW, HE WANTED SOMEONE WHO COULD MAKE AN IMPACT ON THE COURT. AND THAT'S WHY WE EVEN SAW...
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| 01:00:01 |
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SURE. I
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| 01:00:05 |
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MEAN, BUT I DON'T THINK, JEFF, WE CERTAINLY DON'T SEE ANY
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| 01:00:08 |
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JUSTICES. THEY'RE NOT ITCHING TO STEP DOWN AT THIS POINT SO IT LOOKS LIKE PRESIDENT BUSH UNLESS, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE GOD CAN ALWAYS
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| 01:00:16 |
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INTERVENE BUT RAT THIS POINT IT LOOKS LIKE THIS SUPREME COURT WILL BE IN TACT UNFILL OUR NEXT PRESIDENT IS IN THE POSITION OF WHETHER IT'S HE OR SHE,...
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| 01:00:55 |
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LEGAL FACTORY WRARTH
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| 01:00:56 |
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THAN A PUBLIC FACTORY. THINK OF DO YOU THINK THIS IS A GOOD IDEA OR -- LET'S LEAVE IT AT THAT. >> NO, NOT AT L. I'M SO GLAD AIOMENTION THAT BECAUSE...
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| 01:01:29 |
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FEDERALIST IBVIRGINIA. THAT IS NO EASY FEET AND JEFFERSON SAID IT WAS BECAUSE HE WAS SO CONNING AND CONCEALED HIS SOPHIST -- JEFFERSON'S HEAD WOULD ...
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| 01:03:32 |
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LONGER. AS IT WAS
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| 01:03:33 |
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HE DIED OVER THE SUMMER AND ROBERTS WAS ABLT TO
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| 01:03:35 |
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BE CONFIRMED IN TIME TO LEAD THE COURT FOR THAT NEXT TERM. BUT YOU KNOW A CHANCE OF THAT CHANGING, AND ROBERTS HIMSELF, WHEN HE WAS IN THE REAGAN ADMINISTRATION...
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| 01:06:21 |
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DOES GET
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| 01:06:22 |
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ANOTHER NOMINEE TO THE SUPREME COURT HOW DO YOU THINK THE FACT THAT DEMOCRATS CONTROL THE SENATE HOW DO YOU THINK THAT WILL AFFECT THE CHOICE OF WHO...
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| 01:06:56 |
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RIGHT AND MY SOURCES IN THE WHITE HOUSE NOW SAY THAT THE WHITE HOUSE WOULD GO VERY STRONG. THEY WOULD NOMINATE A CONSERVATIVE NOMINEE. IT'S NOT A MAN....
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| 01:08:05 |
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CONSERVATIVE NOMINEE BUT I WOULD IMAGINE WOULD BE RELUCTANT EVEN TO CONFIRM A MORE MODERATE NOMINEE. THE HISTORY SUGGESTS THAT PRESIDENTS WHO REFUSE...
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| 01:09:19 |
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LOOK BACK AND NOMMATING A JUSTS THAT WAS MUCH LESS CONSERVATIVE THAN THEY HAD HOPED AFTER THE SENATE VOTED DOWN ROBERT BORK AND AND THE PRESIDENT ...
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| 01:10:11 |
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REHNQUIST, O'CONNOR, AND THOMAS DISSENTED AND WHY SCALIA
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| 01:10:15 |
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JOINED THE PRO-FEDERAL GOVERNMENT? >> JAN ACTUALLY KNOWS THE ANSWER SO I WILL GIVE THE THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE. THE THEORETICAL PERSPECTSIVE THAT REHNQUIST,...
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| 01:10:41 |
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BETWEEN EPSTEIN AND SCALIA AT THE CATO INSTITUTE WHERE EPSTEIN ARGUED TTS VERY IMPORTANT TO RESURRECT. THIS IS UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PROFESSOR. AND...
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NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.