scalia wrote a classic scalia dissent. the language was unambiguous, citing the return of the church of the holy trinity case that he's always pointing to elevation of statutory purpose over intent. it was the full scalia. it was apple sauce. it was everything. and justice stevens wrote separately specific to respond to justice scalia. and he -- it was a concurrence he wrote that was only his. and there were a couple -- there were two passages in particular. if you read the two opinions, you get a real flavor of the differences. this one i thought really hit it home. it said, justice scalia's argument today rests on the premise that every policy implements a judge's personal view of sound policy rather than faithful attempts to carry out the will of the legislature. quite the contrary is true of the work of the judges with whom i worked many year. if we presume our judges are intellectually honest, as i do, there's no reason to fear, quote, policy driven acts of congress. in the end it says given the clarity of congress' i

scalia wrote a classic scalia dissent. the language is unambiguous, citing the return, the holy trinity, elevation of statutory purpose over intent. it was the full scalia, applesauce, it was everything. justice stevens wrote to respond to justice scalia. the concurrency wrote, it was only his. there were a couple, two passages. if you read the opinions, you get a flavor of the differences. this one really hit it home. justice scalia's argument today rests on the interact premise every policy driven interpretation implements a judge's personal view of sound policy rather than a faithful will ofto carry out the the legislature. quite the contrary is true with the judges with whom i have worked for many years. with we present the are honest, -- if we presume they are honest, there is no need for absent congress. he said given the clarity of the evidence of congress' attention affirm this even if i thought the petitioners' literal reading was correct. i think this opinion among many others starts to get at the differences in

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[laughter] justice scalia hired her shortly thereafter. we are honored to have his wonderful wife, maureen. where is maureen? maureen scalia. thank you. [applause] and our great secretary of labor. thank you very much. thank you, mr. secretary. [applause] very good genes in that family, i will say. before joining the bench, judge barrett spent 15 years at the university of notre dame high -- law school. she was renowned for her scholarship, celebrated by her colleagues, and be loved by her students. three times she was selected professor of the year. when i nominated judge barrett to serve on the u.s. court of appeals in 2017, every law clerk from her time at the supreme court endorsed her and endorsed her nomination, writing "we are democrats, republicans, and independents and yet we write to support the nomination of professor barrett to be a circuit judge. professor barrett is a woman of remarkable intellect and character. she is eminently qualified for the job." i can tell you, i did that too. i looked and studied, and you are imminent

very moved to have members of the scalia family here today, including his dear wife. i clerked for justice scalia more than 20 years ago, but the lessons i learned still resonate. his judicial philosophy is mine, too. a judge must apply the law as written. judges are not policymakers and they must be resolute in setting aside any policy views they might hold. the president has asked me to become the ninth justice, and as it happens, i am used to being in a group of nine, my family. our family includes me, my husband jesse, emma, vivian, tess, john peter, liam, juliette, and benjamin. vivian and john peter were born in haiti and came to us five years part when they were very young. the most revealing fact about benjamin is his brothers and sisters identify him as their favorite sibling. our children make our lives very full. while i am a judge, i'm better known back home as a room parent, carpool driver, and birthday party planner. when schools went remote, i tried on another hat, jesse and i became co-principals of the barrett e-learning academy and yes, the list of e

ginsberg was doing an interview with scalia. she explained why he is saw him asleep during the state of the union. she said she was going to stay away from the wine. the dinner came and she said it was so delicious, it needed wine to accompany it. scalia pipes up and says, that's the first intelligent thing you've done. so they had the relationship where they went back and forth at each other. >> sean: sounds like antagonistic colleagues. like at fox. >> there you go. little tweaks here and there. it was fun. we need more of that in this country. this will be a huge, huge issue. you know this. could get ugly in this battle to, you know -- mcconnell saying he's moving forward. there's going to be tough, tough fights here. democrats are already quoting what was quoted justice ginsberg saying on her death bed. she wished that they -- >> sean: let's go to joe biden. excuse me for interrupting. he's about to make a statement. >> she's not only a giant in the legal profession but a beloved figure. my heart goes out to all of those tha

talking about justice scalia. we should end it in some ways there.om because the two of you were such pals for so many decades. it was such an unlikely friendship to the people from the outside. what did you love about him so much. he was a very funny man. we had been buddies on the dc circuit before he was appointed to the supreme court. that was a three judge bench. sometimes he would whisper something to me that was so funny i have everything i could do to contain myself. and when we didn't sick -- sit next to each other. he would send me notes. i can't repeat to this audience with some of them were. there is a common opera. our reverence for the court as an institution and for our constitution it was just a small sample this very amusing opera the opening aria. it goes like this. the justice is blind how can they possibly do this. the constitution says absolutely nothing about this. and then i answer him. dear justice scalia you are searching for bright light solutions. problems that don't have easy answers, b

." >> christopher scalia is the son of justice antonin scalia and the coedor of "scalia speaks: reflections on law, faith and life well lived." chris, thanks so much for being here. i look forward to talking to you about your dad's famous friendship with rbg. do you know how it started? how did they become such close friends? >> thanks a lot for having me on, alisyn. it's good to talk to you. they met in the late '70s but really became friends in the early '80s when they were on the d.c. circuit court of appeals together and they developed a friendship in part because they were pretty much the only two judges on the court who liked to give advice on draft opinions and didn't mind receiving advice about draft opinions, so my dad said they formed a mutual improvement society by reading each other's drafts and kind of reaching out to each other about ways they could improve the other's arguments, even if they were on other sides of those arguments but they also had some personal things in common like born in new york around the same time, they loved opera, they liked to drink wine. they liked

that is a photograph of justice scalia and me. ridee taking an elephant laste palace of the maharaja. elegant but rather bumpy ride. >> why don't we walk around your that,o you can show us but it is often reported that you and justice scalia are good friends. justice ginsburg: yes. >> people don't understand how you could be so different in your thinking and still be friends. can you tell us how that happens? justice ginsburg: i have known justice scalia since the days he was a law professor. and i was so taken by his wit and his wonderful sense of humor . i heard a lecture that he gave. with most of what he said but i loved the way he said it. justice scalia is a very good writer. how you say it, and he is a very amusing fellow. he set next to me on the d.c. and not this configuration but when justice o'connor was with us, i was sitting next to justice scalia. he could say something that was so outrageous and so funny that i had to pinch myself so i would not laugh out loud in the courtroom. >> so, his humor. justice ginsburg: th

scalia ginsberg." [laughter] talent --very talented musician that had been a music major at harvard and had an ma from yale and decided in his field, it would be helpful to know a little bit about the law. so here -- he enrolled in law school and is taking constitutional laws and reading these dueling opinions, ginsberg and scalia, ginsberg for the majority, scalia in dissent, scalia for the majority, ginsberg and dissent, and he decides this could make a very funny comic opera. [laughter] rage aria, with a scalia sings "the justices are blind, how can they possibly spout this? the constitution says absolutely nothing about this." and then icing in return that he is searching for bright line solutions for problems that thet have easy answers but great thing about our constitution is that, like our society, it can evolve. roughly based on the magic flute. [laughter] justice scalia is locked in a dark room where he's being punished for excessive dissenting. [laughter] i enter through a glass ceiling to h

and justices scalia and ginsbug d disxwle disagreed in print. but they demonstrated that it need not destroy relationships. and i was lucky enough to serve for just tis caice ask scalia, lessons i learned still resonate. his judicial philosophy is mine to, a just must apply the law as written. judges are not policymakers, and they must be resident lult olutg aside any policy views they might hold. the president has asked me to become the ninth justice and as it happens, i am used to be in a group of nine, my family. our family includes me, my husband jesse, emma, vivian, tess, julyiohn peter. and we have our two from haiti. and benjamin identify him as their favorite siblings, our youngest. our children obviousesly make our life very full. i'm better known back home as a room parent, car pool driver and birthday part i ply planner. when schools went remote, jesse and i barrel co-principles of the barrett e learning academy and yes the list mucof enrolled students was a very long one. my children are my great ets sg. at the start of our marriage,

you've talked much today about your friendship with justice scalia. scalia. justice ginsburg: scalia. [laughter] >> do you have a favorite dispute with him that you remember especially fondly? justice ginsburg: do i have a favorite? >> dispute. justice ginsburg: his dissenting opinion in the virginia military institute case is quite over-the-top. [laughter] justice ginsburg: we were, exchanging drafts. i should tell you, this is a good example of our relationship. so i circulated the opinion for the court. i am about to go off to my circuit judicial conference, when scalia comes into my chambers and throws down a sheaf of paper and says, ruth, this is the penultimate draft of my dissent in the vmi case. it's not quite ready to circulate to the court, but i wanted to give you as much time as i can to respond. so i took it on the plane. it absolutely ruined my weekend. [laughter] but i appreciated the extra time i had. [laughs] well, in a way of bit too much, so i'm quoting the university of virginia case. it wasn't until 1970 that the university of virginia at

where is maureen, maureen scalia with us today. thank you. and our great secretary of labor, thank you very much, thank you, mr. secretary. very good genes in that family, i will say. judge barrett spent 15 years as a professor at the university of notre dame law school. she was renowned for her scholarship, celebrated by her colleagues and beloved by her students. three times she was selected at notre dame, distinguished professor of the year. when i nominated judge bar receipts to serve on the u.s. court of appeals for the 7th circuit in 2017, every law clerk from her time at the supreme court endorsed her and endorsed her nomination writing, we are democrats, republicans and independents, yet we write to support the nomination of professor barrett to be a circuit judge. professor barrett is a woman of remarkable intellect and character, she's eminently qualified for the job, and i can tell you i did that too, i looked and i studied and you are very eminently qualified for this job, you are going to be fantastic for this job. tha

also with us, chris scalia, son of the late justin antonin scalia. but first, here to walk through jennifer griffin's legacy is helge walker, former supreme court clerk and also sol wisenberg, harmeet dhillon, kerri sererino and also another former clerk. helge, what do you see as the most defining part of justice ginsberg's legacy. >> it has to be her role as a leader for women and law in america. there's really no way, really no way around that. she was a trail blazer for women. second woman ever to sit on the united states supreme court. she changed the world for all of us. >> obviously we're going to get into the pitch battles. before that is done, the court has become an extremely contentious place to serve on, to work at. as you defect opinions, you written books about the last confirmation battle with justice kavanaugh. but she really transcended a lot of the normal life in washington in many ways. like her buddy, justice scalia, she was a hero as jeffery said tonight, a hero to liberal democrats. >> yeah, she set a standard that we need nowad

>> secretary scalia: it's a red herring, brit. i think it reflects a bit of frustration on the part of the democrats on how they might attack her nomination. she made a comment about the affordable care act decision a number of years ago before she was a judge. it was a comment that a number of people made at the time. it's not a question that will be before the court in the case that's coming up and there's absolutely zero reason to believe that judge barrett is somebody who does not have the views about the importance of health care. as i said, she's a working mother to school-age children. she is the mother to a child with disability. the suggestion that she is -- >> brit: let my drill down a little bit farther on the question about the comments she made. what did she say about the affordable care act and i guess it was about john roberts' decision in the case to treat the affordable care act penalties as a tax. what did she say exactly that you think is not likely to lead to a decision one way or the other? >> i believe that s

is maureen scalia -- with us today. [applause] thank you. and a great secretary of labor, thank you very much. thank you mr. secretary. [applause] very good genes in that family i will say. very good genes before the bench at notre dame law school she was renowned for her scholarship, celebrated by colleagues and beloved by her students. three times she was selected at notre dame distinguished professor of the year. when i nominated judge barrett to serve on the u.s. court of appeals for the 7th circuit, in 2017 every law clerk from her time at the supreme court endorsed her and endorsed her nomination writing, quote, we are democrats, republicans, and independents. yet we write to support the nomination of professor barrett to be a circuit judge, professor barrett is a woman of remarkable intellect and care and qualified for the job and i can tell you i had that too, i looked and i studied and you are qualified for this job. you are going to be fantastic. thank you. really fantastic. [applause] the entire notre dame of

justice scalia hired her shortly thereafter and we are honored to have his wonderful wife maureen where is maureen maureen scully are with us today. and our great secretary of labor thank you very much thank you mr secretary. very good genes in that family i will say very good genes before joining the bench judge barrett spent 15 years as a professor at the university of notre dame law school she was really now in for her scholarship celebrated by her colleagues and be loved by her students 3 times she was selected at notre dame distinguished professor of the year when i nominated judge barrett to serve on the u.s. court of appeals for the 7th circuit in 2017 every lot clerk from her time at the supreme court endorser and into esther nomination writing quote we are democrats republicans and independents yet we write to support the nomination of professor. to be a circuit professor barrett is a woman of remarkable intellect and character she is eminently qualified for the job. and i can tell you i did that too i looked and i studied and you are very eminently qualified for this job you a

it's often reported that you and justice scalia are good friends. people don't understand how you could be so different in your thinking and still be friends. can you tell us how that happens? justice ginsburg: i have known justice scalia since the day he was -- ands so taken by his wit his wonderful sense of humor. i had a lecture that he gave. i disagreed with most of what he said. i love the way he said it. justice scalia is a very good writer. how you say it. he's a very amusing fellow. bench --at next to me on the d.c. circuit judge and when justice o'connor was with us, i was sitting next to scalia. he could say something that was so outrageous, so funny that i had to pinch myself so i wouldn't laugh out loud in the courtroom. >> so it's humor? justice ginsburg: it's that. he cares about family. about each other's families. >> i know your have your robes. tell us how that works on court today. justice ginsburg: on a court date, the ropes are kept in the robing room. we all have closets there. we enter the robing room and an attendant helps us

justices scalia, my own mentor. justices scalia and ginsburg disagreed fiercely in print without rancour in person. their ability to maintain a warm and rich friendship, despite their differences, even inspired an opera. these two great americans demonstrated that arguments, even about matters of great consequence, it need not destroy affection. in both my personal and professional relationships, i strive to meet that standard. i was lucky enough to clerk forjustice scalia. and given his incalculable influence on my life, i his incalculable influence on my life, lam his incalculable influence on my life, i am very moved to have members of the scalia family here today, including his dear wife maureen. i clerked forjustice scalia many —— more than 20 years ago, but the lessons i learned still resonate. hisjudicial philosophy is mine too. ajudge must apply the law as written. judges are not policymakers, and they must be resolute in setting aside any policy views they might hold. the president has asked me to becom

opera, "scalia/ginsburg." oh, people ask me, "why did you let scalia go first?" because everything, as you know, in the court is done by seniority and scalia was appointed in the late '80s. i didn't get there until the '90s. anyway, his opening aria is a rage aria, and it goes like this. "the justices are blind. how can they possibly spout this? the constitution says absolutely nothing about this." and then in my lyric soprano voice i answer him, telling him he's searching for bright-line solutions to problems that don't have easy answers. but the great thing about our constitution is that, like our society, it can evolve. and then she goes into a jazz routine with, "let it grow, let it grow." [ laughter ] the plot of this opera is roughly based on "the magic flute," and justice scalia is locked in a dark room, being punished for excessive dissenting. [ laughter ] i enter the scene through a glass ceiling to help him get through the tests he has to pass to get out of the dark room. so the person in charge of t

i asked justice scalia about it and he said she is really funny. if you just go back to those movies that came out over the past couple years, rpg, look at her life fighting gender inequality. whether you agreed with her ideology or not something inspiring about her life story and that got her the notorious rpg following she had in recent years. shannon: we talked about the fact that just a handful of women graduating in her law school class in harvard and she talked about the fact that she had a hard time getting hired even as one of the top in her class because she was a woman and she had a family and that was so important to her but that fueled her, those kinds of things because she was trying to blaze a trail and i never heard her complain about that kind of thing and the fact she had to make her own path and she did that for a lot of women in the legal profession who wanted to try to balance family and career but she faced a lot of pressure to resign during the last presidential election from the left who wanted president obama to have a clear

there was a second case, again, justice scalia rewrote that one. what we're going to see is a continued hostility towards the congress, and this court also loves the presidency. they're very interested in what justice scalia misquoted the constitution in my view when she said the president has, quote, "all executive power," and that's not what the constitution says. so i think it is a momentous disappointment. unfortunately, i think it is going to be mired in a terrible politics, and i hope people will focus, as john and i have, on these theories and what they really mean, not just the sayings. all lawyers are happy to give you gat words about the rule of law and all of that. look at what people have done with the philosophy, not what they say about it. >> because you talk about this momentous -- this big moment a shortime before the election, a fundamental shift in the balance of the court. you worked for joe biden not only in the white house but on the hill, when he was on the judiciary committee. we're going to hear a lot in these hearings. what

she was famously very close to justice scalia. they vacationed together, they were super at the washington opera and there actually was an opera about the two of them, scalia and genentech and justice ginsburg often came back to george down law. her husband, marty was a beloved member of the faculty for many years and one thing that we forget about justice ginsburg is people focus on her as an advocate as a supreme court justice, but she was also a teacher, and herman it year, she was a teacher at rutgers and columbia before she went on the bench and one of the things she would say when she came and spoke which she did very often was the importance for respect ing people across the aisle and she talked about her friendship with justice scalia and while they disagreed about almost everything, they were able to establish a friendship based on respect, so i think that's another message that the justice conveyed to our students, and it's important now , but again, i realize that we're at the height of the political season, but i think

she had a deep and abiding friendship with antonen scalia, her ideological opposite on the court who of course passed away in 2016. she has been lauded for opinions in cases like united states v virginia where women were going the right to attend the all male virginia military institute and her dissent in the employment discrimination case. a concern about her health has, of course, lingered. it has stalked everyone who works in democratic politics, particularly in liberal jury ris prudence many wondering what should happen, and now we are there with 46 days to go before the election now, of course, you will remember that the last time a vacancy came up abruptly in an election year, due to a death on the court, antonen scalia in 2016 mitch mcconnell of course within hours of scalia's death very famously announced that they would be not entertaining any nominations for the democratic president, none whatsoever, that the senate should not, would not even have a hearing on the duly elected president's nominee. there would be in advising consent because there would be in consent to merri

in the friendship with scalia and respect on both sides of the aisle. her confirmation by a near unanimous vote in the senate. was she to some degree sadly the last to represent that kind of bridge as the court has become more divided? >> well, you're certainly right, jim. it was interesting, her relationship with justice scalia, but just standing a few feet away from the army of clerks, you really -- when you talk to them, they say just what you're talking about. that kind of bridge. working for her was a lesson in the law for sure, but it was also a lesson in life. she taught them about how to be civil. how to disagree agreeably. her dearest friend was justice scalia, but these clerks right here, they're going to greet this casket. there are a mix of her supreme court clerks and her appellate law clerks and they will greet it and then go up the steps and in shifts they'll stand guard over this casket while it's here. a lot of them talked about them a their lessons and poppy will remember when she interviewed ginsburg, one of the things that she said w

so please welcome eugene scalia. [applause] ♪ sec. scalia: thank you all. thank you for the introduction. thank you for the great work you do for the people of wisconsin in the senate and thank you for being to the senate the experience of somebody he was actually created jobs, which is basic common sense and insight that we so need in washington dc. it is my pleasure to say to all of you as your u.s. secretary of labor, happy labor day. it is wonderful to be with you. [applause] labor day is actually one of our oldest national holidays along with christmas, president's day, memorial day, and the fourth of july. and that is because american workers built this country alongside our great presidents, together with our faith in god and this nation of spouting ideals and with the support of the brave men and women who have given their lives for this country. and this year 2020 we have asked a lot of america's workers. and they have done amazing things. saving lives in hospitals, supply ing our food factories across the country, turning on a dime to produce coun

. >> yes, we have been in unchartered territory since justice scalia died and the republicans reacted the way they did to that. that broke everything in terms of how these things work that humility you just expressed there in terms of the future being unwritten is a smartest thing i have heard anybody says. you did such a great job on the breaking news. thank you. >>> ruth bader ginsburg has left us at the age of 87. we'll talk about the course of her life and her career. we'll talk with a number of people who covered her career more than 40 years as a judge and a justice who know about her impact on the law and we are going to talk about the striking news that in her last days on earth she dictated a statement to her granddaughter saying that, it was her wish that she not be replaced until there is a new president. we'll talk about all of that tonight. we'll speak first with someone who may have asked to join us on short notice i am grateful she's been able to get to us. former secretary of state, former u.s. presidential candidate, hillary clinton thank you for being here, i know it

much as we saw following justice scalia's abrupt death we have hillary clinton weighing in. she was the 2016 contender facing against donald trump when there was an open seat, all the polling we saw showed this was a major driving force, the open supreme court seat for voters whether they were hillary voters were trump voters, here is what she's saying about this going to the senate. >> democrats are in the senate will have to use every single possible maneuver that is available to them to make it clear that they are not going to permit mitch mcconnell to enact the greatest travesty, the monument to hypocrisy that would arise from his attempting to fill this position. shannon: where do we go tonight? >> what is going to happen is donald trump will nominate someone to fill her seat in the senate will confirm him or her. that is how it works. we look at precedent, the president is when the president and the senate agree on a nominee the nominee gets confirmed. dan mclaughlin have a great piece about the history of this. there have been 29 instances in american history where as

supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg and antonin scalia. she was a progressive icon, while he was a giant for conservatives. but ginsburg speaking at scalia's funeral in 2016, said it was all about making their differences work. >> once asked how we could be friends, given our disagreement on lots of things, justice scalia answered, i attack ideas, i don't attack people. some very good people have some very bad ideas. and if you can't separate the two, you've got to get another day job. you don't want to be a judge, at least not a judge on a multi-member panel. >> and joining us, now, christopher scalia. he is the son of the late supreme court justice. he is also the co-editor of "scalia speaks, reflections on law, faith, and life well lived." christopher, your friends -- your families were friends. i'm really sorry for your personal loss, you may be feeling today. what does this loss mean for you? >> well, you know, obviously, i think with -- with much of the rest of the country, i just feel a deep loss for a great public servant. and she

she has said she's of the school of antonin scalia. so that's a great insight and that is what i would call a traditionalist, treats the constitution not as simply aspirational document but as law, and so i would say hold off, let's hear the confirmation hearings and see if she says as i think she will, i solemnly promise that i will go on my duties with open mind and i will listen to all the arguments and i will assess them with great respect as well as the views of my colleagues. brit: professor tribe. >> laurence: i don't pretend to have a crystal ball. i read many of her opinions. it's clear how she approaches the law. it's perfectly respectable view, the view justice scalia held and, of course, he thought that row v wade was wrongly decided. she has written that roe v wade is not precedent and explicit in saying she thought that chief justice roberts was wrong in stretching what he understood the affordable care act meant in order to uphold it. she's been admirably candid about her views. brit: what did you think about what justic

conservative judge scalia, the last of 0bama's presidency. they used to go to the opera together. when scalia died, within almost minutes, hours, the republicans came out and said this should be a decision for the next president. i noticed chuck schumer, the democratic leader, has essentially quoted them now, saying this to be a decision for the next president, but thatis for the next president, but that is not how republicans see at this time. no, and scalia, my memory is, he died in around spring, so actually the 0bama administration had several months before the election back in 2016, and they put forward merrick garland, who was a dc judge, and was, they thought, the most acceptable person on the most acceptable person on the democratic side that they could get through the republicans in the senate, he was much more of a centrist, and mitch mcconnell, who was the senate leader said no, we cannot have a judge confirmed in an election year. now mitch mcconnell‘s point that he has made very clear this time around would be that welcome at t

situation is in nablus to justice scalia passing -- is analogous to justice scalia's passing and this is false. here is what i said on the senate floor the first session, the day after he passed away. the senate has not filled a vacancy with the election year when there was a divided 1888, almostnce 130 years ago. here is what i said the next day when i spoke to the press for the first time on the subject. you have to go back to 1888 to was the last time i vacancy approved by the senate of a different party. as of then, only six prior times in the history has a vacancy arisen in a presidential election year and the president sent a nomination to the senate of the opposite party. the majority of those times the outcome was what happened in 2016. no confirmation. when you havecome divided government. president obama was asking senate republicans in unusual favor that had last been granted nearly 130 years before, but voters explicitly had elected our majority to check and balance the end of his presidency. so we stuck with the basic norm. dido doing, the majority what democrats indicate

americans have taken comfort to remember her friendship with her ideological opposite delete justice scalia. they major the halls of justice had laughter and comity they rarely sat on the same side of a decision but they set together at the opera and any other time they could manage to t be together so the legal world is mourning a giant justice ginsburg fellow justice or as a legion of loyal law clerks and countless others are morning a close friend or mentor. the senate sends condolences tous the mall. justice ginsburg impact on american life went deeper still the lost feels personal to millions of americans who may have never made her acquaintance she was spirited andc powerful in a historic champion for american women to a degree that transcends any legal or philosophical disagreement. she climbed from the middle class jewish book lynn era into law and government the future justice had to surmount one obstacle after another and justice ginsburg did not only climb a mountain, she blazed a trail through deeds, words and through her example to clear away the cobwebs. she opened one profess

justice scalia's son christopher joins me now. welcome. i haven't said it directly to you, sorry for your father's passing. he meant a lot to the italian-american community. he was a giant for what people of the ethnicity were able to achieve. my best to you and the family. what do you make of this relationship? what do you want people to know? >> well, you know, as you said, they were friends for a very long time, and it wasn't just they who were friends. their spouses were friends with each other. so, it was -- they -- i don't -- people think it's mysterious, but as you said shlg, it lasted very long time. it was because they had so many things in common. despite their many differences. they were born in new york around the same time, different borrows, but i think they were familiar to each other just from that. they loved opera. they even made cameos in operas together. they liked to drink wine. they liked fine food. very often cooked by her husband, mr. ginsburg, marty ginsburg. he was basically a gourmet chef. so, they were just able

justice scalia hired her shortly thereafter and we are honored to have his wonderful wife maureen where is maureen maureen scully are with us today. and our great secretary of labor thank you very much thank you mr secretary. very deep jeems and in that family i will say very good spirits before joining the bench judge barrett spent 15 years as a professor at the university of notre dame law school she was read now and for her scholarship celebrated by her colleagues and be loved by her students 3 times she was selected at notre dame distinguished professor of the year when i nominated judge perry to serve on the u.s. court of appeals for the 7th circuit in 2017 every lot clerk from her time at the supreme court endorser an endorser nomination writing quote we are democrats republicans and independents yet we write to support the nomination of professor. to be a circuit judge professor barrett is a woman of remarkable intellect in character she is eminently qualified for the job and i can tell you i did that too i loved it and i studied and you are very eminently qualified for this job

like justice scalia. she was someone that believed in the institution of the court and in this process and in fairness, and i think for had that reason alone, with should honor her what she called her fervent wish is that she will not be reare placed until a new president is installed and i thought it was interesting today, when leader schumer came out very strongly just using the quote from mitch mcconnell. that is all he said out in a tribute to justice ginsburg. and this was mitch mcconnell's words the american people should have a voice in the selection of their next supreme court justice. this is his words from back as you have noted in 2016. therefore had this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president. you already see republican senators likely is a lisa murkod saying the sap thing. no matter what mitch mcconnell says, each senator has to look in their soul and look at the words they said back then. i, today, come to honor ruth bader ginsburg and what she stands for. what she stood

here's what i said on the senate floor on the very first session the day after justice scalia passed, the senate has not filled a vacancy arising in an election year when there was a divided government since 1888, almost 130 years ago. here's what i said the next day when i spoke to the press for the first time on the subject, you have to go back to 1888 when grover cleveland was president to find the last time a vacancye created in a presidential election year was approved by senate of a different party. p as of then, only six prior times in american history had a supreme court vacancy arisen in a presidential election year. and the president sent an nomination that year to the senate of the opposite party. the majority of those times, thj outcome was exactly what happened in 2016, no confirmation. the historically normal outcome when you have divided government. president obama was asking senate republicans an unusual favor that had last been granted nearly 130 years before then. but voters had explicitly elected our majority to check and balance the end of his presidency, so we stu