Specter asks Kagan about TV cameras in the Supreme Court

[writersblock26]

Thank you for posting this, CSPAN.

[snoktruix]

It must be the case that 99% of people are ignorant morons. I mean just look at the youtube comments on this vid, chock full of hateful bullshit. At least there weren't any black people in this video for the racists to get to work on.

[1musicwayne]

Never been a judge. Only one year of trial experience. Anti-military recruiting on her campus. Radical Kagan is the best qualified?  HUH?

[wsg2112]

Everyone contact their Senators NOW, and let them know how much of an injustice it would be to the American people to have this person on the Supreme Court !!!

[captainkill1]

Fuck this dyke. her pussy breath is stinking up politics.

[SonDimz]

All these people are morons and Kagan is just goin to hit on her secretarys all day shes grotesque

[captainkill1]

woman, dyke, democrat. thats how she was elected. blah.

[captainkill1]

look at that mean looking dyke. 

[knoose]

@captainkill1 People that argue with phrases and name calling are among the least intellectual and of the lowest of logical IQ...

[captainkill1]

@knoose: i was wasn't name calling. i was telling the truth and making an observaton. Democrats are the ones who who do name calling like bush is an idiot when he took out saddam hussien and lead Iraqi freedom. Get your facts right before you speak to me.

[knoose]

@captainkill1 Ok? lol, im not going to argue who does more name calling...

[astorm13298]

they give speaches because they dont know how to answer the questions

[Mewstor151]

I would LOVE televised supreme court hearings. Let's see what they're really doing up there.

[TCB12453]

Kagan is useless just as useless as Obama. I gave up on Politicians ever since Bill Clinton got to run for president after being impeached. Arlen Specter Pensylvania waves good-bye! We dont want your ass anywhere near washington spending our hard earned money like every one of your democrooks has.

[acr08807]

@TCB12453 Thank you for being willing to speak the truth! It's time we stopped rewarding laziness and let people take responsibility for their own lives. First step, let's get rid of Social Security. That's the biggest boondogle running in Washington.

[TeslaDRay]

fuck specter. fuck kagan. hell, fuck washington.

[yakkahDotCom]

I love watching this kind of videos

[Geostrategic1]

You should really see a doctor for your illness, pinko.

[jjmacjjmac]

how about audio and video of all Senators 24/7. He claims sunlight is a good disinfectant. Maybe we can disinfect the Senate.

[Hipsterrunoff]

@jjmacjjmac watch c-span then, its boring as fuck

[Brute55Valentine]

@Hipsterrunoff c-span is awesome, what are you talking about...

[jjmacjjmac]

@Hipsterrunoff I'm talking reality TV format! 24/7! 'Spending time with Specter', or reuse some of the titles, like 'Big Brother and his to do list' or 'Survival Island; A Committee'.

[jjmacjjmac]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz­zzzzz. did he ever get around to a question?

[mladuke87]

No one will watch another pointless CSPAN channel on the Supreme Court. Lawyers are too busy to watch it and most of the public is too stupid and preoccupied to understand to care. It will only produce more sound bytes whenever Thomas or Sotomayor say something stupid and will further reduce the expectations of our government in the same way that the televised 1968 National Conventions did. Its not like their going to televise private conferences. The verbal lawyer briefs provide no perspective.

[icicioic]

Why do we the delusional liberals often pick human toilet lesbians and homosexuals for office?

[americanhero0967]

who is this fat gay Jewish man kagan???

[KMAObama]

What qualifies this woman to be anything let alone a Supreme Court justice?

Name one this this liberal bitch has done to get this position.

Oh, she know obama, and thats it.

And this idiot specter needs to retire. 'Living Constitution' WTF is he talking about.

My dog knows more about the Constitution than this hag.

Ask her a guestion you old bastard.

Liberals are such assholes.

[medhatalberta]

@KMAObama Read a paper or at least use google to find out answers to your own questions. Your comment is only a representation of your need to spew hatred and bitterness. Your comment benefits no one but yourself. I loathe the fact that conservatism is represented by hate mongers like yourself with no perspective, integrity, objectivity or civility. I hope your comment got you the attention you so desperately seek.

[khody]

@KMAObama Dean of Harvard law... solicitor general... what more do you want?

[patsagainstrats]

What's Spector playing today -- a Republican or a Democrat? Enjoy your forced retirement, phony.

[BRONZE8020]

My God - this is what we've come to? Old farts discussing cameras ,laughing and joking? This is what our Govt . does with their time while oil is ruining our southern shores, our young people are dying in Afghanistan and Iraq, our economy is belly up? Obama is back on the campain trail trashing republicans when he should be doing his job? Paying warlords to protect our supply convoys when we know they are funnelling money to the Taliban? I'm just plain fed up. God help us.

[yandirtty21]

Congress better not elect this communist bitch

[PlaneVFootball]

i dont get whats going in in this vid ?

someone pls ?

[Southernjuggalo63]

open season cause you cant do your damn job thats why americans are outraged

[Maziyar]

lets get camera's in the treasury while we're at it.

[chan0chap]

jew shrek

[XxChelseaSmile444xX]

she pwned it :D lolllllllllll "means i need 2 get my haircut done more often"

[americanhero0967]

is there a hetro sexual woman in obamas circle do you think there is a hetro woman anywhere in dc????

god damn how many fucking fat dyke lesbos is this blue lipped president gonna bring in ??

[freewngs]

@americanhero0967 I think he does it to spite you and I love it.

[coocooforcocopuffs27]

hahaha theres a soccer ball and you can click it and here a vuvuzela hahaha makes the video so much more interesting. stupid democrats just get to the point

[hobo59]

What kind of idiot elects someone like Specter ?

[electrostatic1]

@hobo59 It's his reward for inventing the "Magic Bullet Theory" for the Warren Commission. The media makes it a point to destroy anyone who opposes him.

[1Guitarslayer]

she just testified to Senator Tom Coburn (Senate Judiciary Committee) that the healthcare bill is "a stupid law"

[oriskany]

As any first-year law student can tell you, it is paramount to understand the difference between motive and intent, respectively.

I believe it is incumbent upon the nominator (Obama) to address both respective definitions as they apply to this nominee.

Personally, I wouldn't buy a used car from any of these people, and yet it might be a new form of entertainment (as I mix metaphors) to watch them try.

[Ruinous]

@oriskany He doesn't and the media pushes her through as a gold piece. Pathetic. For good entertainment and laughs I turn on the "prime-time" line-up at MSNBC.

[awdy33]

realy? it took this jackass 5 min to ask a question? why do you suport telivising the supream court? that was the question, it took him 5 min what the fuck! this man makes desissions that controll our lives, thats fucking scarry

[joshpapendorf]

Elena Kagan’s senior thesis on the Socialist Party

GOOGLE IT!

[chewbaca1989]

Arlene "Kennedy Magic Bullett" Specter, take a dirt nap.

[forgetmepls]

dun think there should be TV in Court....... becos the accused is innocent until proven guilty.... There is a lot of ways to understand a court..... it need not be at the expense of the suffering of another human being

[lvl100pokemans]

what the fuck are these old cunts talking about?

[PUGS1688]

@lvl100pokemans I don't know, why don't you fucking listen

[Geostrategic1]

What an ugly Marxist swine.

[loonmaniac]

@Geostrategic1 You anal fister.

[rkarbor]

american politics suck donkey cock

[fuunguus]

@Oriongiant66

I think you are a spammer, and spammers always have crappy videos that no one want to see. Go spew your bullshit elsewhere, on a stupid video, that only stupid people watch, they'd be stupid enough to check out your channel.

[pyr666]

my only concern with televising the supreme court would be a shift towards making decisions just to be popular.

[fuunguus]

@pyr666

Oh noes! Decisions based on what the public want?! We cant have that! It would be a disaster! For instance, weed would be legalized :O

[lambdaofbacon]

@fuunguus

Those decisions are left to the congressman and president. Judges should be impartial. That includes towards the will of the people. Their job is to interpret law, not make law.

On your point, why isn't weed legalized? You have a good 60% at least supporting it.

[fuunguus]

@lambdaofbacon

Yeah well, your totally right. My comment was ignorant, sry.

About why weed ain't legalized... I donno, perhaps cause alcohol, tobacco and pharmacy companies does lobbying, and fund all the anti-drug organizations so that they can keep telling lies to the children and politicians. Well, since internet people have been able to make their own decisions that is not based on biased information sources. When all the old brainwashed politicians finally die or something, it will be legal

[chrisknappER]

@fuunguus - They will legalize it eventually. But then they will also control it, and make money off of it. Do you have any idea how much the government already makes off of opium based drugs?

Be prepared. I will call it right now. The government will legalize weed, and then start to control the sale of it.

[fuunguus]

@chrisknappER

Yeah they will probably ban growing it so that corporations and the government can earn lots of money of us. Anyway, it's better than how it is now. And if you look at the penalties (for my country at least), you'll see that growing weed is punished much much harder than making booze. In most cases your just fined if you make some booze, grow some weed and you could be put in jail for months and years depending on size of the crop.

[pyr666]

@fuunguus

mob rule is dangerous in ways history still remembers hundreds of years later.

[fuunguus]

@pyr666

Ye. When Christianity + other religions had brainwashed everyone and could inject insane opinions into the masses. But today we got internet. Internet truly is the best thing that has ever happened to humanity. Full of information from all views imaginable, unbiased if you look up enough sources with different views. Young people of today are the most free thinking since we lived in tribes. I don't think the masses could make any bad choices ever again, so long they are informed ;)

[pyr666]

@fuunguus

that of course requires the masses to care enough to do the work and make themselves informed. which unfortunately i don't trust our generation (well, the masses in general, really) to do.

but i could be wrong, it's entirely possible the befits of bringing the supreme court's workings in the public eye could outweigh such potential problems. *shrugs*

[fuunguus]

@pyr666

Yes, and I could be wrong too. But the development I've seen, is that people that get their info from the internet are growing fast. I don't think any young people today actually watch any news on the tv. It's so much more practical to just go on to the net and just click on any story you want to read. I doubt anyone really bother much about watching tv anymore. Everyone I know of almost never does, but the older generations ofc, and they only use the net to pay bills.

[fuunguus]

@fuunguus

lol, all the ads on television just bother me so much. Trying to watch a movie and you'll have to watch 30m of ads, OMG. Little segments filled with demands. Do this, do that, buy this, and your life will be awesome, bla bla bla. I swear, I get aggravated by the ads, they have nothing but a negative effect on my mood, and that makes me hate their products. Fucking giving me literally hundreds of demands everyday, fuck television. All hail piracy.

[capitalismforme]

@fuunguus Your statement is 100% inaccurate. If no one watched tv, tv would become extinct. If tv became extinct, you'd have no video's to put on youtube. Corporations don't run television stations out of the goodness of their hearts - just for the fun of it.

[pyr666]

@fuunguus

the internet isn't as pervasive as you think.

[prestonlewis]

Rehnquist died, a conservative got his seat. Stevens resigns, a liberal gets his seat. It's all about balance. Too many lib on the court & the conservatives go ape. Too many conservatives on the court and the liberals go crazy. Kagen seems to be a reasonable replacement for Stevens. She may even be less liberal than Stevens was.

[REANIMATION980]

Damn socialist kagen!

[Theegamedude]

She is so pretty. I want to make love to her. 

[fuunguus]

@Theegamedude

She would look really dirty without her hair done. I bet she like being pulled in the hair, yeah she does.

[canisdormit]

i hope the next pandemic starts with our (s)elected government,

[sidiggy1]

I really wish these people would ask questions rather than give speeches.

[Southernjuggalo63]

@sidiggy1 but who are we to question them thats their way of thinking somehow we are below them and too stupid to know what want well i say CONFEDERACY FIGHTING TERRORISM SINCE 1862 STATES RIGHTS is how the constitiution is constructed but they have already pissed on it and dont care

[tooosweeet]

They are trying to step up the control by replacing supreme court justices left and right now. If you don't know much about Kagen, know this, you don't want her on the supreme court. She is there to destroy your constitutional rights. Not to mention she's a titanic dunce.

[jsbruzina]

Arlen Specter sounds like Rich Little impersonating Arlen Specter.

[gendres1]

She's a fucking lezbian. Get rid of her.

[85Tourist]

We have real criminals running our government. People are so ignorant and laugh at her stupid little joke about her own hair. What a sad state we are in...

[peter1493]

@85Tourist lighten up you sad, sad little man.

[85Tourist]

If this women is confimed America is really screwd! Wake up people! Think about what she will do to the 1st and 2nd Ammendment. She wants a law against saying anything negitive about the government. She will do everything in her power to ruin the US constitution... She works for the international bankers!

[dopplesoldners]

@musica25 You are a stupid tool.

[musica25]

@dopplesoldners, if you think otherwise about Kagan, please prove to me why. I'd be interested in hearing different points of view, as long as you can prove what you're saying.

[dopplesoldners]

@musica25 Google "Kagan disappear free speech".

You seem intelligent enough to appreciate another viewpoint. I apologize for being rude. it's simply that you inflict a greater injustice than you know to speak with even the slightest praise of the woman. She is one of the biggest threats to our liberties as we know it. Along with Cass Sunstein, she remains the staunchest offender of silencing the people's rights to voice opinions like mine, and perhaps yours. Look into it.

[mlazerow]

@85Tourist : Your anti-semitism is showing. Are you a Klan member, or just a fellow traveler?

[fastfoodclowns]

Specter is a lame phony liar.

[albertlera]

Is it me or does this guy sound like Richard Nixon ?

[tehcexymeowmix]

@albertlera

It's the nose

Gives them the same NAHAHEHEHRH thing

[steffen54321]

What's this talk of banning books?

[timmohthee]

I didn't know there was an HD CSPAN..... lol

[seafury]

Why is CSPAN only posting this clip?

This issue is no where near as important as other issues, like judicial philosophy. Cameras in the courtroom is so insignificant.

[Frettsy]

hey Specter, the Constitution is NOT a living document. that's why you're OUT.