Excerpts from C-SPAN's Interviews with Supreme Court Justices

[writersblock26]

Thank you for posting this, CSPAN.

[errerk]

Can you provide some closed captioning on this please?

[mikepiazza]

Take Alito over Ginsburg anyday!

[david030491]

I do not understand in any way how somebody could look at Justice Alito and think "Yeah, this guy is appropriate for the highest Court in the nation, he'll be a great Justice."

[zuniedgewater1]

FUCK John Robert's!!!

[etbella3]

I propose an amendment to the Bill of Rights called "the right to an opposite day" when all Supreme Court decisions get overturned and US citizens get to Patriot Act the politicos.

[redresch]

@etbella3 This is the greatest comment in the history of youtube. An amendment to the "Bill of Rights." Overturning all Supreme Court decisions. Patriot Act the politicos. - *Wampeters, Foma, and Granfalloons.* I pray to Jeebus that you are under the age of 14 and had mono during Middle School civics.

[etbella3]

Is the Supreme Court related to Diana Ross and the Supremes? I always get those two confused. Michael Jackson said that if anything happens to his elderly mother, then Diana Ross gets custody. But if a legal snafu occurs, the Supreme Court might end up raising Michael Jackson's children. OMG.

[everizza]

I admire people like them.

[combatvetlawstudent]

1:00 he clearly says A NEW MEMBER will have different views from how we have been viewing for SOME TIME.. Sounds like change of law is the intent of this person.

[HipsterKiller]

Supreme Court Justices serve for life

Why is that?  After 65 years old people are forced to retire from pretty much any other job in the united states.

Yet These " Honorable" people are allowed to work well past that and into their final years of life where they may be not able to work to the full potential required by the job. I think this is too important of a job to be left into the hands of a bunch of senile old Ben-Gay addicts. This is our Country people.

[combatvetlawstudent]

@HipsterKiller I truly think the stay for life should change. They should have short terms just like every official position in our country.

[combatvetlawstudent]

@HipsterKiller 1:20 when judges say ITS A NEW COURT as if we have new law because a new justice comes along it should be alarm bells to everyone. Nothing casual about it. A new person should not mean a new court. The Constitution was not written to evolve with every new person that comes along a VIEW of a new person should NEVER mean a new court. New people enforcing via rulings, the Constitution should never induce such comments as new court, new view. That is so wrong!

[bluewhale18]

woohoo

capetown represent!

[marblesdanica]

i swear Breyer is looking more and more like Jeffrey Tambor

[jimiracle]

Anyone see any clues that the SCROTUS (Supreme Court Republicans of the United States) would make the worst ruling in history, other than Dredd Scott decision, by allowing unlimited corporate contributions to political campaigns? Not too surprising since they also stopped the ballot counting to sELECT Bush in Bush v. Gore, but still, you'd think a decision as bad as their January 20th, 2010 decision would be accompanied by some sort of obvious warning. Other than just Bush v. Gore, I mean.

[HOUSEOFFOURDOORS]

Re; Bush v Gore. two justices (Souter & Stevens) appointed by republicans Bush and Ford were amongst the dissent. naturally the two appointed by Mr clinton (Gynsberg and Breyer) showed no independance.

cheers

[cebran6]

darth vader ginsberg is entitled to her opines as we are. as long as she is not making laws on her opiniopns in the supreme court. that we have not had our representatives say yeah or nay in . she is as fine as any of the rest of them.

[EternalIntelligence]

@cebran6 write proper english, or stfu.

thanks.

[cebran6]

@EternalIntelligence: LIBERAL!!

[cebran6]

@EternalIntelligence typical liberal, attack the spelling and not the meat and taters of the story. son "LAY OFF THE PIPE!!!!"

[krtina455]

Ginsburg was raised from the dead here.

[EternalIntelligence]

@krtina455 she's the smartest woman in the world.

[ambigera]

Something about the slow intentional speech of judges makes anything they have to say sound interesting.

[SharksKid]

@ambigera

That is so true. I hadn't noticed that and I've listened to hundreds of oral arguments, both recorded and live. I suppose it's a reflection of their careful, deliberative thinking, a necessary tool for doing their jobs well.

[Avon53]

Lighten up, Bean! It's just an excerpt, and judges don't try to cover it all in a sound-bite. And Roberts is not any "newbie" - he was involved as a law clerk and advocate for so long that he probably half feels that he belongs to quite a number of years of the Court's past. - My favorite thing is that, as always in the past, the Court somehow gets them to transcend opinion & philosophy, and respect or like each other. Thank goodness. If it were like Congress, we'd never get decent results!

[etsneroj]

The Court is very different from Congress in that sense, and in many other ways. When was the last time there was a Supreme Court scandal? The institution has consistently attracted people of great integrity and talent.

[Bean2939]

The Chief Justice is himself a newbie so what do you suppose is behind his bellyaching about missing people? I know we welcome newcomers in our family. Too bad he doesn't find the opportunity to welcome Sotomayor.

[Gomez2081]

pretty excited for these interviews, it's a seldom thing that the supreme court justices commit to interviews, and this one is for all of them

[SuzumiyaHaruhi0]

AYA HIRANO

[gotahc]

this was really sweet. thank you cspan!

[StuntMcUtters101]

the chei justice is an idiot and he nees to be replaced

[keithlogan365]

Roberts was his High School Valedictorian, graduated Harvard Summa Cum Laude in 3 years, and graduated Harvard Law School Magna Cum Laude and was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review. He hardly ever earned anything but A grades, and at least one of his law professors described him as the smartest student he ever had. He clerked for the Chief Justice of the United States, and was the most successful advocate before the Supreme Court of his generation. No idiot he.

[rafacharmed2]

this cool