constitutionality of the voting rights act and said i made a mistake and now emerge as the leading critic of the court s recent decision. and this article was written and here is what was said on morning joe this morning regarding the activist court comment. take a look. she is using activism in a particular sense because some people say judicial activism whenever they want to insult the other side, she is talking about the propensity of this court which she thinks is high to strike down congressional legislation. basically to strike down congressional legislation. normally it s the right insulting the left and activist court but her taking a swipe at the right. but when we talk about the makeup of the court, rick and ruth bader ginsburg considering or talking about what retirement means for her at 80 and we know 80-year-olds in our lives, i have parents. yep.
saw bodies in those cars, that s still something i think about. luckily we went up to the car and saw nothing in the car. the situation is not under control. as i said, the good news, no firefighter, no civilian has been killed. let s hope it stays like that and they get this fire under control and do it very, very quickly. gary tuchman on the scene for us. other news we re following, the supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg making some serious waves with very candid and blunt remarks about the highest court. we ll talk about that with our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin, the author of the oath , the obama white house and the supreme court and he s interviewed justice ginsburg. one of the things she says in this new york times interview, she says the roberts court is stunning in terms of activism. she says it s one of the most activist courts in history. were you surprised to hear her say that publicly? well, this is a change that
thinks about the voting rights decision in june also, congress has a lot of room to maneuver. if it doesn t run into bill of rights protections, equal protection protections she s not concerned about the kinds of more property rights protections you re talking about. julie ana. i m just wondering how rare and significant is it to have a sitting justice speaking so candidly about retirement calling the court activist court? why is she doing this? that was fascinating. adam? she s a self-confident public servant in who in a democracy thinks a government official might from time to time want to talk to the press. she s given several interviews this summer. she s using activism in a particular sense. some say judicial activism when they want to insult the other side. she s talking about the court which she thinks is high to strike down congressional legislation. all you need do is look at the end of june where they strike
congress, leave it to a lower court. do you see that calculation? absolutely. i see it s one of the most activist court we ve seen in some time. there s a human cry any time a court does something that seems to favor the liberal side of the ledger as that s a bad thing. this is a very conservative and activist court. i think the opinions we ve seen this week, and you go back to citizens united, you look at the obama care decision, which came out favorably, but as i believe had a poison pill in there about the impact of the commerce clause. we have a court very politically astute. and they are very calculating in what they decide to do and how they do it. now, we re starting to get an insight into that because the court is beginning to speak more publicly, individually, the justices. i think justice scalia the last few years we ve seen him speak his mind, be quite candid about how he views the constitution and certain of the past actions of the court, which have all been about ensurin
i don t and i got to be honest with you, wolf, i am still baffled and amazed that chief roberts voted the way he did in the health care case. i don t understand it. it is completely out of character for him but he did and, you know, that s why we listened to the opinions. we can t predict them all all the time. jeffrey is never going to get over that. but, gloria, as far as the criticism from the right, for example, and newt gingrich and others say the court is becoming too politically active unless it for the voting rights act. i think when you lose you say the court is activist. so newt gingrich says it s an activist, it s an activist court, saying on same-sex marriage. but when the court says, okay, we re going to overturn part of the voting rights act they very