Addressed at the person, rather than the argument. I feel justified in whacking the argument as hard as it deserves. That is not impuning the individual that made the argument. Susan swain do you prefer opinion rather than dissent . Justice scalia of course. I always want to write a majority. Why do you want to write a dissent . Hey, dissent is more fun to write, because when you have dissent, it is yours. You say what you want. If nobody was to join, it is my dissent, i will say what i want to say. When you are writing a majority, you do not have that luxury. You got to craft it in a way that at least four other people can jump on and actually you try to craft it in a way with as many people as possible want to jump on. Which means accepting some suggestions, stylistic and otherwise that you do not think is the best, but nonetheless in order to get everybody on board, you take them. Susan swain we have a few minutes left. We are talking at a time when the court will leave a a member w
Of the time. The center of the building, what is really the reason the building is here is the audience chamber, where we all argue. As the august nature of that chamber suggests, it has a c ceiling so high you can barely see it from the ground. That is the center of the court, of course. Susan swain lets talk about what goes on in that court and the process of oral argument can you talk about how you use oral argument and why, in fact when there is so much paper before hand on making all of these cases, oral argument is even needed . Justice scalia a lot of people have the impression it is just a pony show. I read a 60 page brief by the petitioner a 60 page brief by , the respondent, a reply brief, some very often, an amicus brief, some very often by the solictor general. A dozen other briefs not all of , which which i will read, and i have seen passages where there is nonsense in the margin what someone can tell me in half an hour will make a difference. The answer is it is probably
Public policy. It is about an hour and 20 minutes. The kalb report is funded from a grant for the excellence in journalism foundation. From the National Press club, this is the kalb report, with marvin kalb. [applause] marvin kalb hello, and welcome to the National Press club and to another addition of the kalb report. I am marvin kalb. Our program tonight, 45 words, a conversation about the First Amendment with Supreme Court justices Antonin Scalia and ruth bader ginsburg. It would be an honor obviously to have one Supreme Court justice as my guest, but to have two is indeed a very special privilege, especially these two, who generally represent contrasting opinions on the court, one liberal, the other conservative, and yet they are great friends who dine together, travel together, love going to the opera together. In fact they inspired a new , opera called, of all things, scaliaginsburg. [laughter] they are like the old days when political differences would not stop a good friendship
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