going to be well regulated, why shouldn t 16 and 17 and 18 or any other age persons be regulated in the use of arms the way an automobile is regulated. it s got to be registered that you can t just deal with it at will, joining us for our discussion, jeffrey rosen, president and ceo of the national constitution center, the author of the upcoming book conversations with rbg and ruth bader ginsburg on life, liberty and law and will be available in november when we have the author back on our broadcast. jeffrey, you re the one guy i wanted to talk to on this and here is the setup, the framers could not have foreseen abortion, it s nowhere in the constitution. harry black man had an opinion to write in roe versus wade he goes to a medical hospital at the mayo clinic and comes back with the theory of trimesters. ar-15s are nowhere in the constitution. framers couldn t have foreseen them.
chief justice rehnquist, going back all the way to the time they dated may have helped a little bit. explain that relationship. amazingly justice rehnquist when he was just out of law school add san dray day to marry him back in 1952. they never told anybody. they didn t tell their families. why? my wife and i, who researched this book with me, we found love letters in justice o connor s box of correspondent, 14 love letters to bill rehnquist to justice od o day. harry blackman leaned over to rehnquist and say, now no fooling around. we re not talking a hundred
administration s asylum ban. is roberts the new swing justice. roberts, because of brett kavanaugh s confirmation is the new swing justice. there are five justices appointed by republican presidents, four by democrats. we have grown up with the world in which the republican nominated justices have controlled the supreme court, indeed since 1971, so almost for 50 years we have had that happening, but nonetheless, republican nominated jurists like harry blackman with roe v. wade and so many other examples did vote with the democratic appointees to the court, so today s vote suggests the chief justice is now, yes, that swing vote, at least in this particular case. very interesting, doug, in november, chief justice roberts issued a rare rebuke of president trump s criticism of calling a judge who ruled against the administration an obama judge. here s what he said, and this is a quote, hex, we do not have obama judges or bush judges or
nominated justices have controlled the supreme court, indeed since 1971, so almost for 50 years we have had that happening, but nonetheless, republican nominated jurists like harry blackman with roe v. wade and so many other examples did vote with the democratic appointees to the court, so today s vote suggests the chief justice is now, yes, that swing vote, at least in this particular case. very interesting, doug, in november, chief justice roberts issued a rare rebuke of president trump s criticism of calling a judge who ruled against the administration an obama judge. here s what he said, and this is a quote, hex, we do not have obama judges or bush judges or clinton judges, what we have is an extraordinary group of dedicated judges doing their level best to do equal right to those appearing before them. so roberts defended this judge, the u.s. district judge and then
the republicans have done. this is politics. it s messy. schumer had a limited hand but being pushed to be aggressive. he was aggressive along with senator dianne feinstein and this is where we are. well, let s talk about where we are for conservatives, life long conservatives. i know for your entire life, for my entire life, much longer than your entire life, conservatives and republicans have been bemoaning the fact despite having won the presidency time and time again, republican presidents gave us justice brennan, harry blackman who wrote roe v wade, gave us sandra day o connor who was the deciding vote to uphold roe, time and time again conservatives have voted for