i ll just say one more thing about that. i mean, it s true that the court changed around him, but he wouldn t have denied he didn t deny that his own views had changed, for instance. late in his career he came out against the death penalty, for instance. and he gave a talk, oh, maybe about ten years before he retired in which he said, you know, part of the job of being on the court is learning on the job and to keep learning, and i always read that as a kind of a, you know, coded way of saying, yeah, sure, i ve changed my mind about things. and he was he was open to change and, you know, i think he would listen through to every argument, but he didn t see things toward the end in the same way he necessarily had seen them in the beginning. linda greenhouse, lecturer now at yale law school, former supreme court reporter for the new york times. linda, you were the first person i wanted to talk to tonight when i heard this news. thanks for making time for us. i really appreciate it
solitary opinions and that sort of thing, but once he became the senior associate justice, and since he happened to be on the liberal side of the bench by then, he was really in charge of kind of marshalling the liberals. he became quite strategic, i think. as you mentioned in your kind of open that you gave at the top of the hour, that he wrote one and actually he wrote a couple of the major guantanamo decisions in which he was able to write in a way that got justice kennedy s vote, for instance, and form a majority for the right of the guantanamo detainees to get before a federal judge. and he you know, he became more strategic. i ll just say one more thing about that. i mean, it s true that the court changed around him, but he wouldn t have denied he didn t deny that his own views had changed, for instance.
is a reflection. it s a man testtation of that issue. do any of us seriously believe that if jeffrey epstein wasn t rich and wasn t powerful that he would have gotten the kind of sweetheart deal that he got? the answer is definitively no. he wouldn t have. there was a 56-page indictment. there, numerous witnesses willing to testify and he got work release for a year or whatever it was or something more than a year. that is not justice and that s because the for the rich and for the powerful there is a different system of justice and it is beautifully encapsulated by what happened here. the assistance acosta needed to resign. that s a good first step. help me understand, though, precisely how it was that epstein was able to manipulate the system in such a way become in 2008. well, we don t at this point this story is unfolding. so we don t have answers to all of the relationships and all of
we have an incredible update to share you with this morning about a story that aired a few weeks ago on new day. our dr. sanjay gupta profiled a man kevin hines who tried to end his life by jumping off the golden gate bridge. he survived. and since then he dedicated h d life to suicide prevention and raising awareness on mental illness. what surprised me then, still surprises me now, is the story that kevin tells about the day that he jumped off the golden gate bridge. he made this pact with himself which was that if anybody basically is kind to me, if anybody looks at me and says what s wrong, can i help you, wants to be compassionate would have done that for him, he wouldn t have jumped. that stuck with me. i think it influenced and directed a lot of the other
what are the aesthetics compared to one human life? what if it was your mom or dad? this is the place where you jumped. yeah. this is the place where i lived. i love that. what surprised me and still surprises me now is the story that kevin tells about the day that he jumped off the golden gate bridge. he made this pact with himself which was that if anybody basically is kind to me, if anybody looks at me and says what s wrong, can i help you, wants to be compassionate in some way, if anybody had done that for him, he wouldn t have