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See our complete National Book festival schedule online at booktv. Org. The library of congress National Book festival live saturday, august 12 beginning at 9 00 a. M. Eastern on cspan2. Coming up, Supreme Court associate Justice Elena kagan talks about a senate bill created to establish a code of ethics for the high court. The democratic measure comes response to recent reports of potential ethics violations involving justices and samuel alito and sonia sotomayor. She spoke at a conference in portland, oregon. [applause] thank you, judge simon. Thank you, everyone. Welcome, thank you for being here, Justice Kagan. Its an honor to have you here. Were really excited and we appreciate you taking the time to have this conversation with us. Its great to be here this whole conference and thank you to everybody and especially to the chief judge for making me feel so at home and forgiving me so much work to do during this. The lineup in that case were somewhat unusual given the recent divide
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Thank you, judge simon. Thank you, everyone. Welcome, thank you for being here, Justice Kagan. Its an honor to have you here. Were really excited and we appreciate you taking the time to have this conversation with us. Its great to be here this whole conference and thank you to everybody and especially to the chief judge for making me feel so at home and forgiving me so much work to do during this. The lineup in that case were somewhat unusual given the recent divide on the court. Im wondering from your perception what lessons can we learn from that case and from the lineup . Well, truth be told, i do think that the lineups were less unusual than they just were lop sided. You know, the unusual lineup is usually like the 54, but everybodys all scrambled. But this was just a lop sided result. It was a 72 case, sometimes we have those. We have 72 cases. We have 81 cases. And in this case the outsiders, if you will, were me and the chief justice. And what can i say, there were seven people