the whole thing call it a bad idea and i hope he will promptly revoke and rethink think. clayton. clayton: president trump expected to announce supreme court pick tonight. eleventh circuit judge bill pryor and niel gorsuch or hardiman. let s talk about scalia, why would they want to replace someone like him? scalia believed the constitution should be stuck to the text and it shouldn t be interpreted like more liberal justices do like ginsburg does and can be evolved over time. he believed that it was a dead document, what the words meant and what it stood for. clayton: in the 1780 s, we are done. this is what the constitution is . gorsuch, is he one of the
fact that on the day we re commemorating the sell are a-to-montgomery march the supreme court is deciding part of the voting rights act, arguably the most important part. obviously it s highly ironic. i mean, the debate in the supreme court is still reverberating, and, of course, i m speaking about justice scalia and that outrageous comment about section 5 being a perpetuation of racial entitlement which sounds like it s straight out of the jim crowe talking points. you know, president obama misspoke about the jedi mind meld and you have to wonder at some point if mr. scalia had undergone a lud at the mind melt. he s an originalist but we didn t realize how originalist he was. let s talk about scalia who is starting to sound like an activist judge. here you have a matter settled by the legislative branch and settled in an overwhelming way
goes to the places where we ve had the most innovation of discrimination, that s what justice sotomayor said, the fact that you need to clear it in advance, because when you don t the people down there keep finding all these different ways to use race, to discriminate, to keep people from moving from moving polling places to voter i.d., that s why it s pre-clearance, you re discriminating based on race, something we ve always said is terrible and the fact that the court wants to get in there and overrule that i think potentially is very concerned. selma or not, anniversary or not. alice, i want to bring this in. interested to hear your take on the arguments made before the high court. i agree with bob 100%. i do believe scalia was way out of his line in his references to the perpetuation of racial issues in this, but i do agree with justice kennedy and times change and we ve come a long way but it is important to look at whether or not we need to hold these states that have been si