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home, i don t want to suggest i am, quite frankly. if i go home and get a gun and shoot you, that may not be legal under new york law you d have lots of explaining to do. i d be in a lot of trouble then. but i couldn t do that under a definition of self-defense. okay. so, that s what i was trying to explain in terms of why, in looking at this as a judge, i m thinking about how that question comes up and how the answer can differ so radically given the hypothetical facts before you. the problem is, is we think, we doctors think like doctors, hard to get out of the doctor skin. judges think like judges and lawyers think like lawyers and what american people want to see is inside what your gut says and part of that is why we re having this here. i want to move to one other area. you ve been fairly critical of justice scalia s criticism of the use of foreign law and making decisions. and i would like for you to cite for me either in the constitution or in the oath tha
they had sought before the court. and my dissent was just pointing out that despite the great tragedy, that the rule of law commanded a different result. and it was probably very hard, but you had to do it. here s another case. washington versus county of rockland, rockland is a county, a suburb of new york, which was a case involving black corrections officers who claimed that they were retaliated against after filing discrimination claims. remember that case? i do. did you have sympathy for the officers filing that case? well, to the extent that any office that anyone believes that they have been discriminated on the basis of race, that not only violates the law, but it one would have i wouldn t use the word sympathy, but one would have a sense that this claim is of some importance and one that the court should very seriously consider. right. because i m sure, like judge alito said and others, you had suffered discrimination in your life as well, so you co
hearings are continuing for sonia sotomayor. right now, we ll get right back to them, but i want to check important news that is unfolding. cnn s tony harris is standing by with a news update. the world isn t stopping, tony, just because these historic hearings are under way. you said it, wolf. good to see you. let s get to uth stories making news. house democrats plan to release a plan to overhaul the nation s health care system. speaker nancy pelosi expects a vote by the august recess and more changes in the bill are due to likely differences. the plan could cost about $1 trillion over ten years with much of the money spent on people who cannot afford care. new signals on the economy, retail sales are up, so are wholesale prices. the commerce department says last month sales rose 0.6% better than economists expected and a surge in gasoline prices credited for the gains and the government says prices at the whole sale level before goods reached store shelves in june. who
this is the chris matthews show. ask not what your country can do for you. a time for change has come! fourth seat from the left. how would sonia sotomayor change the supreme court? does she have an activist mission on affirmative action? is she predictable on abortion rights and is she a leader a libel? who s next? obama could make more picks to the court. will he go further left? will he name more women and minorities? which voices does he want to strengthen? finally, rising above it. how does the president deflect trouble? what designs do we see in his self-defense and can he keep it up? hi, i m chris matthews, welcome to the show. johnny jnny covers the supreme court for usa today, dan rather, global correspondent for hdnet. helene cooper covers the white house for the new york times, and pete williams is justice correspondent for nbc. first up, when president obama picked sonia sotomayor for the supreme court, he sounded victorious. when she ascends those