said yes anywhere they live. pete williams is in washington, d.c. you ve had a very a little time to look at the decision. what are the implications? reporter: first of all let be clear about one thing. this strikes down the city ordinance in chicago that backed owning handguns. the guts may be surprising to some people. until today, the supreme court had never said whether the second amendment right to bear arms appliesed to the state as well as the federal government. it answered the federal government question two years ago. today it said it does apply to the states. it says it s deeply rooted in our country s history. but the dissenters, and this was a deeply divided court, 5-4, the dissenters said in fact there is no agreement about whether having a gun at home make as person safer, whether it
theater where theatsenators wil questions that she won t answer, i think you ll find a very engaging person. she was a teach every and one of the reasons she was a great teacher a she was a great listener, great just in the gave and take of class discussion. and so i think when you get past all the theatrics, people will see someone they really like and someone they being of as being smart and someone they want on the court. and i guess smart and want on the court are the key things here, although personality has come into play in the past. she has been one of the people who has been critical of these kinds of hearings, that not much is learned, and she would agree with at least in the past year description of the theater. but given the fact that she does not have a judicial record, that maybe the questions to need to be more pointed? i think the question of lack of experience, she was a
mind. these hearings should be about whether she s qualified to serve and become not only the youngest justice on the current supreme court, but the third woman to serve on the current court. nora, thank you. the ranking republican says her nomination to the court is far from a slam dunk for the president. i think this is a very important nomination and she has the least experience of any nominee at least in the last 50 years. many were suggesting there this is just a done deal and the committee hearings would make no difference, but i think this nominee does have serious deficiencies. if things come out that indicate she s so far outside the mainstream, it s conceivable a filibuster might occur. democrat from rhode island is a member of the judiciary committee who will be questioning elena kagan. good morning to you. so i m wondering what you have to say about what jeff sessions said. do you think there s a real
discourages crime or makes it escalate into gunfire. the question of who can buy a gun and how is the subject of many state laws all of which he says now potentially could be challenged in federal court. now, already gun rights owners advocates are saying that they will go on to challenge other laws, laws restricting carry, laws restricting where you can take a gun, laws that require people to register guns, but the handgun control advocates say, no, the opinion says this can be reasonable regulation of firearms and that they expect that many of these restrictions like rengistration will be upheld. but this is a very big deal. the stream court saying that the second amendment right to own a gun applies nationwide, it is a limit on what the states can do. now this, was the last day of the term. when i left the court about ten minutes ago, they were still in the process of handing down their decisions. i ve never seen it take this long.
chance of a filibuster here? i doubt it. we ve heard from tomorrow republicans that they won t filibuster here and there s really very little in her record that would support a filibuster. i think the republicans have a standard routine they go through with judges. one is to try to define the so-called mainstream as consistent with republican political ideology. and i think we ll see a lot of that. and the other is to try to attack judges who don t agree with republican political i d yol gi as activists. and it will be interested for them to try to make that argument on a day that the five member conservative wing just took one of the most activist steps in the history of the stre extreme court, expanding a right that nobody noticed for 220 years, that they just recently discovered, and now applying if to cover every municipality, every state, throwing over