Trouble. Whats that from . Guest that was my earlier subject, Antonin Scalia who said it kiddingly after justice on the sotomayor shook up a party by getting all the justices to dance the salsa with her. I use it to set the scene of a contrast its been between the woman who i is a genuine, somersaults come into this institution thats a wonderfully traditional, used to certain rhythms. The rhythms frankly our salsa. She did this wonderful display that shut everybody up at this end of term party and Justice Scalia who watched it come a summit usually shakes people up, right . Said i knew she would be trouble. He said it kiddingly but its a perfect line for all a bit of what greeted her. Host were you allowed to go to the party . Guest no, no. It was tough to get the information. You know, peter, how secretive this court is. A lot of people arent aware of how we never know what goes on in a conference on cases. Journalists are never invited to the end of the term party. In fact, when chie
By getting all the justices to dance the salsa with her. I use it to set the scene of a contrast its been between the woman who i is a genuine, somersaults come into this institution thats a wonderfully traditional, used to certain rhythms. The rhythms frankly our salsa. She and she did this wonderful displays that show everybody up, the end of term party, and justice belly at usually shakes people up, he says she can be trouble. It was a perfect line for a little bit of what greeted her there. Host did you go to that party . Guest no. It was tough to get the information. You know how secretive this court is. A lot of people arent aware of how we never know what goes on in the conference, journalists are never invited to the end of term party. Chief Justice John Roberts sent out invitations for this particular party he reminded all the staff, it was just full time staff, no contractors or parttimers, it is a very tight family. All the justices are appointed for life, many of the employ
Its not a coincidence that its the First Amendment to our constitution. And its not a coincidence that the terrorists chose an element of the press in france, the free press, as their target. Yet here in the United States and in europe theres there are signs, have been signs of a sort of unilateral intellectual disarmament in the face of these kinds of threats. We all saw the pusillanimous initial reaction of sony to the threats of the north koreans. We saw that the Associated Press pulled Charlie Hebdo cartoons from its gallery because they were afraid some of them might be hurtful to people. For a week the Washington Post here refused to publish the cartoons. Thanks to the brave men who run the editorial page they did publish the cartoon on the editorial page last week. But the paper itself refused to publish it. They did in the end finally. And the American Government took quite a while to figure out what to call these events. First they didnt call them a terrorist event. Then they
Screeria nigeria. A look at the financial influence that outside groups have in todays elections. Next, a look at irs operations and how budget cuts have impacted the agencys ability to provided equate Customer Service. From washington journal this is an hour. At the time table nina olson the National Taxpayer advocate here to join us to talk about budget cuts and Customer Service. Related issues. Remind us what your job is. What does a National Taxpayer advocate do . The National Taxpayer advocate leads an organization within the irs that is charged with helping taxpayers solve problems with the irs and make administrative and legislative recommendations to congress about how to improve how the irs treats taxpayers and protect taxpayer rights. How long have you been doing this job . Since march, 2001. Your office put out this annual report to congress so we can take a look at it here. One of the headlines that came from it is from the new york times. Need help from the irs . It may ta
Bill in the senate today continues work on the Keystone Xl Oil pipeline appeared they will vote this evening starting at 5 30 p. M. Eastern on cspan2. It will affect oil drilling in blow to Alaska Oil Production is one of the headlines this morning. We want to get your reaction. If not by phone, you can contact us at twitter. You can post a comment facebook. You can send us an email. This is the front page of the newspaper of the alaskan newspaper. It would be the approval of congress. The president is proposing to designate the majority of the Arctic National wildlife rigid as a wilderness area. This drew an angry response from elected officials is yet as a land grab by the federal government. That is the front page. The announcement came yesterday through youtube and a video that the white house. It runs about a minute. Alaskas wildlife refuge is an incredible place. It is pristine and undisturbed. It supports caribou and caribou and polar bears. It is very fragile. I am proud that t