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>> there was not a sickle question. i just went on speaking, and at the time i wondered are they just indulging me and not listening? or am i telling them something they haven't heard before and are they paying attention? >> the justices were just glued to her. i don't think that they were expecting to have to deal with something as powerful as a sheer force of her argument that was just all encompassing. they were there to talk with a government statue in the government code. we seized the moment to change american society. >> and in asking the court to declare sex a suspect criterion, we urg...

Place, a place occupied by men in our society. >> there was not a sickle question. i just went on speaking, and at the time i wondered are they just indulging me and not listening? or am i telling them something they haven't heard before and are they paying attention? >> the justices were just glued to her. i don't think that they were expecting to have to deal with something as powerful as a sheer force of her argument that was just all encompassing. they were there to talk with a government statue in the government code. we seized the moment to change american society. >> and in asking the c...

We urge a position forcibly stated in 1837 by sarah grimke, noted abolitionist, an advocate of equal rights for men and women. she said, "i ask no favor for my sex. all i ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks." >> we're told about the decision when a reporter called us up and said, it went in your favor today. how do you feel? i said, i feel fine. thank you very much. >> we were both happy that we won the case. let's be clear about it. we won the case. but we lost the standard of review that we wanted by one vote. >> she tried to make the case that sex discrimination s...

Declare sex a suspect criterion, we urge a position forcibly stated in 1837 by sarah grimke, noted abolitionist, an advocate of equal rights for men and women. she said, "i ask no favor for my sex. all i ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks." >> we're told about the decision when a reporter called us up and said it went in your favor today. how do you feel? i said, i feel fine. thank you very much. >> we were both happy that we won the case. let's be clear about it. we won the case. but we lost the standard of review that we wanted by one vote. >> she tried to make th...

Dictate there is be such a court. it has been left to congress to determine the size of the court. the judiciary act of 1789 set the number at six. in 1807 congress raised the number to seven. amended in 1837 to nine. 1863 raised to 10, 1866 set back to seven. in 1869 it was changed again back to nine. if the democrats take the house, senate and presidency in 2020 this neutralization of the nuclear option by expanding the court is very viable. moreover, there is much his store kag precedent for doing o so. the democrats could simply increase the number of justices to neutralize any ideological...