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I'm norah o'donnell here in our nation's capitol. good nigh >> we walked up to the car. and we said, "can we get our ball back?" >> judge judy: and what did she say to you? >> she said, "no." >> announcer: taking a child's basketball wasn't a slam dunk. >> judge judy: you actually stole his property. >> no, ma'am. >> judge judy: no, i'm telling you. that's not a question. >> no. it is -- >> judge judy: that's not a question. >> announcer: but did this young boy commit a foul? >> he came up, and he kicked the car. he then said, "what are you gonna do? what are you gonna do?" >> judge judy: lamo...

Ivf, birth control, contraception, same sex marriage, and things people don't want to talk about. brown vs. board of education, et cetera. >> dissents are written to disagree with the majority opinion. but they're also written for history. and they're written for future courts that might take those issues up and might pull the court in that direction. so, i think clarence thomas was aiming for the fences there with the hope that he might get a future even more aggressive supreme court. >> since republicans have gotten what they wanted for many, many, many decades but they have been working tow...

To expand people's rights over time. and this is a direction that is entirely the opposite from the point of view of women especially people generally. >> what i'm struck by is the method of reasoning and the dissents point this out. when you look at a ruling like plessy vs. furgs which allowed for segregation, when brown vs. board of education overturned that and said we made a mistake, what it cited was decades of social science evidence that showed that the contention in plessy versus ferguson which was that separate is equal was not true in education in particular. that having separate edu...

>> not often at all. i cannot think of a precedent for rolling back an individual right that especially women have depended on for five decades. the court changes its mind on occasion. but not in this direction. we usually see the court trying to expand people's rights over time. and this is a direction that is entirely the opposite from the point of view of women especially people generally. >> what i'm struck by is the method of reasoning and the dissents point this out. when you look at a ruling like plessy vs. furgs which allowed for segregation, when brown vs. board of education overturne...

Vs. ferguson, brown vs. board of education, weigh in on that argument. >> if you're going to overturn a precedent, it's supposed to be one of the fundamental foundational things that the supreme court is based on. that's what justice roberts says in his concurring opinion. he didn't want to go as far as to overturn roe versus wade because judicial restraint dictated they did not do that. but they did anyway. the difference between what happened today and what happened in brown v. board of education is plessy v. ferguson was a decision that was made that didn't -- it didn't grant a right but it...