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Potentially, justice scalia could have been rule in favor of his wife's right to go up and conversations with women who don't want them. >> right. it's important to remember why this law was passed in the first place. there was two clinics in massachusetts that were, yoz as you mentioned, killed two people, injured five people. at the time this case was even debated, actually, there was a clinic in montana that was vandalized to the point it's not even open right now. it's crazy they came to this decision, and it's, especially when we look at where they're leaning. and how that decision was ma...

What's the point of having the service even be legal if you can't get to it? >> there are a lot of ironies in this case. national organization for women has called on chief justice roberts to remove his own buffer zone. apparently he has one. their statement says "the roberts' court's disregard for women's safety is made even worse by the court's hypocrisy in maintaining its own 100 foot buffer zone which the chief justice has defended as necessary to preserve proper order and decorum in the vicinity of the supreme court building in washington, d.c." an article been lauren rankin, it says "jus...

Whether, you know, i went to oral argument in this clinic buffer zone case and i saw justice ginsburg and sotomayor signaling they saw a real justification for this law. yet they didn't even write a concurrence saying, you know, maybe this goes too far, but here's the valid reason. >> are you suggesting maybe horse trading, we'll go your way on something -- >> maybe horse trading. we won't know what happens. we'll see what happens on monday with hobby lobby. i was surprised it was unanimous because justice ginsburg in particular is a very strong defender of women's access to abortion. >> yeah,...

Restrictions. you know, i think we're going to see another round of court battles over those because today's decision doesn't really resolve those others. >> really quickly, pete, i want to circle back to recesses for a moment. the decision could have been broader, i guess, if some of the more conservative justices had their way. what was avoided here by this ruling? >> reporter: what was avoided, what really would have totally doomed this power, because there were two questions here. the constitution says the president shall have the authority to fill up vacancies that occurred during recess ...

That he faithfully executes the laws of the country, abides by the constitution, one, and, two, he's doing this because he wants to preserve the prerogatives of the legislative branch to check the executive. but when you look at this case, and you look at that statement, i wrote yesterday, this lawsuit is a prelude to dress rehearsal for i think the eventual impeachment of the president. we've been hearing impeachment talk coming from republicans since basically 2009/2010. back then, it was's easily dismissed as a few cranks on the right who were, you know, exercising their right to free speec...