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Choice of his successor toward somebody with those same values? >> i don't think he would ever say anything of the sort, rachel. i think you would think it was unseemly. and he often would talk about, he doesn't have any opinions on judicial nominations. i think you would describe it as asking a chicken for its recipe for chicken -- which, don't even, i don't know what it means. he would not think it was appropriate to talk deeply about those kinds of political things. but at the same time, i do think he really, really values the idea that the person who follows him we'll look at the court in ...

Somebody with those same values? >> i don't think he would say anything of the sort. i would think he would think it is unseemly. and he often would talk about, he doesn't have any opinions on judicial nominations, i think he would describe it as asking a chicken for its recipe for chicken a la king which don't even, i don't know what it means, but i think he didn't think it was appropriate to talk deeply about those kinds of political things. but at the same time, i do think he really, really values the idea that the person who follows him will look at the court in this kind of mystical auric...

And he often would talk about, he doesn't have any opinions on judicial nominations. i think you would describe it as asking a chicken for its recipe for chicken -- which, don't even, i don't know what it means. he would not think it was appropriate to talk deeply about those kinds of political things. but at the same time, i do think he really, really values the idea that the person who follows him we'll look at the court in this kind of mystical oracular way, even if that is a disappearing value. >> dahlia lithwick, senior editor and correspondent at slate. com, thank you for being here. it ...