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Of one. is the interpretation of the equal protection clause in u.s. v virginia consistent with if original public meaning? >> the majority in that case argued that it was. and the majority said that the words call protection of the laws -- whatever the secret harbored intentions of the writers had an original public meeting was quite radical and significant. and that was what the majority of the supreme court of the united states held. >> you would agree then when you look at other things would you be willing to apply this same approach to call rights for minority groups, lgbt, including tran...

Among many or a description of what judges do? >> i'm with just case kagan on this, it's what we all want to know. i don't know a judge who wouldn't want to know what the original understanding is of a particular term in the constitution or statute. that's information that would be value to believe any judge and considered by any judge. again in heller, for example, second amendment case, deeply thoughtful opinions. by both sides on that question. it doesn't necessarily decide the case, but it revises a language to talk to one another. in which we're trying to seek something outside of ourselv...

Gosh, 50, 60 years. i can point you to a case which i've applied it and i think might give you what you're looking for in terms of comfort and how i apply it. bustos versus a&e network. involves a prisoner concerned that he was misrepresented as a member of the arian brotherhood. he claimed he wasn't a member a fellow traveler. sought damages for that. our court declined to grant that relief saying that substantial truths is protected even if it's not strictly true. much more is required by if first amount to state a claim. >> in bransburg v. haynes. could you end by talking about the scope of...

The framers possibly imagined modern contrivances, modern contraptions. well, thermal images did not exist in the 1700s. >> right. >> the framers had no idea what it was. under the caricature that some of the democrats have suggested you would assume the originalists in the case would all line up on the side of saying well gosh the fourth amendment doesn't cover that. and yet the kilo case, the majority fin, 5-4 opinion was written by justice scalia, perhaps the leading originalist on the board. it was joined by justice thomas. and indeed, justice stevens dissented in that case. so i think tha...

Childhood hero. and to actually get picked out of the pile to spend a year request him as senator lee's dad did -- that's something we share in common, too -- was, and remains, the privilege of a lifetime. and it has everything to do with why i'm here. i wouldn't have become a judge but for watching his example. and the humility with which he approached the job. and i don't mean a phony humility. i mean a real humility, every day. he always said two heads were better than one. he'd sit down in my office, plunk himself down in a chair across the desk and be talking about a case and say -- alway...