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50-year-old liberal democrat, likely to vote similar to justice stevens. >> shepard: not a game changer. >> no. >> one of the conservatives leaves, we might have a different reason. >> or justice kennedy, the swing vote. then you'll see a battle royal we haven't seen since justice thomas or judge bjork. >> shepard: this is one of the issues the next supreme court justice will have to consider or recuse himself other herself from. how the united states treats terrorism suspects. yesterday eric holder announced he was seeking to change the miranda rights law which mandates police or the feds who...

Was questioned for four hours under the safe public exception. he is still cooperating and providing information to interrogators. but holder says the government needs greater flexibility to question terrorism suspect than provided right now. the administration would work with congress to carve out new exceptions. the condition of reading miranda rights to terrorism suspects came up with abdulmutallab, some arguing that terror suspects should be treated like military detainees not criminal defendants. it has surfaced again with faisal shahzad. coming up at 6:40. we'll talk with the customs a...

Interrogate terror suspects and get information on plots. shahzad and christmas day suspect ab due ma tal lab both kept talking, but the plots behind their alleged attacks might never have been divulged. former white house favors military tribunals. he says this about holder's idea. >> you need enough time in an interactive mode to get all of the information out of the suspect. you don't know in advance. you may not know after a few hours. you may need some time to go back and check. >> steven vlodic who has represented terror suspects before the supreme court says more exceptions on miranda w...

Direction. sort of an admission that the initial that the initial take on it was incorrect. >> reporter: while saying he didn't have all the details, the chair of the judiciary committee seemed lukewarm to the idea. >> i never had a case where we failed to get a conviction when we had given the miranda warning. >> reporter: even the managers's traditional supports on the left appear to be taken aback by the attorney general's proposal for a new law on miranda rights. the aclu said in a statement that holder's actions were "disappointing, discouraging and bewildering," adding that there is no e...

The judge to no surprise. they said in a statement today that holder's actions were, quote, disappointing, discouraging, and bewildering. adding that there is no evidence miranda warning is blocking the government from getting good intelligence from terrorism suspects. more fundamentally, legislation that significantly undermined miranda would be unconstitutional as mr. holder should know as well as anyone, the miranda requirement is rooted in the 5th amendment. the aclu said that americans should not be fooled. that they have to swap their freedoms for security. shep? >> shepard: catherine he...