Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120629:17:11:00
As partisan. does that kind of thing influence, the supreme court is famously, they always say, not influenced, they don't care about the comings and goings, the daily politics people like me write about. is that accurate? >> call me constitutional idealist. the framers envisioned the court fully insulated from legal pressures. that's why you get life tenure. the political branches of course are susceptible to legal pressures. the court should not. i can understand at the human level but i frankly think it should not have been a factor. we're not talking about the court of john marshall, the f...