Mark Halperin

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All right, next up, more with James Rosen, author of a new book, second of the three volumes planned on the life, the personal story and the legal life as almost 30 year career in the Supreme Court of Justice Scalia.

One of the most important figures, along with people like Ronald Reagan.

and a handful of others who have shaped the modern conservative movement from an unlikely place, perhaps, from the courts.

James, thank you again.

Congratulations on the book.

Talk about why Justice Scalia's legal philosophy, his view of the Constitution, his view of a co-equal branch, talk about why that makes him such an important figure in American history.

Absolutely.

Again, these are not stuffy legal issues.

These are the stuff of American life, of business and families.

the relationship between the states and the federal government.

There's so many great stories in the book.

I want to talk about one issue.

I met Justice Scalia twice, only briefly.

And you could see in meeting him in person, anyone who had met him, larger than life, and in a slightly different era in Washington, the ability to be close friends with somebody like Justice Ginsburg, who he was ideologically different from.

I want to talk about Bush versus Gore, which is the way you deal in the – this is the dividing point between this volume and the next.

Because almost everyone I know who knew Justice Scalia on the right, who admired him, said, you know, very principled guy, believed in a very clear, principled way of judging rather than on politics.

I consider Bush versus Gore to be one of the decision to be one of the biggest abominations for anyone who wants to contend that the justices are not result oriented.

All five Republican-nominated justices voted to give George Bush the presidency.

All four liberal justices voted no to defer to the state court in Florida.