she is replacing justice souter, who is a fairly conventional liberal. what it will change and a lot of the justices have spoken to this is the personal dynamics inside the court, and then it may produce, over time, you know, a little surprising changes here and there. a lot of people expect her to be more conservative than souter was on criminal law issues, and more liberal than souter was on business law issues, and at her confirmation hearings, she played her cards very close to the vest. in her first argument, she raise raised a provocative question as to whether corporations should really enjoyful constitutional rights, which was kind of in the background of a case they are hearing, but that raised some eyebrows. bret: steve. >> in part, we won't know, because, of course as you say, all of this is done behind closed doors. we won't see the effect she has, if any, on the arguments as they are making them behind the scenes. i agree with stuart. i think one of the most interesting areas to watch is going to be in criminal proceedings issues. souter was

justice souter was on the court for a while. those were very short opinions, pretty straightforward, and did not give much insight into what he thought about major [unintelligible] >> doesn't this go back to what david said about how scripted this is? the script is so tight now. we talk about cases and you talk about when you have years and years of cases to talk about, and then the script goes, was that an activist decision? that is all there is. what do you talk about janet the public tunnel? do you talk about her speeches? i am sorry. this script is so -- >> that was unscripted by the way. >> it is just so hard for me to imagine under this totally crabbed piece of theater that we do to have a conversation that is not about, even if your record is then we can talk about that and then talk about griswald again. at least we are talking about cases. i don't know what that confirmation hearing under this universe we live in looks like. >> we have to go back to 1971 to have some recollection of what that might be. it is a very diff

new justice sonia sotomayor replacing retired david souter. up coming high profile cases include a challenge on chicago's ban on hand bunn guns brought by advocates and challenge on federal government ban of material supports by groups u.s. government as terrorist organizations. i am jonathan hunt now back to geraldo at large. >> i would make the push in cope enhaguer personally if i weren't so involved in the healthcare. >> i come here today as a passionate supporter of the olympic and paralympic games. as a strong believer in the movement they represent and as a proud chicagoan i urge you to choose chicago. i urge you to choose america. >> i do want to congratulate rio dash narrtur -- rio de janeiro for winning the 2016 olympics. it will be historic as they will be the first olympic games ever to be held in south america. >> you compare his delivery the whole thing over seems like he needs a nap compared to how confident he was months ago. that says a lot sim poll liesing -- symbolizing a lot where he is at right now. perhaps the debate of c

>> first of all, she is a much more public person than justice david souter. we know that justice sonia sotomayor has been dancing, and she has also been joining her colleagues at some group of fans. they all attended a traditional catholic mass here yesterday aimed at the legal professionals. she is doing all the things that you would expand -- expect of the supreme court justice. some of the most important things we will not know until history tells us. how will she shaped the way this court decides? for now, she seems to be comfortable. trace: tell us about this handgun hearing. >> they are taking up an important second amendment case from chicago. this case will go the next step, asking whether or not local governments have the power to ignore the second amendment and enact a handgun ban. justice sotomayor earlier decided these local jurisdictions could do that. it was controversial, and now everyone will be waiting to see how she handles this case when it comes to the bench. trace: thank you, shannon. martha: it is being called a turning point in iraq. th

david souter gave his papers to the new hampshire historical society saying they must remain closed for 50 years. she does not think much of that secrecy. starting on sunday, c-span will break that wall of secrecy a bit. it begins our supreme court week. it begins with an original c- span documentary on sunday night at 9:00 p.m. you'll hear from all of the current justices. throughout the week, you'll see the building and some of the grand spaces, including space is only accessible to the justices and their staffs. this documentary, which took a lot of work by a lot of people within c-span, was executive produced by a marked. -- it was executive produced by mark. he will describe the process of putting this together. at 9:00 p.m., the documentary bears for the first time. this is the justices talking about robes. >> there are a number of narrow sections in which the justices' robes are hung. the standard wrote is made for a man -- the standard robe is made for a man. sandra day o'connor and i thought it would be appropriate if we included it as part of our robe, the typical of a woman.