My name,

My name is Diane, on my mind, Judge David Taylor sat on the bench

of the powerful DC Circuit Court of Appeals for nearly three decades.

Appointed by Bill Clinton, he became a prominent liberal leaning voice in the judiciary, widely considered a tough

candidate for the Supreme Court, had Al Gore won the 2000 election.

He was known as a brilliant legal mind

whose opinions helped shape laws affecting voting rights, the environment, internet regulations, and

press freedoms. But it was also known for another reading.

It became impossible for me to hide it anymore.

I needed a reader.

I learned braille.

I needed sometimes another person, you know, to walk across the street or to travel.

David Tatel retired from the court in January.

His new book is title, Vision, A Memoir of Blindness and Justice.

He joined me Wednesday afternoon, brought me his home in rural Virginia.

Judge Tate, I want to start with the Supreme Court.

It just finished its term with really a bluff of your case on presidential immunity.

I wonder what your selects are.

Diane, in my book, in the end of the chapter

on voting rights, where I explain the extent to which the Supreme Court, this Supreme Court has eviscerated the Voting Rights Act, probably one of the most effective civil rights laws ever passed. I end the chapter by saying, I fear for our democracy.

After the end of this Supreme Court term, which included not just the immunity case, but a whole series of other decisions, I fear for even more. These cases, all of them together, result in a massive transfer of authority

from the political branches of government to the

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