Abe Fordice News Today

Trading, youre already going to see that things are fixed there as well. The dax is higher as well as the cac. Ftse relatively flat. The tenyear note. Yesterday the yield was settled in, back above 2. 4 . This morning still sitting at 2. 416. If you check out crude oil prices, which were slightly higher yesterday, this morning wti is up 28 cents to 4. 65. Couple big stories to watch this morning. British Prime Minister theresa may triggering a brexit. Signing a letter to invoke article 50. The l...

How they turn on the tv and they see the most powerful role model in the world, someone who shows them how to treat others, how to deal with disappointment, whether to tell the truth. Theyre taking it all in and as hillary said, when youve raised children in the white house like barack and hillary and i have, you were reminded everyday of the impact that you have, you start seeing the images of every child in this country in the face of your child. So when people wonder how hillary keeps her com...

It was also, of course, a political shock because his death was a surprise and it opened up a surprise vacancy on the Supreme Court. And with almost exactly a year left in his presidency we learned that barack obama would get to name a Court Nominee to fill t seat vie kated the court by the death of Antonin Scalia. Or not. Even before former president obama named his nominee, even before he named judge Merrick Garland, republicans announced that they would hold open the scalia seat. They would n...

Ago he died in his sleep. He was at a swanky Hunting Lodge in texas only about 30 miles from the u. S. mexico border and it was a shock when he died. It was a very, very sad loss for his family and in friends. It was also, of course, a political shock because his death was a surprise and it opened up a surprise vacancy on the Supreme Court. And with almost exactly a year left in his presidency we learned that barack obama would get to name a Court Nominee to fill the seat vie kated on the court ...

President. they never wanted a person sitting on the supreme court feel like they had any obligations to the president who appointed them. but now in the current nominee, we may not just have the sense of obligation, but also the sense that the nominee is an open, admitted partisan of the president and his political party. >> this whole two-week effort has been a calculated and orchestrated political hit, fueled with apparent pent-up anger about president trump and the 2016 election, fear that h...

When president lyndon b. johnson convinced then supreme court associate justice arthur goldberg to quit the supreme court and become the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. lbj did that because he wanted this guy, abe fordice to be on the supreme court instead. fordice was an old friend of lyndon johnsons. but it was not until he tried to elevate him to chief justice in 1968 that the senate learned about just how close their relationship was. as the u.s. senate history website notes, quote, as a sitting...

Robert bourque. the senate rejected robert bourque, but at least they acted on him and that seat was open, lets say, for about 200 days. then if we go back further in 69 and 70 it was actually a whole year that a seat remained open after abe fordice stepped down but, again, the senate was acting on people, rejeblgting th -- rejecting them but acting and i think its amazing that the political pressure allowed -- there was not enough i think, once we get into 2017, things might change that way. an...