Embuzzler, the deductibowl cut, the i dread paying what i owe, and the mulletmepayless business in the front, bankrupt in the back. So come on into shady cuts today. We cut it right off so you can claim a writeoff. Warning there are limits to what we can hide. Announcer its the late show with Stephen Colbert. Tonight, deductions. Stephen welcomes Mireya Villarreal and musical guest rex orange county, featuring jon batiste and stay homin. Now live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in this building in new york city, its Stephen Colbert stephen fantastic. Fantastic to be here, everybody. Welcome to a late show. Im your host Stephen Colbert. Put the coffee down, dont want anybody to get burned. Weve had some fun with donald trump over the years. Weve laughed, weve cried, weve mostly cried. But every once in a while you get a troubling reminder that hes president. Lke this weekend when, to fill Ruth Bader Ginsbergs seat on the Supreme Court, trump nominated federal judge and inhouse atto
[captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy, visit ncicap. Org] fun story. For sure. I am wondering why the Supreme Court apparently didnt get more involved in many of these things, in particular government of the tyler case in 1941 or at any point prior to the point when the amendment kind of makes things clear. We are dealing with the cost is no interpretation seems to be an issue. Why is that . Great question. , they triedof tyler to seek out the insides of the chief justice that the chief justice hated henry clay and tyler. So he did not want to get involved because he was going to make one of his enemies happy one way or the other so he abdicated responsibility. It is in the book. [laughs] so if focus edition is clear that the powers of the president devotes the Vice President , can you spin out and what is really at stake whether he is called a acting
The American Civil Liberties union for several years. The vote was 963 in my favor. My biggest supporter on the Judiciary Committee was not the then chair, senator biden, although he was certainly in my favor, but it was orrin hatch. I think today he would not touch me with a 10 foot pole. [laughter] we are still friends, but if it came to a vote on me, i dont think he would be the supporter he was in 1993. It was similar with Stephen Breyer when he was nominated the next year. This was well into the 90s, a vote in his favor. It has not been that way for the four most recent members of the court. And it has been on both sides of the aisle. I wish there was a way i could wave a magic wand and put it back to when people were respectful of each other and congress was working for the good of the country and not just along party lines. Someday there will be great people, great elected representatives who say enough of this nonsense, lets be the kind of legislature the United States should h
Election day. Thats cutting it close. And while Mitch Mcconnell is confident he has the votes to confirm the president s choice for the high court, the radical dems are acting like agents of a foreign power rather than members of the loyal opposition. The democrats have already attacked judge barretts role as a working mother of seven. Thats right, attacking her as a mother of seven. They have implied she is racist, they have further implied she is a religious fanatic. President trump calls the attacks of the left on her straightforwardly anticatholic prejudice. I thought we settled this 60 years ago with the election of john f. Kennedy, but seriously theyre going after her catholicism. I will stand with her, fight with her, and we will make sure that these attacks stop, because they really its unprecedented. Theyre basically fighting a major religion in our country. This is incredible. Lou at least four of the radical dem senators say they wont even meet with judge barrett, they refus
Justice ginsburg when i was growing up, the first branch was very different than it is today. And that persisted. I think back to 1993, when president clinton nominated me for the good job i now hold. I had been general counsel to the American Civil Liberties union for several years. The vote was 963 in my favor. My biggest supporter on the Judiciary Committee was not senator biden, although he was certainly in my favor, but it was orrin hatch. I think today he would not touch me with a 10 foot pole. [laughter] we are still friends, but if it came to a vote on me, i dont think he would be the supporter he was in 1993. It was similar with Stephen Breyer when he was nominated the next year. This was well into the 90s, a vote in his favor. It has not been that way for the four most recent members of the court. On both sides of the aisle. I wish there was a way i could wave a magic wand and put it back to when people were respectful of each other and congress was working for the good of th