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politicsnation. tonights lead, enough is enough. right now, at least nine people, including two children are dead after a gunman opened fire at an outlet mall in allen, texas on saturday. the -- authorities have identified the gunman as 33-year-old mauricio garcia. two senior law officials are telling nbc news today that he interacted heavily with white supremacist content online. nbc news has not yet seen any of the suspects. investigators say it is still too early to determine a moti...

To donald trump and january 6th. Jasmine crockett joins me live on the site. Trump in court. What to look for as the first trial of a former president l heads to the jury next week, and why Special Counsel jack smith is taking bold new action in trumps classified documents case. And reality check. You believe trumps rally in the bronx was about reaching out to black and latino voters . I dont. I am jonathan capehart. This is the Saturday Show. For decades, democrats have tried and failed to make...

Incarceration of black people. and so fundamentally, this is about addressing and acknowledging, first and foremost, that history and making sure that we are building policies going forward that are more racially equitable and inclusive in ways that it addresses those historic wrongs. >> mister chairman, you recently led the senate judiciary committee to dick durbin. calling on senate democrats to reject the long-standing senate practice that allows a single senator to vote a presidents judicial...

The process that allows senators to block federal judges was started in the 1950s by Sen. Jim Eastland, a segregationist from Mississippi.

The battle over blue slips heats up.

When there was a Republican president and GOP-led Senate, Democrats said "blue slips" were key in the judicial confirmation process. Not now.

President Donald Trump inherited more than 120 vacancies on the lower federal courts and one Supreme Court vacancy when he took office on January 20, 2017. Trump made filling the Supreme Court vacancy one of his first priorities, and Neil Gorsuch was confirmed by the Senate in time to join the Court for the end of its 2016–2017 term. Now the President’s focus has turned to the appellate and district court vacancies. The Senate confirmed Trump’s first appeals court nominee, Amul Thapar, to ...

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday advanced one of President Biden's federal appeals court nominees over the objections of Republicans who blasted the White House for disregarding the approval of the seat's home-state senators.

Know, floeftiating above politit least in your scholarship, this kicks back to the democratic party and the kind of hardball they want to play, not necessarily anything that is uniquely judicial? >> well, i guess i would say there are laws that cover these procedures as well and many of those rules in the senate have themselves been relaxed by mitch mcconnell in a form of games man ship where hes denied the capacity of senators to say, you know, these are the judges whom we would recommend for o...