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santos. republican leaders refused to -- no matter how many times hes bizarre lies are exposed. and forget gas stoves. even more outrageous -- nothing burger involves a made-up story about a pregnant batman villain. ♪ ♪ ♪ it was in april 2010 that justice john paul stevens, after serving 34 years on the nations highest court, announced his intention to retire in a letter to then president barack obama. the news, naturally, set washington into a tizzy, of all things. scotus usuall...

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Consensus nominee, a small seat conservative, a jurist who would -- bipartisan support. quote, no question. the man was merrick garland. yes, merrick garland. the same merrick garland who, a few years later, in 2016, would be catapulted to superstardom within that liberal imagination after being rejected by mitch mcconnell and the senate gop as a nominee to fill not john paul stevens seat but antonin scalias spot on the supreme court. you are forgiven if this slip to your mind. mcconnells smoke ...

Consensus nominee. donald trump has not put any consensus nominees on his list so far. so then we get to this wild scenario where if democrats take control of the senate and breath kavanaugh fails, you could easily see at that point, and again were way out into maybe land here, you could see d democrats blocking a supreme court nominee all the way until the next presidential election. >> maybe land is always worth exploring. that was excellent. thank you so much. coming up next, president trum...

We will not surrender. we will not move. we will go forward. >> judge kavanaugh has been sitting on a preapproved list of right wing nominees for eight months now. i have reviewed his record and let me tell you, brett kavanaugh did not end up on this list because he is the consensus nominee. >> thats pretty much how that went. michael scherrer said groups on both sides prepared multimillion-dollar digital and television ad campaigns even before president trumps announcement that brett kavanaugh ...

We will not move. we will go forward. >> judge kavanaugh has been sitting on a preapproved list of right wing nominees for eight months now. i have reviewed his record and let me tell you, brett kavanaugh did not end up on this list because he is the consensus nominee. >> thats pretty much how that went. michael scherrer said groups on both sides prepared multimillion-dollar digital and television ad campaigns even before president trumps announcement that brett kavanaugh will be his nominee. th...

The reason anthony kennedys retirement felt like such an earthquake today, the reason a lot of observers are saying this is the biggest political earthquake since the election of trump and the subsequent revelation that a foreign advocacy had a role in helping trump, the reason its being seen as a once in a lifetime showstopping political moment, particularly for democrats is not necessarily because of anything about anthony kennedy. its because of this. conservative justice antonin scalia died ...

Described by everybody as a centrist and a moderate and described as the kind of person seen as a consensus nominee. someone who republicans could not have a conceivable rejection too. decided to do something without precedence and hold his seat open for a year and refused to meet with the nominee, hold a hearing, vote or consider a nomination. specifically because they said president obama should not be allowed to name a justice to the court. no nominee no matter who it was. have to wait for a ...

There will be no check on donald trump either. and let me remind folks as you pointed out this supreme court justice could determine robert mueller could issue a subpoena to donald trump and could vote against it. thats why donald trump is a minority president, elected by a minority of the country. we need a consensus nominee, one that gets a super majority, one that is not the extreme of the hard right, one that a majority can support. >> you make an important point about inter branch issues. t...

Successful. >> martha: mercedes, always good to see you, thank you. interesting to remember that kennedy was not president reagans first choice. in fact, he was his third choice. first was robert bork, and we all remember that sparked a brutal senate battle. he was defeated. his second pick was douglas ginsburg who withdrew after admitting he had smoked marijuana which obviously is no longer a benchmark for pretty much anything in the country, and then came kennedy who was viewed as the consensu...