Washington ok it has get right to it David Mcconnell said hell have a vote on the nominee really havent before election day. I think hes going to do everything he can to push it through before election day because i think the stakes larry are incredibly high and fraught for the republicans if they went after the election when you know if that only speak believe doll trouble be a losing president and Senate Republicans will have lost their majority in the senate but the reality is this is a this is a dangerous political calculus for the majority leader because what hes really doing fundamentally is pushing through a Political Force a nominee whoever that person is who is deeply unpopular with the American People 60 percent of americans including nearly half of republicans hope want the next president not this president but the next president to be the one who gets to decide who will replace Ruth Bader Ginsburg or on the Supreme Court and so its a deeply unpopular thing in this because d
In terms not of its decisions necessarily or rather of the composition of who serves on the court but you know i think thats kind of thats table stakes down the road right now what matters are the policy issues that are at stake and we talked about the Affordable Care act but thats thats one of many issues on the docket larry youve got to consider your rights and gay and lesbian americans bisexual Transgender Americans who are fearful that a far right court will roll back protections you have Consumer Rights you have Voting Rights youve got labor rights youve got the 2nd amendment republicans have already signaled that concern is a signal that they want to bring cases challenging the way in which the 2nd amendment is interpreted to a newly conservative Court Next Term so all of these issues that just really gets the heart of the fabric of American Life are at stake and you know so from a from a policy perspective thats what really matters right now but if i were john roberts ardens you
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Isolation full community. Are you going the right way or are you being led. Away. What is true what is faith. In a world corrupted you need to descend. To join us in the depths. For a mate in the shallows. The impact of the upcoming fight for the Supreme Court on the 2020 alexion on the surface of politics. Welcome to politicking on larry king confirmation of a 3rd trump nominated supreme god justice looks virtually certain the in baghdad on the 2020 election as a highly politicized question mark and well get one on one perspective from 2 men who come from very different partisan camps but who share experience working in the senate will begin with david brown democratic strategist former majority counsel to democratic senator patty murray on 2 congressional committees and he is in washington ok lets get right to a David Mcconnell said hell have a vote on the nominee really havent before election day. I think hes going to do everything he can to push it through before election day becau
Flag draped casket to pay my respects. It was somber and it was personal. And it was an extra ordinary moment for me, as i am sure it was for you and millions of americans and people around the with who felt a connection the great are bg rbg. It was sad because we lost a giant not only of the court but of american life. It was a celebration. Few people in our history have done more to change the lives of the American People than Ruth Bader Ginsburg did as a lawyer, advocate, and a Supreme Court justice. And it was an inspiration and a call to each of us, for each of us to be better, to stay in the fight, and stay committed to what motivated Justice Ginsburg etched inthat phrase the marble of the United States Supreme Court equal justice under the law. Justice ginsburg came to her view of the law not from a textbook but from life. Her own life. She often told the story of how she had personally felt the sting of discrimination as a woman, as the mother of a young child trying to find wo