Well get started. Good morning, everyone ip im elizabeth slattery, legal fellow at the Heritage Foundation and this is a panel on the past Supreme Court term. So the Supreme Courts next oh, im sorry. The top one . Okay, there we go. The Supreme Courts next term starts . Just a few weeks but were here to reflect on the past term. I submit that the october term 2018 will more likely be remembered for Justice Brett kavanaughs confirmation hearings than for any particular case the court decided, and its too early to make sweeping statements about the impact of president Donald Trumps nominees to the court, though the rapid destruction of america, their opponents foresaw has yet to occur. Justices Brett Kavanaugh and neil gorsuch have however lived up to the chief justices declaration that we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. Like their predecessors, kavanaugh and gorsuch are their own men at times bucking expectations of how a trump judge will vote. T
Okay. The Supreme Courts next term starts in a few weeks but we are here to reflect on the past term. I submit the october term 2018 will more likely be remembered for Justice Brett cavanaugh confirmation hearing and for any particular case the court decided. In and its too early to make sweeping statements about the impact of president Donald Trumps nominees to the court though the rapid description of america has yet to occur. This is Brett Kavanaugh and neil gorsuch have lived up to the chief justice declaration that we do not have obama judges or trump judges, bush judges or clinton judges. Kavanaugh and gorsuch are their own men, wrecking g expectations of how a trump judge will vote you are not tt cookiecutter republicans but local jurists with independent views of the law and will explore some of that today. This panel will focus on the highlights of past term, the most important cases such as the census Citizenship Question case and the political gerrymandering case and if you
It took police to respond 20 minutes to her calling. By that time she had already gone home. Held accountable for defunding the police. Dylan mulvaney. Molson coors out selling bud light by 51 . Finally putting foot down and saying enough. [cheers] and continues to go perfectly to the miami script. Brian all right. Were beginning here with a fox news alert. Former President Donald Trump expected to appear in a d. C. Federal court, let me check my watch. Make it later today, how about 4 00 where he is facing four new felonies claiming he made false statements about the 2020 election. Steve mr. Trump is now fighting to move the case out of washington, d. C. Where joe biden won by 95 last time around, where he says he would not have a chance at a fair trial. Ainsley 95 of them are antitrumpers. And Griff Jenkins is live outside of the d. C. Courthouse with the latest for us. Hey, griff. Griff hey, good morning, ainsley, steve and brian. Security is getting tighter here. A lot of media and
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