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Increasingly ses filled with an mosty. justices thomas, gorsuch, kavanaugh, barrett, and alito are in charge and will be effectively running the court for years to come. jackson will probably enjoy pleasantly collegial relationships with some or all of them. if she is a smart and skilled jurist as she seemed during confirmation hearings, she might occasionally persuade one or more of them to agree with her analysis on an issue. realistically, she must know until the courts roster changes, on mos...

Does officially get seated, just remind us what cases is she going to be hearing come the start of the next term? >> so the supreme court has already decided to take some big hot-button cases, and one of her first decisions will be to recuse from one of the most important cases that will be argued in the coming term, and thats the challenge to the use of affirmative action in college emissions. the case comes from harvard. she is a graduate from harvard and so are many others on the court, and t...

But really, underneath all of these questions are the pretext for this is about race. >> im shocked that you dont want the know-how someone did at a logic game when they were 22. melissa, lets sort of look past this week, right? lets look past all of this. she is likely going to be confirmed. how is she likely to reshape the court? >> well, in the short-term, i think there is not going to be a lot that she can do in terms of shaping the trajectory of the court which has a very solid 6-3 conserva...

Differently? theyre going to try to pin her down on a variety of hot button cases, gun rights, abortion rights, one senator brought up the 1965 contraception and privacy case. do not expect her to reveal much on this. the trend over the last several decade is that judicial nominees say as little about these cases, simply say they will consider the facts when it comes before them, that it would be inappropriate to prejudge potential cases. then there are political questions that shes going to kee...

The senate stick together, theres nothing republicans do. that said, the white house and democrats want bipartisan support. it is plausible some of the more moderate republicans are not expecting to go scorched earth on this nomination. they have not been able to paint her outside the mainstream, but there are some conservative members on the judiciary committee who are known to have higher presidential ambitions, and expect them to try to score political points in this hearing to try to pick at...

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Virus. no word how he got it. close contacts were observed and no additional cases so far. >> martha: in the meantime the supreme court is entering its final weeks on the current term today amid a heated debate whether the 82-year-old justice steven breyer appointed by president clinton should as some are asking him to retire now. the high court also yet to rule on several really big hot button cases in its first brand-new iteration with three trump judges on the bench. it is being watched reall...

>> we had a lot of apocalyptic language and weve been hearing that since robert bork saying the sky is going to fall. people forget important cases go 5-4 but 40% of cases in the supreme court are unanimous. some deal with picky legal questions. one of the cases that came down yesterday with justice thomas sided with the four liberals. there are a lot of times you dont see those ideological lines. of course we do have the hot button cases and those often do go 5-4 and along those lines it is inc...

His legacy could span decades. 2019 promises more drama on and off the bench, the justices will confront a range of legal challenges to the presidents immigration policy, the border wall, silent restrictions, sanctuary cities, daca and birthright citizenship which the president tweeted about this october, this case will be settled by the united states up in court, the president had success among the shake conservative majority due in part to the 114th justice who promises to be a key player in a...