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Robert bork? probably not, shep. >> shepard: and you wonder how brutal it might become. what delay tactics the democrats can come up with. they know they cant stop it. their goal is to elongate the process. >> yeah, slow walk the process. the white house and outside groups want to get this done by the start of the next term of the supreme court, the beginning of october. thats the time in a mid-term election year when members of congress go back out to the districts and campaign heavily until th...

Entertain him. >> correct. thats a problem on both sides. they were looking at a bilateral trait agreement. theresa may says shes going to push for that. but her government is hanging on by a thread. while president trump has backed may, his strongest allies have been the hard line brexiteers and those are the people taking issue with may. so its not clear how this will play out during this visit. >> shepard: after that, the president is to meet with the russian president with the backdrop of an...

They will take that draconian action. >> shepard: and its not as if the state of new york or the state of california will have a world where womens reproductive rights are taken away. but other states like mississippi and others, theres a possibility and ive heard a lot of analysts say it will happen that abortion rights will be available to those that can go to other places to get them. not to poor people that cant. >> i agree with that. the conservative viewpoint here is that essentially the l...

Judge im going to stick with the principle that i will precedent from the court,s that the one thing. one of the nine here have overturned decisions in the past that they thought they got wrong. its possible it could happen. thats the number 1 question for the folks on the left. >> shepard: make no mistake. any of these 25 is a threat to roe v. wade or the federalist society wouldnt have put them there in the first place. the question is whether susan collins of maine by way of example would be ...

Before she was a justice came before the senate and talked about things. she demured on a number of things when pushed saying its not appropriate as a judge and a justice to make any kind of pronouncement on it. i dont want to deal in hypotheticals. youll hear that from in person that is the nominee because its dangerous. every case is fact specific. they dont want to be boxed in. good luck getting any answers on anything. thats why you have to pour through the decades worth of opinions and writ...

Professor in notre dame. shes seen as controversial during her appeals court hearing last november. her strict version of catholicism came up and backfired on dianne feinstein at the time. brett kavanaugh has the most involved report. thats a positive and a negative. a lot of people from the federalist society favor him for the long record but hes ruled on obamacare, abortion and other issues that are certain to come up and the democrats could claim that its such a long record it will take longe...

Here we are today with a nominee and then going through the visits on the senate and the confirmation hearings and then you have to go for a confirmation vote. if that doesnt happen by september, im told by people that know more about this than i do, that it would be difficult to get a nominee confirmed. lets say the democrats pick up seats in the senate and they hold the balance of power there, getting a nominee in before the new senate sits would be impossible. and then a wild card as to okay,...

Stand. considering the ample evidence that the president will select a nominee who will give greater weight to corporate interests than our citizens no matter what precedence says and vote to overturn roe v. wade, the next nominee has an obligation, a serious and solemn obligation to share their personal views on these legal issues no matter whom president trump selects tonight. now briefly on another matter. the ongoing negotiations with north korea over their nuclear program. despite all the r...

Will string this along. you know the ins and outs of senate and the rules there. could they swing this passed the election? >> that would be very hard. part of this is because theres never been a filibuster of a supreme court justice before. abe fortis who was on the court already, he was filibustered. theres never been a filibuster. mitch mcconnell had a problem last spring. he realized because of the narrow divide in the senate, there was almost no way that they could get neil gorsuch on the s...

Consideration. one more round of 40-year-old scare tactics will not stop us from doing the right thing. >> shepard: there you go. mitch mcconnell talking about precedent and what has happened in the past. chad pergram joins us live now. hes up there on capitol hill. the arguments can be made interchangeably cycle to cycle on which party is doing the appointing. >> yeah. the different here, if they nominate a conservative justice, that this will change the balance of power. anthony kennedy was vi...