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Agents does ever be good enough to satisfy democrat leaderships in washington who staked out opposition to judge brett kavanaugh before he was even nominated. there is simply no reason then to deny judge brett kavanaugh a seat on the supreme court on the basis of the evidence presented to us. the democratic strategy used against judge brett kavanaugh has made one thing clear, they will never be satisfied no matter how fair and thorough the process is. 31 years ago, the senate democrats treatment...

And their senate allies engaged in unprecedented smear campaign against judge robert bourke. as mark pullum said over the weekend, the bourking of robert bourke taught special interest groups that they could demonize judicial nominees based solely on their world view. worse character assassinations proved an effective tactic nearly sinking justice clarence thomass appointment four years later. but he also said continuing to quote, by confirming judge kavanaugh, the senate can go some way toward ...

Up. >> yeah, i think of this as the the myth of the surprise president. its that, the, idea that, that presidents turn out to be surprised. if you look at all nine justice thousands, and, i would include kennedy in this. there are no surprises on the court. that the scrutiny that goes on today is different from the scrutiny that went on even when george herbert walker bush nominated david souter in 1990. the justices are picked because of how theyre going to vote. if you look at the four democra...

Retirement of the 79-year-old justice so significant is the special role that he played on the court. >> since louis powell put on the robe 15 years ago, it was often his vote that made the difference. whether voting conservative as president nixon hoped when he appointed him, or liberal, powell has been the so-called swing vote. the court didnt change much when ronald reagan named sandra day oconnor and antonin scalia had roughly the same person he replaced, warren berger. but powells departure...

>> since louis powell put on the robe 15 years ago, it was often his vote that made the difference. whether voting conservative as president nixon hoped when he appointed him, or liberal, powell has been the so-called swing vote. the court didnt change much when ronald reagan named sandra day oconnor and antonin scalia had roughly the same philosophy he replaced, warren berger. but powells departure gives president reagan his first big chance to shift the court solidly to the right. >> louis pow...

Chance to shift the court solidly to the right. >> louis powell unexpectedly announced his retirement in 1987 on the final day of the supreme courts term that year. and his retirement gave president reagan a chance to shift the supreme court solidly to the right. president reagan tried to do that. he nominated an ultra conservative named robert bourke, and famously that did not pan out. bourke didnt get the seat. the seat ultimately went to a more moderate justice named anthony kennedy. not only...

The route of personal destruction. it will be interesting to hear what robert bourke or clarence tom fast would say about that. howie: steve king very conservative called a radio station. he contributed some of the blame to barack obama. michael: thats to use a trump word, sad. you know, there is way too much of this. and both sides do it at times. and it just didnt happen. howie: a writer at the "huffington post," says in the wake of the shooting whats more harmful, putting millions already on ...

Tell you, i know somebody who told this, you dont mess with the intense communities, because they have ways of getting back to you. it got back to intelligence committees that was then leaked to "the washington post." >> can i answer one question? can bob mueller as special counsel be fired? the answer is yes, by president trump. thats different from the independent counsel law which has since expired and its a parallel situation to what happened under watergate. which is when president reagan w...

And robert bourke came to the rescue of the president. >> he could be fired but that would be a catastrophic decision that would have made the firing of the fbi director look like a small event. >> the president benefitted nothing from the firing of comey, benefitted nothing at all. he got somebody even with more integrity and more investigative resources. so no benefit came. >> if youre sitting in the white house tonight, and you want to talk about self-sabotage and you want to think about the ...

>> and -- how quickly, professor dershowitz, the person now who has been appointed the new acting attorney general, will they immediately then instruct the department of justice attorneys to begin defending the executive order? >> well, remember what happened with the saturday night massacre. that is -- that he fired the attorney general and the two person said no, three person said no, finally robert bourke later to be nominated unsuccessfully to the supreme court said i well do it. i will do i...