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There was also a weird period before that, 1968, 1969, 1970, that was like a bermuda triangle for the supreme court. this was after lbjs triumphant nomination of thurgood marshall to be the first african-american supreme court justice. after that things went off course and over the next few years with johnson at the end of his firm and nixon at the beginning of his time as president between them the two of them air balled on four different nominees for the supreme court who were all rejected or ...

United states senate confirmed all six of them. thats how we got the very first supreme court and every president since george washington would love to be treated like that, white? theyd love to have everybody confirmed in two days and pick every justice on the court but there will never be another george washington, that said it isnt usually that hard for presidents to get their nominees confirmed speaking as a general matter. in american history the vast majority of supreme court nominees have...

Clarence thomas, robert bourque, those were exceptions but that proved the more general rule. if you get to the point where the president is nominating you to be a supreme court justice and the senate is considering your nomination to be a supreme court justice you are likely to get through. look at the justices confirmed in the late 20th century. anthony kennedy, 1987. the vote on him was 97-0. david souter, approved in 1990. the vote on him was 90-9. ruth bader ginsburg, approved in 1993. 96-3...

1789. there, of course, are benefits to being first. wh george washington got to make his supreme court nomination, he got to nominate six justices all at once. brand new court, got to fill it up. when he made those six nominations in two days the united states senate confirmed all six of them. thats how we got the very first supreme court and every president since george washington would love to be treated like that, white? theyd love to have everybody confirmed in two days and pick every justi...

Him outside of the mainstream. in his writings and his comments, anything about this nominee that suggests democrats will succeed in saying like bourque, he is, quote, outside the mainstream. >> think certainly will probably try to do that. >> no in the mainstream he is a principle conservative in the mold of scalia. what is interesting he may be more libertarian than scalia and a willingness to check the excesses of the president and congress. gorsuch, more than scalia, has questioned the const...

Pivotal player on the court, despite how he looked coming in under reagan as a rock conservative politically. >> if you remember from 1987, the first nominee that reagan put up was robert bourque, and it was only have three tries that he was able to get kennedy on the bench but he was approved unanimously, so probably there were enough democrats that thought maybe under that exterior we might get a few votes we like, and they have. >> thats a big question for tonight, once you get the name will ...

Little bit about the historical precedent of the saturday night massacre. we are now on to a new level of expectation with this story. the new kt aing attorney general the one installed tonight after sally yates was fired he immediately rescinded her order which told department of justice lawyers that they shouldnt defend their refugee and immigration executive order in court. that means he has rescinded that order, he is effectively oshding the department of justice lawyers that they need to go...

>> i should note the saturday night massacre a reference to the attempted firing of key department of justice officials by richard nixon which essentially was the end of the end. >> well, they did fire them, they got down to robert bourque who would take care of the job for them. but thats not going to happen and we wont let that happen in this administration unless president trump wants to go the same way nixon went. >> those are strong words and i want to talk about -- ill let you -- you gentl...

They got down to robert bourque who would take care of the job for them. but thats not going to happen and we wont let that happen in this administration unless president trump wants to go the sa way nixon went. >> those are strong words and i want to talk about -- ill let you -- you gentlemen referred to as a constitutional crisis, which you, ambassador, referred to. it bans emoluments for american officials. sheri dillon issued kind of fro from the bench her constitutional ruling, quite clear ...

Robert bourque. the senate rejected robert bourque, but at least they acted on him and that seat was open, lets say, for about 200 days. then if we go back further in 69 and 70 it was actually a whole year that a seat remained open after abe fordice stepped down but, again, the senate was acting on people, rejeblgting th -- rejecting them but acting and i think its amazing that the political pressure allowed -- there was not enough i think, once we get into 2017, things might change that way. an...