terms of parliamentary decision available. when we talk about the election, we know there are ten democrats up for re-election in donald trump areas. five of them in states he won by double digits. this is tough in terms of voting. no matter what happens because they have a lot of things to consider as they re moving into november. this decision will raise political issues, but it is far from the normal kind of political decision because we re talking about generations who will be effected, the potential is for a young, radical and probably far right fringe ideologyist. he said anybody on that list would automatically overturn roe v wade. the women of this country are
confirmation should take place this close to the election, but here s a more fundamental fact. i was a supreme court law clerk. i worked for justice harry blackman on the court after right after he wrote the roe v wade opinion. i ve never seen a time when the court is so polarized and politicized and i ve never seen a time when it is more important that it act as a bull work and check against potential abuse and destruction of individual rights. we re talking about a woman s rights to health care, reproductive rights, worker rights, gay rights. all kinds of fundamental rights and liberties where the supreme court will play a role and that s why deliberate consideration and peoples voice is so important. we know that they re not
appointed in 1975, nominate i by president gerald ford, a republican, yet justice stevens went on to become identify with the liberal block of the court, and that often happens. we often see presidents appoint justices who turn out to be very different than the justice that the president thought he was going to get. that happened in the case of president eisenhower with earlaway, with nixon, with harry blackman who went on to author the roe v wade opinion. we don t know who president obama plans to nominate but his aides say we can expect to hear the short list of names bandied about as we did when president obama nominated the his has panic to the court, justice sonya sotomayor. jon: interesting timing of this, in the administration, he assures another liberal will take his place, but it s been pointed out with the congressional elections coming up this fall and the public already pretty