By Premiere Networks
Apr 16, 2021
BRETT: What is the purpose of this exercise that s happening with this court packing conversation? It s about redefining society, right? We can redefine the court, we can redefine the family, we can redefine. Heck, did you hear yesterday, Nadler and Jones and Hank Johnson and Ed Markey saying that the Roberts Court is this right-wing machine?
Are you kidding me? He protected. (laughs) He protected Obamacare on the slimmest of margins and redefined marriage. Tell me again about this right-wing court. Look, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in looking at this court packing situation, said this about the Supreme Court.
When asked if the mob had frightened her, she replied, “I’m pretty tough. I’m a street fighter.” Besides, she said with a laugh, lifted a foot clad in her classic 4-inch-high stilettos, “I would have had these” as weapons. pic.twitter.com/OuV6n0jEVr
I never did post my review of Molly Ball’s
Pelosi when it first came out, but now that it’s available in paperback, I’ll just offer my highest recommendation. Ball is always an interesting writer, and Speaker Pelosi is an excellent subject, of course!
And now there’s a new book,
FOX News contributor tells The Story why the idea is a failure on the part of Joe Biden
The mainstream media apparently has little use for the words of the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who expressed opposition to the court-packing plan some Democratic lawmakers are now pursuing.
House and Senate Democrats formally announced legislation Thursday that would increase the number of seats on the Supreme Court to 13 from the traditional nine, ostensibly turning a 6-3 conservative-majority bench to a 7-6 liberal majority.
During a 2019 interview with NPR, Ginsburg rejected the idea of expanding the bench, saying that nine seems to be a good number.
Nancy Pelosi blasts Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in upcoming book
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi had some harsh words for Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell in an upcoming book. Pelosi blasted McConnell, citing one instance involving the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
In a book by USA Today journalist Susan Page, “Madam Speaker: Nancy Pelosi and the Lessons of Power,” Pelosi blasted the Senate Minority Leader, expressing her frustration towards the Republican lawmaker for refusing to allow the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg to lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda.
“Mitch McConnell is not a force for good in our country,” said Pelosi. “He is an enabler of some of the worst stuff, and an instigator of some of it on his own.”