KQED KQED Newsroom April 10, 2017
Next Supreme Court justice with a simple majority vote. Republican senators invoked the socalled Nuclear Option to lower the vote threshold and defeat a filibuster mounted by senate democrats. Joining me now to discuss these legal issues and more is john yu, a uc berkeley law professor. Thanks for being here. So the president ordered a missile strike thursday on syria, and he did it without clearing it through the u. N. Security council or through congress. Weve seen a lot of response in the last day. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called the attack proportional, but she also joined more l...