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A lot were small, naming post offices and things. 230 bills. now it is down to 81 in the first year of this congress, one of the lowest, second lowest ever really in history. on the right, and this is very timely given the news about justice breyer, where president biden has done exceptionally well and not gotten that much attention for it is judicial appointments. he had 42 justices confirmed to the district court and the courts of appeals, higher than reagan. you have to go back to kennedy to find a record of that many confirmations. now, of course, he will get his first court pick which puts him in the company of trump, obama, clinton and reagan for having had a first-year court pick. mika. there you go. stay with us. coming up, the purpose to make sure joe biden keeps his campaign promise to nominate a black woman to the supreme court. and forced to choose between a popular podcaster who spreads misinformation and the music of ....
Integration decisions, the idea that the warring court had gone too far. we are sort of in the 70th year of that. yeah, and you are right. i saw you yesterday talking about after the nomination, talking about one of the reasons why republican are so intense and so focused on every nominee now. you go back, you traced, you know, one republican president after another. of course, it was ike that gave america earl warren and then brennon. you can take that all the way through. a lot of republicans angry at sandra day o conner and kennedy when they had chances time and time again to end roe v. wade, they always refused to do it. so this is a conservative court, ....
Sorts. seriously, is this going to bring boris johnson down. it is raining cats and dogs and parties and problems for him at the moment. yes. he can t seem to catch a break. i think what is at the heart of all of this, you mentioned one of the things the prime minister had said about the cats-and-dogs scandal and whether he prioritized getting animals outside of afghanistan rather than people and he was asked about it and he said it was complete non-sen. i don t think it is one or two individual parties. it is a pattern of the prime minister denying things or in this case appearing to have lied about them and thinking that he can get away with doing things that other people aren t doing. that s what is causing him problems. boris johnson is useful to the conservative party when he is popular. if he starts being unpopular, the conservative party is pretty ruthless, as we know around ....
2015 he said the death penalty in america had become so arbitrarily it was probably unconstitutional. his real legacy is trying to take the law in a pragmatic direction. he wanted the law to work. he didn t want abstract legal rules that made no sense in the real world. reporter: justice breyer will be around until at least late june when the term ends, one of the most important terms in years. so, jon meacham, here we go again. these obviously become extraordinarily partisan. people as of act as if they ve only been partisan for the past years, but it would be hard to beat the bourque hearings or actually the bourque nomination even before, you know, any hearings began, how intense and how partisan that was. miguel estrada as well and, of ....
To jim clyburn in south carolina and said, i will pick a black woman to be my first supreme court justice. well, here we are. who is out there, who is on the board and how is he looking at this? you think back to that moment in the campaign and the jump start to president biden s campaign and his declaration if elected president he would name the first black woman to the supreme court, those two things are so rolled up in one, willie, it is easy to see why now the white house is looking at this moment as a real opportunity, especially when they look ahead to the mid terms. it is right they know this is likely to be a big fight, but it is a fight the white house would rather be having than, for example, a fight between progressives and moderates over build back better. you know, it is one that is there s no issue other than this that s going to energize the base as much and give the president a chance to deliver on that commitment. the white house already making ....