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We will not move. we will go forward. >> judge kavanaugh has been sitting on a preapproved list of right wing nominees for eight months now. i have reviewed his record and let me tell you, brett kavanaugh did not end up on this list because he is the consensus nominee. >> that's pretty much how that went. michael scherrer said groups on both sides prepared multimillion-dollar digital and television ad campaigns even before president trump's announcement that brett kavanaugh will be his nominee. the battle plans were in place and the arguments have been framed. what happens next is a no holds b...

The reason anthony kennedy's retirement felt like such an earthquake today, the reason a lot of observers are saying this is the biggest political earthquake since the election of trump and the subsequent revelation that a foreign advocacy had a role in helping trump, the reason it's being seen as a once in a lifetime showstopping political moment, particularly for democrats is not necessarily because of anything about anthony kennedy. it's because of this. conservative justice antonin scalia died 2017. president obama picked a centrist nominee to succeed him, merrick garland was described by ...

Described by everybody as a centrist and a moderate and described as the kind of person seen as a consensus nominee. someone who republicans could not have a conceivable rejection too. decided to do something without precedence and hold his seat open for a year and refused to meet with the nominee, hold a hearing, vote or consider a nomination. specifically because they said president obama should not be allowed to name a justice to the court. no nominee no matter who it was. have to wait for a new election. new rule. had that not happened and pointed to fill that open seat after scalia died, ...

There will be no check on donald trump either. and let me remind folks as you pointed out this supreme court justice could determine robert mueller could issue a subpoena to donald trump and could vote against it. that's why donald trump is a minority president, elected by a minority of the country. we need a consensus nominee, one that gets a super majority, one that is not the extreme of the hard right, one that a majority can support. >> you make an important point about inter branch issues. there are some things that have authority of the president. this is not one. senate has a role, they...

Successful. >> martha: mercedes, always good to see you, thank you. interesting to remember that kennedy was not president reagan's first choice. in fact, he was his third choice. first was robert bork, and we all remember that sparked a brutal senate battle. he was defeated. his second pick was douglas ginsburg who withdrew after admitting he had smoked marijuana which obviously is no longer a benchmark for pretty much anything in the country, and then came kennedy who was viewed as the consensus nominee. >> justice kennedy's career has been marked by his devotion to a simple, straightforward...