Page 15 - Drafting Process News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

>> the convention managed to avoid potentially embarrassing roll call on third voice vote. to say it was a foregone conclusion is understatement. they were prewritten on the teleprompter. >> in the opinion of the chair, two-third voted in the affirmative. the motion is adopted. we learned more about how the jerusalem language was dropped in the first place. when the plank was drafted it was written to reflect president's official policy that jerusalem is matter for final status negotiations. the drafting committee thought since the party and the president's personal position on jerusalem that ...

We don't know why he switched. he may have been focused solely on the law but that is not what some colleagues believe. >> joining me now jonathan truly, a constitutional law professor at george washington university. i always thought that justices changing sides during deliberations was not that uncommon. >> well, you're correct. in fact, chief justices can game the system because they're always the most senior justice, they can essentially take control of the drafting process. what i think is different here is that their chief justice didn't usually change. this is the first time in his enti...

In tomorrow. after the justices have the vote, they are going to sign the majority opinion and the justice and his clerks will work away on it. if that opinion isn't something that the other justices want to join, there can be movement on which justices go which way. >> greta: hypothetical, it's 5-4 tomorrow and the chief justice is in the majority, he decides who will write the opinion? >> that's correct. >> greta: let's assume, he is not in the majority, who will decide who writes the opinion. >> whoever the most senior justice is. >> greta: all right. they make the decision, whatever it is....

>> sure. >> 3 out of 5 voters in florida said they wanted a different candidate. and the fact is that there's going to be more than just two choices. this week in the last 72 hours, the americans elect platform just opened up their drafting process and 52 candidates have been drafted, including chuck hagel, mike bloomberg, jon huntsman, condoleezza rice, and wait for it, joe scarborough. >> there you go. there you go. >> for what? >> and here you stay. >> my ear. >> thanks for that, mark. now back to jobs. very nice, though. the growth or lack thereof there, steve rattner. both parties are put...

And doing something a little different. judge hardiman went to notre dame, first-person and his family to graduate from college. helped put himself through school by driving a taxi. what is interesting is looking back over his confirmation hearing from his earlier post on the federal bench back in 2003 when he was testifying about his qualifications come he talked about some of his most memorable and important work he had ever done was pro bono work for people who had come to the country without going through the proper channels. it is interesting to read how he talks about that and how he hel...