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Been absolutely lights out. The best november since time began, and maybe that is what we have, whatever you view on the election. But with the bombshell from pfizer on a vaccine, the market goes straight up. The president radio salad for four days, and we get a tweet for fourdio silent days, and we get a tweet out this morning. In this moment, we continue to see i am going to call it a second surge of market performance. Jonathan this morning is not about the politics. It is about the science. You can take the narrative and put it in the shredder this morning. We hope at some point in the not...

Colorado and minnesota, most of this clears out. The bigger problem i would say some of these temperatures, sub zero, northern parts of minnesota, minus 13 in international falls, that might keep you home instead of off to the polls this morning. Nicole, thank you very much. Weve been talking about super tuesday, but lots more to get you caught up on, including a showdown over security. Apple and f. B. I. Go to congress in a fight over unlocking the San Bernardino shooters phone. President obama meets with senators to talk about filling the open seats on the supreme court. Apple and f. B. I. N...

Sort of timing which has become standard in modern confirmation process. Indeed, in american history, only one attempt to push through september or october confirmation was the failed campaign to approve fortiss no president , 1968. Mr. I cannot believe anyone would want to repeat that experience in todays climate. Moreover, of the five justices confirmed in the summer of an election year, all five were nominated for vacancies that had a reason before the summer had began. August justice griers confirmation was for a vacancy in the court that was more than two years old. As was the july confir...

Differently than the preceding ones. President , the pressure and tension on the existing process which exploded during the thomas nomination fight make a restoration of what came before judge thomas nomination, even it was desirable, a practical impossibility. That we face my immediate question, can our Supreme Court nomination and confirmation process so rectified discord and bitterness be repaired and it president ial Election Year . Mr. President , history teaches us that this is extremely unlikely. Bitter our nations most and heated confirmation fights have come in president ial Election ...

Lastly, selfrestraint, which checks the wellintentioned urge to shortcircuit government by the people, the kind of restraint that jefferson spoke of when he warned of the unbridled third branch. I want to quote jefferson, our peculiar security is in the possession of a written constitution. Let us not make it a blank paper by construction. Or the kind of restraint hamilton spoke of when he said in 1978 that the judiciary was beyond comparison, the weakest of three departments, having Neither Force nor will, but merely judgment. Because he meets this principled standard for confirmation, robert...