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From the blog of Clifford Rieders at The Times of Israel

To be tweeting about it around the clock. just your thoughts from watching this court. have you ever seen a dynamic like that shape up? >> well, we saw justice gorsuch on the court involved in some of these privileged cases involving the presidential powers. remember, in the 1970s when the supreme court said president nixon was not immune from a subpoena for the white house tapes, william renquist did sit the case out. but other members of the court did vote on that case. i wouldn't think that any of the current justices would recuse themselves. renquist had worked in the justice department. t...

Mccovey was 80 years old. two supreme court justices could be husband and wife. a letter unearthed from march of 1952. in it, future chief justice william renquist then girlfriend sandra day o'connor. they declined. they acknowledged they were dating at stanford law school. the late justice renquist and his wife became friends with the connors. and while you were sleeping, jimmy fallon showed outtakes by the president. >> first is alabama. >> it sounds too much like obama. next. >> how about hawaii? >> hawaii is a beautiful, beautiful country. >> massachusetts. >> god bless you. >> that wa...

Said this in a special tape last night on a special report with bret baier. listen to this. >> most of my professional career has been as a supreme court litigator and i know the court well. i think the odds are very good we will see a vacancy this summer. if not this summer next summer. the next vacancy the opportunity to shift the course of this court to put a five justice juvenile court of constitutionalists on the court. that's going to be armageddon. and we need to be be prepared to make the case to the american people. pete: first you got to go, well, he clerked for chief justifiable wil...

Hatch, the women senators from maine. there are some votes in play that will decide whether it's 65 or 70 that she gets. >> but to that point of experience, sam stein from the huffington post compared the resumés of kagan and renquist before renquist ascended to the court and he concluded that renquist would be considered something of a novice by the standards some are applying to kagan. what does that do -- this is not the first time thin has been used, but sessions used it today. what does that do to the sessions claim that her experience is thin? >> the argument is thin, i suppose. william...