shepard: judge, thank you. you re welcome. shepard: luther strange fighting to hold on to his seat today. voters in the state of alabama head to bottles for special election primaries. the state s then golf appointed strange to replace jeff sessions after sessions accepted the job as attorney general. the president endorsed the incumbent and today he tweeted big day in alabama. vote for luther strange. he will be great. senator strange is facing a tough primary fight from the former alabama supreme court justice, roy moore. and the gop congressman mo brooks. jonathan serrie just outside birmingham. what are senator strange s opponents saying? senator strange enjoys strong support among the republican party establishment, which is a double edge sword today. mo brooks is trying to exploit
and later, first mike huckabee says we don t have to obey the supreme court and now an alabama supreme court justice says ruth bader ginsburg should be impeached. (mom) when our little girl was born we got a subaru. it s where she said her first word. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye! made a best friend forever. the back seat of my subaru is where she grew up. what? (announcer) the 2015 subaru forester (girl) what? (announcer) built to be there for your family. love. it s what makes a subaru a subaru. seems like we ve hit a road block. that reminds me. anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea. .gas, bloating? yes!
impeached by the house of representatives 37 three were convicted by the senate. another resigned after being impeached by the house. all of them had been indicted for bribery before they were impeached. and now the elected chief justice of the alabama supreme court wants ruth bader ginsburg to be impeached because she officiated at a same-sex wedding. we have justices on the supreme court right now who have actually performed same-sex marriages. ginsburg and kagan. in fact, just last weekend, ginsburg performed a same-sex marriage. and when she did, it was pointed out by the new york times that she subtly or they said slyly, which i ll quote what the new york times says, with a sly look and a special emphasis on the word constitution, justice ginsburg said she was pronouncing the two men married by the showers vested in her by the constitution of the united states.
court expert tom goldstein. tom, first you have mike huckabee saying we don t have to obey the supreme court. they just write those things. they re just opinions. now we have this. now we have let s impeach, let s impeach. the impeach thing is crazy, never going to happen. we all know that. but there is this momentum coming from the right about the supreme court does not have the authority that people suggest it does. yeah. i really think that justice ginsburg and justice kagan aren t sweating bullets over the prospect of impeachment here. but you re right right, there is a bigger issue and that is not since desegregation have we seen an effort by a state delegitimize the supreme court and saying it doesn t have to follow under the constitution. the alabama supreme court has refused to follow an alabama federal court, holding there is a right to same-sex marriage. so if there s something troubling here, it is really, so
it s not easy for a federal judge to get impeached in the last 25 years. only four judges have been impeached by the house of representatives 37 three were convicted by the senate. another resigned after being impeached by the house. all of them had been indicted for bribery before they were impeached. and now the elected chief justice of the alabama supreme court wants ruth bader ginsburg to be impeached because she officiated at a same-sex wedding. we have justices on the supreme court right now who have actually performed same-sex marriages. ginsburg and kagan. in fact, just last weekend, ginsburg performed a same-sex marriage. and when she did, it was pointed out by the new york times that she subtly or they said slyly,