A clause in there in when you were hired that says any dispute over salary or anything else has to go to arbitration you can t bring a class action suit in court to challenge that and I appreciate that example because it reminds us that while Kavanagh s nomination has been viewed through the lens of Roe versus Wade of abortion rights there is an almost infinite variety of cases in which presuming he is confirmed on the final vote tomorrow he would have an opportunity to rule and they would include abortion rights and a lot of things short of overturning Roe versus Wade and they would include labor rights and and many other things let s also remember that there was a relatively true statement made by Charles Schumer the Democrat from New York when he gave a speech shortly before the vote and he said Democrats have been accused of delaying this nomination Democrats have not he said and what he means is Republicans have had the majority Republicans reset the Supreme Court rules so that a
Coming up the view from the White House before the vote on Kavanagh I m Steve Inskeep And I m David Greene ahead we ll talk to a writer who sees a problem in the believe survivors movement it is the assumption that the accused are guilty and in Chicago will a police officer be found guilty in the killing of one McDonalds The jury is deliberating for a 2nd date It s Friday October 5th the birthday of an actress who apparently loves to quote mines from Titanic whenever she s with her friend Leonardo Di Caprio Kate Winslet turns 43 years old. The news is next. Live from n.p.r. News in Washington I m Corba Coleman the u.s. Economy added fewer jobs than expected in September but the Labor Department says the unemployment rate has fallen to the lowest rate in nearly 50 years N.P.R. s Kamila dominant reports the economy added $134000.00 jobs last month that s about half as many new jobs as the economy added in August according to the latest numbers from the Bureau of Labor Statistics But eve
Ok We re going to try to get back to the Senate floor in a moment Dianne Feinstein is delivering her speech there oh she s just concluded her remarks as a matter of fact so we are now going to hear in their entirety over the next few minutes from 2 more key players here want to Charles Schumer of New York he is the Senate Democratic leader and he is a senator who vowed very early on the Democrats would oppose this nomination with everything that they had the other senator we ll hear from is the key player in so many historic debates over the last decade and a half really Mitch McConnell the majority leader the Republican leader in the United States Senate and someone who has been absolutely central to the Supreme Court battles of the last few years it was Mitch McConnell who said that President Obama s last nominee to the court would not even get a vote it was Mitch McConnell who then steered the president trumps 1st nominee Neil Gorsuch to confirmation it is Mitch McConnell who has r
That does not give us also news oust him Frank says in Brazil the country chooses a new president on Sunday on the front runner in the opinion polls is the far right Joy both in our own here in Rio I ll be looking for how crime has got so bad they ve sent in the army and speaking to Shi a Bolsa Naru some will report from one of the country s most vulnerable to climate change and the head of Interpol is gone missing last seen taking a plane from France to China. First the news. Well I m Marion Marshall with the b.b.c. News this is Nobel Peace Prize has been jointly awarded to the Congolese going to colleges Denis Mukwege and he z.d. Human rights activist. For their work against the use of rape as a weapon of war the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee said the prize raised awareness of the need to prosecute the perpetrators of rape is Caroline wholly different different generations different continents but the Norwegian Nobel Committee said both had put their personal security at ris
They b c news with Sue Montgomery the United States has indicted 7 Russian intelligence officers as part of a joint crackdown with written on the Netherlands on a series of hacking plots attributed to Moscow the charges were announced as Dutch officials said the thwarted a Russian cyber attack on the global chemical weapons watchdog the o.p.c. w Barbara Platell sure reports from Washington u.s. Justice officials focused on what they said was a plot to deal with global sports bodies they said this was the way Russia retaliated for bans on its athletes following evidence it was systematically using drugs to enhance their performance the targets included the World Anti-Doping Agency and athletes from 30 countries whose medical and health information was stolen and published on social media Justice officials said the Russian agents also targeted a nuclear power company in Pennsylvania that supplies fuel to Ukraine they were charged with wire fraud identity theft and money laundering. Lead