While working full time. He has an unparalleled worth he cannic and passed down the passion for playing and watching sports. The lead republican Mitch Judiciary and meanwhile, these four red states. They were invited to attend the event at the white house tonight but declined. We know that Susan Collins and lisa mur you could ski declined invitations. All six of the folks considered critical votes that republicans in their case need to protect and the democrats need to keep on their side. Importantly, they both voted the two republican women did for kavanaughs confirmation to the d. C. Circuit court in 06. Now earlier tonight, Senator Collins of maine released a statement that highlighted judge kavanaughs extensive experience and read, i will conduct a careful, thorough vetting of the president s nominee to the
Supreme Court, as i have done with the five Previous Supreme Court justices whom i have considered. I look forward to judge kavanaughs public hearing and to questioning him in a
certain way and there s no way we could win and that this was a way to give the republicans major control over federal elections. i just didn t buy that. maybe because i m a supreme court lawyer. my job is to argue there. in the end, i do think that history can provide clear answers to questions. laura, there was such an interesting mix of justices in the majority here. take us through the decision and the majority opinion, as i said, written by the chief justice. written by the chief justice. also joined by barrett and kavanaugh, rejecting what has once been sort of a fringe outlier of a theory but made a re-emergence most powerfully in 2020 by the former president and some of his allies. the idea was really about power. who has the power when it comes to deciding some of these federal election disputes? should state courts have a role to play? is it really just the power
sidelines. this is not a cia plot. we didn t bring this about. we don t need any more friction than already exists. it isjust need any more friction than already exists. it is just fine for us, frankly per trip the old adage, if your enemy is making mistakes, don t interrupt him, and that s the case here. today, we saw putin, having got prigozhin stand down yesterday using lukashenko to broker a deal, now he is trying to reassert himself and show he is still in charge, trying to be the strongman still. we see the re emergence of the minister of defence. i agree very much with your report that it would be unlikely now to see the minister and the chief of the general staff replaced any time soon. putin can t seem at all to be caving in, although, in effect, he did. reportedly, he left moscow yesterday, so he didn t do what zelensky said, which was to not take