began in the reagan administration to put a solid conservative majority on the court. it s a huge move for president trump and the republicans. but it s going to come at a cost to the authority and legitimacy of the court. because the court likes to say it s engaged in law. and applying neutral principles without regard to politics. yet everything we saw in the preceding months and? particular from judge kavanaugh s second round of statements sent a different message suggesting the court is a partisan institution divided upon partisan lines like the rest of the country. and that those concerns that adam is speaking to there, danny, seem to be on brett kavanaugh s mind with this last-minute wall street journal op-ed that went up online two nights ago where he talked about sort of defending his presentation apologizing. it seemed a little opaquely for some aspects of it. he said i testified with people
judge kavanaugh. we may have a way to go. at least in the near term what happens this afternoon, if it comes out as the president believes it will, will be a huge political victory for him. chris. shannon: thank you very much. senators are expected to begin voting any minute now on supreme court nominee judge brett kavanaugh. both sides of the aisle have been critical of the president, the super charged hearings are set for supreme court nominees in the future. chris: joining us now to weigh in, allen dershowitz. good to talk with you. your thoughts about how this process has played out and the fact that we re going to get justice brett kavanaugh, if the schedule holds, in about 45 minutes. well, i think it would be a disaster if the democrats, if they were to gain control of the house were to look backwards and try to do revenge investigations and revenge impeachments. it would be unconstitutional to
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angry, now they can t teach, because they expressed anger. it s such an old technique, it makes me sick to the stomach as a liberal. chris: it s one thing to fool around with a supreme court and the senate. when you fool around with harvard law school, you ve gone too far. that s right. absolutely. we can t let that happen. chris: to what degree do you think that justice kavanaugh, still being what we think is going to happen in the next half hour does, to what degree do you think that will shift the balance in the court and make this a solid conservative majority court? any nominee of president trump would have shifted the balance. if he nominated the judge from the seventh circuit it would have shifted the balance even more. she is well to the right of kavanaugh. i think we ll see a shift but we would see a shift no matter what. the democrats aren t going to get this nomination. they had a nomination stolen from them when president obama nominated merrick garland. i objected to t
facts before the hearing in order to inform the questioning. because they hired an outside prosecutor to question dr. ford as if she were on trial. because the white house kept the fbi investigation on a short leash, dictating the scope and even the kinds of questions the fbi was allowed to ask. because republican senators, sensing after dr. ford s testimony that a debate about the truth and facts was not working adopted a cynical new strategy to shout, pound the table, and portray judge kavanaugh as the helpless victim of some unseen partisan conspiracy. because the president of the united states because the president of the united states stooping to new depth, even for