conform to the california supreme court, which has jurisdiction over vastly more people than any other state supreme court. judge kruger is a graduate of harvard college and yale law school, where she was first black woman to be editor-in-chief of the yale journal. leondra kruger served as a law clerk for john paul stevens, a justice appointed by gerald ford. after two years in a washington d.c. law form, leondra kruger join the u.s. solicitor general s office where she served until 2013 and was the first black woman to serve as the acting deputy solicitor general. she has argued 12 cases before the u.s. supreme court, more than any other black women in history. that is two more than constance baker motley, who became the first black woman to argue a case before the united states supreme court. she was part of the legal team that thurgood marshall assembled that won the historic
house of representatives sent a criminal referral on mark meadows to the justice department for his defying your subpoena would. do you have any sets from the justice department why we are 56 days into this story with no reply? i don t know the answer to that. we do know that they have investigated and interviewed various individuals. but i don t know what they are thinking. i would hope that they would take action. i think the case is quite clear. mr. meadows, who is required to come into the committee, he felt that he had valid privileges to assert he had to come in and assert those privileges. he doesn t have an absolute blanket immunity anymore than the other person and the law is very clear on that so i hope the department acts the sooner
tragic in my heart goes out to the families feel of the survivors. the prosecutor says she s angry as a mother, angry as a citizen, angry as a prosecutor. i get that. but anchor should not be the basis for decisions prosecutors make, even in egregious cases like this. look, they are responsible parents, and horrible citizens. but they are not killers. and manslaughter should be reserved for actual killers. the crumbley s could be sentenced to 60 years of prison if they re convicted of all counts. that s more time than most murderers do. we joyce vance, is there a lesser charge that these parents could ve faced, some kind of reckless endangerment by not taking any measures when they had such clear warnings? we i think this is the lesser charge, and i take paul s point, and it s so rare that we disagree, but we actually do here.
terrible tragedy. so while i agree with paul that anger is never an a reason to charge, here i think the facts of the law come together in a way that this actually is the proper charge for these parents. law professors joyce vance and paul butler, thank you for joining us tonight. we will be continuing the coverage of this case, we will need your voices on this as we go. thank you. coming, up the chairman of the senate judiciary committee is encouraging president biden to announce his nominee to the supreme court sooner than the end of february. we begin a new series tonight on the supreme lead qualified women who president biden is considering for his first supreme court nomination. that is next with neil katyal. and amanda tyler.
various individuals. but i don t know what they are thinking. i would hope that they would take action. i think the case is quite clear. mr. meadows, who is required to come into the committee, he felt that he had valid privileges to assert he had to come in and assert those privileges. he doesn t have an absolute blanket immunity anymore than the other person and the law is very clear on that so i hope the department acts the sooner the better there. that s what s so strange about it, a congressional subpoena requires the person to show up and they can have their lawyers with them, they can, when you ask a question, assert any privilege they want to assert, fifth amendment, executive privilege, whatever they want to assert, and then you interest rumble of sorts of whether you are the committee can get around that privilege or not. most of the time you cannot get