property. and the guy who bought it had never spoken to or even met gorsuch. joining me now chris landow former to gorsuch, also form ambassador to mexico in the trump administration. chris, what s going on, you and i when we were clerking we didn t hear this type of stuff, this scuttlebutt. this wasn t even in the atmosphere at all. but this seems to be picking up. why? i think you nailed it, laura. the supreme court is one institution that the left does not control in our country today, and i think they don t see that institution coming within their control anytime soon. so instead of just taking on the court on the merits, which the court, like any other institution, is certainly subject to public debate. but they don t go that rout. instead they are seizing on these kind of attacks to try to de-legitimize the court and
she had recently won a half million dollar jury verdict. that is pretty awfully good fo somebody out of a short time chicago was one of seven. her father absent, raised by her grandma in the neighborhoo of boarded up houses smart and determined, rose above her impoverished early years. once refuse was lit, she becam a rocket she was talented, she had overcome so very much in a short time period. she was the star of her family chicago was the first in he family to go to college. then she enrolled and hometown southern law school. got grabbed up by law firm where she started clerking while studying for the bar and that is when she met legal assistant lacey. she was driven, wanting t get that next high
how dangerous concussions can be for athletes and how they can lead to brain damage known as cte. well now the family of the shooter in the louisville bank massacre wants his brain examined for c t. e. after he reportedly had multiple concussions in high school. and a lots changed since the olden days of father knows best. many women now make as much money or more than their husbands. so why are women still doing the lion s share of housework? we ll get our panel s perspective on a new study and stay tuned for our friday night news quiz. see if you know more about what happened this week than our panelists. but let s start with the supreme court. we want to bring in our panel. we have former watergate prosecutor nick akerman, jessica washington from the root jay michaelson, who clerked for merrick garland and was on the supreme court beach at the daily beast for many years, and former senate candidate joe pinion guys happy friday. great to have you all here. so j with your credentials
chemically punished. i think act chemically punished. with the privilege of going to fanford law, you have access to clerking in the federal judiciary and also to the very top tier law practices across the country. you write your own ticket. absolutely. this is a top three law school, the best of the best are supposed to be there. but they are shouting people down they disagree with. that is the opposite of free speech. you know, it s, like, sometimes i love listening to people that i disagree with and i ll make mental notes and shake my head, no, no, no, but i m not going to yell at them because we have to have civil discourse where we air out ideas. it s okay if people are offended. yeah. so we ve come to the idea that it s so egregious to be offended, that people have to be insulated from that, and that s now dubbed free speech. so words essentially mean nothing, and they are generating cream puff lawyers that will be the death of society. do you think that
clerking, the computer system was pretty rudimentary, in 1993 and 1992. but still, you know, you had to log on and log off. i would imagine now the system is pretty sophisticated given the ability to hack. does any of this add up to you? well, the time to find out who the leaker was was immediately after the leak. as this report notes, a lot of these people are temporary employees. they might not even be around. it didn t seem like a really serious effort to find out what had happened. and it should have been a serious effort. this leak led to an assassination attempt on a sitting u.s. supreme court justice. it s also led to security problems for all of the justices who voted, who ruled in dobbs. this is such an important issue to get right, and justice chief justice roberts did not seem to take it very seriously. it was a very lax investigation. the marshal of the supreme court didn t seem to have the skills