U. S. Supreme Court Justice elena kagan was interviewed by Jeffrey Sutton at the library of congress in washington, d. C. , to discuss her life and career, including other Career Options that she considered before deciding on law, what it was like to clerk under the firstever black supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and her approach to writing opinions. This is about one hour and 10 minutes. Good afternoon. Thank you for joining the law library of congress and the United States Supreme Court for the 2024 Supreme Court fellow program lecture. I have the honor and privilege of serving as the librarian of congress. It is my pleasure to send greetings from the beautiful auditorium of the library of congress of Jefferson Building to our in person audience and everyone watching online. I have the honor and privilege of serving as the law library and of congress. It is my pleasure to send greetings from the beautiful auditorium of the library of Congress Jefferson building to both our i
alleged role in the january 6th insurrection. we ll all be able to listen live tomorrow morning. let me make it easy to follow the conversation tomorrow. you ve been hearing a lot about the 14th amendment. it s at the center of the case. it has five sections. of the five, you may only really know section one, the one about due process, laws, that one. it s the other white meat, section three. that s the one that s important, the so-called insurrectionist band. at its core it says, you can t hold office if you ve engaged in an insurrection. if it were that easy, i wouldn t have to explain it to you, would i? and the supreme court wouldn t take it up. there s a couple words you to pay attention to. it s the words that bring us here today, the court there tomorrow, and that court will dissect these words when trying to understand whether the insurrectionist ban of section three fully does apply to donald trump. the first words to consider is officer. the big question, is the pre
immunity. then there s also we re waiting for a ruling in the civil fraud trial against trump in new york. his sons and trump organization also on the hook there. and this comes after trump was ordered to pay e. jean carroll $83 million after her defamation suit last month. can you take us inside trump s mind right now? what must he be thinking? i mean, we know he s a man who embraces grievance, but this is a lot. it s a lot but he is also an expert conpartmentalizer in a way we ve seen very few people in the political realm be. so he looks at these a couple of different ways. the carroll verdict has infuriated him. we know it s a huge amount of money. we know it s a huge amount of money he doesn t want to pay and he ll have to pay some even as he s appealing it. the colorado ballot case, his team actually feels pretty good about its chances at the supreme court. and they see that as helping them politically, which is why you saw something like that filing today. so, there
claudine gay resigned after all that fierce pack backlash after her antisemitism after dozens of alleges of plagiarizing other people s work. she says she is the victim. this is outnumbered, we ll do victim busting. i m harris faulkner, here is my co-host emily compagno, and dagen mcdowell and cat-4 and former biden campaign surrogate kevin walling. calls for claudine gay to resign began after her shocking testimony last month when she failed to say calls for genocide of jews on campus would violate the school s conduct policy. calling for genocide of jews violates harvard code of conduct, correct? it depends on the context. it does not depend on the context, the answer is yes and you should resign. harris: despite all the condemnation, claudine gay waited a full month before resigning and did not apologize and said it has been distressing to have doubt cast of my commitment to confronting hate, two bedrock values fundamental to who i am and frightening to be attacked
good day to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i m john avlon in for kasie hunt. it is wednesday, december 20th. 5:00 a.m. here in new york. 3:00 a.m. in denver where layers for donald trump have vowed to appeal a colorado supreme court ruling that could keep the former president off the 2024 ballot before state justices ruling 4-3 that trump is ineligible to be president under the 14th amendment because he engaged in an insurrection on january 6. the court put its ruling on hold until january 4 pending trump s planned appeal to the u.s. supreme court. an attorney for the plaintiff seeking to block trump says he thinks that they have decent odds at winning there. first of all, trump is going to have to convince the supreme court to take this case. and i can imagine a world in which the supreme court says this is pretty early on in the election cycle, let s see how it plays out in some other states first. so he is first going to have to convince the supreme court