For roll call talks about campaign 2020. As always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter as well. Washington journal is next. Host good morning. Welcome to washington journal. Likely coincidental, the first democratic debate occurred as the Supreme Court was winding down with notable decisions. They became part of the discussion at the debates. We will spend the first hour asking you, how important is the Supreme Court in your 2020 both . 202 7488000 for democrats, 202 7488001 for republicans, 202 7488002 for independents. We will look for your tweets cspanwj also on facebook, facebook. Com cspan. Bloomberg focuses the Supreme Court as a Campaign Issue for democrats. Democrats are attempting to turn the Supreme Court into a Campaign Issue in front of donald trump success, reshaping the federal judiciary with young, conservative justice, with abortionrights close to being a laminated. It is a shift eliminated. It is a shift. The dynamic laste
Interference charges. Now, i will remind you, the court could have just affirmed the u. S. District courts ruling that, no, a president ial does not have absolute immunity. But that was not the decision tonight. And while hearing the case does not mean that ultimately they will rule in trumps favor, the highest court in the land just gave trump something that he has been aggressively fighting for, time. The Oral Arguments in the case have been set for the week of april 22nd, nearly two months from now. Why so much time . And after that, even in a best case scenario, it will be a few weeks before a decision comes down. That is the best case considering we know that there are at least some of the Supreme Court justices who dont agree with the earlier rulings. Otherwise, they would not be hearing the case. And if the court does decide to affirm the earlier ruling, as they should, and hand the case back to District Court judge tanya chutkan, she would need a few months to get the case back
Judicial independence, this is just over an hour. Thats a very bright light. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is mike hogan, assistant Vice President for development and human relations at jw law school. Its my privilege to welcome you all this afternoon to the fifth and final conversation with Supreme Court Justice Steven bryer, arc of a great career. [applause] Justice Bryer welcome back to gw. I would like to extend welcome to gw alumni and friends and various members of gw alumni Advisory Boards that have joined us from around the country including california, arizona, illinois, new york and, of course, here in washington, d. C. Its now my great pleasure to introduce the dean of the George Washington University Law school please welcome to the stage dean dana boeing matthew. [applause] so excited. Im going stay on script, though. Good afternoon and welcome im dana, my pronouns are she, her and hers. It is my great privilege to welcome you to this the fifth and final installment of thi
Thats a very bright light. Ladies and gentlemen, my name is mike hogan, assistant Vice President for development and human relations at jw law school. Its my privilege to welcome you all this afternoon to the fifth and final conversation with Supreme Court Justice Steven bryer, arc of a great career. [applause] Justice Bryer welcome back to gw. I would like to extend welcome to gw alumni and friends and various members of gw alumni Advisory Boards that have joined us from around the country including california, arizona, illinois, new york and, of course, here in washington, d. C. Its now my great pleasure to introduce the dean of the George Washington University Law school please welcome to the stage dean dana boeing matthew. [applause] so excited. Im going stay on script, though. Good afternoon and welcome im dana, my pronouns are she, her and hers. It is my great privilege to welcome you to this the fifth and final installment of this only gw experience. Amazing series would not hav
Laura is a congressional reporter for Bloomberg News the senate has been working on immigration. What the status of things now . Well, we saw four immigration proposals that could not get enough support to become the basis of an amendment process that might have produced the bill and its essentially at least on an immediate basis the collapse of something that comes after months of consensus seeking in the chamber. We have had the number two leaders in both chambers meeting with the administration to come up with some kind of compromise, and we have had democratic snort senator dick durbin and Lindsay Graham meating to come up with a plan, that the president rejected. Todays votes there are four votes but a key faceoff between the compromise crafted over, again, many weeks by 25 senators, by Susan Collins of maine, republican, joe mansion, a West Virginia democrat, plan a plan was based off whatis reflective of President Trump wants, which Border Security plan, a pathway to citizenship