Democrats blocked republican poll watchers from viewing the votecounting process as seen here last week in a counting and Tabulation Center in detroit. Those democrats also charging, well, they are ignoreed republicanchallenged ballots, and as a result, illegal ballots were included in vote tallies. Republican National Committee chair Ronna Mcdaniel says there are 518 sworn affidavits now charging electoral fraud in five states. Those after davids allege more than 11,000 incidents of democrat fraud in the counting and voting process. Mcdaniel says republicans are pursuing every single one of those complaints and charges. S it is stealing. When you validate a vote that shouldnt be in, you are stealing from a voter that voted legally. So when you see these people in detroit saying we saw batches of votes that were invalidated, they had the wrong name, they didnt live there, they werent a resident, they were deceased, and then you put them back in the fuel of valid votes, that is stealing
What we were going through then as comparison to whats happening now and also some of the lessons that were learned. Lets start with the court itself in 2000. The Rehnquist Court. Nine members of the court and seven of them have been appointed by republican president s. But how do they align ideologically . David its sort of a 54 conservative court. Rehnquist was a leader. Justice scalia was a prominent figure. It leans right. There were several moderate republicans. John stephens, david souter and Ruth Ginsburg and stephen breyer, four on the left. So it leaned conservative. But it was also an interesting you know, the court the court is never 100 predictable. I found that Justice Kennedy and Justice Oconnor were middle of the road conservatives. And you could not predict them in all sorts of cases. Susan would you say a bit more about the chief Justice William rehnquist and his approach to leading the court . David well, he had, you know, he had been on the court for a lot of years b
As comparison to whats happening now and also some of the lessons that were learned. Lets start with the court itself in 2000. The Rehnquist Court. Nine members of the court and seven of them have been appointed by republican president s. But how do they align ideologically . David its sort of a 54 conservative court. Rehnquist was a leader. Justice scalia was a prominent figure. It leans right. There were several moderate republicans. John stephens, david souter and Ruth Ginsburg and stephen breyer, four on the left. So it leaned conservative. But it was also an interesting you know, the court the court is never 100 predictable. I found that Justice Kennedy and Justice Oconnor were middle of the road conservatives. And you could not predict them in all sorts of cases. Susan would you say a bit more about the chief Justice William rehnquist and his approach to leading the court . David well, he had, you know, he had been on the court for a lot of years before he became a chief justice.
A no fly zone to stamp out its a separate the struggle that mark plans to cold minks in the country to contain a mutated form all of coronavirus. Well its 1400 g. M. T. And the day is just Getting Started its in the eastern United States and its been 3 days since election day but we still cant say who the next president of the United States is things are heating up though every error the gap is narrowing we see donald trump and joe biden lets take you through the state of the race as it stands we have 4 battleground states that are still being counted in any single win for joe biden could effectively and this race he is now i had joe biden is not ahead in. Georgia. In the last few minutes hes just crept ahead in the state of pennsylvania trump though he is still leading in the state of North Carolina but the margins are reserved thin the states being karen says you can see here in yellow and this means that biden has 264 Electoral College votes trump has 214 the number so hits as ever
David savage, it is the 20th andversary of bush v gore here we are in the midst of sorting through another close election. We asked you because youve been covering this Supreme Court since 1986 to come back and look back in time with us at that 2000 election. What we were going through then as comparison to whats happening now and also some of the lessons that were learned. Lets start with the court itself in 2000. The Rehnquist Court. Nine members of the court and seven of them have been appointed by republican president s. But how do they align ideologically . David its sort of a 54 conservative court. Rehnquist was a leader. Justice scalia was a prominent figure. It leans right. There were several moderate republicans. John stephens, david souter and Ruth Ginsburg and stephen breyer, four on the left. So it leaned conservative. But it was also an interesting you know, the court the court is never 100 predictable. I found that Justice Kennedy and Justice Oconnor were middle of the ro