Politics of president ial with the fulcrums editorinchief david hawkins. Watch live at 7 00 eastern monday morning. Join the discussion. Host who we get to talk about the Supreme Court history for an hour. I want to start by understanding the court today. The way our court is structured and evolved, how does the chief justice in this area will authority . What tools do they have . The question is, in this era, as always, the chief justice, first and foremost, is of one ofnd steward our three branches of government. I think there are some unique aspects about that job, in the sense that the court is not a political branch. It was deliberately designed not to be. Has a difficult job, because im sure you have had heard this expression. He is they are the chief among equals. They cannot control the other justices. The power to cajole, but not control. Specifically, does the chief have a role in what cases are heard, and who writes the opinions . Elizabeth those are probably two of the exti
Host we get to talk about the Supreme Court history for an hour. I want to start by understanding the court today. The way our court is structured and evolved, how does the chief justice in this area will ield authority . What tools do they have . Elizabeth the question is, in this era, as always, the chief justice, first and foremost, is the head and steward of one of our three branches of government. I think there are some unique aspects about that job in the sense that the court is not a political branch. It was deliberately designed not to be. The chief has a difficult job, because, im sure you heard this expression. The chief is chief among equals. They cannot control the other justices. They have the power to cajole, but not control. And there are some Great Stories throughout history that illustrate that very well. Host specifically, does the chief have a role in what cases are heard, and who writes the opinions . Elizabeth those are probably too of the principal distinctions of
Witnesses. Ukraine signs the deal with russia back separatists to hold local elections in the east. North korea fires missiles into the sea of japan hours after announcing a resumption of nucular talks with the u. S. Then and then killed and why has the public not been informed about the date and time now Jamal Khashoggi fiancee says the saudis must provide a year after the murder journalist was last seen entering the kingdoms istanbul consulate. Theres been a massive show of support in hong kong for the teenagers shot by police during protests on tuesday hundreds gathered outside the school of the 18 year old he was in a Critical Condition after being shot in the chest at close range but has since stabilized it was the 1st time a live bullet has been fired at a protest and this years unrest. And these are live pictures of protesters gathering outside a court thats hearing the cases of more than 100 demonstrators accused of participating in riots on sunday adrian brown reports now from
Mcgurn. Kim, i also read earlier in the week that maybe there was going to be a threepronged approach for the democrats in 2020 to create villains of President Trump, Mitch Mcconnell and Brett Kavanaugh. Yeah, look, i put this in a much broader context. You have a Democratic Party and a resistance left that are, remain very bitter that they lost this last election. And so you see them try to change the results of that by going after President Trump with what was a phony collusion hoax narrative in the end. But this is them trying to do the same thing with the court. Theyre very bitter that they lost the court, that the president has been able to put two conservative jurists on it. And so they are attacking the credibility of one of them, and they are trying to either change the koch decision of the Court Composition of the court either via with impeaching or courtpacking, or trying to intimidate the members into ruling their way. We should expect much more of it to come. Charles dan .
Lets just say the death toll i mean and its something you can really officially comment on but the fact that only 50 people have been confirmed dead but i mean from the devastation youve seen that death toll would surely rise. It really is tragic i mean any death is a tragedy but what were seeing is a lot of families that are wondering where their loved ones are and its going to take time for the authorities to to identify. And learn more about. What may end up being a really tragic that. You are from an aid group working with distributing that id tell me about that because from what ive read and seen its not so much the issue of is there the aid its how do we actually get it out to people because of the infrastructure which has been damaged. The logistical challenges here just staggering im here in freeport and there is no Running Water and many places theres no electricity in most places were seeing long lines at gas stations at petrol stations people are filling up tanks to take bac