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
Cspan2. The Supreme Court just wrapped up its current term with a number of significant decisions. Host we have briand goron and john malcolm here. Thank you for being in this morning. Breanna, i will start with you and ask what your take is on the decisions that came down in the recent term. There were two Big Decisions that came down the last day of the term. Guest i think this was a deeply different disappointing decision from the court because the chief justice threw up their hands and acknowledged that extreme partisan gerrymanders are inconsistent with what quit to do anything about them. Justice kagan got it right in her decision when she recognized , when do the courts can do things when can the courts do things . Otherwhat was the decision last week you thought was important . Case, it the sentence challenged the Trump Administrations decision to add a Citizenship Question to the 2020 census. The chief justice got right on this one. I agree with some of his legal reasoning, bu
An impact. But like i said earlier, it will take a lot of Digital Media literacy that we dont have. Brian, its great to see you. Thanks for joining the show tonight. Thanks. That is our show for this evening. Its time for last word with lawrence odonnell. Good evening, lawrence. Good evening, alex. And we have a democratic nominee, joe biden has officially made it. So were going to be covering only of that and also a lot of defended trump coverage to get to. It is a big night. The General Election is on. Have a good show, lawrence. It is. Thanks, alex. Thank you. Well, its not a good day for the Trump Fanatics on the republican controlled house Judiciary Committee. It was not a great day for their star witness. Republican former u. S. Attorney robert hur was appointed to his u. S. Attorney by donald trump, conducted the investigation of joe bidens possession of classified material after joe biden left the vice presidency. That investigation found joe biden did not commit any crimes at
Have multiple committees on which we serve in the senate and from time to time its important to check in with those committees. Senator barasso will be along and ill make my Opening Statement and then i will introduce the first three witnesses. Senator grassleyey will introdue a witness in senator lee will introduce a witness and we will proceed. We are here today to discuss womens rights, the right to bodily autonomy, the right to set the course of their own life and their right to economic freedom. I hear off in the Budget Committee should only be concerned in deficits but in a serious conversation about debt and deficit must analyze threats to Economic Growth and ability. Deficits do not occur in a vacuum. Welcome. They result from a fiscal decision that we make and from what we do. It it strengthens or weakens our economy. Y. Reproductive rights it turns out are intrinsically tied to economic opportunity. Reproductive justice is Economic Justice. Restricting one restrictsin the oth
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