administration and earlier with the executive orders aimed at requiring certain workplaces to have vaccine and testing mandates urntd the osha statute. the real question for the administration is if they push on the question of executive power, do they not only lose at the supreme court eventually but when they lose, they not only lose on this question of abortion but the broader question of the administrative state and government ability to regulate through agencies more broadly. there s a lot at stake. this comes down to something has to be done. a symbolic grand gesture. but in the end, we can t really rely on government to save us. we have to get out there and we have to vote. we have to recognize the republicans have been disciplined on this. they have been voting and were losing and they still came out when the court had david suitor and kennedy and o connor. people who were wobbly on the core conservative issues. that didn t stop conservatives from coming out to vote.
this is a draft document. that is true and what happened in 1992 was the looking like they were getting ready to overturn roe, david suitor, kennedy, they got together and decided along with john paul stevens and harry blackman on the court at that point, the five got together after the conference and said you know, we re going to cut back on abortion rights but we are going to preserve what they called the core of roe v wade. it is possible that something like that could happen here but there is a big difference. the difference is the record and the political outlook of the justices who are on the court now. amy coney barrett, knneil gorsu, brett kavanaugh, they are all on
22. we re past the era of bipartisanship in nominations, even for folks as qualified as this. really amazing. it used to be, if you passed the qualification test, even people would say too liberal or too conserve fif for me, but the president won the election. he or she gets to make the decision. antonin scalia, anthony kennedy, 97-0. david suitor. the bipartisanship continues. ruth bader ginsburg. it continued. then the last few. the trump appointees and elena kagan and sotomayor before that. in recent years, polarization, then the trump steroid effect on that polarization, and that s where we are. you are seeing this discussion already looming over ketanji brown jackson s nomination in part because of what we heard from senator lindsey graham this week who said that if republicans take the majority, then biden wouldn t get another nominee most likely. and when senator mitch mcconnell
american people? i don t think they are at all. the other thing is often times throughout supreme court history, you d have surprises. you d have a david suitor more liberal than expected or biron white more conservative than expected. these people are so vetted that we know exactly what we re getting that s not what the founders wanted. the heritage foundation writes it and they read it. they know what they re going to do and do exactly as expected. it s a strange world we re in. melissa murray, thank you-all very much. up next on the reidout what bill barr may have said as newt gingrich said a republican house majority could throw those committee members in prison. the escalating tension on the russia ukraine border and now 8500 u.s. troops are on high alert for possible deployment to eastern europe. and j.f.k. wrote profiles encouraged but another member of the family could be the author of profiles and cluelessness and
atmosphere when we pretend the only way you can demonstrate qualifications is to go to certain schools. well, i don t think that s right. melissa, he s advocating for a south carolina federal judge. do you think that s dispositive with this white house? i don t know if it s dispositive. i would like to push back on representative clyburn s view that own lee the quality of one s school projects a diversity at the court. in fact, all three of these perspective nominees have very diverse work experiences. judge jackson was a public defender before becoming a judge. justice kruger would be the first justice to have state court experience since david suitor and sandra day o connor. i want to say the fact of going to a public school will be a great asset. we saw that with amy coney barrett who attended schools outside of the ivy league. that s not the only diversity