you could only do it not by the imagination of the judgment of what 535 people meant when they voted for or voted against a law. well the argument is that there wasn t a conflict there because chief justice roberts spoup isly was deferring to the legislature and that in deferring in this case and some could say it s an odd form of deferral. he was looking at not just the words but the legislation and that s something courts traditionally do and he was in a sense deferring in this case in the same-sex marriage case saying hey f the legislatures want to decide this they can decide it but it isn t for nine robed justices to argue. in the first instance in obama care in which justice scalia said it should be called scotuscare there was legislation and the language went beyond saying it wasn t
you could only do it not by the imagination of the judgment of what 535 people meant when they voted for or voted against a law. well the argument is that there wasn t a conflict there because chief justice roberts spoup isly was deferring to the legislature and that in deferring in this case and some could say it s an odd form of deferral. he was looking at not just the words but the legislation and that s something courts traditionally do and he was in a sense deferring in this case in the same-sex marriage case saying hey f the legislatures want to decide this they can decide it but it isn t for nine robed justices to argue. in the first instance in obama care in which justice scalia said it should be called scotuscare there was legislation and the language
fix blog and ruth marcus here in person. together again, yeah. it s nice. chuck schumer, harry reid endorses chuck schumer and the democratic senator from new york who put up with a lot of slings and arrows with hillary clinton s election and having to defer to the junior senator and all of the other things chuck schumer has gone through over the years, suddenly if the caucus goes along and it is a secret ballot he ll become the democratic leader. you do think about all of the deferring does not come naturally to chuck schumer and all of the years he has had to defer and be asked about hillary clinton s presidential ambitions and take a back seat to harry reid, he must be like chomping at the bit, 22 months can t come soon enough. i expect it will though that he won t have a lot of obstacles on his way to the leadership.
to push the diplomatic process forward by keeping the teeth of military activity as an option. so that is being discussed. but it really is on the back burner. meanwhile, we re seeing something that we have not seen very much of at all in recent years. and that is bipartisan praise for russia. watch this. i believe that russia s goal is, in fact, to eliminate these weapons. and i would point out that that is also our goal. so i very much hope that the pathing to settlement although complicated, no ubt do, but if well intentioned by all participants, it can be accomplished. last night, he stepped back from an international crisis that could have had catastrophic consequences by deferring to the russian diplomatic initiative, thank god. that kind of sums up the feeling here.
to your point, that s what the president at least so far has said kind of deferring. that costly trip to africa is actually worth it. thank you. we will get a live report from chuck who has just landed in africa in just a few minutes. right now, you re looking live at the supreme court. where the crowds have gathered ahead of the rulings expected in just about a half an hour. plus, we re keeping our eye on the developing news out of that courtroom in florida. the latest from the zimmerman trial is next. but first, today s trivia question. it s a good one. in how many states is the senior senator younger than the junior senator? the first person to tweet the correct answer to @dailyrundown gets an on-air shoutout from us. is like hammering.