booker fr booker. i know it has been a long day for you. thank you for joining us. yes. he s managed to duck and dodge a lot of questions folks want to know. where is he going to be on rowe? he won t speak to those issues. especially with the jeopardy growing around donald trump and being an unindicted coconspirator and the investigation ongoing, refuse to talk about recusing himself when we know he wasn t even in those early lists from the federalists society, appeared there after this investigation even began and donald trump picked him because, in my opinion, one of the factors was his views on whether a president had immunity or not, in effect. so it s been frustrating day.
is vice president of the new york city federalists society and also served on the president trump transition team. mark, thank you for joining us. thank you for having me. eboni: wow, it is really shocking that as a face we find ourselves dealing with a second vacancy early in the administration of president trump and the president compiling a list of 25 nominees essentially vetted by organizations like the heritage foundation and other federalist types of organizations. let s start with that. all of us have seen the list. do you feel that the 25 names on that list reflect the conservative values that voters who voted for the president voted for? it is really about process. do they start with the text of the constitution, looking to the history of the constitution. and make a concerted effort not to inject policy decisions which are really supposed to be with the president and legislative branches who are elected by the people. and if you define conservative
to you this is about to break. we have the exclusive on this. the white house is adding five names to the list of potential nominees for the next supreme court vacancy. it s widely believed that justice anthony kennedy will announce his retirement at some point, maybe after thanksgiving. we don t know. the white house has added to its list amy barrett, britt grant, she sits on the georgia supreme court, britt cavanaugh, a bush appoint appointee, kevin newsom, and patrick wyrick. he s a new appointee to oklahoma s supreme court. so that gives a list of 25 nominees to choose from. the federalists society is meeting in washington this week.
the man who has not spoken in five years didn t hesitate to speak out this weekend. clarence thomas defended his wife s involve. in conservative politics. at a federalists society impose yum, thomas said his critics bent on undermining the supreme court. my some of you may know her, but the reason i bring that specifically up is there is a price to pay today for standing in defense of the constitution. you see people standing in defense of what s right. that you make sure that your voice is not remembered as one of the advice to law students.