Christopher scalia son of the Late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia chairs had his father speeches on law, faith and vur chew and interviewed by Los Angeles Times Supreme Court correspondent david savage. Christopher scalia your father justice angt anyone scalia one of the most powerful writer of the Supreme Court opinions, he wrote a lot of decent with the real zingers, great for people like me quoting them but this is not a book about Court Opinion but a book about speeches so why speechsome as you said his Court Opinions are memorable and im a often told by law students and reporters that they liked they went to his opinions first for that reason. They were so crisply written and powerful, and his speeches are are have some of the same really all of the same great qualities that his opinions do. But i think the advantage of the speech is that he could let more of his personality shine through or for one thing. He was a great. Performer a little bit of a ham he played in the High
Or federal income tax. We take your calls and you can join the conversation. Ost good morning it is monday, january 8, 2018. The house and senate are both in session with the house meeting for its first session at 2 00 p. M. Senate is scheduled to convene at 3 00 p. M. We begin at the intersection of hollywood and politics. The 2018 hollywood awards season kicked off last night with a focus on standing up to sexual. Arassment and inequality celebrities took the opportunity to express support to the news a few a few sweats swipes taken at president trump. We are asking for your thoughts on hollywoods influence on politics and the debate in this country. Give us a call. You can also catch up with us on social media. A very good monday morning to you. You can start calling in now. We are asking on your thoughts on hollywoods influence on politics, especially a year after the beginning of the Trump Administration in the year after hollywood was rocked by allegations and cases involving Sex
And ive always said this. Its nice to have kids because you need to live to watch them grow up, right i guess time is passing, they cant grow up. Did you have a nice day we did. I i dont know, i thought i had a free rain ein to imbibe. You cant tell what youre doing until its too late. So i have a picture we had a cake when we got home. I was laying on the couch and they took a picture of me because i wouldnt sit up to eat the cake you need those glasses that we had stounounds like a good birth we went in the big city it was fun. Happy belated birthday. Thank you. Folks, lets check out the u. S. Equity futures. The second trading week of the year green arrows dow was up by 577 points gain of 2. 3 nasdaq up by even more 3. 4 just in the first four trading days looks like there are green arrows across the board. Dow futures up comes after big gains up tonight in asia. Nikkei up by. 9. Hang seng up by a quarter of a percent. Shanghai up. Early trading in europe this morning you will see t
This is just under an hour. As both the senate and house get back to work on capitol hill today, we take a look at a busy week ahead in washington with jason dick and alex moulton. Alex bolton, top priority this week and next is certain to be that looming government funding. Eadline Republican Leaders on the hill huddled with the president at camp david over the weekend. What do we know about what they talked about when it comes to resolving this budget impasse . Guest well, they are talking about with the priorities for 2018 should be. As far as the budget goes, what they are concerned about is what they see as a lack of military spending. They feel the military is overstretched. All four branches. Coast guard, navy, marines, army. That readiness is that an alltime low. Speaker ryan put out a Statement Last week, if you look at military readiness in the early 1990s compared to now, it is much degraded. I think they want to focus on boosting that defense spending number over whatever i
Government funding deadline, the january 19 deadline. Republican leaders on the hill huddled with the president at camp david over the weekend. What do we know of what they talked about when it comes to resolving this budget impasse . They are talking about the priorities for 2018 and what they should be. As far as the budget goes, what they are concerned about is what they see as a lack of military spending. They feel that the military has overstretched all the branches. Is i dont want to say alltime low, but speaker out a Statement Last week. Week, if you look at military readiness in the early 1990s compared to now, it is much to grated. I think they want to focus on boosting that defense spending number over whatever increased other programs get. There is also talked on the hill about getting an immigration fix is part of the spending bill is probably not going to happen. The immigration negotiations are not as far along as the spending deal is. Behind the scenes, democrats and rep