political level unless they try to foist kamala harrison on the court, which won t happen. it really justho doesn t matter who biden picks. i m going to say s this over and over. we already know that she s going to vote with kagan and sotomayor on any cases of real consequence to the left.l she ll b be a reliable rubberr stamp for biden s policies allfor all policies of liberal democrats in the futuret . henceen why all the potential nominees get slobbering praise from the press poodle s every single one of these attorneys that we re seeing on this list are highly qualified, not just qualified, highly qualified. you don t get more galbi than a brown jackson j or leande krueger or justice siles. or you ll get more qualified. these are phenomenally talentedc ,capable, intellectual, revered advocates ofct the court
words to mean anything or nothing at all. the interpretation is dependent on what the founders intendedn,u what the language says, but what the progressives of t pro tthe day demand. then it becomes that on our side we actually have argumentso about what the constitution means,s, how its words should be applied to the case at hand . but their side believes the constitution is meaningless at best and racist at worst. our side respects the judiciary and the constitution. the role it has the left juste sees it as a tool to give them more power and when the court doesn t give them what theyey want, they threaten to destroy it. the president is being pushed by progressives and democrats to expand the supreme court, add more justices to the supreme court, put 15 16 m, 20 justices on the court bench and change the supreme right now to the nineteen member body. li
to account. if they do the right thing, they ll prevent biden from putting a rubber stamp forto the new york times editorial page on the court. in ifg, they don t do the right thing, then they ll come up forw reelectionil and we ll have the chance to teach them the folly of putting the interests of msnbc ahead of their own voters. in fact, tonight i m axiosos reporting that the gop iss already planning smartly to target vulnerable democrats who vote for a farar left nomine . those democratic senators work and it s time to remind them of that fact. and that s the angle. joining me now is robert dunn, n former law clerk for supreme court justice clarence thomas and carrie severino, another former clerk to justice thomas and president of the judicial crisis networke. carrie, we got three former law clerk to justice thomas in thisr discussion right now. but let s start with the odd yeah, i know a good company with the odd timing of
this retirement. what do you make of the forces behind this ? yeah, you know, i was even saying earlier in the daye this is a really strange timeye of the year to announce that normally we get these announcements atally or near the end of the term. and then later today we saw shannon bream reporting.al it seems like from qualified sources that this is not actually the day that justice breyer intended to retire. he may havedede given the whitet house a heads up, but somehow that was leaked. i think most justices want to do that on their own terms, make their own announcement, tell their colleaguesemen firsth and so he was as surprised as we were today. i think that might have been forces in the white house maybe some of those dark money forces have been trying to kick him off the court already, maybe trying to make sure he, he wento through with it and did retire or to b bring it on their ownew terms. this has been an awful fewde weeks for the president. maybe he wantsntnt a change in
. a there is almost an embarrassment of riches in the bevy of choices that are availablef now from my own experience as a law clerk on the second circuit court of appeals and then on the supreme court, i know that when lawyers and petitioners go before the highest court of the land, they don t bother usingme their time. not now trying to sway justicesi breyer, kagan or sotomayor. everyone alreadyce knows how they re going to vote. attorneys are trying to sway the other six justices, especially chief justice roberts, justice kavanaugh and justice gorsuch all and allnominated by republicant all with a slightly different judicialight outlook. it s anyone s guess how roberts is going to voteg t in the roeso challenge or how kavanaugh is going to vote on some of theseen geother challenges to the covid mandates coming out. liberals will often say that they believe in something called the living constitution . well, that s not a philosophyno that justt means that they tret the constitution li