polarizing decisions, issued by the court on abortion, gun rights, and today s ruling limiting the epa s authority to fight climate change. we are going to have much more that ruling specifically, and on the future of the court, and its newest member just ahead. before we get to all of that, do you remember when the donald trump campaign was caught scam in its own donors. i just have to redo the lead from the new york times, the story that broke the scandal open. quote, stacey black was in hospice care and september 2020, listening to russia limbaugh s dire warnings about how badly donald trump s campaign needed money, when he went online and shipped in everything he could. $500. it was a big sum for a 63 year old battling cancer, and living in kansas city unless than $1,000 a month. but that single contribution, quickly multiplied, another $500 was withdrawn the next day, then $500 next week, and every week through mid october without his knowledge, until mr. blasts bank acc
today sworn in as the nation s 116th justice, and the first black woman ever to serve on the high court. her husband, dr. patrick jackson held two bibles on which she swore a family bible, and the court s harlan bible. a court federal appeals judge, jackson replaced justice stephen breyer, who stepped down today after three decades on the bench, justice breyer hired ketanji brown jackson as a clerk in 1999, making it a full circle moment when he administered the judicial oath to her today. a formal investiture for justice jackson is expected in the fall we can call her that now, justice jackson. taking her oath today allows her to begin her judicial duties. she arrives on the bench in the wake of several hugely polarizing decisions, issued by the court on abortion, gun rights, and today s ruling limiting the epa s authority to fight climate change. we are going to have much more on that ruling specifically, and on the future of the court, and its newest member just ahead. b
specifically. and on the future of the court, and newest member, st ahead. before we get to all of that, do you remember when the donald trump campaign was caught scamming its own donors? i just have to read you the lead from the new york times, the story that broke the scandal open. quote, stacy blatt was in hospice care in september 2020 listening to rush limbaugh s dire warnings about how badly donald trump s campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in everything he could. $500. it was a big sum for a 63-year-old battling cancer and living in kansas city. on less than $1,000 a month but that single contribution quickly multiplied. another $500 was withdrawn the next day, then $500 the next week, and every week through mid october, without his knowledge. until mr. blatt s bank account had been depleted and frozen. when his utility and rent payments bounced he called his brother russell for help but the blatts soon discovered, $3,000 in withdrawals by the trum
became a supreme court justice because of nixon, he was an adviser to the chamber of commerce. that was the peak of the trial of the war in court by the end of the 1970s. he laid out a memo suggesting that funding nonprofit institutions, needed to be better represented in the legal academy, and started raising a new generation of law students are trained to think in ways that were in business interests. in the forming at the federalist society, they found it and leaves sort of petri dish that train the next generation of law clerks and judges to think and fashion these theories, the delay a little quiz talking, about that are not based and on anything, except on outcome-based reasoning. but they did is pair that with a political strategy, they forged a union with the evangelical movement in this country. they weaponize the row issue. the row issue is not something
i will believe it was a confluence of sort of, an unholy marriage between conservative elites, namely, corporatist republicans, who wanted to switch the courts to be a bastion for free enterprise, in their terms, to crush labor unions. this was the lewis polman, louis powell in the 1970s, became a supreme court justice thanks to richard nixon, but he was in the early 1970s an adviser to the chamber of commerce. and that was the era of the warren court, or the trial of the warren court in the 1970s. and he laid out in a memo, suggesting that conservative elites needed to start funding nonprofit institutions, needed to start being better represented in the legal academy and start raising a new generation of law students that are trained to think in ways that were in business interests. in the forming of the federalist society, they founded an elite sort of petri dish that would found the next generation of law clerks and judges to think and fashion