Embarrassment for nixon. So for his third try nixon chose Harry Blackman because blackman was seen so uncontroversial that he would be hard for anybody to vote against. Judge blackman made a good First Impression on the sfwhoors will help decide his fate, and barring the unexpected his nomination should sail through. Thus far no one has even asked to testify against him. But the unexpected already has occurred twice. So most senators still are not committing themselves. They find a super uncontroversial strategy worked for that nomination. Harry blackmuns nomination to the court was unanimously approved by the senate. On june 9th, 1970 he was sworn in to the court. For a guy chosen because he was seen as the most middle of the road nonoffensive guaranteed noncontroversial guy to stick in that spot, Justice Blackmun would go on just a couple of years later to write one of the most controversial u. S. Supreme Court Opinions ever. The court said in a 72 decision that in the first three mo
Ukraine into manufacturing dirt on his political opponent. Keep in mind we already knew a lot. It was three months ago that we saw the notes from trumps call with the ukrainian president. And when the ukrainian president said he would like to buy more american weapons to combat russian aggression, trump responds, quote, i would like you to do us a favor, though. Then the house held a whole impeachment inquiry, you probably watched some of it, and they founding enough evidence to impeach the president on two different counts, abuse of power and obstruction of congress. The main point of contention in the impeachment right now at this moment is the somewhat unprecedented limbo that the actual articles of impeachment currently in. The speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, says she will not send over those articles to the senate until she gets some sense from Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell about what the trial will be like. And we know that the inner sanctum of the president , trumps
decision involving abortion. he was concerned that the supreme court might interpret the second amendment in some pending cases that would loosen gun control. so he came to california to kill the justice and he told the fbi that he wanted to kill justice kavanaugh and then himself. so he s been charged with the attempted murder of a federal official. that carries a 20-year maximum sentence. as you say, he s facing these charges now in federal court in maryland. pete, you covered the court for a long time. has there been an incident like this that you can recall involving a justice? the last one i can think of was in 1985 involving justice harry blackmon who wrote the roe v. wade decision. he was in his apartment in alexandria, virginia with his wife. someone fired a shot into the apartment. they never figured out who did it. that s the only thing i can
this is something that will take away the fundamental right of twoim control their own bodies. it gets no more ridiculous than josh hawley who tends to be ridiculous, a guy who voted to overturn the election, to overturn the will of 80 million voters. he wants to the issue of time with an article titled, the sexes, abortion on demand, appeared on new stands hours before the decision was announced by harry blackmon, the justice. that has happened before. i don t recall anyone going to jail over it. but let s talk about what is going to happen next. is there an appetite particularly among the women in the united states senate, including some republican women, like lisa murkowski to codify road roe v. wade? i would hope so. but right now i think what we need to do is keep putting the