Undercounted that could dramatically affect the number of seats in the house of representatives. And another case a gerrymandering, or central question how much partisanship is too much . Thats what the justs are looking at this morning right now. Our team is here with the stories for the hour. Pete williams is over at the Supreme Court. Pete, what do we know . We are potential minutes away. Were getting the first decision now. This is one of the lesser cases, an interesting question can the police draw blood from an unconscious driver without a search warrant . All states have complied consent laws. About half the states, about 28 states have laws that say you can also draw blood from an unconscious driver. The Supreme Court has said you can do that without a search warrant. Thats the first ruling today. That leaves four cases. The two political gerrymandering cases from North Carolina that was disadvantageous to democrats, and another one from matter maryland from disadvantage to rep
Tell you what happened here last night because we had Michael Bennett on last night. And the question was was hickenlooper going to drop out of the race, and had a private conversation with hickenlooper about this that the New York Times reported on. So im trying to pull out of senator bennett what hickenlooper is going to do when we are handed the ap breaking story saying that John Hickenlooper is dropping out of the race. And senator bennett is desperately trying to protect that information if he already knew it. So wicked weird things have been happening when i have president ial candidates on especially when it involves the question of pressure on a president ial candidate to drop out of the race and run for United States senate. And that dynamic is present tonight in the show. So you know what, i will tell you what happened. I stay up you would be surprised. I know im old and i get sleepily but i can stay up for an hour. Might be a reason to do it. I think youre going to want to k
Country and leave the United States and go back to where they came from, even though they are all proud american citizens and duly elected citizens of congress. Within the last hour, the president upped the ante dramatically at an all white rally he held in greenville, North Carolina. Even though greenville, North Carolina is about a third africanamerican by population. This is an all white or almost all white rally that the president is holding. At the rally tonight, he continued pressing attacks on these young Minority Congress women, attacks he is so delighted as racist attacks, tonight he escalated and this is what he whipped up in that crowd. Obviously and importantly, omar has a history of launching vicious antisemitic creeds. Send her back. Send her back. Send her back send her back send her back send her back. Send her back is what they were saying. The president is standing before the allwhite crowd, almost allwhite crowd basking in the send her back chants on a nonwhite membe
Here it set in the Popular Culture that that pretty much means its a political decision, that if the house of representatives has the votes, then thats pretty much good enough. Is that how it works. I dont think so mark, so, the phrase high crime misdemeanor was specifically chose to be a very high bar and the reason for that is that our framers wanted the president to be independent of congress, one of the main functions of the president was to be one of the checks and balances against congress, which they thought, perhaps inaccurately was going to be by far the most powerful and most Dangerous Branch of government. They did not Want Congress to be able to toss the president out on the basis of any low standard at all, and they deliberately chose the phrase high crimes and misdemeanors which had a history in the common law because it referred to misdeeds about public nature of a very serious amount of abuse of power. I just wanted to mention, you read the impeachment clause to us, but