Ballots directly to the registrars office. In Santa Clara County, more than 437,000 people have cast their ballots. About half, about 220,000, have put their ballots not in the mail but directly into drop boxes. Nbc bay areas Marianne Favro is live at the Santa Clara County registrar of voters in san jose with more on that. And marianne, people want to make sure they get in and their votes count. Reporter they are very concerned about that, janelle. If you look here, this is where people drop off their ballots at the registrar of Voters Office. Many people we talked with today felt that their vote would be secure if they dropped it off at this specific location. 13 miles, thats how far ted and carol bautista drove today to turn in their ballots at the drop box at the registrar Voters Office in san jose. I feel like it is safer to drop it on a place where you will be counted. Reporter but Evelyn Mendez with the Santa Clara County registrar of Voters Office says theres no need to make a
Good morning, welcome, judge. Welcome to all my colleagues. It is a long day but i thought a productive day. We have 20 minute rounds and hopefully we can be done in time before dinner tonight and we will plow ahead and have a few breaks along the way. So, a couple observations from yesterday. Theres an opportunity here to thinkinghe nominees to the extent she can share her thoughts without deciding a particular case that comes before her. Senator harris who are respect suggested you were not candid and judge barrett, i could not disagree more. I have been here for a few of these, i have voted for every nominee that has come before the committee. They have one thing in common, all of you are highly qualified, cape will people. I saw that in just a sotomayor and Justice Kagan submitted by president obama. Definitely did not share their legal philosophy, i expected them to be fairly solid votes for the liberal side of the court and generally speaking, they have been, that they have done
Associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States signed by 18 senators as follows. Mcconnell, ernst, smith, blackburn, ouppercaseletter, wicker, ran, purdue, cotton, f for, alexander. Mr. President. Majority leader. My First Experience with Supreme Court confirmations here in the senate, i was a young staffer the number of the judiciary committee, that is also the same time climate a young guy named alexander who just left the senate to go to the whitego house for congressional affairs. Ive had the opportunity for quite a long time to observe the confirmation process to various ups and downs, periods when nominees were confirmed almost overwhelmingly and here in which they were hated over nomination. I could safely say about the senate, over the last 40 or 50 years, it is unassertive. Doing the whole process as a joint thing, the president had a role to play and the senate has a role to play. The various times in our history in our country, the senate has been pretty passive
Are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change his or her vote . If not, the ayes are 51. The nays are 46. The motion is agreed to. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the clerk will report the nomination. The clerk nomination, Supreme Court of the United States, Amy Coney Barrett of indiana to be an associate justice. Mr. Mcconnell mr. President . The presiding officer the majority leader. Mr. Mcconnell i send a cloture motion to the desk. The presiding officer the clerk will report the cloture motion. The clerk cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett of indiana to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States signed by 18 senators as follows. Mcconnell, thune, ernst, hide smith, blackburn, blunt, capito, wicker, graham, perdue, grassley, inhofe, cotton, hoeven, crapo,
5000 day of the Affordable Care even reate a choice, either adjust or pay the tax. In 2017, congress did not change sub a or b, it just reduce the amount of the tax of tax to zero. This still protects presents a choice, buy insurance and do nothing. That does not harm anyone or violate the constitution. Respondents insist that the 20 17th amendment to tear down the entire aca that rests on two untenable arguments, first respondents contend that congress transformed it into a command when it zeroed out the tax. That is contrary to this construction of the same tax, it is at odds at how congress and the president understood the amendments, and it would attribute to congress and intends to do exactly what this court said would be unconstitutional. Seconds, second, respondents argued that if this is unconstitutional, every other provision must also fall. The starting part of any remedial analysis would be the presumption in favor of severability, and here the text and statutory structure c