Lashing today over how their companies handled 2020 election. Heck out few hours indicating a decline as we await october retail Sales Numbers out this morning at 8 30 a. M. Dow industrials down 88, nasdaq is up 14 and s p 500 lower by 14. Record day in wall street to start the week yesterday, dow finishing at its first alltime high in 9 months boosted by the positive news on modernas phase 3 vaccine trials. At the close up 471 points, nasdaq up 95, almost 1 and s p higher by 41, better than 1 . Big day for retail earnings, walmart and kohls and home depot all reporting this morning, we will have the numbers as soon as they give hit the tape. Holidays in digital world. Zoom is helping you and your family out if youre planning on a virtual turkey day, its making a buzz, mornings with maria is live right now. Maria home depot earnings hitting the tape right now and european markets are lower, cac quarante down 9, dax index lower by 25, take a look at home depot numbers, revenue above exp
Focusing on rushing through a nominee to the United States Supreme Court rather than doing everything we can to work across the aisle to craft a solution. To the problems, the crises facing our nation. Tens of millions of americans, unemployed. Hundreds of thousands of businesses permanentlylo closed. Schools all over the country either not yet open or just barely opened, and thousands upon thousands of americans died alone in pain, and comforted by family, uncertain of how they came to be in this place and cared for by their country. Eight. 5million infected 220,000 or more dead. We are in the middle of a tragic pandemic and a recession made worse by our presence bungled mishandling of the pandemic, and instead of coming together to provide the reliefteng that all states d all people are calling for, we are doing this. We are doing this. Instead, my republican colleagues are walking over dangerous precipice doing something according to graham was unthinkable just two years ago , in th
Politics and prose bookstore and we live in muscatine. Bit of a Great Program for you this evening. For those of you not familiar with how this virtual format works, just to be able to ask a question of the author if you would like. To do so, just click on the q a icon at the bottom of your screen. Bob has been observing in washington or half a century. Decades with Washington Post, hes shared pulitzer prizewinning first of the watergate scandal and second in 2003, is a leap reported for coverage of the 911 terrorist attacks. s books also a big news and run any readers. His latest book rage is his 20th book, and all have been national bestsellers. We are accustomed to bobs books taking us behind the scenes of highlevel meetings and into the mind is of those making critical u. S. Policy decisions. This extraordinary are what is extraordinary about rage, but 17 times, while the book was being written, providing a remarkable series of glimpses into the presence thinking at key moments. It
If you didnt watch, i envy you. There was nothing new, republicans and democrats placed their assigned roles but we are not here to talk about that. We are talking about something more interesting, the Roberts Court. More than any other Supreme Court justice in recent history, john roberts has played a defining role in shaping our free speech block. Hes been more than twice as many majority opinions in this area than any of his colleagues and there is a certain result in 95 of the greek expression cases decided in his tenure, hes been in the majority. Hes taken the lead of nearly 80 of the time so theres Something Special about this, something that speaks to how john roberts sees the court. The first conference of report the roberts report, collins and hudson, each of whom is published more than ten books on free speech examined 56 cases handed down by Roberts Court from 2005 to 2020. He offers i open details looks at the cases and justices different approaches. Here to tell us about i
Society on highprofile cases. The death of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg and Amy Coney Barrett replacement. Robert barnes of the Washington Post moderated the event. Good afternoon, everybody. Ederalist society and director of our Faculty Division. On behalf of the federalist of the Federalist Society, the society of Faculty Division and practice groups, which are cosponsoring the ,iew e court term. Whether you are watching over zoom, youtube, facebook, twitter, or our webpage, we are delighted to hav before we turn to our discussion of cases and other momentous aspects of the up say a fewm, i want to words about Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg who died two weeks ago. Ginsburg 37justice years ago when i was a law clerk on the d c circuit and she was a judge there. Judges are randomly assigned a panel on the courts of appeal and my boss, then judge scalia, was always delighted when they had a panel together. Justice ginsburg was an extraordinary woman, extraordinary justice, extraordinary law