rescinded abortion lights, and regulations, president biden commission a body of economics, and judicial efforts, to study the structure, and calm of the nation s highest court. and they focus on matters of transparency, and ethics. but, ultimately, they were brushed aside. ignored by a president, largely resistant to large scale institutional reforms. half a year later, they re calling from the bold action are saying, i told you so, including our next guest. a former federal judge, nancy gardner. judge gardner told politico, the conservative victories only happened because they can, and that is an exercise of pure power, not legal reasoning. judge gardner said, they were initially resistant for major court reforms, but after hearing testimony from legal experts, she said not only with the justices be selected to term limits, but that the number of seats on the court should now be expanded. this month, we learn damning new information, that further emphasizes the need for the
guest. former federal direct nancy gardner. judge gardner told politico the conservative victories from this term have been quote, only because they can, and that has been an exercise of pure power, not legal reasoning. judge gardner said that she was initially resisting to major court reforms but after hearing testimony of legal experts, she believes that not only should the justices be subjected to term limits, but also that the number of states on the court should now be expanded. and this month, we learned damning new information that further emphasizes the need for these major reforms of the high court. the former leader of a religious right organization told politico that he recruited a coach wealthy volunteers to wine dine and entertain conservatives supreme court justices while pushing conservative positions on abortion, homosexuality, gun restrictions, and a lot of other issues. for 1995 to 2018, he says he arranged over the years, for about 20 couples, to fly to was
tomorrow s primetime hearing. and new reporting on how donald trump had the secret service scrambling on the day of the capitol attack. also this morning, the top headlines from last night s midterm election primaries that may serve as a warning to democrats. yeah. some democrats. willy, you know this better than anybody, when brilliant minds visit our show, who do they quote? churchill, lincoln, aristotle, jesus christ. okay. of course more dorchester the british governor of quebec if it s jon meacham. willie, that s another story for another day. today we want to open the vault of deep thoughts in service to our progressive friends on the occasion of yet another setback on the issue of permissive law law enforcement. the san francisco d.a. got recalled last night perhaps the most progressive city in america. as we said last year, you said it time and again, democrats one of the most liberal cities in the east coast, one of the most liberal cities in new york elected
with the khashoggi incident. if i do have the time, i do have a personal remark on this point if i may aim in. which is for me, as an observer, it was very interesting that, and president biden perhaps rightly so, brought this up in saudi arabia. but when i find very interesting, and raises a question, is where was this principle when he was in israel? as you know, our colleague, just like the late democracy was a good friend of ours, i would dig kellogg s to meal of that was killed recently in israel. and all the reports that we have seen indicate that they she has been killed by an israeli army bullets. yet, not a single word from president biden during his speeches and israel, during his press conference and israel. seem to have emerged. the he only brought it up when he went to see president up us and palestinian. two wrongs don t make a right,
and the idea was here not that, not to compare the two or the three incidents in this case, but to say that all countries make mistakes, and all countries, just like these examples the u.s. leadership wasn t directly involved. but actually acted to ensure that these issues were resolved, the same thing happened here with the khashoggi incident. if i do have the time, i do have a personal remark on this point if i may ayman. which is for me, as an observer, it was very interesting that, and president biden perhaps rightly so, brought this up in saudi arabia. but what i find very interesting, and raises a question, is where was this principle when he was in israel? as you know, our colleague, just like the late jamal khashoggi was a good friend of ours, shereen abu aqleh was killed recently in israel.