National journal and bloomberg about her legacy and what is next for the court and the nomination process. We will also take your phone calls and tweets, live on cspans washington journal. Ginsburg wasder illegal embodiment of the womens rights movement. Her years on the Supreme Court made her the liberal standardbearer for the Progressive Movement in the u. S. C died she died friday. Chief Justice John Roberts has called her a justice of historic stature and attributes are pouring in for the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court. Her powerful for dissents, as well as her strong opinions, ginsberg will be known not only as a powerful justice, but as a crusading lawyer whose work changed the United States. He will spend todays show remembering and talking about the legacy of Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg. We are going to open up regional lines. That means if you are in the eastern or central time zones. Ou will call 202 7488000 if you are in the mountain and pacific time zones we wan
Reading it properly. Again, im concerned that the democrats put him. They should choose somebody else m concerned about the decision. Back in february of this year Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell went on fox newss special report and was asked if he would hold the scotu s seat open if a vacancy happened before the november election and was asked about his decision to block judge Merrick Garland back in 2016 and that position came open while president obama was in his last year of office. Here is what Mitch Mcconnell said. If a Supreme Court seat were to open up, you hold that seat open like you did for mary garland Merrick Garland . Let me remind you of what i said in 2016. I said you have to go back to the 1880s find the last time a vacancy on the Supreme Court occurring during a president ial Election Year was confirmed by a senate of a Different Party than the president. That was the situation in 2016. That would not be the situation in 2020. I am not aware of any vacancy, but
senior judge offered the opinion of the d.c. circuit on the challenge to the affordable care act which is on its way to the supreme court. my classmate from harvard law school, signed into the department of labour. it goes back to the department of labor and becomes solicitor. today he runs pages a prominent law firm. he is counsel to boeing to justly prevent the plant in south carolina. what is phenomenal is years of leadership and today, it is a tribute to the recruitment. we try to do these monthly. the next one is on the all volunteer army. we hope to have been filmed and thank you for coming today. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] then the lighting ceremony for the u.s. capitol christmas tree. there will be remarks from u.s. house republican leader john boehner. congressional staff are working throughout the weekend, writing legislative language for a year- and spending package t