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
From the House Oversight committee, this is about two hours. The chair will come to order. Welcome to the oversight subcommittee on civil rights entitled White Supremacists in blue, the infiltration of local Police Departments. Good morning to the chair of the committee, miss maloney, good morning to our Ranking Member, mr. Roy, who is with us, and good morning to the vice chair of the committee, ms ms. Ocasiocortez and our wonderful members. I want to express a special welcome to Rashida Tlaib of michigan. This is our first hearing with our subcommittee and were delighted to have her join us. Welcome. Before we begin today, i want to play a video that will set the stage for the discussion that were about to have. Clerkings, please go ahead and play the video. White supremacy permeates every corner of the institution. Tracks hate and extremist groups, whomever is engaged in those groups, wherever that might lead. We have outed a number of Law Enforcement officers who have connections t
And major decisions in the Supreme Court, and with Justice Ginsburg you cannot just talk about her majority opinions, she dissent. Known for her what were some of the cases that will be remembered . Guest most people do not know that when she was reporting for the court, she was seen as a consensus builder. That was what president clinton to billed her as. Membershiper sit changed she became wellknown for her dissent. What got her this notorious rbg status was on a Voting Rights case for which she said the majority doing away with the protections that were provided by the Voting Rights act was something akin to throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet. We says this is working, and need it because it is working and we should not get rid of it. Host have we heard from the other justices about their withies, their time Justice Ginsburg . I know we have seen something from chief Justice John Roberts . Guest we have not, and i am surprised that we have not
The Supreme Court. It has been a highly successful series up until now. We expect to finish it this evening in a blaze of glory. So we are looking forward. I want to especially thank Justice Kagan for hosting us this evening. Without the support of the justices about report, we would be unable to host these events in such a gust surroundings. Because the justice has another event immediately after this one, i will give a brief or introduction then she deserves. But she has to make her way to a second event. Justice kagan has an enviable resume. You will hear a little bit about it now. She received her a b summa cum laude from princeton university. She then attended Worcester College at oxford as princeton s daniel em sex graduating fellow. She received a masters of philosophy there. She then earned aj d. From harvard law school, graduating magnet come allowed a, where she was supervising editor of the harvard law review. A Job Description that i assume she means they did the really har
Uninterrupted argument and then that would be questioning in order of with meet and then judge laurier. Mr. Constable, you will begin and you have reserved three minutes for rebuttal. Thank you, your honor, and good morning. May it please the court. And may it please the court. On remand the president filed an amendment complaint raising two claims. First, that the subpoena at issue is an overbroad fishing expedition, and second, that it was issued in bad faith in order to arrest the president. The District Attorney concedes that the Supreme Court has authorized the president to bring these claims in federal court. The only issue then on appeal is whether the allegation of bad faith are possible. The District Court termination they are not to be reversed for several reasons. First, the court stack the deck against the president by asserting that these claims are a disguised attempt to relitigate category and 90. As a distant turn it also concedes they cleanly are not. Second, the court