has anything changed in terms of their funding or how they operate? yeah, administratively, yes, there s been a lot of conflict. financially, they have not been doing as well, as they should, and they ve been facing opposition from without, moms demand action, groups that were not nearly as powerful as they were in 2013. the nra is formidable. don t ask me, ask the republicans. they re the ones who fear the nra and fear is of course a psychological condition. there aren t being instances on record of somebody being voted out of office because of the nra, but they believe that they have that influence and as long as republicans are unwilling to stand up to the nra, as long as they perceive that the nra has that strength, then it becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy. most presidents have done
and number two, i don t accountability isn t even the right word for for example somebody being pure. i won t penalize you because you have amental health issue. i won t hold you actable and what i think we need to do is recognize and they have this and they have been kicked down. and now we are hand willing this as a criminal justice issue. and in fact, it s really a social issue. and we can sfand up & i m going to have to leave it there. thank you very much.
anything you have seen, what comes out of his mouth is as awful as anything that comes out of david duke s mouth. it s pretty much the same. but farrakhan s power kind of peaked in 1995 with the million man march. that line that i ve used was so undermined by that image at aretha franklin s funeral of bill clinton sitting next to louis farrakhan. it made me sick, it really did. look, the left needs to be speaking out as forthrighty as t the right. why would we tolerate it on either side? it should. be, but in terms of her funeral, i don t know who was on the invitation list. somebody being at aretha franklin s funeral is not the
joining us now, the legal dolly olific legal correspondent and senior editor from slate.com. thank you very much for being with us. thank you. democrats opened these hearings with an unexpected show of force. they did everything they could to try to get these hearings delayed. to get them knocked off course. things did get delayed by a couple of hours. what do you make of how things went today? i ve seen six of these now, supreme court confirmation hearings. it was like nothing i had ever seen before. the protesters, somebody being dragged out of the chamber. chuck grassley really seemingly discombobulated by the rudeness and then watching the dems work together in a very concerted, we are not going to stand for this, after which they stood for it to be clear, but a very concerted effort to say you can t drop 42,000 pages on us at 5:00 and expect us to be prepared. it was really different from anything, including gorsuch. is there anything democrats
supreme court hearings. it was like nothing i had ever seen before. the protesters, somebody being dragged out of the chamber. chuck grassley really seemingly discombobulated by the rudeness and then watching the dems work together in a very concerted, we won t stand for this, after which they stood for it, to be clear, but a very concerted effort to say you can t drop 42,000 pages on us at 5:00 and expect us to be prepared. it was really different from anything, including gorsuch. is there anything democrats could be doing that they re not yet doing to try to stop the nomination? there was some talk, now you get up and walk out of the room. now is a good time to make this be over. i think they re a little caught on the seam of, we don t want to be here and we re furious but since we re here we ll little gait it to the end. so i think they september a