Groups that dont disclose their donors and take up to 250 million into the scheme, according to the washington post. Weird enough that people feel the need to run tv ads for judicial nominees, but when theyre taking a check for 17 million, two checks for 17 million if an anonymous donors or maybe two anonymous donors, yeah, if you think thats weird its because it is. That shoofnts happen that shouldnt happen anywhere around a court. And if theres one thing that we are entitled to there have been a lot of highminded speeches about the judiciary and its independence and all of that. The most important standard that a court must meet is that it is not a pantomime court. A pantomime court in which the rituals of adjudication get acted out. People come to the bench wearing their robes, hear the arguments, render decisions, read the briefs, buff at the end of the but at the end of the day, the decision is cooked by big special interest influence that insinuated its way into the court by cont
However, headline in the wall street journal today, conservative House Republicans say they have the votes to block health care. How about that . Well, the salesman in chief, that would be President Trump, is trying to turn that around as of right now. You are going to see a grit deal of political nastiness today. Democrats get their chance to question Supreme Court nominee neil gorsuch. Yes, it will be nasty and youll see it. It seems investors not distracted. Stocks will open just a little this morning. If the tax cut is still on track the trump rally is still on track. Watch it unfold with us. Varney company is about to begin. Due to unprecedented treatment, judge garland was denied a hearing and this vacancy has been in place well over a year. I just want to say im deeply disappoint that its under these circumstances that we begin our hearings. I do not know of any other Supreme Court nominee who was selected by Interest Groups rather than by a president in consultation witthe sena
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Lawyer. Later former secretary Janet Napolitano talks about education policy. Next a discussion on the impact of the splooem Supreme Court decision on the can traception mandate in the Health Care Law. From washington journal, this is 40 minutes. Joining us now, pro choice america, their president , welcome. Thank you for having me. We are here to talk in part about the decisions made by the Supreme Court last week. First of all with hobby lobby, what happened . What is your perspective . My perspective is i am disturbed. What we saw were five male judges essentially say that discrimination against women is not discrimination at all. What happened is that the court decided in favor of a private corporation saying that our religious beliefs trump the civic doubt we have to provide comprehensive health care for all of our employees. This was coming on the heels of there are administration and the country acknowledging if you are truly a religious institution, are you exempt from this. Yo