whole special master ruling by her. remember, it was bill barr, trump s attorney general who said that this special masters was a crock of s-word and that is why i am it was like a crock of a crock of something. it will be quickly decided, alex. expect the 11th circuit court of appeals to ask trump s lawyers to respond by monday. or possibly tuesday, to have a quick ruling thereafter. this should not take much time. donald trump could resurrect daniel red webster, the greatest supreme court advocate in the united states history, and it wouldn t matter. he has got no argument. no real argument for these hundred documents. yes barely an argument on the special master thing as a whole. i do expect the 11th circuit to do the right thing here. i mean, after all, what judge cannon said yesterday, donald trump is
11th circuit will disagree. i think the department is an incredibly strong footing. i don t think people can really even disagree much about the whole special master ruling by her. remember, it was bill barr, trump s attorney general who said that this special masters was a crock of s-word and that is why i am it was like a crock of a crock of something. it will be quickly decided, alex. expect the 11th circuit court of appeals to ask trump s lawyers to respond by monday. or possibly tuesday, to have a quick ruling thereafter. this should not take much time. donald trump could resurrect daniel red webster, the greatest supreme court advocate in the united states history, and it wouldn t matter. he has got no argument. no real argument for these hundred documents. yes barely an argument on the
there. for federal court in boston to the highest court in washington we re expecting a lot more drama in the coming weeks, same-sex marriage and obamacare rulings right around the corner. millions will be affected and there s immigration where the president s executive action could go to the supreme court as well well. our next guest new book injustice argues the court uses its power the wrong way failing the most vulnerable of americans. good day to you. good to be here thanks so much. very interesting, some provocative ideas you have. let me push back directly part of your premise, the court has a lot of problems, sure, but students of history would say the supreme court often more than any other political branch does stick up for the vulnerable, some of the time. what do you say to that? let s take the greatest
they basically ignored it and shuffled it off in the most dismissive way possible. in the 1980s, they said it could be illegal for gay people to even have sex. so go ahead. just another point that i think definitely supports your argument here that the supreme court comforts the already comfortable is the way they treated corporations with the decision in citizens united. absolutely. i mean if you read that opinion, that is a shocking opinion. what the court had said before citizens unite is campaign finance laws are allowed to fight corruption. the holding of citizens united is i can write a billion dollar check to a super pac and as long as it isn t touched by the candidate or his campaign, somehow the candidate is not going to be corrupted by that donation. you know what she say about your book, read it in the morning because it will make you anry. don t want to read it before bed. thanks for having me. we have another important story inside the mass murder that shocke
supreme court ever decided, brown v board of education, the original vote in brown tlsh three voted to uphold segregation and two on the fence. one of the justices who voted to end segregation was hugo black, a former member of the ku klux klan. you would have never guessed he would be a supporter of civil rights. i wished in the book all of these coincidences that had to happen the chief justice died and replaced by earl warren and president eisenhower later said that appointing earl warren was the biggest damn fool mistake he ever made as president. the court throughout history as i layout in the book performed very badly and even that one glorious case that we all look to as the highlight of the court acting well it was through a series of historic accidents that we got that decision.