She will be remembered as a pioneering advocate for womens rights before she went on to the Supreme Court she was head of the a. C. L. U. Womens rights project and she argued 6 cases in front of the Supreme Court 15 of them to convince the court that. There were there were constitutional protections that allowed the discrimination against women and often she used a very interesting strategy she was known as the plaintiffs most famously a widower who had died in childbirth and he wanted to access her Social Security benefits that automatically would have gone to a woman but not for a man and so that over time many cases like this convince the 3 court to embrace the 14th amendment as one that also along with racial equality with men to guarantee sexual equality so its its by far which is going to be known for certainly you know and im an incredible legacy we can say you know we seen it already ive mentioned it what the president ial campaign is going to be coming up with code her death r
Measures sparked protests in london hundreds of people gather in the british capital breaking rules limiting public out its. Really as welcome to the show mourners have been laying flowers outside the Supreme Court building in washington d. C. And tributes to the late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg she died on friday at the age of 87 from pancreatic cancer ginsburg had spent 27 years as a member of the court and had built a formidable reputation as its most liberal judge her death has led to not only to an outpouring of tributes but its also kicked off a political battle about who will replace her u. S. President donald trump says he wants to fill her post with a conservative judge as soon as possible. Days before her death Ruth Bader Ginsburg told her family she wished her Supreme Court replacement would be selected by the next president ginsburg was the leading liberal voice on a court bench that already has a conservative majority they decide on major issues such as abort
The printed term president with this idea, lets talk of more states joining morocco, even saudi arabia, it was a trumped triumph so the media largely ignored, that is politics in the election, like money, the dow industrial this morning will open with a gain of 100 points, small change to the s p and a small gain for that nasdaq, the fed is likely to announce today that Interest Rates will stay low for years plus encouraging vaccine and virus treatment news from eli lilly, i got that, sally madeley and paul but the point about the storm, it is moving very slowly, that means drenching rain that goes on and on and maybe two to 3 feet of rainfall in some places, it is a big storm reaching from mobile to northern florida up into georgia and even the carolinas, it is wednesday september the 16th, i believe it is 47 days to the election, Varney Company is about to begin. Stuart[applause] i just have one thing to say ill tell you what if i had the talent of any one of these people, id be elec
Some spots are okay other spots are tough this morning. It all depends on where you are heading, but lets start off with some good news. And that is we are trouble free here on the bay bridge into San Francisco, the traffic that were looking at is completely normal slow and go from west grand 13 minutes to make it and thats a decent average the opposite end for San Francisco, northbound one oh one in vermont. We have a stalled truck thats blocking one of those northbound lanes and thats why its so heavy from 2. 80 so north one is crawling from 2. 80 to vermont. The scene of the stall and then after that youre right back at the limit. If you dont want to deal with that slow traffic on north one oh one stick with north to 80 instead, especially if youre only heading to downtown San Francisco. Thats a great alternate can get around that back up one of our major problems is an overturned big rig its been blocking for hours in benicia and im showing you this because its impacting traffic th
If it went ahead virtually, the nature of the interaction would change and interrupting would be much more difficult but the president says hes not going to do a virtual debate. Thats where it stands right now. At last nights debate orderly fashion and Kamala Harris failed to answer on key issues, she deflect order laughed it all off. Her silence revealed on what the biden team will do if elected. President trump goes all in on regenerons antivirus treatment. The president called it a miracle. Of course, hes been criticized for his use of an unapproved treatment. The stock, though, up big time, 3. 6 , 21 higher. Now look at the overall market after wednesdays very, very big rally. 840,000 jobless claims last week. Not having that much impact on the market this morning. We see the dow going up another 180. S p up 21 and look at that the nasdaq going again up 101 points. Possibility, they are still talking about some form of stimulus. Thats a positive. Looks like a still stalemate but th