i proudly voted for larry quinn. i voted for president obama twice. with my apologies for this one, mr. chairman, i wish mr. feinstein was chairing this committee. i m here today to introduce judge kavanaugh and urge the senate to confirm him as a next associate justice of the supreme court. i received many angry calls from friends and strangers for supporting judge kavanaugh. i was raised to call it like i see it. i do not see the choice before you as difficult. by any objective measure, judge kavanaugh is clearly qualified to serve on the supreme court. after law school, he served for anthony kennedy, the justice that he was cc. he spent 12 years on the nation s court of appeals, the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit. his opinions are invariably thoughtful and fair. many are known as instant classics. not just because they were important, but because they were
the nlrb has two of president obama s verecess appointments o it. the supreme court of the united states is expected to rule any day whether or not those two recess appointments who are likely to rule in favor of the right to unionize can stick on that panel. after that, the appeal is to the united states court of appeals for the district of columbia circuit right below the supreme court. this is the beginning of the march. towards the obligation of colleges to pay their athletes a fair share of what the athletes earn for the colleges. so, in theory, if this goes through, alabama and auburn wouldn t just fight in the recruiting trenches, they d fight to see who can pay the most. yes. now, the students have the right to say, we don t want to join the union. it s a secret ballot and would have to be buy a majority vote. this has never happened, so there s really no rules to regulate it, but typically, this happens in a manufacturing plant.
lanea smith accepting on behalf of her husband dean e. smith [ applause ] dean e. smith spent 36 seasons taking college basketball to new heights. as head coach at the university of north carolina at chapel hill, he led his team to 11 final fours, two national titles, and 879 victories, retiring as the winningest men s college basketball coach in history. dean smith brought the same commitment to supporting his players off the court. he helped more than 96% of his lettermen graduate, and in an era of deep division, he taught
nevertheless, nancy pelosi wasted no time claiming republican hypocrisy exists in this interview about buzzfeed. it s really interesting right soon on the heels that date, on the heels of the republicans voting to make sure everybody that had access to food stamps was drug tested, it s just is like what? to get food stamps you have to be drug tested? and so i hope that it will humanize, shall we say, their thinking. nbc s pete williams was in court and he joins us now from our washington bureau. pete, i just want to point out that the congressman was one of the lawmakers who voted for drug testing for food stamp recipients so i believe that was the type of connection that nancy pelosi was trying to make there. but you were in the courtroom. explain how this all went down. well, he did plead guilty today and he got the same sentence that most defendants get for a first offense. he got a year s probation, so that means if there are no further violation, this will be removed from hi
providing abortions. then in balance ker ke albuqu new mexico, voters rejected a ban. it could have been a model of restricting abortion by taking it to the local level. joining me is irin carmon who went to albuquerque to cover the story and has been covering the battle over abortion for msnbc. irin, is it a surprise that that all came down in one day? it seems as if the move from the supreme court as well as how the public reacted in albuquerque. well, for the longest time people have been saying that roe v. wade was the supreme court exerting its will of the people against their will by saying that abortion had to be legal until viability. yesterday was kind of a twist on that. the people voted. they said that they didn t want to see these kinds of restrictions. at the same time, every republican appointed justice voted to allow these medically unnecessary restrictions to go forward. every justice appointed by a