He also talked about the kavanaugh confirmation hearing and how it compared with Clarence Thomas confirmation. As i said, i am thrilled and delighted to see such a crowd this is a notforprofit volunteer educational organization. At the Unitarian Universalist fellowship in boca raton. Thank them for the use of the hall. Cspan is here, so this is an historic occasion. I am tony laducca. You encountered several of the Board Members when you are checking in today. Carol, whocknowledge is where . Where are you, carol . Our executive director. [applause] doing a lot of the heavy lifting associated with this. There are a couple of business items i want to address. Photographs, recordings not permitted. We have already turned off the cell phones. Ok. We are beginning our full the 15th. Monday we have a open house scheduled 1 00ext week, the 10th, at at the Boca Raton Community center, which is right near the city hall near palmetto. You have a Program Brochure on your seats when you came in th
Will expect both parties to do today and no one really thought it was a that way up until 1960 so what are the some of the tactics for they said lbj is a lameduck. He had about six months left to go in his term and they said we should have the next president pick one successor. This was not really a sincere argument, the fact was throughout history six different president s had nominated 16 for in the last year of office and no one had ever brought this argument in and 56 he had made William Brennan just a month before his election recess appoint and no one really complain and for one. Thats how much things have changed. First a lameduck then being johnsons crime. They were very close before he joined the court and they stayed just as close after words. In letters to johnson he refers to him as boss, he gave him his private number at the court and he continued to evolve on legal matters and legislation, he helped him in other crises and he helped legislation in fact they met over 80 ti
Of ilr. Youve encountered several of the Board Members when youre checking in today and making your way into this room. I want to acknowledge carol who is where . Where are you, carol . Doing a lot of heavy lifting associate with this. [applause] a couple of business items i have to address. Photographs, recordings not permitted. Weve already turned off the cell phones, okay. Some business about ilr. Were beginning our full session on monday the 15th, less than two weeks, about ten days. We have an open house scheduled for next week, the tenth, at 1 00 at the Boca Raton Community center, which is right near the city hall near palmetto. Youre the Program Brochure on your seats when you came in that shows you are full program for the eightweek session, which i think looks very exciting. And those of you who are new to ilr, theres signup sheets in there as well which you can turn in when were done. Well, to business at hand. Were privileged of course today to have with us retired Supreme
appreciate you, elie mystal, that is tonight s read out. i ve got to go. all in with chris hayes starts now. chris hayes starts now. tonight on all in. i did everything right and they indicted. many donald trump s favorite judge does it again. all of her rulings, benign or not, have gone in the direction of more delay. tonight, the dark implications from that latest slow walking in the stolen documents case. this should set off alarm bells. that reality is, this is february. thin, is the district that was duped by george santos about to make a similar mistake? most people lie on their resumes. it is unfortunately the reality. but you lied about everything. not true. and why fox news is sprinting away from their own anti-immigrant fearmongering. they will eagles, they own this straight. this is our country. all in starts right now. good evening, from new york, i m chris hayes. it was not long after donald trump s home was raided by the fbi because h
Im melissa caen. Im political analyst, a lawyer and a cohost of the pod podcast. Get out the bet. Its my pleasure to introduce today Joan Biskupic shes the Cnn Supreme Court analyst and the author of this book nine black robes inside Supreme Courts drive to the right in its historic consequences. Now, before joining cnn, joan was the editor in charge for Legal Affairs at reuters and was a Supreme Court correspondent for Washington Post and usa today. She holds a degree from Georgetown University and, has written several books, including biographies of Supreme Court justices john roberts, Sandra Day Oconnor, Antonin Scalia, sonia sotomayor. And weve just talked about your illustrious history of writing autobiographies of Supreme Court justices. You just start by telling us why this one is a is more of a comprehensive Group Picture of the the Supreme Court. Thanks, melissa. Its great to be with you. And with everyone else from the commonwealth club, its such an exciting time for the Supr