For our first when he five minutes this morning, we are interested in hearing about the elections in november. Particularly if Supreme Court nominees are high on your list for those you will vote for this november. For our first 25 minutes. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. Twitter orch us on post on our facebook page. The decision yesterday dealt with contraception issues, particularly towards religious objectors. The headline in the washington post. Compromise seen as possible. We will discover more dust discussed more in a moment. We will discuss more in a moment. ,ecisionmaking abilities especially from the case we heard yesterday. This is the New York Times this morning. The crippled Supreme Court. This is the second time since intice scalias death february that the court has failed to reach a decision in a highprofile case. It was earlier this year in the talking about the Supreme Court. No need for nine in the Supreme Court. With that in mind, your thoughts this morning on this novembers elections and if the Supreme Court and future nominations to the court by the next president of the u. S. Makes up a large part of why you will vote in november. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. On our twitter page and facebook page. About 40 people as of the start of this Program Posting on facebook. Petra writing richard says we will keep those going. Let us know your thoughts. In north conway, New Hampshire on our independent line. Good morning. Caller good morning. I think it should be decided now and not wait until after the elections. President obama is constitutional scholar and has chosen judge garland to be nominated to the Supreme Court and i trust the president s judgment. If there is another supreme , i suggestng nominating a native american. Verynk it would be a whening and positive they would interpret when the person is elected, if a native , if they interpreted in deciding cases dealing with the environment, business equality, all kinds of cases. Host what about this november . Is the Supreme Court nominee going and your thinking as far as who you will decide . Caller absolutely. Host mary in pennsylvania. Independent line. Thank you for calling. Go ahead. Go ahead. Caller i dont think it is necessary for the Supreme Court justices to serve a life term. Servely ones that should life terms are murderers. 68 years andrve out. ,ost that said, this november is the future Supreme Court nominee affecting who you will vote for . Caller excuse me . Host when you vote in november, will Supreme Court nominees factor into your decisionmaking . Caller well, no. Host why not . Caller because, i dont think it is an issue. Host that is mary in pennsylvania. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. Or independents, 2027488002 isnt it was that decision, the Supreme Court looking at a contraceptive case, how it dealt with obamacare. Joining us to discuss the details is a reporter from usa today. Can you give us a snapshot of this case . Caller thank you for having me. The was the fourth time Supreme Court has had to deal with that type of dutch had to deal with obamacare has had to deal with obamacare. Two years ago, the court ruled 54 that private companies should get an accommodation under the law so that they did not have to provide contraceptives to their employees. Court came up the with or the solution the court ,ame up with for those groups they could sign a piece of paper and pass along the responsibilities to do that. This case takes that a step further. Charities, universities, hospitals and the like saying that accommodation still was not good enough. They needed a version of an Immaculate Conception they did not want to pass anything along to the government or to their insurance companies. That is fine and good, but the employees still need to be able to get cost free contraceptives. Court clearly did not want to divide or cannot decide felt the parties were so close that they should compromise. Come in months ago march, after hearing the case, they put out an unusual order saying can you guys get together and decide this, work out something . They asked for additional briefing from both sides, which came forward in april. Yesterday, they decided not to decide. Theres been a bit of progress , the government seems to be saying that maybe something can be worked out. We will send all these cases back to the appeals courts and ask for the appeals courts to work it out. This is a makework program for appeals courts judges, lawyers, etc. It appears to be happening because the court is shortstaffed. Host not the first time the 44 could not be broken because there is a lack of a justice involved. This was not a 44 decision. This was a unanimous decision by the court to Say Something noncontroversial we will have a do over. The court was angling toward a 44 decision and chief Justice Roberts and all the justices ant want to keep issuing flurry of 44 decisions. It is one sentence that says lets pretend this never happened. Whatever the last decision was federal court of appeals stands for that region of the country only. That were so many cases the court agreed to hear in one , sixswoop, from 13 cases court reachedthe 44, that would say to the ahead with what you are doing. They clearly did not want to issue a 44. What happens now and will the courts see this again . Caller that is hard to say. Thethese appeals courts two sides are sort of urged through this process to see if they can work something out. If they cannot, these will be six different appeals courts handling 13 Different Cases it is hard to imagine that this all comes back in a year or two with one with all the appeals courts ruling the same thing. It is possible that the court will get these cases back. Almost certain after the Obama Administration has long since passed. President in a new office. That is kind of speculative. , it ismeantime speculative whether this comes back to the Supreme Court. Appearmeantime, it does that it will be left to these federal appeals courts around the country to try to work out this conflict. Host have you heard from the cheese justices chief justices themselves . Caller they happen very, very circumspect in addressing that. The chief justice has not addressed it at all. In the first few days after Antonin Scalia is death ath, ae scalias de couple have said that they will get their work done. We will deal with it. It is very difficult to deal with it. Theyve had three decisions now that have been 44. They are accepting far fewer cases for next term than they normally would. They are not accepting any of the higher profile controversial cases. Just yesterday, they had more than 200 cases before them. They denied them all. The are very wary of proceeding with an even number. That is the key to it. It is an even number. Theyre likely to deadlock again and again if this situation continues. It is probably going to continue for a year. The justices are not going public with their most private talks about this. They will get through this one way or another. But it is clear that the Supreme Court is not very supreme anymore. Host mr. Wolf, thank you for your time. Your thoughts on this novembers elections and if the and futurert vacancy nominations are a factor in your decisionmaking. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. We will hear from ralph in new york. Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan. Course, the Supreme Court nominee does impact my boat. Thats my vote. With scalia gone, it was deadlocked 44. Yes, it does impact my boat. Vote. Does impact my i will vote for Bernie Sanders. Theou does not get nomination, i will vote for Hillary Clinton. Host have you heard Bernie Sanders talk about nominees . Caller i have not. But he is for the people. He will nominate a Supreme Court justice that is fair to the men and women of this country. For 2027488000 democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. Is the Supreme Court vacancy a factor this november . Interviewobama did an and talk about Merrick Garland and how republicans were treating his nominee. Here is a bit of that interview that took place yesterday. [video clip] this seat became vacant suddenly during an Election Year. Got nervousell because he figured that some of his constituents, folks on the ,ight would be furious at me the president of the United States, filling any Supreme Court seat. Certainly not Justice Scalias c. Seat. ,e said in a kneejerk faction we will not accept any nominee. Having made that promise, republicans are looking at a republican nominee who many say are not qualified to be president. They would be better off going ahead and giving a hearing and a vote to somebody they have said in the past is wellqualified and fair. To treat the Supreme Court with the seriousness and senseless politics host up next, michelle from maryland. Republican line. Caller good morning. Im watching cspan. Supreme court is justices should have terms like every one else. From whats been going on for so long, they cannot agree on anything. For ay are in there lifetime, our government cannot move toward anyway. I do believe in limited terms. , wehey cannot play together need to have terms where people to people who will not be so deadlocked with blinders on. Our future nominations a concern for you as you vote in november . Caller yes. Because, ive seen so much corruption in how the government is handling companies we cannot even have control over what we buy in our foods, labeling on foods, that is a big concern in our family. We were all of a sudden getting lactose intolerance just from drinking milk. They are saying theres no difference between the two chemicals and yet, 23 countries have banned the same chemicals that are in every dairy product we get. Host sam in rome, new york. Democrats line. Caller good morning. Host you are on. Go ahead. Again, 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. Eric in North Carolina. Independent line. Go ahead. Yes, sir. My question is this hello . Host go ahead, please. Caller my question is this. Out of all the senators that have been in office for so long andgovernors and everything Hillary Clinton and donald trump is the best you could come up with . Host we are not talking about that, per se. We are talking about Supreme Court vacancies and if that is a concern for you this november. What you think . Caller i dont reckon it is going to make any difference at all because things are not going they doe unless something from the inside to change it, nothing is going to change, it is going to remain the same. Host what do you mean by that . Caller actually represent the American People rather than the interest of anyone that takes the office. Host david from missouri. Republican line. Thank you for calling. Caller thank you. Hello. Listen, it is very important to me because ive seen this country where we need judges that will protect and honor and actually support the constitution, not try to rewrite it for a leftist agenda like weve been saying for a long time. It has gotten so bad in this country where it seems like arele that have morals considered immoral by the left and they are doing everything they can to either eliminate it or subjugate us to being their slaves and im sick of it. They, they the left does not want us to have any rights to protect ourselves or speak out on a religious views or anything. , theyant open borders want to let these criminals and perverts running the streets and run us and our children and it has to stop. Host marvin is up next from philadelphia, pennsylvania. Democrats line. Caller thank you. Not i am worried about is that there will be somebody put in in a timely fashion. What im worried about is how people will think of it. There is no reason for this kind of road blocking. A lot of people pick up with pick up on that. Thank you. Over and out. Host from florida, here is steve on our republican line. Caller i think this Court Situation should be on the decided the way it used to be in the old times. Why do you think the old way of doing it was better . Thatr it seems right now just because we have obama and ,he republicans dont like him it is like a onesided story to the public and im one of them. Should have the freedom to choose and we would not have all those problems which we have right now. President sink the current choice, there should be a vote . Caller absolutely. It was happening before. I came from europe 50 years ago. I believe in the system the way it is. Host who do you plan to vote for this november . Caller im Republican Party we are doing im republican. We are doing too many things that are selfish. Saying we will take the country back. From who . We are all here. I just dont get it. Host it was earlier on the Oreilly Factor that donald trump was talking about qualities he will look for in picking a person for the Supreme Court. [video clip] the biggest what you can protect it is through the Supreme Court and putting people on the court. The biggest way you can protect it is by electing me president. Host you will get a judge who will overthrow, overturn roe v wade. Im going to put conservative judges on. One of the biggest things happening in terms of this asction, it could be as many five judges appointed over the next 4. 5 years. Probably the most important thing one of the most important things is going to be the appointment of 45 Supreme Court justices. Toyour specific thing protect the sanctity of life would be appointing a Supreme Court justice that would overturn roe v wade . That will be prolife. He will see about overturning. I will appoint judges that will be prolife, yes. Host you are vote this november weighs heavily on the next Supreme Court. For7488000 is the line democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. Larry from tennessee. Democrats line. Caller yes, i think it will be a factor. Is going to represent how the republicans want to rule. The donothing congress, donothing senate is going to shift into a donothing Supreme Court. That represents their thinking and their actions. They also are so scared to let people decide. They want corporations to decide. Bigink it is going to be a on theeflects back closing of the government when they did not get their way. It snowballs from there. Host what do you think makes a good Supreme Court nominee . Caller a person that is educated, that has a history of being fair and balanced. Takes thehat it,titution and looks at how it is written today, feel that out and continue that out. If we want to change the constitution, lets change the constitution. We have the power to do that. The way it is written today, for people, by the people those are important words. It is not for the people, by the corporations, and that is what we have now. We have corporations able to act as people. I do not see that in the constitution. If people want to change this country, change the constitution. Host that is larry in tennessee. We will hear next from gina in mississippi. Republican line. Caller good morning. I would like to first make a comment which im not so sure i wouldwell received like to say that i think it is very suspicious why we even have a vacancy right now in the Supreme Court. I think that death should have been investigated further. I think a very important factor in a president and a Supreme Court justice is that you genuinely love america. I think that is what is lacking in our current president. I think that is what donald trump has. He is smart enough to get people who will give him the correct information on anything he does not know. I definitely think donald will be a great president. Host you would trust whoever he supports, points to the Supreme Court . Caller i think he would study the issue and will make the best decision. Host talking about the Supreme Court, the current vacancy, future nominations and how this plays out in november. 2027488000 for democrats. 2027488001 for republicans. 2027488002 for independents. Kentucky and oregon today with primaries. What kentuckys race means for Hillary Clinton in the washington post. The Campaign Hopes to vote from a different political. Nvironment that is in the washington post. The New York Times this morning looks at an incident in nevada, supporters of bernie chairs, leakedwn cell phone numbers, Death Threats viewed across the internet. Lets hear next from linda in kansas city, missouri. Democrats line. The