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in akron, ohio, as outrage grows over the police shooting of jayland walker. jaylan good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this tuesday, july 5th. i m jonathan lemire. there s been yet another mass shooting in america. this time, on the nation s birthday. six people were killed and 38 injured when a gunman opened fire at a fourth of july parade in highland park, an affluent suburb of chicago. this video shows a band playing, when seemingly out of nowhere, people started running. other footage caught the sound of the gunfire. and a warning. it is jarring. it i that video shows a series of shots you just heard, it was followed by a second round, lasted about seven seconds. the gunman on top of a roof, with a high-powered rifle. parade-goers scattered in all directions, leaving behind chairs, toys, baby strollers, and blankets. here s one witness describing the scene. the parade started, the marching band had just passed, i heard a pop, pop, pop, all in quick ....
Open the door, as lawyers would say. made that possible. also said he d take on the administrative state, which is the executive branch cases that we ve been talking about. jonathan, we ve already seen the massive change in american life. a week that changed america, as michael said on your air. now, the people i talk to, both in law and regular americans, politicians, people are very concerned this will be the beginning of a series of cases in the hot button areas you talk about. a sign the supreme court, which of the three branches often gets the least coverage, is going to be at the center of american life and politics. when we heard from president biden a few days ago in madrid, he announced he d support a carveout to the filibuster on abortion rights to try to codify roe v. wade. he also spoke broadly, that he ....
That s the best way to make a decision. whether you should be on the court. so i think you re hearing from a lot of people they can t find anything wrong with the qualifications of kavanaugh so many democrats have said even before he was nominated they were going to vote against anybody that was on that list, so the bottom line is, how much more do you need to know to vote no? martha: good question. one of the potential hot button areas is going to be his take on whether or not a sitting president can be indicted. if he went after president clinton hard when he worked for ken starr and then he later said the president who is concerned about an ongoing criminal investigation is almost inevitably going to do a worse job as president. so doesn t that contradict the stance he took with president clinton? i think those statements say exactly what we want on the supreme court. somebody hit in his instance says congress needs to legislate in this area. he is not a person that s going to b ....
Her ties both back in chicago where sheefsz a law professor and the dean at harvard. an interviewed by the president last time around. what is the case against her? shoo she hasn t been a judge and doesn t have the political experience. you wonder what her background is for liberal groups, the case against her they are nervous what she really believes. if you have somebody who wasn t been a judge and hasn t written in a lot of these hot button areas, religion, abortion, she s a question mark. what might she turn into. she would be the third woman on the court. that s one of the political things you point out. 49 years old. this idea of a woman does seem to be taking hold because let s be realistic, the short list seems to have one or two men, but women seem to be the dominant theme here. right. i think part of what s going on is that this short list is a holdover from the last list which was all women. it was very clear the president was going to put a woman on the ....