Blitz. This hour, analysis from our top correspondents and political experts. Just moments ago on a tarmac in philadelphia, reaction from Donald Trumps Running Mate j. D. Vance. More instructive for what it says about Kamala Harris, that she doesnt care about the border, about crime, about American Energy and most importantly, she doesnt care about the americans who have been made to suffer under those policies. Good day, im Andrea Mitchell In Washington. We can fact check j. D. Vance in a moment. The democratic ticket is set. Kamala harris has chosen Tim Walz as her Running Mate. The newly named Harris Walz Tick ticket cemented, capping off a 16day vetting sprint. Walz has accepted the offer. We expect to see a video from the campaign featuring the new pain. In a Text Today to supporters, harris called Walz A Battle Tested Leader who has a Track Record of getting things done. A military veteran, High School Social Studies teacher, a defender of harris, walzs gay hair and Midwestern De
Practices in prisons and jail, discrimination in the criminal Justice System and judicial independence. Mix of cases that bookman worked on and those hes researched and the book looks at the Death Penalty in terms of public policy rather than through moral argument, revealing the system in practice. Scholarly yet largely accessible language, he evaluates a dozen cases that expose glaring injustices in the system, creating a clear and comprehensive portrait of a broken system. The cases he highlights make fascinating reading. Publishers weekly that it shows whats wrong with Capital Punishment. Now im pleased to turn things over to Tonights Speaker and so the digital podium is yours, mark and steven. Good luck. Thank you. I welcome any opportunity to talk about justice with mark bookman. Mark is a good friend for a long time. Hes done great work, as a public Defender And Director of the atlantic center. We will talk about that for a minute. Claire, i want to thank you too. I spent many w
Juries and four cases before the supreme Court And Litigation and scholarly areas of interest are in Capital Punishment, legal representation for poor people accused of crimes, conditions in practices in prisons and jail, discrimination in the criminal Justice System and judicial independence. Mix of cases that bookman worked on and those hes researched and the book looks at the Death Penalty in terms of public policy rather than through moral argument, revealing the system in practice. Scholarly yet largely accessible language, he evaluates a dozen cases that expose glaring injustices in the system, creating a clear and comprehensive portrait of a broken system. The cases he highlights make fascinating reading. Publishers weekly that it shows whats wrong with Capital Punishment. Now im pleased to turn things over to Tonights Speaker and so the digital podium is yours, mark and steven. Good luck. Thank you. I welcome any opportunity to talk about justice with mark bookman. Mark is a go
Legislative session right now. But this will not go far. They will not have a quorum, it seems meaning that they don t have the votes to really do any work. And that is because in an extraordinary move overnight, a majority of the state s democratic lawmakers left texas and are now in washington, d. C. In order to block republican efforts to pass new voting restrictions. The democratic lawmakers are now vowing to remain out of the state until the end of this special session, which could mean weeks out of the state. It comes as president biden will be delivering a highly anticipated speech on voting rights today. Cnn s dianne gallagher is live in washington following the texas lawmakers as they plot the next move. So diane, what is happening? reporter: so the texas lawmakers who flew on the private planes leaving the state of texas in the effort to deny quorum which is about to happen, watching the house floor right now to see when they will reconvene. That is their first accomplishment
And good evening. Thanks for joining us. We are focused, tonight, on two powerful lawmakers standing between president biden and virtually everything he hopes to accomplish in his presidency. One of them is senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell. Thother is a democrat. In just a short time ago, he spoke with cnn. West virginia democratic senator, joe manchin, despite having many of the same goals as the president, is refusing to change the way the senate works to achieve them. Not on infrastructure or voting rights or even a bipartisan commission to investigate the attack on the capitol. His deeplyheld belief that giving the minority the power to block important legislation will bring compromise, and not paralysis, is why the bill to create a bipartisan commission to investigate the insurrection could get 54yes votes and just 35no votes, and still fail. Yet, even in the face of that, senator manchin has stood firm against eliminating the requirement that most legislation needs. 60 v