specifically. and on the future of the court, and newest member, st ahead. before we get to all of that, do you remember when the donald trump campaign was caught scamming its own donors? i just have to read you the lead from the new york times, the story that broke the scandal open. quote, stacy blatt was in hospice care in september 2020 listening to rush limbaugh s dire warnings about how badly donald trump s campaign needed money when he went online and chipped in everything he could. $500. it was a big sum for a 63-year-old battling cancer and living in kansas city. on less than $1,000 a month but that single contribution quickly multiplied. another $500 was withdrawn the next day, then $500 the next week, and every week through mid october, without his knowledge. until mr. blatt s bank account had been depleted and frozen. when his utility and rent payments bounced he called his brother russell for help but the blatts soon discovered, $3,000 in withdrawals by the trum
nation s 116th justice and the first black woman ever to serve often the high supreme court. her husband held two bibles on which she swore, a family bible and the court s bible. a former federal appeals court judge and public defender, jackson replaced stephen breyer who stepped down after nearly three decades on the bench, justice breyer hired ketanji brown jackson as a clerk in 1979 making it a full circle moment when he administered the judicial oath to her today. a formal moment will occur in the fall. taking the oath allows her to begin judicial duties. she arivs on the bench in the wake of several hugely polarizing decisions issued by the court on abortion, gun rights and today s ruling limiting the epa s authority to fight climate change. much more on that ruling