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This is what we do. We protest when we disagree and i dont think theres any reason for people to be told to come together and support this if they dont believe in it. Im not suggesting support tonights nominee but dont plan the protest before you know who the nominee is. And that is where we are. Were at the point of transparent obstruction on both sides, olivia nuzzi and david jolly, thank you. The Rachel Maddow show starts right now. Good evening, rachel. Good evening. Thanks, my friend. Thank you for joining us at this hour. This is a big important historic news day. Good to have you here. Thank you for watching the news on a night like this and thank you for watching it here. Antonin scalia, nino to his friends, he was beloved by his fellow Supreme Court justices. Even the justices who disagreed with h the most, perhaps escially the justices who disagreed with him the most ....
That cratered when it was revealed justice fordice had taken speaking fees for college lectures so they filibustered him. they blocked his nomination. on october 1, 1968 a month before the election there was an attempt to beat that filibuster and the abe forit is a nomination to be chief justice, that fell apart. forit is a lost, the vote was on cloture on forcing members to stop talking and to decide whether to confirm forit is a or not. they ended the filibuster and the clerk announced the result 45-43. that was two-thirds of the senate present. ....
Pours in politics, that summer, summer of 68, the chief justice decided he would like to retire. chief justice earl warren told president johnson he wanted to retire. now, lbj was at the end of his term, he was deeply unpopular, he decided not to run for reelection and he devised a plan for what he was going do about that chief justice seat. he decided he would elevate to the chief justice position a justice who was already on the supreme court, a justice who d already been on the court for three years, his friend abe fordisand republicans were not hot on abe fordice because of his liberal jew s views, bu that cratered when it was revealed justice fordice had taken speaking fees for college lectures so they filibustered him. they blocked his nomination. on october 1, 1968 a month before the election there was an attempt to beat that filibuster ....
Taken speaking fees for college lectures so they filibustered him. they blocked his nomination. on october 1, 1968 a month before the election there was an attempt to beat that filibuster and the abe forit is a nomination to be chief justice, that fell apart. forit is a lost, the vote was on cloture on forcing members to stop talking and to decide whether to confirm forit is a or not. they ended the filibuster and the clerk announced the result 45-43. that was two-thirds of the senate present. they decided the senate would go to overbusiness. that was october 1968. so long ago we didn t have ....