Addon advantage. Discounted hotel rates when you add on to your trip. Only when you book with expedia. Welcome to kasie d. C. Im kasie hunt. We are live every sunday from washington from 7 00 to 9 00 p. M. Eastern. Tonight, critical mass. Thought our politics were explosive before . Try replacing the swing vote on the Supreme Court. Well talk about the wild conjecture and whats actually about to happen. At the same time, democrats take stock after a top member of leadership is upset in new york. Rising stars ben jealous and jason candor join me live to talk about what their party should do next. And later i travel to utah
to talk with mitt romney on the campaign trail. Hes set to become the republican senator in the age of trump. Plus, do not congratulate. Russia stuns spain at the world cup. But first the interviews, the Lobbying Effort and even the ads are underway to replace Justice Anthony kennedy on the Supreme Court. The president is back home after spending the weekend at Bedmin
and justice kennedy got the nod and he was a pretty conservative guy. and they looked at all of his writings and they were concerned about his some footnote that he wrote about respect for privacy, but they decided to overlook it and there were people in the administration later who didn t like the fact that they had overlooked it. i mean, they thought that was a bad thing. and just i would add two things to that. number one, remember that justice kennedy we talk about today is not the one that came onto the court back in 1988. secondly, you had this sort of more moderate push. once bork got shot down, the next nominee was conservative. the democrats controlled the senate. it s not like you go from conservative to more moderate. they re all pretty mainstream conservative.
conservative to more moderate. they re all pretty mainstream conservative. even if something happened to this nominee, whoever it s going to be, it s not like the next one up would be very different. to rain on the parade a little i m sorry, paul, go ahead. i want to rain on the parade regarding justice kennedy swing. he did swing, but mainly to the right, and so he wrote the majority opinion in citizens united, that case that said corporations are like people. he also voted for bush in bush versus gore. so on certain issues like lgbt issues, he got it in the way most conservatives don t. but in other kinds of civil rights issues not so much. and the voting rights act, of course. voting rights act, exactly. pete, quickly, you have a short list of based on your reporting of that kind of list, the 25 that the president had compiled. and to this point about conservative to conservative, one thing that s been raised in my reporting is the idea if they were to select a woman