equal right to the poor and the rich. and that i will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform all the duties incumbent upon me. as an associate justice of the supreme court of the united states. meet the newest member of the u.s. supreme court, history was made on thursday. in a moment, i will speak with former democratic who guided jackson through her tumultuous senate process. but first, let me take you back to 1998, when president bill clinton appeared before a grand jury, any investigation by independent counsel who there was no sex of any kind, in any kind of shape or form with president clinton, was it utterly false statement? as a correct? it depends upon what meaning of the word is in this case. it depends on what s the meaning of the word is, is. a classic. why are we showing you that special moment in presidential rhetoric? the person asking the questions of president clinton, is this fellow. within kenneth s team, he was known for its hard char
Self-instead of congress, so the expert agency i cannot think of many things more frightening, respectfully, i dissent. the court also handed biden a victory on thursday, allowing his administration to end the trump era remain-in-mexico policy. that s the cool policy that forces alam seekers at the southern border to wait in mexico for their cases, sometimes for months or even years. nearly 70,000 people were held in limbo because of that policy, setting up ten cities on the mexican side of the border. it was a 54 decision, with justice roberts and brett kavanaugh, surprise, siding with the three liberals. surely, that s not enough to save the supreme court s crumbling legitimacy, given everything else they ve done in recent weeks. here with me now, mark joseph stern. senior writer for slate, covering the courts and the law. mark, welcome back to the show. this term, the supreme court has ruled on everything from abortion right to voting right, to climate change, gun control. all in
They are frustrated because they did not pay attention to the courts for so long. and now they can see what has happened. they have the additional needs to try to expand the court. roosevelt tried and he got some changes in the court we have to make sure that we get people energized, joe biden s got to use the a little bit more, eastern use it i think a lot more, i think there s some things executive action that can be done, and there s some things that we can do but the main thing is, these midterms are coming up. i understand. i understand. i get that. but unless you re gonna do something about the court, you re not answering my question. i did let you finish. have you thought the court from shooting down any law that the democratic sand and it passes? you have to get people out and vote. you cannot just stop something anymore than republicans could ve stopped it years ago, when the war in court was doing with it in light. that s not the way our country was set up to work, me
It s not the same. they can tell the story, they can present the compelling evidence. for the department of justice, that is not the same as being able to have a testimony, that can be used in a court of law. or defense lawyers, and defendants have the right to cross examine. there is compelling evidence, it s amazing the dust that were connected by this january six committee. i m just agreeing with congressman there is no evidence that higher ups are not being looked at. we ve seen recently this easier of john eastman s phone. we ve seen the search of jeffrey parks house. there are things going on. it s just that we cannot see those are good points. the clock happened in the last week, ten days, that we learned about it. do you understand, why people, are frustrated with garland? according to adam shift, doesn t seem to be
Way that gets away. you can t, it s not my way, or the highway. that s not democracy as we know it and how it works. we ve got a constitutional system that we need to abide by. i mean, the republicans i think people need to remind the american public every day, the only person in american history that is single-handedly changed the supreme court justice was mitch mcconnell. he did it for over a year. people need to be reminded of that. people need to use these because this is gonna take some itzhak 50 years to overturn roe v. wade. do you think we re gonna take that overnight? we agree that mitch mcconnell we re gonna impact mitch mcconnell, edges which democrats would behave more like mitch mcconnell. former senator, doug jones, appreciate you coming on the show. always in your back and forth. thank you. still to come, we ll talk about thursday s big supreme court decisions, including one that limits biden s climate change agenda, along with more of this court s historic,