Another 8 today. Facebook, twitter ceos appearing on capitol hill. Mark zuckerberg and jack dorsey were on the hot seat over censorship concerns. Well have the highlights from their testimony in just a few moments. Im connell mcshane. Welcome, everybody, to after the bell. It us great to have you with us. Time now for the news happening at this hour. Fox Business Team coverage. We have blake burman today in washington, susan li and Jackie Deangelis both in new york an gerri willis coming up. She is watching the retail numbers. Blake, lets start with you, any update from washington on the stimulus talks with virus numbers continuing to spike . Potentially, connell, when you look especially down the road, december 11th. Why . Lawmakers need to come together to pass a spending bill so there is not a government shutdown. That is significant in its own right. Why is that also important . Because there is now starting to be some talk in washington about whether or not lawmakers could also ad
Independent president ial candidate ross perot. Ing good evening from atlanta and welcome to the Vice President ial debates sponsored by the nonpartisan commission on president ial debates. Its being held here in the theater for the arts on the campus of georgia tech. Im hal bruno from abc news and id moderate tonights keebt. The participants are republican Vice President dan quayle. [ applause ] democratic senator al gore. [ applause ] and retired vise admiral james stockdale, the Vice President ial nominee for independent candidate ross perot. Now, the ground rules for tonights debate. Each candidate will have two minutes for an opening statement. I will then present the issues to be discussed for each topic the candidates will have 1 15 to respond. This will be followed by a 5 00 discussion period in which they can ask questions of each other if they so choose. The order of response has been determined by a drawing and well rotate with each topic. End. Debate each candidate will hav
Implicated in a scheme to sell e. U. Pos boards to criminals we have an exclusive investigation. More coronavirus restrictions expected to be imposed in england were temporary hospitals have been put on standby because of a surge in infections. Well a divided u. S. Senate is now charging ahead with confirmation hearings for Supreme Court nominee Amy Connie Barrett just 3 weeks away from the president ial election republicans are trying to rapidly confirm ballots and expand the courts conservative majority Supreme Court positions are Lifetime Appointments so judges are expected to say for decades protesters for and against the confirmation have been chanting outside the court in pouring rain as the hearing gets underway a seat opened up after the death of liberal Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg her dying wish was for her replacement to be chosen after the president ial election. Well Lindsey Graham is the republican chair of the Senate Judiciary committee he defended the timing of about its
The idea that it was a particular job of the Supreme Court to stand up on behalf of people who may not have majority support. Whether it was atheists or Civil Rights Activist or criminal defendants throughout the 1960s. Second was the emergence of this philosophy that some historians have called right related liberalism. The idea that liberalism was protected individual rights. As a result, the Supreme Court became an important mechanism for this. One problem, which is that if you are going to govern, you have to be able to appoint Supreme Court justices. This becomes an increasingly fraught prospect for liberals. Lyndon b. Johnson, after 1964 with the Civil Rights Act, 1965 with the Voting Rights act, he has a sense that the Supreme Court will be significant. Unlike with kennedy, there are no openings on the court. Johnson essentially creates one. He first comes in 1965. It is a custom which dates back to the wilson administration. There was one jewish member on the court. The jewish
The development of Controversial Supreme Court nominations in the late 60s and early 70s. We are looking at the war in court, this increasing surge of controversial decisions from the court with two basic principles. Remember the idea of counter majoritarianism. The idea that it was the job of the Supreme Court to stand up on behalf of people who may not have majority support, whether it was atheist or Civil Rights Activists are criminal defendants throughout the 1960s. And second was the emergence of this philosophy that some historians have called right related liberalism. The idea that liberalism was primarily devoted to the protection of individual rights. As a result, the Supreme Court became an important mechanism for this. One problem, which is that if you are going to govern, you have to be able to appoint Supreme Court justices. This becomes an increasingly fraught prospect for liberals. So the backdrop. Lbj. After 1964 with the Civil Rights Act, 1965 with the Voting Rights ac