Down from canada the wild mallards come in autumn, green heads pointing south. Thousand miles of Mississippi Valley below them. Quite a view from america. More limited, but still a pleasant view, america from a school room window in nebraska. The view of a country, any country is harsh through iron bars. Im joseph wells. I am a lawyer. A flight of birds, some americans in trouble, and a white temple on the hill. This is the story i want to tell you. It is the story of the Supreme Court of the United States. You feel very small when you stand in the entrance of the Supreme Court building in washington. The corinthian columns rise three stories high, made of marble from the quarry of the state of vermont. Inside, gleaming marble from alabama is underfoot and all around you. And polished walls and columns under a covered ceiling. In this room, historic meetings take place. With jurists of other days observing from the mall walls. A staircase of bronze and marble spirals upwards. In the ha
For those not voting this year you can call us at 202 . 488003 we begin with a story from the Associated Press this morning about early voting. A record avalanche of early votes has transformed the 2020 election. You can see pictures of folks voting in durham, North Carolina for the beginning goes like this. More than 22 million americans have already cast ballots in the 2020 election. A record shattering avalanche of early votes. The pandemic has transformed the way the nation votes. 22. 2 million, thats as a friday night, ballots submitted, representing 15 of all votes cast in the 2016 election. Even as eight states are not yet reporting their totals and voters still have more than two weeks to cast ballots. Americans rushed to vote, leading that a record of 150 million votes may be cast and turnout rates could be higher than any president ial election since 1908. The story goes on to say that so far, the turnout has been lopsided with democrats out in 42 republicans by 21 states. Re
For the election november nine after a lengthy 30 hour debate on the nomination of u. S. Circuit seventh Circuit Court of appeals judge Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court. Confirming her for the court by a vote of 6248, 45 democrats and two independents voting no and one rural begin voting no as well, senator Susan Collins of maine. Here on cspan2 we will continue to take your phone calls and reactions to the vote today, 20274889214 for level begins, 202 7488920 for democrats and for all others 202 7488922, 202 7488923 for your texts. All blumenthal of Huffington Post write about president rob success on the Supreme Court saying this, Donald Trumps Reception Court justices the most since reagan fulfilled the 40 year long drive for a rocksolid conservative majority by the conservative legal movement. What happens now. Just about what happens now here on cspan2 our coverage tonight is a tweet from Caitlin Collins of cnn the white house officially announcing that President Trump will
Ahead this hour. The russian opposition figure alexian of oil in the groans in agony on board a flight after an apparent poisoning hes now critically ill in hospital. Also ahead india recording almost 70000 coronavirus cases in one day but the study is suggesting millions more may have been infected without knowing it. Meant for its internal ends coach says the team is ready to begin a new era of 6 sas enter aiming to win their 1st trophy in almost a decade in the Europa League final agony said the. There we are here we go federal prosecutors in the United States of a rest and charged a former senior white house strategist steve bannon he was one of president Donald Trumps most influential advisors during the 2016 Election Campaign the Justice Department is accusing him of conspiracy to commit wire fraud it has to do with a Fund Raising Campaign to support the building of mr trumps wall along the border between the United States and mexico in a moment well speak to our. White house cor
We are honored to have as our lecturer john sexton of nyu, whose topic tonight is Warren Burger, Warren Burger is the founder of our society and of immense importance to us. There is no one more qualified than president sexton to deliver this lecture. He was a Warren Burger clerk, but he had a long history before that. It is worth a moment. President sexton earned his ba in history and his ma and phd in religion, and taught religion in brooklyn before he went to harvard law school. He went to harvard law school, graduating 1979 magna cum laude, and was the Supreme Court editor of the harvard law review. He then clerked for judge basil on and judge leventhal on the d. C. Circuit court before he clerked for chief Justice Burger. After his clerkship, he went to nyu in 1981, and by 1988, he was dean of the law school. His tenure there was extremely successful. The law school is firmly ensconced in the rankings as one of the top five in the country. By 2002, he had been elevated to presiden