that s his established track record. that s not anything that s a surprise. and so all say look what he s done before and watch what he s doing right now as he s talking with potential supreme court nominees. let me say on this, this is all the more reason that the united states senate cannot simply be a rouber stamp. you know, donald trump is not king. he does not get to wave his scepter and then someone magically appears on the united states supreme court. that s not how this thing works. every single senator gets a vote. and unless donald trump s nominee can get a majority of those votes, they don t get to go to the united states supreme court. and as you know, we are closely divided senate right now. i think there s going to be a very serious investigation into whomever donald trump names.
our reporting here in the reporting of my colleague jonathan deans is that the suspect s name is jared ramos, jarrod ramos. he s 38 years old. he had been involved in a lawsuit filed in 2012 according to public court documents that involved a definition case essentially tossed that case out saying that ram pillows didn t have grounds to bring it because the report that was written was written off of public documents and public information. so in that instance, defamation doesn t apply. we don t know whether that specific article that specific lawsuit or anything about that led to today s shooting. we want to be clear about that. but this person did have a history with the paper and again, it s jarrod ramos, 38 years of age identified by multiple law enforcement officials as the person responsible for today s shooting.
society and conservatives but they re people of integrity. tuck fundamentally trust them to do the right thing when sitting in judgment and not sort of act as loyal vas sills to the white house. i guess the question is how much is that faith preserved at this particular moment in american governance? it s a great question. there s an irony. if they do it and get away it, it would be in large part because of the institutional prestige the court has developed over the years like u.s. versus nixon where they did the right thing and that would permit them to get away with it. one quick point. if there were an attempt to delay things, the push bang eeld immediately would be oh, my god the supreme court can t function with eight people. in the past justices when they ve stepped down have done it subject to the confirmation of their successors. not kennedy. he s done at the end of july. so any effort to use this as a
delay will fall. it s ironic because of course, he took office in the middle of the term after the big delay and knows about the impediments to the court. but he s gone. so that will actually give a talking point to republicans to say we have to get on with this. the poor supreme court can t do its work. if you re the leonard leo of the federalist society and has to take the nominees to meet the bred, you can t let them be alone in the room with them for the risk of him doing something that will put them in an impossible spot under oath in a hearing. > i would think so. it was unprecedented for the attorney general to leave jim comey in the office an lobby with the president in the manner he did. so you know, let s just say leonard leo has a real ax to grind about the kind of nominee he wants. he s created the 25-member short list that trump relied on and
all of those judges have made their jend very clear, too. so you know, it may not be in his interests to assume he s going to be some kind of protective shield that way. harry and vanita. one quick point, all the op fuss indicationing will go on about cases and judicial philosophy. they ll get this question directly, did anyone say anything and that they ll have to answer. thank you both for joining me. ahead the weekend as mass protests against the trump family separation policy have begun. what we know about how these children are being united as children as young as 3 get their own court dates. newly unsealed court documents show paul manafort owed millions to a russian oligarch when he signed onto the campaign. those details after the break.