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i will be putting forth a m nominee next week. it will be a woman. >> just 24 hours after ruth bader ginsburg's death, president trump promises to defy her wish and appointme someone the seat. well, tiktok, you don't have to stop after all. a last-minute deal could keep americans dancing, but the devil might be in the details.
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hello, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael oemholmes, and this "cnn newsroom." the united states has barely had time to mourn the passing of u.s. supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg, but donald trump already says he's going to name her replacement. >> i will be putting forth the nominee next week. it will be a woman. it will be a woman. >> u.s. senate republicans already trying to line up votes in anticipation they can get confirmation hearings and a final vote perhaps before the end of the year. with the u.s. election now
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barely six weeks away, it is shaping up to be a bitter political battle. but not all republicans are on board with mitch mcconnell. at least one, senator susan collins, says any nomination should wait until after the election. but no guarantee in what she said. and joe biden summed it up this way. the supreme court is on the ballot, and the outcome will impact everything from health care to civil rights, affecting generations to come. now the death of justice ruth bader ginsburg and the push by republicans to replace her quickly now threatens to overshadow the november election. cnn explains exactly what's at stake. >> this decision ought to be made by the next president. >> reporter: that was senate majority leader mitch mcconnell then when barack obama was president in 2016 with a vacancy on the supreme court.
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but times have changed and so has the president. >> we'd fill it. >> reporter: republican leaders are plotting a full-throated effort to fill justice ruth bader ginsburg's seat with the election just 45 days away, trying to make the argument that it's different now because the republicans control both the white house and the senate. privately, mcconnell and trump speaking about potential nominees friday night and a gop leader urging them to take their powder dry and not take a position on whether the winner of the election should be the one filling the vacancy left by the death of againstburg. senator collins of maine facing the toughest election of her career breaking rank, saying the decision should be made by the president-elected on november 3rd. but democrats need a total of four republicans to vote no and stop the nomination. lisa murkowski before ginsburg's
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death made clear she did not want to move ahead with any vacancy before november. and it's unclear if two other republicans will agree. privately, top republicans are arguing that a supreme court fight will only boost their chances of holding the majority in november. and several in difficult races are indicating they will vote to confirm trump's nominee this year, even though some endangered like thom tillis took the opposite position in 2016. yet it could squeeze cory gardner. gardner's office did not respond to questions about whether the winner of november's elections should make the hugely consequential pick. it typically takes between two and three months to confirm a nominee, meaning it would be that much faster than usual to approve an appointment. during a lame duck session of
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congress there's another complication if arizona's appointed senator martha mcsally loses. that means mark kelly could be sworn in, bringing the gop majority down do to 52-48. several are uncommitted, like mitt romney. some have been wary about an election-year confirmation like chuck grassley, who refused to hold hearings for obama's nominee in 2016. he told cnn in july. >> if i were chairman of the committee i couldn't move forward with t. >> reporter: on saturday, his office declined to say if that is still his position. others have clearly shifted theirs, including lindsey graham who now claires the judiciary committee and said this in 2016. >> let's let the next president, whoever it might be, make that nomination, and you could use my words against me. >> reporter: now lindsey graham
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explains himself this way, that things have changed since 2018 and the aftermath of the vicious fight that got brett kavanaugh confirmed. if the republicans do move ahead, senate democrats have their own plans. they're talking about that right now. they had a conference call on saturday afternoon in which chuck schumer told his caucus that all options are on the table if the republicans do advance a nomination this fall. and one of those options the democrats are discussing, potentially expanding the supreme court, maybe going from nine justices to 11 or even more than that. they would need legislation to do that. and to pass this legislation they would have to change the senate filibuster rule, and to do that, they need to win the senate majority first in the fall. so much is on the line this fall, this fall's election, but democrats are indicating they're not going to take this fight lying down. ma new raw ju, cnn.
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our analyst has spent some 25 years covering the court. great to have you back on. it's not like republicans have been caught off guard by the death of ginsburg. trump doing badly among women voters. >> they've been planning for this. you know, no one knew for sure when ruth bader ginsburg would pass and she might have lasted another cup ouple of years. but because her health was in jeopardy they've been planning, and they've been wanting it. two supreme court appointments and hoping for a third. i'll give you the three names that seem to be most in contention right now. but we're only 24 hours since her death. one woman by the name of amy coney barrett. she's been in the running for a while. president trump looked at her in 2017 when he ended up with first
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neil gorsuch and following year with brett kavanaugh. she's a judge already on a u.s. appeals court, based in chicago. she taught at notre dame. all these people have very strong, conservative credentials. she's a former law clerk to justice antonin scalia. they're all smart people. very conservative ideologically. then we have a man by the name of amal thapur who is a friend of mitch mcconnell. he's now on an appeals court in the middle of the country, and then finally, a woman who's just recently been elevated to another appeals court here in the u.s., the southeastern u.s. appeals court for the 11th circuit, a woman by the name of
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barba barba barbara lagoa. she recently was named by president bush to one of our federal appeals courts. so as i said, things could be in flux, but these are the people who right now, the smart money seems to be circulating around. >> and, as you say, conservative all, perhaps not surprisingly the of the thing is, what are some of the major decisions in play for the court, if the gop pick does go through. what are we talking about? roe versus wade, abortion, health care of course. >> michael, you name it, really. there is such a full slate of the most hot-button cases before the justices. already they have scheduled for mid-no
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mi mid-november a case testing the affordable care act, formerly known as obamacare that republicans have been trying to kill ever since it was signed into law in 2010. the supreme court narrowly upheld it in 2012. then upheld it again in 2015. one person who was crucial to a majority vote was ruth bader ginsburg, and she's now gone. she's now gone. so, when this case comes, when that test comes back in november, could be quite shaky. we also have several tests of religious liberties coming, affirmative action. there's a major case that's still in the appellate court right now, testing harvard's affirmative action policies, challenged by asian-americans that i was covering last week at the appeals court level and that's marching its way towards the supreme court which already was very much leaning toward finally getting rid of
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affirmative action. and i think with another conservative justice, that could happen. and then finally, you mentioned roe versus wade. the 1973 landmark that made abortion legal nationwide in america, and that's one that's been hanging by a thread in recent years. and if president trump is able to name a third conservative to the court, that case could be overturned or gutted. >> so essentially, what we've seen with president trump getting three picks on the supreme court, we're talking about a fundamental change in americans' lives for maybe a generation. >> oh, yeah, a generation and more. what i've been saying to people will affect the law that your children and your grandchildren live under. you know, i'll use an example that i've been thinking about, because in 1991, another civil
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rights icon in america, thurgood marshall retired, and clarence thomas was named by george h.w. bush to replace him. and thurgood marshall was a l n liberal icon and the opposite of clarence thomas, his successor who was only 43 at the time. and clarence thomas is still on the supreme court nearly 30 year later. >> unlike 2016 when a conservative replaced a conservative. what you are seeing here is a conservative replacing a liberal, and it has long-term impacts. joan, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> thanks, michael. well, president trump said earlier he plans to nominate a woman, as we heard, and he'll do that in the coming days to fill ginsburg's seat. he also said he expects the confirmation process in the senate to move quickly. some republican senators are already on board.
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>> as a senate conference, we understand the importance of making sure that we uphold the constitution, that we do our jobs as senators, to make sure that our country has in place the supreme court justices that we rely on to make sure the rule of law is protected in this country. >> a new poll revealing how many americans feel on the subject, it was taken just days before justice ginsburg died. and two-thirds of the respondents said if there was a vacancy on supreme court this year, a hearing and vote should be held on president trump's nominee. that was fairly even, actually, across party lines. the democratic nominee four years ago was hillary clinton, whose husband appointed ginsburg. she weighed in on how the vacancy could play in the election. >> i think the democratic candidates led by joe biden and kamala harris can make this a voting issue, because it is such
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a clear choice. and the comparison with what mcconnell did, how he disrupted, really demeaned, held in contempt the constitution and the, you know, the principles and practices of the senate should give everybody some great talking points and the energy to deliver them in a, you know, urgent, fierce way. >> now democrats are indeed already using this as a talking point, and they're coming up with their strategy, developing it as we speak. cnn talked with democratic senators chris van holland and richard blumenthal about their strategy moving forward. >> i think it's absolutely indecent that mitch mcconnell did not even take a respectful pause to honor the life and legacy of justice ginsburg before he plunged into this
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power grab. what we're saying is that we will use everything available to us to stop this abuse of power, starting with really rallying the american people. and we really want mitch mcconnell to abuse his power, violate his own rules in order to stack the court with radical right wing justices who will start by taking away people's access to affordable care, destroying the affordable care act, because that's what this is all about. >> i think part of our strategy here is to take the case to the american people. i, speaking for myself, i'm going to fight like hell, because i believe the american people ought to have a say in the appointment of a justice who will have such a real impact on real people, not only health care but women's reproductive rights. voting rights, civil rights and civil liberties.
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gun violence prevention and marriage equality. all of them, causes championed by justice ginsburg and part of her legacy. >> and joining me now is max boot. good to see you, max. trump's comment was, we won, we have an obligation to voters to pick the new nominee. that couldn't be more directly opposite to the republican position in 2016 when they blocked obama's pick, of course, and it was interesting, because you wrote in the "washington post" that what's unfolding could quote, further delegitimize our already-fragile political institutions. explain what you meant by that. >> i think we're in very dangerous territory here. because what we've seen going back a number of years now is greater polarization in our society, with democrats and republicans having less and less in common. and we've seen greater delegitimization of our
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political institutions, which is certainly something that president trump has been engaged in, talking about a deep state and claiming that democrats are traitors and basically suggesting that he's only the president of red state america. he's not really the leader of the blue states. these are very dangerous trends, and we're seeing now political violence, massive protests. social unrest. these are the kind of conditions that social scientists warn about can lead to greater political violence and greater instability. and the supreme court has been one of the few institutions in america that has tried to rise above politics to uphold the constitution. and to enforce the kind of neutral rules of the game. but now what you're seeing is that trump and senator mcconnell, the senate majority leader are just trying to strong arm another justice onto the supreme court right before an election or perhaps right after an election. in other words, doing exactly what they said in 2016 was improper, and this kind of naked
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use of political power to change the course of legal history and political history, i think, will blow up in their faces, but more significantly, will lead to greater damage to the credibility of our political institutions. >> yeah, when you say history, too. social history as well. because what's happening, and you point this out in the article, too. you've got a president who didn't win the popular vote, putting three supreme court justices, potentially, on the bench who are approved by a senate of republicans, who don't represent the majority of americans as well, and then they make decisions on abortion and health care. how, what is the potential for, you know, people out there, the voters, to say no, we're not going to take it. and, as you say, some nasty things happen. >> this is a formula for undermining trust and faith in
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our democratic system. as you pointed out, president trump lost the popular vote by nearly 3 million votes. the republican senate majority represents 15 million fewer people than the democratic colleagues. and in spite of not having a popular mandate, they've already put two justices on the court and now are threatening to put another one on even though it's shortly before an election, again, something they said was improper in 2016. that is going to create tremendous cynicism about supreme court decisions and it's going to lead to a backlash from democrats if they take power in november. they may very well enlarge the court, creating extra seats just so they can appoint extra democratic justices, and this will further politicize the court. and that is where we are headed unless mitch mcconnell has some second thoughts now and starts to think about the future and what's good for the republic, not just for the republican party, but i feel that's, at the
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moment, everybody is looking for short term political advantage. and the result of that, the upshot of that is going to be long-term damage to our political system, to our democracy. >> when you look, you look at the landscape now, the political rhetoric, the division sewn by president trump, and he was doing it at a rally just a few hours ago and even accusing joe biden of using drugs in order to be able to function. and, as you mention, political scientists have been warning, they have warned of literal violence post election, perhaps preelection, when you look at the landscape, do you think vio. you're seeing some, some people on the far left and even more people on the far right who are engaging in actual battles in the streets and in some cases shooting people. and i fear this is going to get worse. even if you didn't have the supreme court nomination, i've
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been concerned for a while that you could have a very volatile situation after the election, because, remember, president trump is saying that he will not accept the legitimacy of any outcome where he does not win. and so, if joe biden wins, you can imagine that president trump is going to call it a hoax, say that he was cheated and try to somehow stay in office despite the will of the voters, and of course, if he does that, you will see a massive backlash from democrats, from the anti-trump forces in this country, and so that's, that's a very dangerous situation, and that's even before you have the supreme court battle. and that even adds to the stakes, because, you know, you could have this one justice push through by lame duck senate right before or right after the election and that one justice could decide the fate of abortion rights, the fate of health care and crucially could decide the outcome of the presidential election, assuming that it's a contested and close election which winds up in the supreme court much as it did in the year 2000.
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this is really a recipe for a very dangerous, destabilization of our political system. >> yeah, max boot, always a pleasure. thank you. >> thank you, michael. we'll take a quick break. whether we come back, dangerous mixed messages and another sad milestone. the coronavirus pandemic. we'll have the latest after the break. we're helping change the future of heart failure. understanding how to talk to your doctor about treatment options is key. today, we are redefining how we do things. we find new ways of speaking, so you're never out of touch. it's seeing someone's face that comforts us, no matter where. when those around us know us, they can show us just how much they care.
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and welcome back to "cnn newsroom," everyone. i'm michael holmes. just one day after the death of ruth bader ginsburg and barely six weeks until the november election, u.s. president donald trump says he will nominate a woman next week to replace ginsburg. u.s. senate republicans are already looking to line up votes in anticipation they can get confirmation hearings and a final vote before the end of the year. now if they do, it would be among the speediest supreme court confirmations in recent u.s. history. as you can see there on your screen, an appointment to the nation's highest court so important that nominees often face months of intense grilling
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before given an up or down vote in the senate. democrats now plotting strategies to stall the process if they can. the u.s. democratic challenger, joe biden, articulating the issue issue 28 years ago when he was chairman of the senate judiciary committee. here's what he said in 1992. >> it would be our pragmatic conclusion that once the political season is under way, and it is, action on a supreme court nomination should be put off until after the election campaign is over. that is what is fair to the nominee and is central to the process. otherwise, it seems to me, mr. president, we will be in deep trouble. as an institution. >> 1992. president trump has already seized on the vacant supreme court seat for his reelection
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campaign. cnn ryan nobles reports. >> reporter: president trump making it clear to his supporters in fayetteville, north carolina on saturday night that he's not going to waste anytime in picking a replacement for ruth bader ginsburg on the supreme court. trump did have a lot of nice things to say about her, calling her an inspiration but quickly pivoted to his plans for picking a replacement. the crowd responded telling him to fill the seat as soon as possible and he said he plans to pick a woman. [ crowd chanting "fill that seat" ] >> so we will uphold equal justice for every race, color, religion and creed. i will be putting forth a nominee next week. it will be a woman. >> reporter: trump also revealing his timing for making that announcement, saying it should happen sometime next week and sources telling cnn that the president plans to wait until
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kbinsburg has officially been laid to rest. that could mean the president could make the announcement midweek or the end of the week. the goal for republicans is to get the process moving as soon as possible, even with the hope of getting confirmation before election day. now that would be difficult, normally it takes several months to nominate and confirm a supreme court justice. the president and republicans seizing an opportunity here, and they're hoping to have it done quickly. ryan nobles, cnn, fayetteville, north carolina. >> for more, let's discuss this with cnn senior political analyst, ron brown, joining me from los angeles. i wanted to pick your brains politically, ron. when it comes to the election itself, whose base is likely to be most energized to vote because of this issue? i mean, republicans hope the kavanaugh hearings would energize their base in 2018, and there was a blue wave. >> yeah. look, historically, as you know, the wisdom has been that
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republican voters are more energized and motivated by the supreme court than democratic voters. i think that's clearly not true. what this is likely to do is further the cultural separation of the parties that we have been living through for the last few decades but accelerated under trump. i think it's going to further hurt republicans in white color states. where there's a lot of voters, this is a headwind. and on the other hand in places where there are a lot of conservative christians, it's going to motivate them. on balance, most americans believe abortion should remain legal and a big majority believe that the protections for preexisting conditions in the affordable care act should remain in place. if democrats can make this more specific as a broader culture war they are playing to the majority of public opinion. >> yeah, on abortion and health care. i think it's 78% of americans
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want abortion to remain legal. some key issues are coming up before the court. we're talking about abortion, health care, immigration policy and the like. these things are going to be decided with this new justice, if it all goes through. how much will those important issues play into how people might vote in the election with the supreme court in mind. will they look at what the court might do and vote accordingly? >> we, look, as you know, as i wrote this week, i mean, this is a very deeply-engraved election at this point. you know, joe biden leads by about seven points in the national polling averages. he led by about seven points last october before there were a few intervening events, including the worst pandemic in american history, since a century of american history in which 200,000 people are now dead. we're talking about any movement on this only at the margin. i think, though, that the bigger issue to me is that you now have the potential for rising tension over the role of the supreme court through the 2020s, because
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the supreme court, if you have six justices appointed by republican presidents and republican senators who in most cases. most of these appointments did not win the popular vote. the republican senators who confirmed them in most cases do not represent a majority of the country. if you assign half of each senate, state's population to each senator. so i think, you know, if this majority increasingly over the course of the next decade is striking down what the democratic coalition, if it wins election, wants to do on climate, on civil rights, on racial justice, on voting rights, i think there's going to be a lot of pressure to change the structure of the supreme court in coming years. >> you make a good point on the senate. republican senators represent 15 million fewer people than democratic senators. speak to the scenario of republicans, you know, theoretically, they lose the
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white house. they also lose the senate, but then voting in the lame duck session on a supreme court justice. what would be, i hesitate to use the word, the morality for voting for the pick of a president who was just kicked out? >> look, we are seeing an escalation of political tactics on both sides, but there's no question that republicans are moving toward, in any means necessary mentality to try to maintain power in a country that in many ways is demographically evolving away from them. we saw every republican senator but one vote not to sanction the president for overtly extorting a foreign government to try to get dirt on his opponent. we have not heard a peep from republicans in congress as the president really for the first time in american history is overtly trying to tilt the census, which has been inviolate, to benefit one
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political party. you know u , you know, we saw i 2016, mitch mcconnell holding open a supreme court seat for an entire year to prevent president obama from filling it. if after that, republicans come back from an election where they lost and push this through, which they may do. democrats, i think it's easy for them to find three republicans who may say no. if they win the house and senate, it will put enormous pressure on democrats to throw away the niceties and really move aggressively in this cycle of action and reaction to implement their agenda over objections from the republican minority at that point. >> seen your political analyst, ron brownstein, always good to see you, ron. >> thanks for having me. coming up on the program. the promise of a deal that could keep tiktok available in u.s. app stores. but would this deal allay any of the national security concerns
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now the u.s. president says he's approved a deal for the purchase of part of tiktok, the chinese-owned social media app. >> we have a teal worked out, i think, with walmart is going to buy it along with oracle. larry ellison. it's going to be an incredible combination. >> oracle and walmart will have no more than 20% of the company, in fact. they're not buying it all. mr. trump's blessing, though, coming out before the u.s. commerce department was set to remove the tiktok from u.s. app stores. now the ban will be delayed by a week until the deal is finished or falls through. now walmart does say it tentatively agreed to purchase 7.5% of tiktok global and would provide some services, but a person familiar with the deal
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says bytedance will still be the app's majority owner. earlier, i asked about the fact that bytedance will keep its algorithm to decide what people see and whether that perhaps is a bigger danger to national security than data. >> i think it very well may be. we saw in 2016 and in the lead up to this election that russia has been taking advantage of social media to try to push certain kinds of messaging, to push conspiracy, misinformation, political lies, to push the, push one candidate in the u.s. election, president trump, over, over his democratic counterpart. in the first case, hillary clinton, and now joe biden. and it, i wouldn't want to necessarily imply that china will try to do the same or
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whether the government may try to do the same through tiktok, but that risk certainly is there, that if you have content moderation al fgorithms, if you have these algorithms, we have seen china, perhaps, telling tiktok what to censor. >> the co-director of the digital platforms and democracy project at the harvard kennedy school speaking with me earlier. residents along the u.s. gulf coast have already been battled by hurricanes laura and now tropical storm beta. tyler morgan joins us, for more on that and the fire threats out west, let's start with the storms, texas, louisiana, should
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they be prepping for floods? >> they definitely should. i mean, this is an area that would flood with just your typical afternoon thunderstorm during the summertime. so you take a slow-moving tropical storm, michael, and yes, that absolutely spells the recipe for some flooding across southeast texas and louisiana too. beta is moving to the north at a snail's pace, 2 miles per hour packing winds of 60 miles per hour. that slow movement means if you live in this tropical storm warning. that's basically the entire coast of texas going into the louisiana coast, including lake charles, who you were just impacted by hurricane laura. you need to take this seriously. i know the cone, the track says it's going to push up the coastline as just a tropical storm, just a tropical storm, but that tropical storm is moving very slowly, and that means we're going to see a lot of rainfall fall over the next seven days. we're talking about totals
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upwards of 12 inches if not more across southeast texas and louisiana too. that does spell the risk for flooding. the weather prediction center is giving southeast texas a three out of four risk for flooding, and that is very high. we're going to see it increase in the days to come. and we do see weather conditions improving out west, michael, with the wildfires. better conditions to contain tho those wildfires and the air quality is improving, too. >> thanks so much. and we will take a quick break. when we come back, an outpouring of respect for the late ruth bader ginsburg proves that for many americans she was much more than just a jurist. we'll be right back. ♪ i do what i want when i want it ♪ ♪ i buy my own rocks and i flaunt it ♪ ♪ rolling through the streets so stunning ♪ ♪ you know i'm a diamond honey ♪ ♪ i'm a celebrate this feeling ♪ ♪ watch me while i break the ceiling ♪ ♪ you know that unstoppable feeling ♪
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remembered as much for her work as a lawyer when i first knew her as as a judge. and as a judge, remember, she has been in a 5-4 minority. as a lawyer she was a half breaker. she argued six womens rights cases before the supreme court when i was at the aclu as assistant legal director, and she headed something called the womens rights project. now, she did not work for the aclu. she just did this as her work. and she took these cases, won 5 out of the 6 cases, and is more responsible for establishing the equality of women under the law than any single lawyer or a judge. indeed i bet most people don't even remember that not until
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justice ginsburg argued as a lawyer that the 14th amendment applied to women did it apply to women. it applied to blacks, but it did not apply to women until she made it so in her argument before the supreme court. that's just how path breaking she was. >> flowers and signs piling up meanwhile in memory of ginsburg. she was a passionate advocate, of course, for equal rights and earned that hip nickname in her golden years, the notorious rbg. it was a title she seemed to enjoy. >> it was beyond my wildest imagination that i would one day become the notorious rbg. >> the response from across the u.s. shows just how much of an iconic figure justice ginsburg was. more now from jessica schneider.
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>> reporter: all of the singing and celebration lasted into saturday night. everyone here to pay tribute to justice ruth bader ginsburg. there were streams of people who came here to the supreme court after hearing about her passing on friday night, and it lasted throughout the day on saturday. people came here to lay flowers, to light candles, to sing. there were also many renditions of "amazing grace." justice ruth bader ginsburg served at the supreme court for more than 27 years, and the vigils stretched all over the country. from denver to san francisco to tributes in new york city as well. the morning on saturday morning the vice presidential candidate kamala harris also came here in a nonchalant manner with her husband. they wore masks and stayed silent as they looked to the supreme court to pay their own tribute. justice ruth bader ginsburg was referred to as a tireless champion of justice by the chief justice here, john roberts.
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and that's exactly what the people had been remembering all weekend. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. >> i'm michael holmes. thanks for spending part of your day with me. the news does continue here on cnn. is even better on our most powerful signal. switch and get two new lines of unlimited for only $90 and 2 iphone 11 pro's on us. only at t-mobile. on caregiver preparedness hduring coronavirus.ps form a team that can help with caregiving tasks. take an inventory of essential supplies in your loved one's home. make a list of the care recipient's medications. schedule regular calls to fight isolation. finally, take care of yourself too. follow the centers for disease control's guidelines for coronavirus safety. for more caregiving tips, go to aarp.org/caregiving
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