help you welcome onto the program not joke a short joe is presidential candidate for the socialist equality party and writer for the world socialist website good to have you on the program joe so there we have it $6.00 to $32.00 thirds of the supreme court now is swinging in favor of republicans or conservatives. what impact does that go into. well it's clearly going to shift the court further to the right over i think that really one has to understand the ramming through of this nomination in the context of trump's electoral strategy because he certainly sees the supreme court as a critical element is efforts to undermine the results of the election to maintain power whatever happens in the popular vote there are planning to challenge mail in ballots and all sorts of other. challenges we still take to the supreme court in term certainly sees the pushing through of this nomination is critical and that's part of his broader incitement the far right violence threats against governors and the general threats not to accept the results of the upcoming elections just one week away is there some success