judge amy coney barrett. >> and have this grand announcement at the white house in the rose garden. that was kind of the event that we identified as where -- >> the super spreader. >> covid. >> my flashback memory of their extreme joy, their giddiness, almost, in the face of what they knew they would be able to accomplish. >> ending roe was a promise that candidate trad presidential campaign in 2016. a promise to conservatives that, if they got behind him, he'd do something no other president had been able to do. >> i am pro life. and i will be appointing pro-life judges. >> a significant contrast to the position donald trump took decades earlier. >> i'm very pro choice. >> this is a businessman from new york, which is a pretty progressive city. he has always been more conservative than a lot of the people that he socialized with, but abortion was not one of those issues. one of the first things he did in 2011 when he was thinking about running for president that cycle and he went to go speak to c-pac, the conservative political action conference. >> i'm pro life. >> when he ran in

that again more recently in 2020 when justice ginsburg died and republicans rushed to confirm amy coney barrett to her seat shortly before they lost control of both the white house and the senate. so, now, we have three justices who are in their 70s and both democratic and republican activists speculated that it would be an opportune time for them to find other hobbies, rather than judging our nation's laws. and immediately, it was liberals who talked about justice sonja soda mayor the member of the liberal walk of the court, seven years old appointed by barack obama in 2009, so if she were to step aside in theory, the democrats, president biden, could nominate a successor, democratic senate could confirm her before they turn the senate er to republicans in january. similarly, republicans, knowing that they don't want that to happen to their ideological allies, what happened to the liberals when justice ginsburg died, they were looking at two of the elder conservatives on the court, justice clarence thomas, who was appointed in 1991 by president george hw bush. he is approaching the record ly f

. >> you have interesting new reporting on the youngest justice amy coney barrett.ow is she being viewed by her colleagues ideologically? >> sure. when i talk about who has come on the court in recent decades, when you go back and look at her republicans have been able to staff this court, liberals have always been searching for a center and over the last 20 appointments the republican presidents got 15 of those in democrats only got five. so there has always been this quest for a center. that is what we see now with the three remaining liberals on the court trying to woo amy coney barrett and she has shown signs that she will engage with them on legal methods and doctrines in the three liberals i see are desperately trying to get some consensus into the census and one of the points i make is that while justice barrett has shown she will engage on legal methods in doctrine, that she usually, however, returns to the conservative fold and voted in the last session 90% of the time with chief justice roberts and brett kavanaugh. so at one point i would make overall is t

privilege of continuing to serve in the senate. >> lisa murkowski ultimately ended up voting for amy coney barrett. it is anyone's guess on how she will ultimately come out on matt gaetz. just yesterday, she continued to resist the idea of being a rubberstamp for donald trump. >> i would like to see archimedes do their full job. i am not interested in a process that would just say, well, because the president has named him and you have republican chairs coming into the new congress, we just move people out. there needs to be legitimate vetting. >> what other senator worth keeping an eye on is this guy, oklahoma senator mark wayne mullen. prior to joining the senate, parkway mullet accepted the house of representatives alongside matt gaetz. you would be shocked to learn that matt gaetz did not endear himself to mark wayne mullen. gaetz has called mullen a disgrace to the republican party and mullen has shared pretty unflattering anecdotes about gaetz, like this one from last year. >> this is a guy the media did not give the time of day to go after he was accused of sleeping with an underage girl. t

amy coney barrett offered them the best chance.ne, she's one member of the six justice conservative supermajority who never served in the top echelons of a republican administration. john roberts was in the reagan administration and h.w. bush administration. brett kavanaugh in the george wrnlgts w. bush administration. she's made gestures towards the center. they have hope in her and how much despite engaging with the left wing justices she sends up more with the justices on the right 90% of the time. voting with chief justice roberts and kavanaugh. hope springs eternal. never know where someone's going to go. right now so much attention on clarence thomas, who's 76 and sam alito 74 with people thinking will they leave now that drnt is onald trump is in office? not eager to leave but might be enough pressure to go while a like- minded republican is there in office. >> and speaking of that, he may have opportunities to reshape the court even more to his liking than he already has. how could that impact the direction that the court t

smash cut: two months before a presidential election, trump nominates amy coney barrett to the supremehe completely unforeseeable death of ruth bader-ginsburg. and as you can imagine, the democrats went right to the nearby kinkos! >> behind me is the mcconnell rule. on february 13, 2016, when justice scalia passed away, senator mcconnell said, and i quote, "this vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president." >> jon: and so amy coney barrett was forced to head back to her homestead, never to be heard from -- oh, they didn't give a [bleep]? oh, right, i forgot! they didn't give a [bleep]! look, let this show be the utterly ineffective hypocrisy-finders. i can tell you from experience, it does nothing! you guys be the loophole guys that figure out how to get shit done. because they don't give a [bleep] about your norms! they will exploit any loophole, even if they have to go through clearly closed windows to do it. you would think after trump's presidency, democrats would have learned. but they doubled down. when biden tried to get immigration reform into the inflation reduc

senators were personally attacked by matt gaetz in 2020 over their refusal to rubber stamp amy coney barrett's nomination to the supreme court. >> here we have murkowski and collins rejecting the duties that they have as senators and if they do that, their voters should reject them. if they are unwilling to do their job and take a vote on who the president nominates, they should not have the privilege of continuing to serve in the senate. >> lisa murkowski voted for amy coney barrett. it's anyone's guess how she's ultimately going to come down on matt gaetz. just yesterday she continued to resist the idea of being a rubber stamp for donald trump. >> i would like to see our committees do their full job. i'm not interested in a process that would just say well, because the president has named him and you have republican chairs coming into the new congress, that we just move people out. there needs to be legitimate vetting. >> one other senator worth keeping an eye on is this guy, oklahoma senator mark wayne mullen. he served in the house of representatives alongside matt gaetz and you will be sh

our colleague joan has some new reporting about justice amy coney barrett and how the left may see hertheir best hope during this incoming administration. she writes, liberals on and off the bench see her as someone who may provide equilibrium remaking the law in america , possibly able with her legalistic way to secure ideological majority for moderation. what do you think sets her apart ? do you agree with that assessment? >> i agree with it partially. but only partially. she is a very conservative justice. nothing is going to detract from that. in this past term, she has , and even before that, she has given significant indications that she doesn't want to rip up the tarmac and run wild. you saw it even in the trump immunity case. she signed onto the opinion that the chief justice wrote, but disagreed with part of it . again, she disagrees about the interpretation of when the court throughout a statute under which some of the january 6th defendants were convicted and sentenced to prison, she disagreed that statute should have been thrown out. so, i think that she will bring some mod

amy coney barrett was a law professor for 15 years and worked with figures involved with the school'se. the same month, the school's clinic was launched, the supreme court overturned roe v. wade. the month later, the clinic funded a trip for alito for a gala in rome. this is a tight-knit group working to advance a christian nationalist agenda. the court has ruled in favor in 86% of cases. that is a sharp increase from prior eras. key decisions such as the 2022 carson v.macon case set precedents with voucher programs eroding the principle of separation of church and state. florida and texas redirected public fu proposals to teach christian history while banning books on racial injustice and lgbt plus themes are more widespread and expected to intensify. the founding fathers who experienced religious persecution crafted the first amendment where religious freedom could thrive without government interference. thomas jefferson wrote in 1802, i contemplate the act of the whole american people, which declared the legislature would make no law respecting an establishment of religion or free

i think having younger, like gen x justices, who would work with amy coney barrett and brett kavanaugh, could potentially shift the court right ward. instead of having alito and thomas expressing their bitterness. you might have have some willing to shift the court rightward. when they're in their 50s, they are saying the same thing. they have a shared vision that they're going to pursue together. >> leah, let's talk a little bit about the biden administration. one of the key points the biden administration had done. and right now, there are currently about 20 or so judicial nominations that are pending at the senate. can the democrats push these nominations through during this lame duck period? and if they aren't successful in doing so, what would be the consequences? >> they absolutely can, if they grow a backbone and are willing to do so. i think it's important to fill the vacancies. of course if they don't, they're handing them over to donald trump. and we know the kind of appointees. one of the people in last session was aileen cannon, who basically stymied the process. another it

there is precedent for this in 2020 when justice ruth ginsburg died, justice amy coney barrett was confirmede than democrats have now. democrats are feeling very justice -- i am not sure democrats have it in them to do that but the real time to have that conversation was earlier this year. in april there were democrats who were nervous about justice sotomayor and if she would stick around for however more many years to get the trifecta again. then they shut it down and said that was not an appropriate thing to ask her to do. looks like she is staying. >> definitely something we will keep our eye on. thank you for your reporting, sahil kapur. >> coming up next, as israel ramps up attacks on southern lebanon who is speaking often. we will break down how the relationship could influence the situation on the ground and what comes next for israel and gaza. ♪ ♪ gaza. ♪ ♪ sts up to 8 hours. ♪ ♪ sts up to 8 hours. with so much great entertainment out there... wouldn't it be easier if you could find what you want, all in one place? my favorites. get xfinity streamsaver with netflix, apple tv+, and pe

align with an authoritarian agenda and is not immediately clear that conservative justices like amy coney barrettree reign to do as he pleases. beyond government institutions which have disappointed us in the past, there is chiefly the role of civil society. we the people who were collectively form a crucial bulwark against a key authoritarian weapon, historical revisionism. strongmen rewrite history to justify their abuses of power and they depend on fear to control their followers. from educators to historians to journalists and activists, we are called upon to play a critical role in keeping the public informed creating a cultural political resistance to attempts to further erase democratic norms. it can be difficult in this moment to see past our immediate despair. yet our nation's history is defined by resistance to tyranny in its many forms and history serves to remind us this fight is far from over. when we come back i will joined by the legendary constitutional scholar laurence tribe with more on what stands between donald trump's authoritarianism and our democracy. democracy. and could r

close when we lost justice ginsburg and the then nomination and confirmation battle over justice amy coney barretty decide to back this plan to say we have done this on this expedited schedule before. but the senate is so tight, it's no guarantee that whoever the president picks he would actually be able to get across the finish line. do you want president trump to start a new term if you are a democrat with an open seat on the supreme court? >> ainsley: she probably going to dig in. she is only 70 years old. donald trump will be in office for four years. thank you so much. catch shannon in weekend on sunday. fox news. thank you. good to see you too. have a good weekend. hand it over to carley. >> carley: san francisco mayor london breed losing her re-election bid to the more moderate democrat whose name is daniel lurie. he is the air to levi strouse he won this race despite having no prior experience. breed conceded last night. >> being mayor of this city has been the absolute honor of my life. i am really grateful and excited about what is happening in this city. it's starting to look good and f

think lee that was overturned when amy coney barrett made it to the court.who is rated at his home in front of his children. thankfully we still have juries and he was acquitted, that your point is well taken. new york knows how to act when they want to ask. they haven't wanted to act with violent crime. they do want to ask against daniel penny but yet they will act here. 550,000 followers, this squirrel has. this has gone viral. maybe pick better next time. >> bret: and new york governor hochul, just in the same time frame, came out and said if you're voting for a republican who is antichoice, she said they would be anti-american. she use those words. in the realm of just a couple of days from this, where people are fired up about it, you know, it doesn't match. >> emily: it doesn't. harris, this is one example, the death of -- it just kills me. the whole point is this has been used repeatedly. i saw firsthand in minimum security federal prisons, people who are literally there because of license issues. it's not hyperbole to say that this example is a terri

and amy coney barrett said when she was being nominated that that they asked him his was brown the let them all of the land and the bare coney barrett would not answer brown versus board once the land. what one moving from going back to the 1950's in america. >> to be clear and again, if i sound ridiculous ways ro. >> some people were upset with the kamala harris, mostly republicans, but a few democrats, too. they wanted her to comment more on some controversial. thank on controversial stuff. parents, sanctuary cities, prop 36 and she didn't and maybe wisely. so you can argue that she didn't. she didn't answer a lot of those questions. did that possibly hurt her? jason? >> i think it you know for me when i you know, a lot of people said that that when she debated donald trump, that she won that to pay. but when you look at what she said is she never really clarified any of her policy positions. you know, when donald trump was talking. he said things that were geared specifically towards swing state voters that she didn't pick up on and she didn't actually clarify. and i think that was

and i talked about the supreme court and trump added neil gorsuch, brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett matt mentioned immunity, so i was thinking above the law and the fact that he thinks he is a king i added ginni thomas as well as samuel alito's wife who likes to fly flags. this is when the alito draft was accidentally released if you can believe that. sometimes you just have to kind of think i will just visually show this. that is part of the draft and i wanted to show how this is creating a situation where women are not controlling their own lives. so now we come to 2024, vice president harris and trump with all of his baggage. so what i really want to kind of want to talk about is we watched hillary clinton run for president twice and i started cartooning in 1992 and saw a lot of sexism toward her, not just by people, but by the media. this was done in 2008 when she was running against obama and a voter asked her a question and she teared up and i went back and looked at that video because it is described as she started crying, she is just getting a little emotional talking about

and i understand what mitch mcconnell did with merrick garland and then again with amy coney barrett. but democrats don't do that. and we don't play that way. and i don't think there's anybody that is actually putting any pressure on justice sotomayor. she is on the bench. she's going to stay on the bench. she's a strong voice that democrats are proud to have on that bench. so i don't see anything happening. any shuffling going on with the supreme court between now and january, really the second or third, because that's when the new congress will take over we will leave it there for now. >> we so appreciate your voice this evening. former senator doug jones thank you. thank you. up ahead on cnn's storms and the potential for snow threatening to complicate holiday plans for millions, the faa anticipating a record number of thanksgiving travelers here in the cnn newsroom anderson cooper 360 weeknights at eight on cnn wanted to dance all night em all down to the ground a storm's coming and not one of this earth, but one of my own making it's jamie. >> i would feel it in my heart if his h

wade, justice amy coney barrett. hard to extrapolate to the supreme court stereotypes about women or men might think about this issue, politically, and the great abstraction of hundreds of millions of americans, we note statistically that women are more supportive of abortion rights than men are, and i don't think that comes down to which gender they would like to see appointed to the supreme court. host: are there more legal questions for the supreme court to answer on the issue of abortion? guest: there are tons of questions about abortion that the supreme court may be called upon to answer. some may have to answer the last term involving a conflict between the biden administration's application of federal law about emergency rooms, and the band abortion. the biden administration said up a woman shows up at the emergency room and has a grave health issue that calls for an abortion or she will lose her fertility or some other important bodily capacity, then federal law requires that emergency room to provide one. an

you never would have had the confirmations of brett kavanaugh and amy coney barrett without that huge mistake that democrats made, being shortsighted. i worry again on the recess appointment area that some folks are being shortsighted in not understanding what this could mean in the future. say, for example, 2020 nine a democratic president and 55 republican senators and a house controlled by democrats. instead of the republican senators being able to be a check on the president's cabinet appointments, that democratic president could do the same gimmick if it succeeded. i don't think it will, getting the house to pretend to be in disagreement with the senate on something so that the senate can adjourn both houses. again, i don't think this scheme would succeed, but if it did, it would have damaging consequences. let me briefly address the idea of some sort of political balance on the court. the court is not, should not be a political body. what we want our judges and justices who are faithful to the constitution. i think that the improvements, the changes to the courts have gotten us