. >> after the death of supreme court justice antonin scalia mcconnell said he wouldn't hold a tice he chose to replace scalia. why? because it was an election year he said. >> the next justice could fundamentally alter the direction of the supreme court and have a profound impact on our country, so, of course, of course the american people should have a say in the course of of the direction. >> no one in modern history had ever actually stolen a supreme court vacancy from a sitting president until mitch mcconnell. and that decision had a profound impact on the future of the country. trump won the election thanks to those votes from evan squelicals interested in a supreme court appointment, and he went onto appoint neil gorsuch to the seat that had been stolen from his predecessor. the next year trump appointed bret kavanaugh to the bench as well, and as yet another presidential election year approached, people started to wonder what would mitch mcconnell do if another vacancy opened up on the court. would he help confirm a third trump justice in an election year? >> we'd fill i

he, you know, is a conservative crusader, a former law clerk to antonin scalia who is the patron saintconservatives still on the bench. jason murray also was a law clerk to justice elena kagan who is sitting in earlier to appellate court neil gorsuch on the court. they're known to the justices, just have not argued before the nine, dana. >> thank you. we appreciate it. >>> south carolina is set to deliver joe biden his first official victory of the 2024 campaign, but does he have the key support such as with black voters that propelled him to the nomination in 2020? that's coming up. >>> president biden is ready to claim his first official primary victory tomorrow when south carolina democrats go to the polls. the palmetto state delivered biden his first win back in 2020 and set him on the path to win the white house. this time the president isn't facing a competitive primary. still, a large margin of victory could help jump start the president's reelection campaign as certainly that's what his folks are looking for. joining me now is someone who knows a lot about getting a democratic

trump's critics now pinning their hopes of trump getting kicked off the ballot in the words of antonin scalia. >>> plus, trump's legal problems are costing him so much money that he has now losing the race for campaign cash massively to biden. >>> tonight. not stepping down. we are learning that fani willis has no plans to recuse herself from the georgia election case against trump. this comes in the face of gro growing scrutiny that she misused taxpayer funds while having an affair with nathan wade. wade received hundreds of thousands of dollars for his work on the case and has paid for trips with willis according to court records. nick valencia is "outfront." >> fani willis, defiant. sources tell cnn the embattled fulton county district attorney has no plans of stepping aside or to recuse herself. willis indicted former president trump for his defiance following the 2020 election. now herself digging in and not backing down. something she has done through the nearly three-year investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election in georgia. even when trump attacked her personally. >

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one justice even quoting the late supreme court justice antonin scalia about the political and legalw. >> the lawyers for the florida attorney general urged the court to block this ballot measure. they argue that the language is deceiving of voters and will mislead people, the lawyers for the abortion advocates say the language is crystal clear. they also said the 1.5 million people who signed the petition to get the ballot measure made it clear that residents of florida want to vote on this. take a listen to their arguments today. >> this is a wolf that comes as a wolf. i mean, the summary is pretty, if people think that this is sweeping, the summary makes it pretty obvious that it's sweeping. >> yes, and if voters don't agree with that, they will have the opportunity to vote against it. >> i would say that the title of this is understated to the point of deception. limit government interference, what you're talking about is an unambiguously eviscerate government interference. >>> now, florida's supreme court has a conservative majority, and governor ron desantis, a republican, and

justice antonin scalia, in a short private letter explaining it believed that the president was deedrposes. in addition, a strong case can be made that founding father, alexander hamilton like wise believed that the president was an officer of the united states. can you explain this scalia opinion? >> yeah, so essentially what you're talking about is the term officer, is it a term that has a special, unique meaning specifically for this particular amendment, or is it the term that has the general meaning, that it has in regular life. and the the rule is that words in law have the meaning that they generally have in life unless the statute or the rule itself changes the meaning, and that's not what is happening here. so in that sense, what scalia is talking about is the word officer means officer, and the president is an officer. this is sort of basic civics 101, and the language of the 14th amendment section 3 doesn't contain special language that opts the president out of that definition. so he's an officer, and his argument that he's not an officer i think is specious. i don't thin

as you said, when antonin scalia died insisting that that seat be held open past the november electiont the people decide who should pick the next supreme court justice, and of course that ended up being trump and robbing merrick garland of an opportunity to fill that seat. but then when we saw the tables turned and ruth bader ginsburg died, just six weeks before the election -- >> it was october. >> just weeks away, mitch mcconnell said, you know, actually, you know what? the long tradition i mentioned before, it's different when, you know, it happens on a thursday. he was very hypocritical then and allowed donald trump to replace that seat. he got the one before his presidency and at the tail end of his presidency. i think although he had the power to do that, one of the things that's so important and i talk about in my book is the need for people to exercise restraint when they have power, not to exercise power simply because they can but to show restraint in working with the other side of the aisle and being fair and justice so that the people have confidence in our institutions. >

a clerk for antonin scalia jason murray is a colorado trial lawyer he represents the six colorado voterserked for elena kagan. those two individuals, they pictures in the washington post. this is leo from woodstock new york. caller: i am one of the uneducated. a couple of your callers stated about the uneducated and they have referenced anglo-saxon white guys. i am irish-american. who is uneducated here? host: what are your thoughts on the case? caller: john, my reference material. you cut people off with their reference material that you're allowed to reference the wall street journal. that is bias. what has donald trump been convicted of? host: william from illinois. caller: i am calling about one specific point in this case. donald trump is not an officer of the united states. let's follow through how a bill is passed. when congress signs a bill a passage to the president for his signature. what is the significance of the president? it then becomes a law. why don't they pass it to you or me? because it passes to the chief executive officer of the united states. it doesn't become a law

chief judge sutton clerked for the second certain and justice antonin scalia.justice elena kagan has served on the supreme court of the nightside since 2010. prior to her appointment to the court, she was a solicitor general of the united states, the federal government's top appellate lawyer sometimes referred to as the 10th justice. prior to that, justin kagan was the very popular and successful dean kagan of the harvard law school and she had previous he can a law professor at harvard and the university of chicago and she served in the clinton administration as associate counsel and his deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy. justice kagan clerked for judge abner nicola on the d.c. circuit judge justice thurgood marshall. please join me in welcoming two of my favorite people on the planet for what i am sure will be a fun and far ranging conversation. [applause] >> you can see me. i can't see you. [laughter] >> thank you, judge. another slow day at the office? >> yeah. [laughter] everybody is laughing, so they must know what i did this morning.

he clerked for judge thomas meskill and justice antonin scalia. justice kagan has served on the supreme court since 2010. prior to her appointment she was a solicitor general for the united states, sometimes referred to as the 10th justice. prior to that she was the very popular and successful dean kagan of the harvard law school. she was previously a law professor at harvard and the university of chicago. she served the clinton administration as associate counsel and deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy. she clerked on the d.c. circuit judge and for justice thurgood marshall. join me in welcoming two of my favorite people on the planet for what i'm sure will be a fun and far ranging conversation. ard and the university of chicago and she served in the clinton administration as associate counsel and his deputy assistant to the president for domestic policy. justice kagan clerked for judge abner nicola on the d.c. circuit judge justice thurgood marshall. please join me in welcoming two of my favorite people on the planet for what i

circuit and on the supreme court for justice antonin scalia.e faculty at harvard law school, clerked at the supreme court the same turn that justice barrett did. justice barrett, professor feldman wrote, quote, of the 30 some clerks that year, all of whom had graduated the top of their law school classes and gone and done prestigious clerkships before coming to work at the court, barrett stood out. when assigned to work on an extremely complex, difficult case, especially one involving a hard to comprehend scheme, i would first go to barrett to have her explain it to me, end of quote. after practicing law in washington, d.c., justice barrett joined the faculty at notre dame where she was thrice selected distinguished professor of the year. president trump appointed her to the u.s. court of appeals to the seventh circuit which sits in chicago in 2017 and the united states supreme court in 2020. we are honored to have both of you here today. governor cox mentioned how this came about. it was at a meeting last spring where he had convened a lot of