justice roberts, the chief justice, 92% of the time. also in the 90's was amy coney barrett in the liberal block in terms of the majority. breyer at 77%, kagan at -- from what you can tell for the new justice on board for the full-time this time, did the role of the chief justice change at all over the course of this term? guest: yeah, well i think it is a significant difference from the last term where the chief justice was in many cases the swing vote, kind of the kingmaker deciding how it held -- how the court would shift. in some cases, it fell into the category of is this something based on what is going -- what the law is directing him to do or is this something that maybe the public opinion polls are leading the way in his reasoning process? in this way, the chief justice is no longer the swing vote in most cases. i'm trying to think of a case where he play that role. so it does change that position, and in some ways, this might free chief justice roberts to return to his role that he talked about in his own confirmation hearing,

i note some of the prior justices, justice ginsburg had a rowboat from france.y can get them from a variety of sources it's not that hard to find a judicial robe these days. >> that's good to know. [laughter] >> in case you need one. [laughter] well, that is about at the end of our time. thank you so much for joining us in this webinar. it was an absolute pleasure. for all of you,. [inaudible] you should bring people back to visit. >> no word yet. one day soon. >> all right. but, any details you wanted to talk about about the article, where people could fight it? >> the articles in the next issue of the journal of supreme court history which is put out by the supreme court historical society. i believe it's published online already. the paper copies are being printed and will be sent out soon. the historical science society has a separate website than the court itself. you can check out their website to, to look into it. >> the supreme court historical society? >> the supreme court historical society is the official name. >> is an amazing article. and soy the at

in this case, the justice department. but he is the only one who also has to contend with the fact that as he goes to his office every day, his office is a crime scene, right? i mean, only merrick garland, the -- the attorney general has to contend with the fact that in the post-trump era, like every day, at least every week, brings some, new revelation about how former officials at the justice department did it. how they were complicit. they went along. they acquiesced. they did their part, in the corrupting of the justice department that happened under the last president. right? it's -- it's one thing to break the law. that's -- that's its own set of challenges, right? it's another thing, to have created a generation of bent law-enforcement officials. right? what does merrick garland do with this continually accreting evidence of justice-department officials having gone along with these schemes? you can't just be like, whew, glad they are all out of here. let's make sure we behave differently now. i mean, you have got t

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and very trumpy senior figure at the justice department, the man who ran the civil division of the justiceeff clark. drafted this letter. that was to be sent to the governor of georgia, the head of the state assembly there in the head of the state senate. dear governor and mister speaker quote, the department of justice is investigating various irregularities of the 2020 election. the department will update you as we were able and investigatory progress. but at this time we have identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election, in multiple states. including the state of georgia. the next paragraph of the letter, he's then linking to the rudy giuliani fake hearing in georgia in december, that was so bonkers, it ultimately contributed to giuliani having his lace suspended in multiple jurisdictions. but that's what jeff clark sites as the evidence for this terrible revelations in georgia. jeff clark's letter continues quote, in light of these developments, the department, meaning the u.s. department of justice, recommends that the georgia general is simply sh

douglas, the future supreme court justice. having earned their respect, bessie became the first woman awarded yale's prestigious sterling fellowship for graduate studies. with her yale doctorate, she moved to washington, d.c. for a new opportunity. she applied for a job at the tennessee valley authority, which congress had just created to realize fdr's new deal vision of supplying electricity to the valley's impoverished residents. her yale boss wrote what apparently was needed to hear to hire a woman lawyer, that bessie was intent on a legal career, quote, as a primary objective from which she would not be deflected by consideration of marriage end quote. bessie thus began her government career with a pledge that she would be married to her job instead of a man. hearing tva's competition, private utility companies hurled charges of socialism that quickly turned into lawsuits. to direct the legal defense of this new deal cornerstone, tva hired james lawrence fly, a harvard law graduate and experienced trial lawyer from the jus

it is an environmental justice issue. and clearly, what we saw we set did a parasite study will be collected fecal, mud, water, soil samples and we found other tropical parasites in our areas. especially in areas or people are not dealing with proper sanitation. this is a problem throughout the u.s. yes i want to senator and saw firsthand. there's no central database thank you that's a very good point. in the should be a top environmental justice priority. >> yes water is life and none of us can live without water. we have seen what happens and we don't build the health consequences of these issues pretty specially how it impacts the public. it very well could be all of the other kind of things that come about as big with inadequate sanitation could happen again and covid is part of when it comes the public health that we cannot turn a blind eye were all impacted. >> water is life you are so, so rights. in illinois we have a 1 million less than every state in the country. as you know there is no known safe lead level for

justice roberts, the chief justice, 92% of the time.he 90's was amy coney barrett in the liberal block in terms of the majority. breyer at 77%, kagan at -- from what you can tell for the new justice on board for the full-time this time, did the role of the chief justice change at all over the course of this term? guest: yeah, well i think it is a significant difference from the last term where the chief justice was in many cases the swing vote, kind of the kingmaker deciding how it held -- how the court would shift. in some cases, it fell into the category of is this something based on what is going -- what the law is directing him to do or is this something that maybe the public opinion polls are leading the way in his reasoning process? in this way, the chief justice is no longer the swing vote in most cases. i'm trying to think of a case where he play that role. so it does change that position, and in some ways, this might free chief justice roberts to return to his role that he talked about in his own confirmation hearing, simply be

that's the number two in command of the justice department.ment, effective immediately, end quote. the acting attorney general survive that attorney meeting, so the resignation liver was never. sent the reason we're learning this now as their ongoing active congressional investigations, into those final weeks in the trump white house. the senate judiciary committee is investigating chairman dick durbin, the chairman of the committee told my colleague last night, they will be calling witnesses in the coming days and weeks, in the house oversight committee reportedly spent several hours yesterday, interviewing that top justice official, who drafted the resignation letter. what more can we expect to learn? joining us now is a member of the house oversight committee, illinois congressman, thank you for joining, us you and i have talked about some amazing things over the last few. years this is really out there. there was a senior official of the justice department, fully expecting his two bosses to get fired, because they would not agree to donald

a justice probably raise the alarm. she wrote that the voting rights act of 1965 is an extra ordinary law. rarely has a statute required so much sacrifice to ensure passage. never has a statute done more to advance the nation's highest ideals, and few laws are more vital in the current moment. in the last decade, his court has treated no statute worse. i cannot agree more. congress must act where the court has failed voters across the country. to revitalize the act must include a new formula that is broad enough to accurately capture the extent of ongoing voter discrimination and if current need for preclearance while being tailored enough to address the federalism concerns as expressed and shall be county. such legislation must also explore a broader understanding of section two as applied to vote denial claims and consider other reforms to the act such as expanding judicial authority, balance jurisdiction simply clearance -- and preclearance, and hence the ability to assign federal election observers and facilitate pl

hundreds more have submitted messages to the justice department. department lawyers have participated in over 50 writer logs with officers. we have had four meetings with all command staff and spoken to officers across both individual interviews and briefings. we will take the same approach in phoenix. our career attorneys have decades of experience working on investigations like the one we opened here today. one thing we have learned over the decades is that we must and will work collaboratively with the phoenix community and with the phoenix police department. we conclude that there are no systemic -- if we conclude there are no systemic violations of constitutional or federal statutory rights by the city or phoenix police to permit, we will make that known. if, on the other hand, we conclude there is reasonable cause to believe that such violations are occurring, we will issue a report describing our findings and then aim to work cooperatively with the city to reach agreement on the best remedies. if an appropriate remedy cannot be achieved thro

crime scenes and justice, _ justice must be served.- justice must be served. crime scenes and justice, these are | scenes and justice, these are words that also of course imply criminals and criminality and then an individual accounting. are you expecting that there will be people identified brought to justice and punished for what happened because we're not talking about something in the distant past. yes, this goes back well over a century but these institutions as you put it were operating still just decades ago. there are still many people alive he worked in them. do you want some of them, if not all of them, to be brought before a court? ., them, to be brought before a court? . ., them, to be brought before a court? . ., ., court? yeah, we are looking at actually bringing _ court? yeah, we are looking at actually bringing this _ court? yeah, we are looking at actually bringing this forward l actually bringing this forward to the international criminal court, that is part of the resolution, 1 of the resolutions passed by the chiefs

department of justice. it says in part "the department of justice is investigating various igreg lirties in the 2020 election for president of the united states. at this time we've identified significant concerns and they've impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states including the state of georgia. while the department of justice believes the governor of georgia should immediately call special session to consider this important and urgent matter, if he declines to do so we share with you our view that the georgia general assembly has implied authority under the constitution of the united states for the matter of purpose of issues pertaining to the appointment of presidential electors." basically clark and trump teaming up spell out what they want. they want the acting attorney general and his deputy to say the georgia general assembly needed to use the power entrusted to it by the u.s. constitution to simply come together and send their own electors to washington. now, this would be a violation

and the justice department officials who have spoken so far and the justice department in general can really understand what was going on with trump's efforts to overturn the election and whether or not there was criminality, criminal behavior, they need to speak to people who are working at the white house, who had the full picture. >> "new york times" justice department reporter katie benner, thank you for your clarity on this as always, i really appreciate it. we've got more ahead tonight, stay with us. they are the heroes in my family. who are the heroes in yours? as someone who resembles someone else... they are the heroes in my family. i appreciate that liberty mutual knows everyone's unique. that's why they customize your car insurance, so you only pay for what you need. [ nautical horn blows ] i mean just because you look like someone else doesn't mean you eat off the floor, or yell at the vacuum, or need flea medication. oh, yeah. that's the spot. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty ♪ ♪ ♪ even if you had to miss your quince. there's always your qu

one that case with justice whittaker not surprisingly providing the lone dissenter as for justice frankfurter despite the bad to hear it in the clip, vesey and he enjoyed a cordial relationship outside the courtroom. she got his attention as evidenced by his private notes to his law clerk in one frankfurter prefer to her best used were feminine charm and another to her quote exploitation of her female talent. was bessie playing the women card? if i'd been able to ask i think she would've said playing the only card she was dealt. in the early 1960s bessie decided to pursue a federal judgeship, not just just any judgeship. bessie wanted a seat on the one of two federal courts in d.c., a particularly audacious goal given that there was then only two women federal judges in the entire country. within -- with enthusiastic backers on carbs, the important labor department her name was considered by lbj himself. it's not clear what, if any, role in the decision was played by her affair, the one you have to read about in the book, but she's also face of the hurdles. one white house staffer criticize o

it shows how close we were to a calamitous result at the justice department.entleman, fellow member of the complicated surname club decided it was possible his boss and boss's boss were about to be fired for not calling the election corrupt and not trying to overturn it. goes to show how close we were to donald trump getting his way. >> congressman, the other thing that we were looking at, this justice department draft that was going to go to georgia election officials. again, we know about the phone call to brad raffensperger and that he asked him to find 11,000 votes and asked for favor, told the justice department, you don't have to find anything, just say this, leave the rest to me. and we know they actually wanted georgia republicans to basically throw out the election, to elect a slate of pro-trump members of the congress. in the context of everything that's going on today with the voter suppression laws, this brings it all into sharper belief. >> it sure does. it turns out this guy jeff clark was writing or drafting these types of letters to all the six

no justice. >> no peace. >> justice. -- no justice. >> no peace. ashley: peace and power.no justice. >> no peace. ashley: when i first heard my father utter those words i was a little girl and i did not quite understand the meaning. when i got older and saw what people like reverend sharpton and others did to raise awareness the definition became more and more clear. no justice, no peace meant we will not stop, we will not rest until there is justice for all. there is no shortage of challenges and problems in front of us today. for my generation and those even younger, if you ever wish that you were alive for the fights in the 1960's, well, your time is now. everything that our parents and ancestors fought for, many even gave their lives for is on the line and one of the most significant rights under attack is our fundamental right to vote. they are trying to tell you and i that we cannot vote. they are trying to tell us that we should not build. they are openly telling us that they will try to stop us from voting and they are showing us all that they understand and fear t

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and the justice department officials who have spoken so far and the justice department in general cane so much information. for them to really understand what was going on with trump's efforts to overturn the election and whether or not there was criminality, criminal behavior, they need to speak to people who are working at the white house, who had the full picture. >> "new york times" justice department reporter katie benner, thank you for your clarity on this as always, i really appreciate it. we've got more ahead tonight, stay with us. going to release the results of the 2020 census. at least they're going to release the parts of it that tend to make people the most crazy. "the washington post" previewed a slice of that data with this headline that made the hosts at fox news primetime shoot coffee all out their collective noses all at the same time. we are seeing a marked increase in diversity in our country. population growth is driven entirely by people of color. the number of white people declining for the first time in this country's history. that was just a preview earlier th

only threat from the justice department got him to back off and it was not abstract. politico posted letter from another senior official wrote on january 3rd when trump summoned acting attorney general to the white house, everybody assumed he would fire him and replace him with the election conspiracy guy, another guy at justice department wrote a resignation letter, ready to hit send. this evening after jeff rozen in last week refused the president's direct instructions to utilize the department of justice law enforcement powers to his own end, president removed him from the department. rich and i resign effective immediately. end quote. but acting attorney general survived that white house meeting so resignation letter was never sent. we're learning this now because ongoing active congressional investigations into the final weeks in the trump white house. senate judiciary committee, chairman told ari melber they'll be calling witnesses and oversight reportedly spent several hours interviewing the top justice official who drafted the letter. what more can we expect t

you had jeffrey clark, who was another official at justice department.alking to behind the scenes. and jeffrey rosen. both went up to the white house, where the president essentially had these men vie for the job of attorney general. the president was looking for someone who was going to do his bidding. rosen was not willing to do that and, eventually, rosen and other officials talked the president out of firing rosen keeping him on the job. but i mean, it's -- it's an un -- just an extraordinary episode to happen inside the white house. again, just a couple days before the attack on the u.s. capitol, which was carried out by people who were believing the president's lies about the election. >> right. and if they had found some henchmen at the department of justice to go along with that, i mean, that would -- >> course of history, right? the course of history would have been changed. >>. incredible. evan perez, thank you. just to amplify both the factual absurdity but also the real danger of that letter we mentioned a moment ago, which was drafted but ne

i don't want to speak for the justice, but i and you all reject the notion i can understand. kind of curious as attorneys and people that have written this book, what do you think and what is it going to take because i agree a lot of the stories that you've written i believe for many years unfortunately in planned parenthood that it was going to be the kind of horrible stories that we are seeing now out of indiana, pennsylvania and other places that we are finally able to get the american people to realize that it wasn't just something we would take for granted. i'm curious what you think about justice ginsburg's statement and how you kind of squared away with where we are today because in some places, starting over. >> with all due respect the ways for women's rights more generally i don't think that if we had gone slower it would have been any different. primarily, because the opposition to abortion is not really about healthcare. it's not really about religion and the protection of rights. it's about controlling women. it's about misogyny and that happens whether or not we

perhaps justice gorsuch.ave really strong gets that there are five justices that would go all in on a strict history approach to the second amendment. but i do not think that is the whole game. right? the fact that it is in the water in some sense ends up shaping that other kinds of questions that get presented to the court. why? if you know that some of the justices are inclined to be skeptical of some other type of test the briefing is going to look different. justices can only make decisions on what they see. whether or not you have five votes for a history test doesn't necessarily mean that history won't be influential just in terms of a practical supreme court litigation. i say this as a former litigator, but not a supreme court litigator. >> thank you. as you and i were talking about history itself is kind of a contested terrain. there is information we can find in history. with the sources of the information are and how they can be contextualized or radically different. people are not necessarily tryin

to the department of defense from 2002 - 2003 and then as head of the office of legal counsel the justice department in 2003 - 2004. now professor at harvard law school, is also cofounder l'affaire in written previous books one a firsthand account of legal battling in the bush and ministration over territory imposing actions in there about the disappearance of jimmy hoffa and jack's relationship with his own stepfather was a prime suspect in the disappearance. involve service white house counsel to president obama, 2010 - 2011 and was a senior advisor to joe biden's campaign. he's professor at nyu law school and the codirector there of the legislative and regulatory process clinic. and jack and bob's book came out last fall before it was known whether or not trump would win a second term. another these out of office, the book is especially relevant to today's national discussion over how to repair the better institution trump left behind. books basic premise is that the reform effort will require more than just a different and more appropriate attitude by biden and his team and presidency

or in exchange for an obstruction of justice. in article two hardliners like for example bill barr has suggested that this can be done, week's player detail in the book that wife we thank you so not a burden and allows the pardon to go through but it's a regulation of the consequences of the motivation behind it. it can provide a challenge reason to think so in the executive. nothing in the supreme court that rules out. i saw some duck argument. but more importantly missing one more thing for almost certainly never be tested in court and is the kind of thinking this is important to understand, laws like this can inform the behavior the executive branch officials even if they think it is never going to be enforced. this one's trump subordinates didn't go after meal muller, they were worried about obstruction of justice themselves in the statute looks like this, can dissuade president from committing abuses pardons and certainly what would be illegal under the statutory scheme even if it is never enforced. >> another question asked

is it the department of justice? as rachel said the problem with the department of justice, the attorney general, the poor guy goes to work every day at a crime scene. >> it is the department of justice. there is accountability in all sorts of different ways. i would argue there will be accountability potentially at the ballot box in 2022, which is going to be the first election since january 6th. and there is accountability that can occur in congress. they can pass laws to correct some of these issues that -- this impropriety that donald trump used to abuse his power. and there in fact is a law in the house drafted or a number of laws drafted by adam schiff to correct this. the trick here, and this is where sort of our urge for information conflicts with how the department of justice works. and that is that these criminal investigations, particularly one of this magnitude, related to january 6th, take a very long time. and it's very important that they remain confidential for a host of reasons that anyone who wants

justice scalia and we had justice stevens' more intentionalist version. scalia was more concerned about dictionaries and using those sources to illuminate the meaning of the second amendment. stevens really drilled down into what they were arguing about during the first congress. they are different modes of analysis. they are different theories of originalism. the scalia version seems to be the one that most originalists, in the academy, are championing these days. constitutional theories come and go like fashion. and probably less quickly. you invest in originalism, you are good for 20 years of wearing that to the court. like so many things, there will be a backlash, a different interpretation that will emerge. for the foreseeable future, briefs with a good chunk of originalism will be written in many cases and will absolutely be written in anything touching on second amendment or gun issues. >> can i weigh in here? i think it's now pretty clear that heller is a much better decision in terms of its justification. if you bring in the modern era about how

justice must... justice must be served. scenes and justice — these are words which also, of course, imply criminals and criminality, and then an individual accounting. are you expecting that there will be people identified, brought to justice and punished for what happened? because we're not talking about something in the distant past. yes, this goes back well over a century, but these institutions, as you put it, were still operating just decades ago. so there are still many people alive who worked in them, and do you want some of them, if not all of them, to be brought before a court? yeah, we are looking at actually bringing this forth to the international criminal court. that's a part of the resolution, one of the resolutions that has been passed by the chiefs across canada. and it is about individual justice, these people who did perpetrate these crimes. it's also about the canadian government and those colonial policies that led to this genocide. it's also about the religious institutions that participated in the geno

williams: no justice. >> no peace. rev. williams: no justice. >> no peace. rev.ams: what do we want? when do we want it? >> now. rev. williams: take your hand off of your vote, take of your hand -- take your hand off of my vote. take your hand. everybody make some noise. all my life i had to fight and i am not going to stop fighting now, we ain't going to stop fighting now, we had to fight for the 13th and 14th amendment, 15th, 1964 civil rights in 1965 voting rights. and i will tell you right now, in 2021 we will keep this fight alive over our bodies. we will not allow them to take our vote. we will not allo them to ignore our cause. senators and congressional representatives, they are putting together trillions of dollars that they can spend in their district, while at the very same time the people who sent them there, voters are being disenfranchised. we are standing up today and saying hell no, we will -- we want our vote. and so, we will not stop. we marched last year, and we will march this year and we will march tomorrow, and next year, and we will march u

department of justice. it says in part, the department of justice is investigating various irregularities in the 2020 election for the president of the united states. at this time, we have identified significant concerns that may have impacted the outcome of the election in multiple states, including georgia. while the department of justice agrees the governor of georgia should immediately call a special session to consider this important and urgent matter, if he declines to do that, we share with you our view that the georgia general assembly has implied authority under the constitution of the united states to call itself into special session for the limited purpose of considering issues pertaining to the appointment of a presidential elector. basically, clark and trump teaming up, spell out what they want. they want the acting attorney general and his deputy, to publicly state the election in georgia was too tainted by fraud to be trusted, and that the georgia general assembly need to use the power intere

it's what they're asking and the justice department officials who spoke so far and the justice departmentm to really understand what was going on with trump's efforts to overturn the election and whether or not there is criminality criminal behavior they need to speak to people who were working at the white house. who had the full picture. >> new york times estimate reported katie benner it's a real pleasure to have you here. thank you for your clarity on this as always. i appreciate it. we've got more ahead tonight. stay with us. onight stay with us ♪ rock the boat don't rock the boat, baby ♪ ♪ rock the boat don't tip the boat over ♪ here we go. ♪ don't rock the boat, baby rock the boat ♪ see disney's jungle cruise. it's time to rock the boat, america. >> tomorrow, the government is going to release the results of the 2020 census. at least going to release the parts of it that tend to make people the most crazy. the washington post previewed a slice of that data this week with this headline that made the hosts that fox news primetime should coffee out all their collective noses all at th

. >> from a justice standpoint or just a moral standpoint, do you wane to know how this started?i would -- i continue that investigation. the last paper i saw showed evidence against the lab leak, but you know, yes, we should investigate these things. but it's not directly tied to the particularly actions to save lives at this point. >> yeah. bill gates, i really appreciate your time. it's always a pleasure. always learn something. so thank you. >> thank you. >> up next, breaking news on new york city governor andrew comeau. (burke) deep-sea driving, i see... (customer) something like that... (burke) well, here's something else: with your farmer's policy perk, new car replacement, you can get a new one. (customer) that is something else. (burke) get a whole lot of something with farmers policy perks. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ - oh...oh. - what's going on? - oh, darn! - let me help. lift and push and push! there... it's up there. hey joshie... wrinkles send the wrong message. help prevent them with downy wrinkleguard. feel the difference with downy. new custo

he had justice anthony kennedy who pushed him including donald trump in the oval office. he had to conservative appeals court's judges that he clerked for and george bush and george bush did not recommend him to donald trump so why did he get nominated given trump -- i think you really have to get credit to donald trump white house counsel john mcgann who is a very key libertarian conservative and his pet project is on the administrative space and don mcgann that's why he really put his thumb on the scale for neal gorsuch to be the first choice for trump to take the seat that rightfully should have been married garlands, obama's nominee but brett kavanaugh had a record on the court of appeals ruling against federal regulators and so was very appealing to don mcgann that he chose cat amount to swear him in which he became a commissioner of the federal election commission. i think don mcgann and in bush's ear he had a virtual simon bush named to the d.c. court of appeals was not -- it all back then. >> regina kavanaugh's ruling so far show him to be as conservative as expec