the supreme court will be chief judge merrick garland. judgethomas griffin's and cut time the brown jackson. [applause] they will be here in a minute. please enjoy the trial. [gavel] >> all rise. oh yeah a, oea, oh yeah a. the supreme court is now in session. please be seated. [applause] >> thank you mr. chief justice and may it please the court. olivia or not to be leave olivia. that is the question. my client tell in love with one person. she was tricked into marrying another. when she realized that she had been married to a stranger she sought annulment. thatower courts denied her relief. it is only available when one behavior has been duped. there is ample evidence that sebastian's deceptive behavior induced olivia to marry him. first sets eyes on olivia, she called him her dear's is reo. people do go by different names. for instance when she is kicking it with her homey's, justice by theer ginsburg goes notorious rbg. tag, i as her graffiti dissent. recordhing in this supports that sebastian ever went by the name cesario and yet he s

the deciding judge is merrick garland. this is an hour and five minutes. [applause]

if merrick garland were the fifth justice on the supreme court, the supreme court would be striking down voter suppression. justices have been striking down voter suppression. if more democrats had voted in the 2016 election, merrick garland would be on the court, not neil gorsuch. the other is to do campaign finance reform. this will be an alarmist position. voting only matters if you think the system is still roughly responsive to democratic impulses. i think most political scientists in the last five or 10 years are reaching the conclusion there is no correlation between what average voters prefer and the output of legislation. the only thing there is any responsiveness to is large donors. there are a lot of examples of this. i will just give you a couple. 90% to 95% of americans supported expanded background checks after the sandy hook massacre. it could not get out of the senate. if the united states senate will not respond to what 95% of voters want, we don't have a very representative system of democracy. the republican tax reform plan includes repealing the estate tax, something

the supreme court will be chief judge merrick garland. presiding, judge david table judge thomas griffin's and judge , the time g brown jackson. [applause] >> they will be here in a minute. please enjoy the trial. [gavel] >> all rise. oh yea, oh yeah, oh yeah. the supreme court is now in session. please be seated. >> thank you, mr. chief justice, and may it please the court. to be leave olivia or not to be believe olivia. that is the question. [laughter] my client fell in love with one person. she was tricked into marrying another. when she realized that she had been married to a stranger, she sought annulment. the lower courts denied her that relief. annulment is only available when one spouse is behavior has been duped. this court should reverse. there is ample evidence that sebastian's deceptive behavior induced olivia to marry him. when sebastian first sets eyes on olivia, she called him her dear cesario. people do go by different names. for instance when she is kicking it with her homeys, justice ruth bader ginsburg goes by the notor

justice antonin scalia and senate republicans' refusal to consider president obama's pick, judge merrick garlandces in the history of the united states supreme court. >> judges can disagree without being disagreeable. >> getting gorsuch was noteworthy, not just for the trump legacy, but for the process. >> it is an extraordinary resume. >> from announcement, to confirmation, this success was the most conventional trump undertaking of the year. after months of back and forth between donald trump and north korea's dictator, words like rocket man and fire and fury, the president took his insults to the world stage. his first speech at the united nations. >> if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. >> the rhetorical cross fire continued on twitter and through regime statements. >> rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself. >> by year's end, the escalation reached new heights. north korea tested its most powerful missile yet with the capacity to reach the u.s. mainland. no discussion about donald trump's first year in the white ho

year since the death of justice antonin scalia and senate republicans' refusal to consider judge merrick garlandas truly one of the best justices in the had history of the united states supreme court. >> judges can disagree without being disagreeable. >> getting gorsuch was a trump legacy. >> it is an extraordinary resume. >> from announcement to confirmation, this success was the most conventional trump undertaking of the year. after months of back and forth between donald trump and north korea's dictator, words like rocket man took his insults to the world stage. >> defending itself or its allies. we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. >> the rhetorical cross fire continued. >> rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself. >> by year's end, the escalation reached new height. north korea tested its most powerful missile yet with the capacity to reach the u.s. mainland. no discussion about donald trump's first year in the white house would be complete without talking about his favorite little birdie. he sent more than 2,000 tweets in 2017 alone, from the really consequentia

i wanted merrick garland on the supreme court. he's not on the supreme court.- if we liberals actually are not fully aware of when b the other side is winning and we're underestimating them, that's not a good strategy going forward. so we do need to acknowledge that they are succeeding pretty well at stocking the courts of appeals with impressive young conservatives who have ideas. >> professor, good to talk to you. thank you for joining us. he's the sterling professor of law and political science at yale. >>> we are keeping our eye on the house floor right now where they have been debating the president's tax overhaul bill. it is a huge win for republicans but at what cost? you got to pay for this thing. we're going to explain how it could be a blow to the income inequality gap. stay with us. you're watching "velshi & ruhle." it naturally begins to change, causing a lack of sharpness, or even trouble with recall. thankfully, the breakthrough in prevagen helps your brain and actually improves memory. the secret is an ingredient originally discovered... in jelly

they did it with merrick garland and now they're attempting to do it with the tax bill. no one in the streets of the united states of america are taking to streets with signs saying, please, cut taxes for the wealthy. no one is doing that. that is what this tax bill does. so i actually don't think it's dangerous or even politically problematic for senator-elect doug jones to be seated and have to vote on the tax bill. but i just want to reiterate -- >> i think j.d.'s point was he wasn't eager to take a position on it. >> i don't think he also wants to get caught up in the beltway bickering that's currently going on with the republicans literally trying to change and bend the rules to fit their agenda and the democrats asking for some decorum and decency and returning to the regular order of the senate. this tax bill is not popular. it is absolutely a tax cut for the wealthy and republicans are going to have to answer for this thing. >> you heard the senator-elect talk about a nice, gracious phone call he got from president trump. i want to bring in cnn's senior white hou

presiding among the judges was merrick garland, a former supreme court nominee and chief justice of the d.c. circuit court of appeals. this is an hour. >> thank you and good evening for joining us.

host: mitch mcconnell blocked a confirmation hearing for merit garland, and i wonder if -- merrick garlandi wonder if that would happen in 2020. guest: i do not think they would have the strength, even if they had a democratic tidal wave. the only reason that garland was sidelined was because it was the end of the obama administration. trump may very likely change the culture of the supreme court. i am not sure the democrats can do anything in the next few years to change that. host: joining us from pleasant valley, new york, the republican line. caller: merry christmas. a little bit on the religion part, i was born and raised, baptized catholic. my mom had four children. my dad left us. she was seeking help through the when lo andrch behold, she was in trouble because she was getting divorced. i am not a practicing christian, but i saw what my mom went through when we were children, and it was hard for her to try and get through life. in her later years before she passed away, she became a born-again christian and he gave her some peace to her life. society,em is, in our religion, whateve