sheldon whitehouse is here to discuss, then the legal controversy surrounding the sale of impostor -- men in jerry joins me live. jerry joins me live good evening, if you thought the era of republicans using a migrant children as political pawns ended in 2017, as donald trump's cruel and discussing child separation border policy was exposed to the world. well, you would be sadly mistaken. i want you to take a long hard look at this newborn baby, this infant who along with some 50 other mainly venezuelan asylum seekers was she noted family man greg abbott, texas governor to the doorstep of vice president kamala harris as d.c. residents early yesterday. a baby, who uses a baby to score partisan points? the texas governor's move was just a latest development in a vial game of political one-upmanship, taking place on the gop. as we placed trump want to be point out that there are more than racist enough to be the party's new standard standard bearer. in the past you've probably heard of what would jesus do, from the american right, i may be muslim but i think i could rather confidently te

back with us senator sheldon whitehouse knows what's going on there.roberts to help him understand why questions of legitimacy have arrived? >> first of, all a decision that was controversial is really an exercise in misdirection. you have to look at not one decision but a pattern of decisions. when you look at the pattern you can tell advance who's gonna win, you can tell who the right wing think tanks are going to bring into american law you can guess that they're gonna violate precedent. at the same time they're engaged in a lot of speech ranking behavior. they have a real ethics blindness of looking into things that they should be looking into. what did justice thomas no one when did he know but it is wife 's role in the insurrection which has a lot to do with whether or not he should have recused himself in that case. that is the inner circle of. how you go to the outer circle, letter leo federal society. you are the judicial crisis network in a 15 17 million dollar secret checks. you have the budget for being north of half a billion dollars. you

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sheldon whitehouse has exposed this link better than anyone i know. he's gotten the rest of us to pay attention in a deeper way to the gravity of this issue. he'll come to the floor later today throughout the week to continue highlighting this issue. and i know others will be joining to stand by his side. i thank him for his work. i thank the president for speaking about it this afternoon. and i stand with senator whitehouse in highlighting this issue ahead of the vote and urge my colleagues to support the disclose act. and finally on judge pan or second to last on judge pan. in other matters, today the senate will vote to confirm our sixth circuit court judge in the month of september judge florence pan to sit on the all important d.c. circuit court of appeals. if confirmed, judge pan will make history as the first taiwanese american ever to serve on the d.c. circuit court of appeals joining in the proud company of so many other biden nominees who have expanded the diversity and experience of the federal bench. as we all know, the d.c. circuit court

senators, sheldon whitehouse, mazie hirono, richard blumenthal, richard thurman and kristen gillibrand sent the court a threat letter in an amicus brief saying unless they say the case is moot they would restructure the court. for whatever reason, six justices complied and dismissed. justice alito and justice thomas dissented. justice barrett joining the court changed everything. they granted the certiorari. under new york statute, an app i -- an applicant for a concealed carry permit which is the only way to carry lawful in new york had to have a proper cause. many jurisdictions in new york set out proper cause and could include lawful selfdefense, for example. to exercise their constitutional rights. but in many others such as one county, they had to prove a special need for selfprotection distinguishable from another community. the opinion by bruin and justice thomas and for six justices explained the constitutional right to bear arms in public for selfdefense is not a secondclass right subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other bill of rights guaranteed. we know

senators sheldon whitehouse, maisie, richard blumenthal, richard durbin and kiersten jill or brent sethreat letter in the form of an amicus brief. they warn unless the supreme court dismissed the case as moot they would restructure the court. and for whatever reason six justices r applied. they complied and dismissed and of course thomas dissented a month later the court dismissed all ten pending second amendment decisions. justice barrett joined the court changed everything. and soon the court grant the petition for the national rifle and pistol association versus bruin bird under new york statutes and applicant for concealedal carry permit, his oy way to lawful to carry new york had to have a proper cause. many jurisdictions in your exit okay proper cause could include lawful self-defense for example. that's exercising cost adjustment rights but int many others of the appellants had to prove a special need for self protection distinguishable that from the general community. well, the opinion by justice thomas the first six justices explain the constitutional right to bear arms in pub

senators, sheldon whitehouse, mazie hirono, richard blumenthal, richard durbin, and kirsten gillibrandent the court a threat letter in the form of an amicus brief and they want unless the supreme court mood theythe case as would restructure the court. whatever reason six justices complied and dismissed. justice alito and justice thomas dissented and a month later the court dismissed all ten pending second amendment decisions. justice barrett joined the court changed everything. the court ran a petition, randy certiorari. under new york statute an applicant for a concealed carry permit which is the only way it is lawful to carry in new york had to have a proper cause. many jurisdictions in new york said proper cause could include lawful self-defense, for example. the exercise of constitutional rights. in many other such as accounting the appellant had to prove a special need for self protection distinguishable from that of the general community. the opinion in bruen by justice thomas for six justices explained the constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not a sec

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sheldon whitehouse has exposed this link better than anyone i know. he's gotten the rest of us to pay attention in a deeper way to the gravity of this issue. he'll come to the floor later today throughout the week to continue highlighting this issue. and i know others will be joining to stand by his side. i thank him for his work. i thank the president for speaking about it this afternoon. and i stand with senator whitehouse in highlighting this issue ahead of the vote and urge my colleagues to support the disclose act. and finally on judge pan or second to last on judge pan. in other matters, today the senate will vote to confirm our sixth circuit court judge in the month of september judge florence pan to sit on the all important d.c. circuit court of appeals. if confirmed, judge pan will make history as the first taiwanese american ever to serve on the d.c. circuit court of appeals joining in the proud company of so many other biden nominees who have expanded the diversity and experience of the federal bench. as we all know, the d.c. circuit court

senators, sheldon whitehouse, mazie hi rhona, richard blumenthal, richard thurman and kristen gillibrandent the court a threat letter in an amicus brief saying unless they say the case is moot they would restructure the court. for whatever reason, six justices complied and dismissed. justice alito and justice thomas dissented. justice barrett joining the court changed everything. they granted the certiorari. under new york statute, an app i will kent for a concealed carry permit which is the only way to carry lawful in new york had to have a proper cause. many jurisdictions in new york set out proper cause and could include lawful self-defense, for example. to exercise their constitutional rights. but in many others such as one county, they had to prove a special need for self-protection distinguishable from another community. the opinion by bruin and justice thomas and for six justices explained the constitutional right to bear arms in public for self-defense is not a second-class right subject to an entirely different body of rules than the other bill of rights guaranteed. we know of n

house democrats have approved this act and senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island helped write this bill as well. here are some of the things it would do. advocacy groups that run ads to influence elections would have to disclose any contribution above $10,000 if they receive and foreign entities would be banned from making any contributions for these ads. not that republicans who joined democrats to pass this acting get it on my desk right away. dark money has become so common in our politics. i believe suddenly -- sunlight is the best disinfectant and eig knowledge it's an issue for both parties. here's the key difference. democrats in the congress support openness and accountability and republicans in congress so far don't. i hope they will come around. they should follow the lead of republican governors and state legislatures in tennessee and wyoming that past disclosure laws or let's remember getting dark money out of our politics has been a bipartisan issue in the past. my deceased friend john mccain. >> a lot of time fighting for campaign finance reform. for him it was a matt