melissa murraya former law clerk to justice sotomayor, and laura jarrett, and presidential historian,hings in so many ways. >> yeah, that's exactly right. not only was she the first woman to serve on the united states supreme court, and she was, as you mentioned earlier, the first woman to serve as the majority leader in the state senate in arizona, and as you noted, ronald reagan made the promise to appoint a woman to the supreme court. the problem, of course, is that the republicans had a poor track record of appointing women to the lower federal benched. jimmy carter, as the democratic president preceding reagan did a great job integrating both courts with minorities and women and none of those appointees were women, and when reagan was looking for his nominee, he couldn't look to the federal bench and he had to cast a wider net and found sandra day o'conner who was in arizona. she had been a standout student at stanford law school and could not find a job upon graduating and she was given an offer to be a legal secretary, and she raised her children and was active in the goldwater

and she knew what went on as they listened to justice sotomayor, and she had died at age 93, and been out of the public eye for many years, as she was ill, but she was such a trailblazer for them, really changing way they interacted with them. all nine of the justices there today to begin the memorial event, and retired justice anthony kennedy who was very close to justice o'connor was there, and tomorrow, a funeral service for justice o'connor at the national cathedral where president joe biden will be there to speak, and chief justice as well. >> i remembered most of the things that she did, but i had forgotten so many . >>> and we are told that there is a potential weapon that has the range to reach the united states. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> new this morning, north korea has fireded a long-range ballistic missile that could reach the u.s. south north korea says it traveled 600 miles and then fell into the water. it is believed to be a solid-fueled icbm which is the third time that north korea has launched a missile of this kind. let's brick in the unn jipt and this test launch? >> yes, sar

yesterday, justice sonya sotomayor honored justice o'connor as she lay in repose. justice sotomayor the heaven shed a tear, i thank the chief justice and the o'connor family or the privilege of speaking today in honor of my life role model, sandra day o'connor. i start where i believe she would have started by introducing her beloved family. scott o'connor and his wife, joni with their two children courtney, adam, and keeley. brian o'connor and his wife, sean, and their children weston and sawyer. j o'connor and his wife and their sons. over the years i've had the pleasure of spending time with some of the o'connor family. and serving alongside jay on the civics board where we worked to continue sandra's initiative in civics education. we are here today to mark the passing of a truly remarkable person. to honor and remand better -- and remember sondra for not only her work as a judge but her humanity, leadership, determination and vision. we cannot do that without giving thanks to each of you in the o'connor family for sharing shut -- first staring sean -- sa ndra

justice sotomayor: the heavens shed a tear this morning. i thank the chief justice and the o'connor family for this privilege of speaking today in honor of my life role model, sandra day o'connor. i start where i believe she would have started, by introducing her beloved family. scott o'connor and his wife joannie, with their children. brian o'connor and his wife, and their children westin and sawyer, and j. o'connor and his wife and their sons, dylan and luke. over the years, i have had the pleasure of spending time with some of the o'connor family and of serving alongside jay on the icivics board where we worked to continue sandra's pathbreaking initiative in civics education. we are here to mark the passing of a truly remarkable person, to honor and remember sandra not only for her work as a judge but for her humanity, leadership, determination, and vision. and we cannot do that without giving thanks to each of you in the o'connor family for sharing sandra with us. especially to your dad john, who sandra adored and who made the greatest

justice sotomayor are and jackson often join with other liberal justices. it is not true in many cases but are there occasions when the four women justices get together for any purpose? the any reason. just to celebrate the fact that there is for now? -- four now? >> i am so delighted to have justice jackson as my new colleague. i would say the women -- i will start by saying that my first term on the court was in a fixed case. it was not the way you might be expecting when you open newspapers. six men, i was running the defense for justice kagan, justice sotomayor and me. it is certainly not always the case that women are on different sides. actually, last term, i think it is the case that there were only five decisions in which the three other women were in dissent. that was only five of the 57 or so cases that we heard. there are all kinds of other lineups. i find myself in a grouping that includes justice kagan or justice sotomayor. i wouldn't want to leave the impression that i am alongside them. got to them. i just say my perspective is different just

sotomayor called her a life role model and praised her impact on the high court. >> she understood thatersonal relationships were critical to working together even and especially in the face of adversity or strenuous disag disagreement. today i know she is smiling knowing that four sisters serve on her court. >> joining us now, supreme court analyst, joan, your piece is so beautiful. you quote that she was called a singular asset. >> i reread the transcript last night and i noted when he said that, the spectators broke out in applause and chairman had to say no clapping during this hearing. but some inspired the senators back in 1981 and she inspired the country back in 1981. i love the clip you played from justice sotomayor about her personal touch and interest in personal relations. because there was a method behind what she did. she wanted to engage and as justice sotomayor said to take them to movies, to barbecues, sometimes share glass or water. but her idea was -- and you know that her idea was that the more you have those kinds of bonds off the bench, the more it will make the re

and this is coming in from justice sotomayor. she was a true trail blazer. and i remember studying her when she went into the court in the 1980s and it is remarkable to a lot of women and also to the country, because some of the decisions that she made were huge for the country. >> there is no question. just one really, really small example, before justice o'connor joined court in 1981, the justices referred to each other as brothers and brethren and you would refer to each other as mr. jus justice brennan, and so when she joined court, she adjusted behavior not only off, but on the bench. we can see more in the opinions and more accounting for women in every facet of society in the jurisprudence, but another point that we cannot lose sight of in eulogizing justice o'connor is that even if if the time on the bench started as a remarkable moment for gender equality, she also becomes the critical middle of the court during her 25 years on the bench. into the 1990s, the court moves to where she wants it to move in the ideologically-charged cases. and in 1996, j

justice sotomayor, if you'd like to join us. justice kennedy, would you like to join us to to. thank you. ry much. know you're. thank you so much, governor martinez. and thank who just joined us in that incredible moment. a round of applause for everyone. don't get too comfortable comfortable. our next speaker is well-known in this town that, as they say, needs no introduction, but yet she is going to get one anyway. she is the national public radio legal affairs whose coverage of the supreme court and legal affairs have won widespread recognition including. and this is a long list the george peabody award the broadcaster of the year. the saltash of award for excellence in broadcasting for the national press foundation. she has been honored seven times by the american bar association for her continued excellence in legal reporting. and she is recipient of more than two dozen honorary. she is also the author of the new york times bestseller dinner with ruth, a memoir of power and friendships. of course, i could be talking about nobody in this town but the legendary nina totenber

and justice sotomayor was one of the speakers. they said that sandra day o'connor captured the hearts of america and the supreme court and moved the law. she all insisted that they had lunch together after oral arguments and said that kind of eases thing, having food are bq or oceanly having a glass of scotch. let me tell you what she said about justice o connor's connection to the american people. i think we have the sound for that. >> she had an extraordinary understanding of the american people just like she had an extraordinary understanding of this court's ruling and its limits. we were well served by the steady hand and intellect of a justice that never lost sight of how the law affect philadelphia ordinary people. >> justice sotomayor was appointed in 2009, four years after justice o'connor announced her retirement a legacy she leaves her with the law and representation. and tomorrow she will be eulogist by president biden. >> an incredible life that she set for the american people. >>> one day after marking his 87th birthd

justice sotomayor is filed a dissen opiniwhich justice kagan and justice jackson join. dissentingon in whichiled a kagan join.omayor and justice justice jackson did not participate in the harvard case. justice thomas: i joie court's opinion in ful although it is not mctice to announce my separate opinions from the bench. the race-based discrimination against asian americans in th case compels me to do so today. in the wake of civil wr nation amended our constitution to a slavery. it further proclaimed all persons born in the united stes are citizens entitled to the privileges or immunities of citizenship and the equal protection of the laws. as justice harlan claimed in dissent pssy versus ferguson, o constitution is corbnd, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens. the great failure and tragedy of this country was slavery and its progeny. and the great failure of this court was its misinterpretation of the reconstruction amendmen and its rejection of justice harland's view in plessy, thereby sanctioning decades of racial discrimination and jim crow laws.

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may islay sotomayor, and the washington post. now that house republicans have formally authorized an impeachment inquiry into president biden with zero evidence, where do they go from here? >> it leads to the eventual question of, should we impeach president biden? >> i mean -- >> yeah, trump has been impeached twice. i get it. >> there have been a lot of impeachments we've had to cover over the years. >> right. >> that is a question, especially vulnerable republicans, do not want to have to answer. he pressed them on it, why did you vote on the impeachment inquiry? well, it will give us some levers if we do go to core. they can be held up by the law. the house oversight has responsibility. this is part of it. this is what i'm hearing from some house republican leadership aides. next year what is going to happen is a week like we saw like this week. we have a vote to appease the far-right. you have something that will appease more vulnerable members. i think they voted on something like whole milk. >> right. >> that is going to b

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supreme court and the many female justices who have been served since then, ruth bader ginsburg, sotomayor, elena kagan, amy coney barrett. i just wonder if she gave so many women and girls the example that they needed to think i can do it. i can be on the nation's highest court. what kind of impact did she have in terms of that psychology and breaking gender stereotypes? >> you know, it's hard to generalize, but i think that's such a good point because we'll never know fully how many little girls looked up and saw her, that image. i mean, there are moments in history, the first black woman, first, you know, hispanic woman, the first, you know, we can all speak to seeing those firsts, and i think it has an impact on little boys as well to realize that women can do these things. so it changes relationships throughout our country to see women achieve this way. other countries have had women leaders, prime ministers, presidents, we haven't, but it just -- it's the imagination of what you can achieve throughout history, and i think of ketanji jackson and others who i've met who saw inspiration

all righ endt. >> sotomayor had a great weekend. that part of the child abuse and social media has made it easier to do it. if you look on social. l media,ook on social. these people are going viral with their children. thesm, eir children. and it's putting money in the house. so they're doing having their children do some ofanythi anything. >> yep. they're just cash registers. that's all it is. ng just cas that all right. >> very, very in-depth discussion. we appreciate that. >> thank you. thank you. sink or swim is next. >> rsv is out there for those 60 years and older. >> protect against rsv with a rex v. a rex v is a vaccine used a rex v is a vaccine used to prevent lower respiratory disease from rsv in peoplewith w 60 years and older. immumost c everyone and is not for thoseom with severe allergic reactions to its ingredientssite pai. those with weakened immune systems may have a lower response to the vaccine. the most common side effects are injection site pain, and joint pain. >> i chose a rex v rsv make it a rex v introducin

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justice sonia sotomayor said o'connor was a living example that women could take on any challenge. o'connor died earlier this month at the age of 93. >>> in a radical change in policy, pope francis formally approved allowing preefrts to bless same-sex couples. the new policy does not approve same-sex marriages, but it does allow priests to bless couples if the ritual is not a wedding or civil union. the vatican says people seeking god's love and mercy should not be subject to an exhaustive moral analysis to receive it. >>> coming up, a powerful earthquake in china. a powerful earthquake hits the northwest and iceland fires up as a volcano lights up the sky. this is the "cbs morning news." ♪ merry christmas! ♪ rich chocolate layers sprinkled with festive peppermint. with love from san francisco. ghirardelli peppermint bark squares. makes the holidays a bite better. i have moderate to severe crohn's disease. now, there's skyrizi. ♪ things are looking up, i've got symptom relief. ♪ ♪ control of my crohn's means everything to me. ♪ ♪ control is everything to me. ♪ feel significant symp

i actually don't think the sotomayor case or the cases with justice thomas, justice alito there's any showing remotely that these trips or gifts or whatever hadel produced any chae in the way they decided the cases, that produced any real conflict of interest. do we actually see them changing their votes and changing their opinions because of this? i don't see onn the parts of the liberal on conservative justices which in my mind there's dust being kicked off to try to impugn individual members of the court because like in 1937 the politicians just don't like the way the justices are interpreting the constitution and goes back, the supreme court has become more important. you are seeing the use of regular-old political campaign techniques and tactics being used now against judges and justices because the stakes of what they do are so high to many people. >> as the former general counsel at the senate judiciary committee, were you surprised, shots, et cetera about the committee hearing, dick durbin and john cornyn getting into it. the republicans walking out? >> yes, when information g

i guess i'm a lileoncerned because i heard you respond to justice sotomayor by yi one of your primary concerns is we not suggest that realization is required. would taking the approach that justice gorsuch has articulated que us to do that or could assume or how do we get around the other caution you put forward? >> if i understoo justice gorsuch's proach, the idea would be to recognize we have realized income so the court does not need need to resolve the status of that. the pressure point wther congress could enact a pass-through tax on the 10% u.s. shareholders. >> is thataiy encompassed by this qstn? this sort of goes to discuio with justice alito. i thought the question present was about the extent to which the 16th amendment require realization. if we are going now beyond that, rly out of the territory fairly encompaed >> i think t awer to the question presentedou be we don't have to decide in all contexts. here treas a realization. ase id in our brief we don't think the case resents the estion presented because there are actual -- there was actual realization by. . the corporat

. >> thank you justice sotomayor. a partnership is a fundamentally different form of nehip center corporation. the law has alws cognized a corporation is a person separate from the sharehoerin that corporation and there is not a separate personhood that applies to partnerships. the partnerships are group of people that come together to undertake a businessctivity and when they do so the income is there income directly. >> what do you do with the ways in which we ve attributed rporate income to individuals? you don't challenge the constitutionality. >> that is not an issuen is case. >> in your brief you don't appear to be challenging it. >> we think a of follows the commonly accepted method congress h used to address changes when a taxpayer has interposed a cpote structure between themselves and income. >> that is the entire purpose of a corporate structure. people do that all the time particularly for that purpos you don't incorporate unlesyo want the corporate shield. you don't incorporate unless you want the benefit

i guess i'm a little concerned because i heard you respond to justice sotomayor by saying one of yourrimary concerns is we not suggest that realization is requir. would taking the approach that justice gorsuch has articulated require us to do that or could we assume or how do we get around the other caution you put rwd? >> if i understood jusce gorsuch's approach, the idea ul be to recognize we have realized iome so the court does not nee need to resolve the status of that. the pressure point is whether congress could enact pass-through tax on the 10% u.s. shareholders. >> is that fairly eomssed by this question? is sort of goes to discussions with justice alito. thght the question presented was about the extent to which the th amendment requires realization. if we are going now beyond that, early out of the territy fairly encompassed? >> i think the answer to the question presented would be we don'ha to decide in all contexts. here there was a realization. as we said in our brief we don't think theas resents the question presented because there are actual -- there was actual realizat

the court has change substantially since she joined more than 40 years ago and sonia sotomayor paid tributeo her predecessors' barrier breaking role. >> for so many of us, sandra was a living example that women could take on any challenge, could hold their own and do so with grace. geoff: while the number of women on the court's most notable, john yang looks at the way it has not -- john: a firm offer her employment as a secretary. that was 70 years ago, surveys and studies show progress is slow, especially in the top ranks. a 2022 survey found that only 25% of law firm partners are women. and women make up 37% of practicing attorneys. what's been accomplished since 1981, when o'connor shattered the glass ceiling, becoming the first woman on the supreme court, and how much still needs to be done. laura ziegler is managing partner at the san francisco office of the law firm perkins coie. laura, i know that in your office in san francisco that a majority of the partners are women, but that is the exception rather than the rule. how would you assess where the legal profession is now in terms o

s sun min kim, marianna sotomayor. happy friday. we got the green memo, obviously. we'll talk about the specifics of the actual case in a moment, but let's talk about not just the politics of this but how personal this is. covered joe bn for quite some time, his family for quite some time. when you heard hunter biden in that podcast saying what they're trying to do, republicans, is kill me, knowing it would be a pain greater than my father could handle, i mean, wow. >> right. he's effectively saying this all will kill my father. and, you know, i know how personally damaging this is and more so after beau died, his other son. and he's been very open about hunter's problems with drugs and everything else. and hunter has written a book about it. but, you know, now this is a situation where the president facing a possible impeachment of his own has a son on trial for felonies. so, the political, the personal, and the legal worlds all collide. you know, i don't think you can underestimate what a tough situation this is for the president and his family. >> right, right. i

obama administration in the first year in office as far as judicial issues are concerned, sonia sotomayorecoming the third woman on the supreme court? >> i was pleased to see another woman selected. we don't have many that -- that brought it back up to two, that is the most we've ever had in the supreme court. our nearest neighbor canada has at least four of the nine, in the canadian supreme court are women. and their chief justice is a woman. so we could do better. >> our condolences to her family and friends. and we'll be right back. >>> tonight, the expulsion of george santos is a long history of scandal up on capitol hill. our brian todd is taking a closer look for us. how does santos compare to other disgraced former members of house? >> wolf, he's right up there with legends. members of congress who have taken bribes, engaged in racketeering and some members who joined the confederacy. >> reporter: george santos wanted to be thought of as exceptional and tonight he certainly is. historians say you have to be a special kind of scoundrel to be expelled from the house of representative

, my colleagues and i were at lucnch discussing -- >> we were listening to supreme court justice sotomayoraking and honoring late justice sandra day o'connor at the supreme co court, and we showed that her casket being walked up into the tundra to be laying in repose. she will have a funeral tomorrow at the washington cathedral. we wwill bring you those moment. >>> and now, we are hearing from the cdc that respiratory viruses are hitting a large portion of the country, and they are saying that we have not seen the worst of it and it has not peaked. meg tirrell is joining u and what are we hearing from the cdc about these respiratory diseases. >> we wondered when we would get back to normal and now we have that with covid on top of it, and so this could be overwhelming by end of the year. if you are looking at the cdc map of where things are hardest hit, we are showing you the emergency departments from all three of the viruses, and overall, they are spike flu and covid together and flu is rising quickly. you can see it here the geographic distribution is bad in the south here, and moving n

. >>> so let's gdiscuss this with my great panel, alana train and margaret talev and marianna sotomayor. good morning to you all thank you for joining us. a lot to discuss and break down into this key moment in the race and nikki haley clearly has the momentum and the polls and the endorsements shows it. she's setting the bar a little bit low about iowa, of course the first in the nation, the caucus state kicks off in mid-january. this is how she described what she needs to do in iowa. >> the way i look at it, we just need to have a good showing in iowa. i doent think that means we have to win necessarily. but i think that means we have to have a good showing. >> so what does good showing mean for her? to have any realistic path to overcome donald trump? >> right. well i think she's recognizing and lowering the expectations that she's spent more time in iowa in the last several weeks but that hasn't been her strategy. desantis has been running this all eggs in the iowa basket strategy himself. so i think she's trying to set expectations which is a good showing an have people come out an

justice is thomases and alito would be on board with this decision and maybe justice kagan and justice sotomayor and justice jackson might be -- agreeing with the majority in part because it's a very conservative originalist writing. they use the plain language, they go back to the dictionary from the time of the ratification of the constitution. they look at -- they say states get to do what states should be able to do, very conservative approach to finding that donald trump is disqualified. i think the question is they are pulling out of a different case which is not exactly the same. gorsuch, cavanagh, roberts and justice coney barrett, where would they fall in that decision and you need five votes to get to the merit that is a full-blown consideration by the court. i think those of the justices in the mix. three of them were put there by donald trump. it's a little strange and then you've got justice clarence thomas whose wife was involved, somewhat involved, what you think of that? some would say that justice thomas at a minimum should recuse himself. there were multiple cases, a handful of

tomi sotomayor is the director of fatherless america. some nursery school teacher think this is a good idea? >> in the liberal world. the liberal world right now is telling them they can go rogue. they can do and say whatever they want to to your children and even when you listen to the explanation, they are not sorry for what happened. they are sorry you found out. they did not want the images to find themselves on the website or the parents to be the go-getters that they were and went and looked and saw it. this is what liberals do to your children when you get them into their school facilities. >> what are we stopping at this work? let's do custer's last stand. let's do the holocaust. let's reenact every social atrocity we can at 2 because that is the age you want to address these issues. they are also teaching sex at this age. think about that. it's not just civil rights. it's sex. >> they are teaching sex, gender and teaching them that their gender is fluid and whatever they feel like they can be except for a good person or a good c

. >> justifiable brown jackson or justifiable sotomayor throws in with the pirates in colorado theirlorado justices are. it is absurd decision. >> bret: strong letter to follow from hugh hewitt. panel, thank you very much. >> jessica: thanks, bret. ♪ ♪ >> a special report salute. >> hi. >> bret: i love. this i love it. one florida mom making christmas come a little early for her son. indian river county deputy tiffany welch who had been away from home for military training since july surprised her son during his class at school. can you see the reaction. she joined the reserves earlier this year and set to graduate as a second lt. this january. we love those stories. merry christmas. tomorrow on "special report" get assessment of ukraine's war and israel's conflict and war with retired general jack keane. set your dvv 6:00 p.m. in the east, 3:00 p.m. in the west. fair balanced and unafraid. here is laura. ♪

rachel: this is where, by the way, sonya sotomayor was sworn in, this is like a place where the american -- this hearing room belongs to the american people and these men in many ways desecrated it. >> do you have assigned seats in the hearing room? >> i did hear the two senators that sit in that location, you know who they are. >> who are they? >> one of them is amy klobuchar, i don't know who the other one is. >> that's amy klobuchar's seat, on her desk right there. rachel: there will be a cleanup crew for sure. >> jonathan to turly wrote that staffers have use of the room. it uses an official area for personal purposes. it's not clear if there were commercial benefits garnered from the video found on various sites. using the congressional space for commercial purposes can factor in possible carings. the resignation -- charges. the aide's been dismissed, resigned, fire. it won't necessarily end a capitol police investigation. >> the aide that was fired put out a statement, claiming maybe he was discriminated against because of who he loves. >> he says there's a political tack against h

decision with sotomayor or elena kagan writing some kind of opinion concurring on the result or concurring but blasting donald trump for the horrible things they think he did. >> one last issue, you will see supporters of the decision-maker is, yes, conservatives, don't you believe in federalism? why should the supreme court intervene early? this is the same argument on the flipside. people could say trump is inconsistent with the jackson smith case where the trump campaign is saying slow down, do not grant expedited appeal. but here, the critics of president trump will say, this is up to colorado and the supreme court. you will notice the majority opinion cites" a lower court opinion written by then judge neil gorsuch saying states have the right as part of running the elections and managing the ballot, applying the qualifications clause of the constitution and knocking people off the ballot because that's federalism for you. >> that is far-fetched. it is one thing to argue democracy in terms of how they implement policies. when you are determining what the federal constitution says about

justice sonia sotomayor spoke at a ceremony for o'connor call her a life role model and said that shelue that held the court together. >>> elsewhere in a major break from catholic tradition, pope francis announced yesterday that catholic priests can administer blessings to same-sex couples. the ruling which also includes divorced and remarried couples who do not receive an anullment, makes clear it can only be done as long as it is not an official endorsement of their marriage. the vatican stressed in its announcement it still believes marriage should remain between a man and a woman and any priest granting a blessing must not do it as any traditional church liturgies. this blessing widely applauded through the catholic faint. >>> there's an investigation into the lead tainted applesauce that has sickened dozens of children across the country. the fda expects it might have been intentional. nbc news correspondent stephanie gosk has the details. >> reporter: three wana bana applesauce pouches were recalled this fall because of lead contamination. the fda says to knows where the lead ca

we have justice sotomayor reflecting on this day. know she is smiling, knowing that four sisters serve on her court. for the four of us, and for so many others of every background and aspiration, sandra was a living example that women could take on any challenge, could more than hold their own in spaces dominated by men, and could do so with grace. >> a living example that women can take on any challenge, and we can. >>> coming up after the break, she was once a family vlogger with millions of bloggers. now she's pleading guilty to felony child abuse. details on the case coming up on msnbc. [sneeze] dude you coming? because the only thing dripping should be your style. plop plop fizz fizz with alka-seltzer plus cold & flu relief. also try for fizzy fast cough relief. having triplets is... -amazing -expensive. so, we switched to the bargain detergent, but we ended up using three times as much and the clothes still weren't as clean as with tide. so we're back with tide, and the clothes are clean again. do 3x the laundry and get a tide

decision with sotomayor or elena kagan writing some kind of opinion concurring on the result or concurring but blasting donald trump for the horrible things they think he did. >> one last issue, you will see supporters of the decision-maker is, yes, conservatives, don't you believe in federalism? why should the supreme court intervene early? this is the same argument on the flipside. people could say trump is inconsistent with the jackson smith case where the trump campaign is saying slow down, do not grant expedited appeal. but here, the critics of president trump will say, this is up to colorado and the supreme court. you will notice the majority opinion cites" a lower court opinion written by then judge neil gorsuch saying states have the right as part of running the elections and managing the ballot, applying the qualifications clause of the constitution and knocking people off the ballot because that's federalism for you. >> that is far-fetched. it is one thing to argue democracy in terms of how they implement policies. when you are determining what the federal constitution says about

let's go to melissa murray, former clerk to justice sonia sotomayor. let's go through this. because the -- this is what the ruling states. it says that elk tors an donald trump sought the court's review of various rulings by the district court and affirmed some and reversed some. a couple that stood out, section 3 encompasses the office of the presidency and someone who has taken an oath as president, on that point, the colorado supreme court says the district court committed reversible error. the district court did not error in concluding that events constituted an insurrection. the district court did not error in that president trump engaged in that insurrection through his personal actions. president trump's speech inciting the crowd that breached the u.s. capitol on january 6th, 2021, was not protected by the first amendment. those seem to be ripe issues for the supreme court to litigate. how do you perceive this going, given the fact that these folks, the majority claim to be originalists, and the section 3 was written specifically originally to stop insurrection and tr

and i think you're fully aware that i had two amendments, one dealing with epstein think y and sotomayor. >> i brought it up previously. i have to confess, i didn't know that you offer that amendment. happy to discuss it with you. but i want to point on the record you and i have nevepersonally discussed this. >> and we we talked briefl wy on the floor and never mentioned the subject matter >> y never mt was you saidn comt you wanted in committee. >> i brought up my the subject matter of my amendment a three weekmendmes. not only was the subject matter brought up in durbin's presenct ,senator blackburn was speaking directly to himspeakini >> i seek recognition. senator blackburn, since we're>> in the business of issuing subpoenas now, here are a few more that i've filed a subpoena to jeffrey epstein's estate to provide the flight logs for his private plane. >> thank you, senator. when i recognized you, i didn't know you, what subject you wish to speak to. as i announced at the beginning, the first thing we'll consider the two judicial nominations. then we will move to theal subpoena. all

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before crt, tommy sotomayor was the director of the fatherlessei america. >> tommy in worlrectord wouldome nursery school teacher think this is a good idea? bera >> in the liberal world,wo the liberal world right now is tellingd right them that thn go rogue. they can do and say whatever they want to tore your children. and even in this thing, when you listen to the explanatiohen they're not sorry for what happened. they're sorry you found out utbecause they did not want the images to find themselves on the website or the parents t to be, you know, the go getterse that they were that they went and looked and saw it. so this is what liberals d.othii to your childrenyour. o >> you get them into their school facilities. well, i mean, what are we stoppingschool fe we sto at for? let's do custards last stand. let's do the holocaust. let's reenact every social atrocity we can to. because that's the age you want to address these issues. u want t but time. they're also teaching at this age. thinink abouk about that. >> it's not just civil rights. it's and the teaching. t >> they're teaching gend

commission hearings and confirmation hearings for supreme court justice nominees brad kavanaugh and sonia sotomayor. now, it's also been the setting for an explicit sex tape that showed up online. and the capitol hill police are in the making and sharing of the video. could lead to several charges, according to legal experts, including lewd and obscene conduct. >> and there's also questions about trespass that were used quite extensively againstt peop people over the january 6thjustb riot. just because you have access teo a room as a staffer doesn't mean that you have access for any purpose. >> this was obviously a non-official purpose. >> now, the person seen in then video has not been officially identified, although id cardin,, although the democrat, acknowledged tonight a staffer in his office has recently been fired for breach of trust. fi upon seeing the capitolun police investigation as a personal issuedersta. so we clearly will be impacted it we clearly will be impacted issue and the staffer to whomat. senator cardin was apparentlyfen referring wrote on linkedin, quote, thig e ons has beenn

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