supreme court if this keeps on.nd so he was the guy who kept pressing these issues into the -- before the u.s. supreme court. so he was the right lawyer for the right case. susan: al gore's legal representation before the court was done by lawrence trot. who is he? david: famous law professor, one of the best known and highly regarded sort of liberal law professors of his era had , written great constitutional law textbooks. i remember him early on as an advocate in the supreme court. he had some very good arguments and some not so good arguments. the good thing about larry trot was that he was really so smart and so learned on constitutional law that there were certain amount of cases where the justices would sit back and listen to him, which they don't do too often. he was a liberal professor. and he was not going to have a lot of sway with the conservative justices. and so he was in many cases he had run into a real clash with rehnquist and scalia and the conservative members of the court. susan: the court as i h

and president trump is very willing to invoke the supreme court and say, i'm going to the supreme courtit is unclear to me when he said that what he meant by that. he said something about stop the voting. voting was already over. and they were counting ballots in the state. the supreme court is not going to jump in and say stop counting the mail-in ballots. and trump's lawyers did not ask the court for something like that. so it was a peculiar invocation of saying, i'm going to the supreme court. who knows what will happen, weeks from now? but i do not think the supreme court is anxious and ready to jump in at the first opportunity and decide some aspect of this election. >> so your instincts, in the 2000, of december back in even though people were saying the court would ultimately get involved. you say the court is hesitant to get involved, is that correct? >> yes, i think it is unlikely they will get involved. it is possible. some issue might arise that would cause you know, the state courts would decide, and the supreme court would get a petition from trump's lawyers and say, this i

and if he takes it to the supreme court and the supreme court validates it, that will give joe bidena lot of credibility because everybody in the country knows this is a republican supreme court right now. >> well, rich, how do you see it? do you think this is one that's going to be resolved by voters on the map? tight, might take a while but it's going to happened the old fashioned way? or do you think we may be looking at one of these drawn-out, recount potentially lawsuits that could go to the court? >> it depends. and the scenario people have been focused on from the beginning and still may play out here is an extremely narrow result in pennsylvania where pennsylvania is a tipping point state where potentially the result is determined by a segment of votes that will be under a cloud, and that, as pete williams was describing, that would be late-arriving absentee ballots that are being counted because the pennsylvania supreme court changed the rules in september. if that makes it up to the supreme court, that pennsylvania ruling is really vulnerable. there are three certainly prob

supreme court. it's something that mcconnell has longed for, dreamed about, worked for during his entire career in the senate. >> narrator: that night, mcconnell reached the presidentr on air one. >> mcconnell told him two things. he said, "first, i'm going to put out a statement that says vacancy."ng to fill the second, he said, "you've got to nominate amy coney barrett." >> narrator: amy coney barrett, a 48-year-old conservative appeals court judge, mcconnell's way of securing control of the supreme court for years to come. >> to be able to say that, "we're goi to have a conservative court for another generation" is important to him. for mitch mcconnell, the court is everything. >> t going to be a rough battle on capitol hill... >> narrator: mitch mcconnell's determination to transform theha supreme courbeen his life's work. >> ...the diay of several senators, u.s. supreme court nominee clarence thomas managed to elude... conservative majority for decades... >> narrator: through bruising >> ...dem

the supreme court disagreed.hey said the states have constitutional authority to lay out how electors are chosen and, if they want to put in a provision that and elector has to honor the promise or pledge they have made, they can do that. it hasss electors is -- never been a problem in the entire history of the united states. there have been a handful of them. they have never made a difference in the outcome of the election. our guest's hans von spakovsky. michael is our first collar for him, a support of -- a supporter of president trump from hagerstown, maryland. go ahead. you are on with our guest. caller: thank you for taking my call. it is one of the things that really gets conservatives meet so angry. there are two things. voted 4-4 withrt roberts siding with the liberals to kick this down to the lower courts. overturning a law. this is what we are talking about when we say the supreme court should not be overturning laws. 4-4. when you kick it down, you say you are overturning the law. that is one thing. n

supreme court we want to wall voting just. as you're prepared for any efforts republicans make in any court. to advance the absurd theory that the president spells last night. hello welcome this is all it international which i'm sure you knew when live from moscow this november 4th an exciting day because the fate of the u.s. presidency rests in the hands of hof a dozen states still counting votes right now as i speak results that are hiding in the pockets and could still go either way joe biden has claimed victory in the state of wisconsin edging him closer to the white house but don't trump is not going to without a fight he has demanded a recount of ballots unfaltering all sent to halt vote counting in michigan with more on the details here our correspondents in new york and washington. you now have donald trump on social media saying that he smells the possibility of fraud this is what donald trump tweeted out he said last night i was leading off and solidly in many key states in almost every instance democrat run and cont

supreme court to step in. think it's doubtful the supreme court will do anything. >> michael kang, you and i were here a year ago. there was breaking news out of pennsylvania a different court, very much the same result, though. at this point is there any legal strategy that could work for the president? >> i agree with pete. i think it's all over now. i think, really, these two decisions today by the pennsylvania supreme court and the third circuit decision yesterday basically shut down these election challenges by the trump campaign by associated parties. i think donald trump has had this idea that the supreme court and his appointees will save him at some point in this process, but i'd be shocked if the court took this case and did anything that would affect the election at all. >> i want to bring back in melissa murray to get her take on this breaking news. melissa, i have to ask you, it is the understanding of a lot of people that the ultimate goal here is to get this to the supreme court. i wonder if you

supreme court. let's get the ball rolling with justice kruger who will discuss some of justice stevens' approaches to judging. jus. kruger: thank you, ben, and thank you for the opportunity to participate in this wonderful event remembering and celebrating the legacy of justice john paul stevens i think others tonight will address other aspects of the justice, his remarkable service, has 35 years on the u.s. supreme court and the impact that his work had on the substance of the courts jurisprudence, on judicial philosophy. i am instead going to focus more on how i best knew the justice inch was as his law clerk the 2003-2004 term. and what i observe from watching him about not the substance of his approach to deciding cases, but the day to day judging. it is one of the great values of a clerkship. of go through three years law school, you spend all your time reading supreme court opinions, deciding what arguments you find persuasive and what you don't. unless you happen to know a supreme court justi

court decided on before the election took place it went to the supreme court the supreme court said because of the narrowness of time it would not allow the motion by the republican committee in pennsylvania so it pushed it back to the court and allowed to the counting of votes after election day to go ahead but 3 of the justices on the supreme court at that point said it's something they may have to revisit and indeed now the trump campaign has petitioned the supreme court the supreme court has now sent a letter to the pennsylvania secretary of state instructing her to respond to the trump campaign's requirement to be added as a successful petitioner by 10 pm tomorrow night now whether this is significant or not we'll see basically it would open up that case again in the pennsylvania supreme court should the tram campaign succeed. in its attempt to be put on as a petitioner so it could indeed go back to the supreme court at some stage however and this must be stressed there is a legal position here so which is very very important in this and was mentioned in the original supreme co

and we all know about the politics of supreme court appointments. the cherokees send two delegations to washington in 1835, after wayne is sworn in and after duvall is resigned and the open seat is in process of being filled with yet another jackson appointee. one group is john ross and his national party, who are the elected government, and they show up to say, we're staying, right? but there's a second group headed by subchief named john ridge, who i think, reading the writing on the wall, makes the call, let's get the best deal we can. and so, the ridge faction, which is known in cherokee history as the treaty party or the treaty faction, though unelected and operating illegally under cherokee law agree in the spring to a removal treaty that will have signed in final form by that faction in the capital in december 1835, and it's that treaty in which the cherokee nation, again, illegally executed under cherokee law will leave its lands and move west. and this is the beginning then of this complicated story of the trail of tears migration for the c

president, i urge you to let the supreme court alone. consider judgment of people through the orderly process of amendments. even at the expense of time. nothing valuable could be lost by saving time. also see this reflected in public opinion polls. on the y-axis going from the top to the bottom of the screen you can see how republicans, democrats, socialists, and independence, they also have socioeconomic standings from above average to poor people. those who are receiving government benefits. arelly at the very bottom who we think the constitution -- people who think the constitution needs to be easier to amend. right we oncet to again have this predicted probability where zero point five means 50% of people were for the policy. within each row you will see two dots. the hollow one whohe percentage of people support the constitutional amendment to overturn conservative supreme court cases. almost every instance what you will find is the constitutional amendment is more popular of the two options. it is more popular amongst republicans

supreme court decisions.dn't these news organizations and others give this time to play out a little bit? the way they did in 2000? that's my question to you, your answer when we return. history also destroyed the lives of thousands of jewish survivors still suffering today. god calls on people who believe in him to act on his word. "comfort ye, comfort my people." especially during this holiday season of hanukkah. when i come here and i sit with lilia i realize what she needs right now is food. these elderly jews are weak and they're sick. they're living on $2 a day this now, is how god's children are living. take this time to send a survival food box to these forgotten jews. the international fellowship of christians and jews urgently need your gift of $25 now to help provide one survival food box with all of the essentials they critically need for their diet for one month. your special holiday gift will provide everything they need to celebrate the miracle of hanukkah. this is the first time in over 70 yea

supreme court. it happened in 2000.shink people perceived that meaning the supreme court would come in and take votes away or cancel counts. that was a particular situation in florida where the question to counter -- how under votes. it was not clear what the boater did. does that mean they didn't want to vote at all or did they -- voter did. does that mean they didn't want to vote at all or did they want to vote for a certain candidate? they voted for certain candidates but not others. the supreme court said that violates legal protection for you have to have a recount that is persistent. -- consistent. it was too like to do the recount. the court basically stopped florida from doing the recount florida to george bush by 537 votes. we are not in a situation where we are talking about counting votes. where not in a situation the lawsuits would decide a very narrow margin of the swing state. this is it close to going to the u.s. supreme court which i think is a good thing. -- is not close to going to the u.s. print car,

supreme court or a casethhere goes of federal system, trial court of appeals in u.s. supreme court.you would still need four memberof the supreme court in every case to agree to take the case and eren five methat would make it did decision favorable to president trump. i know it was important for him to have justice barrett onhe court before the election in case there was litigation. my two suspicions right now, number one i don't think t is the big litigation that reaches the supreme court. number two. i don't think there is a law that everyone that is appointed by president trump would vote in a way that would get him a favorable outcome. ndthis may s nacve. there is a difference betweeng ha conservative legal philosophy and wanting a republican political win. they don't map onto each other always. >> yen are right you sayre blicans didn't leave him despite his concerns about his behavior. we saw that through the vote and how splithe countris. you have thoughts on why the polling, once again seemed to be so off it, especially when they were ying to gauge voters preferences for tru

supreme court. >> he did. >> can you say what he said about that? >> reporter: he did. so he talked about going to the supreme court, savannah, and then said, and i'm quoting here, that we want all the voting to stop, he says. we won't them to find any ballots, in the words of the president. we won't want them to win. and as far as he's concerned, he is prematurely and incorrectly at this point trying to declare victory, saying as far as he's concerned they have already won. a couple of things here. this is frankly i think a speech that is exactly what many of the president's critics feared tonight he would deliver tonight or on the morning after the election, trying to prematurely say he has won an election in which he has not won yet, trying to cast doubt on the legitimacy of the many legitimately cast ballots that are already out there. the president also alluding to this supreme court fight, pretty directly talking about this, just frankly, what, a week and a half, not even, after putting in pla

supreme court so we don't know just because it's a conservative or republican dominated supreme court that that will result in a partisan decision when the case itself apparently has very little merit and was planned way ahead of time i also want to ask you just from a legal perspective is it possible for america to be left without a president elect for a few months and for example could we potentially even end up in a situation where we don't have a president elect on january 20th ration day you know i think it's there are advantages and disadvantages to a extended legal. battle if you will i think that yes it's the matter is not resolved by inauguration day that seems to me to create a constitutional crisis in the united states however if the supreme court is going where or when an operation today they said they're briefing schedules they will eventually irrigate that will. and will issue the appropriate orders but donald trump is fighting for his life he knows he's going to be prosecuted criminally when he's released from the presidency and if not he wants to stay on this is very p

supreme court we want to. voting just. as you're prepared for any effort the republicans make in any court and yet the states to advance the absurd theory that the president spells last night. well this is a national from moscow 247 thing and 2 nov 5th welcome to the program. well to start us off because it is known as november 5th the fate of the u.s. presidency rests in the hands of hof a dozen states still counting votes right now as we speak results that hang in the balance on could still go either way biden has claimed victory in the state of wisconsin edging him closer to the white house but don't trump is not going down without a fight he has demanded a recount of ballots that filed a little suit to halt vote counting in both michigan and pennsylvania well joy be joining me live now is our tease kate up more penn he's reporting from new york team biden's claiming victory is not far away they can smell it but donald trump people ought to monte now hold to the vote count in those 2 states that we said but it's a bit s

president, i urge you to let the supreme court alone. the considered judgment of the people through the orderly process of amendment is the nation safeguard, even at the expense of time. nothing valuable can be lost i taking time. you can see this reflected in public opinion polls. axis, you can see how republicans and democrats, socialists, and independents, what opinions they have -- they standings from above average to poor, those who are subsistence, and at the bottom there are those who believe that the constitution ands to be easier to amend we do have the hardest constitution in the world to amend. going from left to right, we have predictive probability. support that 50% would a given policy. they have the percentage for in almosting and every instance what you will find -- amongs more popular republicans and democrats. differentross socioeconomic statuses and even those who think the constitution is too hard to amend are more to support amendment compared to court packing. court packing is not popular. about 60% likely, 60% of d

well, as you well know, iran's supreme leader is supremely anti-american and anti-israeli. so he's none too pleased this morning given the events of yesterday. in a speech this morning he was calling for revenge for the killing of mohsen fakhrizadeh, the mastermind of iraq's nuclear defensive and capability. iran's first priority after the killing was the definitive punishment of the perpetrators and those who ordered it. he also went on to pour praise on saying fakhrizadeh was the country's most eminent nuclear scientist and instrumental in iran's missile and defense capabilities. underscoring what an important figure he was to the very, very top of the ruling establishment here in iran. but the calculations here are probably a little different. the playing field is slightly different to when soleimani was killed last year. there is a new president coming in to the white house. so i think iran has to make some very tough decisions. the supreme lead hear to make some very tough decisions. do they strike back against america and's risk some sort of huge reprisal by the u.s.

installed in the supreme court before the election that happened just last monday yet just last monday. and so it happened really recently and that would give the supreme court a $63.00 conservative majority so is this going to end up in the courts it already highs will it continue to go through the courts it probably will it will get a result in the next couple of days it's very unlikely what are the risks association with delays like this. that people get angry that they get upset that we see things that we saw in 2000 when there was what was called the brooks brothers riot where republicans went into the courthouse in miami dade county and stopped physically before the supreme court stopped this. legally so there are many many issues people people are on edge they were worried about the election anyway their know being built up with the statements that the. votes are being found with statements that can't be backed up by rudy giuliani and others you know when he says joe biden could have voted 50 times he knows joe biden didn't vote 50 times and he is being upset about that but it s

it is not a holding of the supreme court. the question is can you get to five on the supreme court. we sflou a fifth justice, amy konh coney barrett, would she agree or not. the chief justice roberts basically said that if it is the state that makes the decision, either the state election board or the state court, the supreme court will defer to that. if it is a federal judge then they think that should not happen, but we will see what happens if this immediate resleef granted. it fakes five votes to do that. >> that was incredibly precise and illuminating. thank you, pete williams. now i want to go to ali vitali. i have to imagine that again there is a cone of uncertainty. if you're joe biden and you're knocking on the door to to 270, you have to be feeling pretty good. >> that is exactly how they feel. throughout the day we have seen an air of jubilation. clear signs of prep ration tonight. one of the members said to them it is an eventuality. we're told that he is being patient, watching the results coming in, making phonecalls, keeping track of what is happening. and the reality

the state supreme court decided the issue at the u.s. supreme court said that ruling would stand.a has a clear rule in place and they would follow those rules. states to elections all the time, year after year. there is much more stability than one might believe. there's a lot of talk about challenges, but the reality is states do this regularly and there is regular process. there is much more stability than we would be led to believe by people saying they're all these irregularities. there always some things that go wrong, but in this case we let the process run and in the next few days we will have our answers. guy: once we have the answers on the count, what is the timeline for potential legal challenges? how long do you think they could last? presumably state collectors december 14 have to make their calls. what is the timeline for getting these legal challenges in as they are resolved? mark: the timeline would be very quickly, and the first layer is it goes to a state court, at the state courts make their decisions as to whether there are any irregularities assuming there are

court the supreme court in a 44 vote cited that they were going to let the supreme court case stand that this is not the decision stand but the conservative justices indicated that they might take that back up again if it becomes pivotal but it's probably not to become pivotal because we just heard from the secretary of state here and she said it is a high number of folks that are coming in some places a couple 100 a couple some counties a 1000 or so so if this is decided by the $200000.00 plus that we are expecting or once all the mail in votes are counted counted those won't matter right now they're not even being counted so there might be less of a legal challenge here in pennsylvania for the truck campaign to try if those numbers are in fact necessary. for us with the very latest from philadelphia many thanks we can turn to georgia which has become the on the expected loss up for donald trump and joe biden closing in on his lead for more on this less big down to gallagher joins us live from miami as i was saying there is closing in on that which is rather unexpected. it is look

the supreme court changed that date until today, three days later, friday. constitution gives that power to state legislatures alone. at the constitutional question is, could this pennsylvania state courts move that deadline? i think it's important that justice alito issue that order on behalf of the supreme court, otherwise the ballots would've gotten mixed in, supposed in the end they said, no, you can't extend election day a few more days, how would you actually remedy that if the ballots all got mixed together? it's important -- i think it's important that the court may intervene and checked on that extension. >> shannon: there've been so many state court -- estate issues that have come up to the nation's highest court in the last few weeks. some of them, one of them that was preserved until after the election, because it may or not be moved. some of the state decisions, they gave instructions, they weighed in. a lot of the language is state legislatures -- they have the rights to change election policies. in this case, when it was the pennsylvania supre

in the nevada supreme court, chief justice christina pickering was reelected. congratulations, chief justice. >> thank you. for thedition, one seat court of appeals judge was on the ballot. bonnie fuller was elected with 42.17% of the vote. in the legislative races, there are three newly elected state senators and 14 newly elected assembly persons. chief justice pickering, do your colleagues have any comments? >> i do not, but i invite any of my colleagues who wish to speak to do so. does anyone in carson city wish to speak? thank you. >> this is justice -- i would to commend the secretary of state and her office for the extraordinary work they did under very difficult circumstances. they are to be congratulated for carrying it out. an extraordinarily successful election. the turnout is incredible. >> thank you, justice. greatly appreciate those comments. >> chief, i also thank the secretary of state through an incredibly trying election to comply with new mandates from legislature and have it run as smooth as it is incredible. congratulations to you and the re

in the nevada supreme court, chief justice christina pickering was reelected. congratulations, chief justice. >> thank you. >> one c for the court of appeals judges on the ballot. bonnie fuller was elected with 42.17% of the vote. there legislative races, are three newly elected state senators and 14 newly elected assembly persons. chief justice pickering, do your colleagues have any comments? >> i do not but i invite any of my colleagues who wish to speak to do so. does anyone in carson city wish to speak? justice -- i would to commit the secretary of state and her office for the extort new work they did under very difficult circumstances. for are to be congratulated carrying it out. the turnout is incredible. thank you, justice. we appreciate those comments. i also think the secretary of state through an incredibly trying election. complying with new mandates from the legislature. running as smooth as it is incredible. you in theions to registrar voters rather counties in the state of nevada. on my colleagues, i want to congratulate chief justice pickering fo

at the time, the supreme court was all male.t was an era when the supreme court women's bathroom was still a second men's bathroom they used just for farting. so how did she convince these nine gentlemen to care about gender equality? she brought discrimination cases where the injured parties were men. it was a genius move. the legal equivalent of hiding dog medicine inside a piece of cheese. her advocacy brought down legal discrimination all over this country. in new york, she helped flight attendants sue for pregnancy discrimination. in oklahoma, she defeated a law that mandated different drinking ages for men and women. and in missouri, she fought a law that allowed women to opt out of serving on juries. and you may think jury duty is boring, but having female jurors is so important. it's the only reason women aren't convicted of witchcraft anymore. finally i can cast my midnight spells in peace. and it was after all that that rbg spent 27 more years as one of america's greatest justices. her accomplishments were immense, and

there are a flurry of decisions from the supreme court and it is very unusual for the supreme court to be hearing cases about voting roles in which tens of millions of people are already voting in the election day is only a week away. so there were three major rulings. in wisconsin, the supreme court said ballotsust be recved by election day, but in pennsylvania and north carolina, essentially said the opposite, which is that in pennsylvania, ballots postmarked by election day could be received three days after. in ninth carolina, postmarked up to nine days after. but these are only premier new disciplinary victories. saidal alito basically this event republicans should try to challenge this after the election, we might those out. basically saying, can we will throw those out that are going to be disproportionally cast by democrats, legal under pennsylvania law and so my message to voters in the states and other states is drop your ballot off. it is too late to mail it in and a state like wisconsin that have election day deadlines and 30 states have a deadline of election day for when

the supreme court could decide that particular types of ballots are invalid but what the supreme court can't do and won't do is literally stop the counting. we're still in the process of evaluating round one of the counting. yes, there very likely will be recounts in some states and i don't even expect the supreme court to stop the original recounts. down the road, might the supreme court get involved? it's possible. but there's certainly not going to stop the votes from being counted. george. >> no question about that. your dan is just getting started. you'll be busy in the days ahead following these legal battles but to tom llamas at the big board and let's take a look at what we have coming in and give a sense of each candidate's best path to 270 electoral votes they need. let's start out by saying joe biden will actually take those states where he's narrowly ahead right now, arizona and nevada and wisconsin. show what has to happen for him to win. >> i want to give viewers a head's up. maine to joe biden for purposes of this second. we haven't projected them. if we give arizona and

supreme court. we want all voting to stop. anyon't want them to find ballots at 4:00 in the morning and add them to the list. we will end this. mr. biden: we believe we are on wisconsin and michigan. way, it is going to take time to count the votes. we are going to win pennsylvania! tom: really quite something to see come and i cannot emphasize enough the originality in this moment, for the nation, you go back to 1888, grover cleveland losing to harrison and what was an incredibly close election, and of course 1960 as well. with futures up 19, i want to step away from the markets right now. yields, yes, they moved income other than that, it is turning, waiting to see the news workout. i am working bankers hours, they are working political hours. kevin cirilli come our chief washington correspondent come of course providing huge value, rick davis, republican perspective, who served with senator john mccain. i want to go to one thing, kevin, that i saw from chip at the "new york times," 13,000 mail-in ballots in erie, pennsylvan

shut: to supreme court three day extension to mail-in ballots.hey failed once and they failed again last night, but justice alito left the door open to potentially re-examine this case when the time comes. the times said before the election, most likely the latter, now just in preparation, the pennsylvania secretary of state said they are going to invite counties to segregate all in the three days counting. it is kind of precautionary, but at the same time it is probably smart. i talked to legal experts yesterday who said that those ballots should be segregated because there could be some legal challenges after this as well. the supreme court decision last night was remarkable in the way that justice alito wrote that he does believe there is a high likelihood that this deadline extension was unconstitutional, but they did not have time to rule before the election. just as amy coney barrett did not participate in this decision. what were republicans trying to do i bringing this before this court -- ringing this before the supreme court? guest: the

supreme court. >> november 2000. candidate george w. bush seems to win florida, but the results are so close that the rules demand a recount. the whole election hangs in the balance. democratic candidate al gore requests a manual recount certain counties. recounting my hand took a long time. -- by hand took a long time. it took a long time in the state overshot the safe harbor date. it allowed the bush campaign to ask the supreme court to stop a new statewide recount, which it did. bush was declared a winner by a margin of just a few hundred votes. fast forward to this november, another election without an immediate result. the established law is that counting early in the mail-in ballots can only start on election day and this year the pandemic meant millions people voted that way. counting these ballots takes a long time. we don't know how long yet but that safe harbor deadline is starting to become visible on the horizon. president trump says he plans to use lawsuits to slow down state camps whic

supreme court. we want all voting to stop. we don't want them to find any ballots at 4:00 in the morning and add them to the list. okay? >> reporter: the president has no power to stop legitimately cast votes from being counted. and there have been no signs of any foul play. the biden campaign calling the president's remarks a naked effort to take away the democratic rights of american citizens. trump did have a better night an than expected, outperforming the polls once again and pulling in new voters. he's now projected to pick up ohio, texas and florida, critical wins keeping his re-election hopes alive. but he's still far from the finish line. and joe biden also has a clear path to victory. holding on to blue states trump tried to flip like minnesota and with a substantial lead in arizona, a state that went red in 2016. speaking to supporters after midnight at a drive-in rally in delaware biden urging patience and projecting confidence without declaring victory. >> i'm here to tell you tonight we believe we're on track to

supreme court jeff hauser. i'm very worried about that 3 of the justices were in fact george w. bush's legal team which does very much suggest that they are willing and able to vote in a very in move forward in a very partisan manner and i mean i don't really know what more the democrats can do in terms of this current supreme court i think that they had a strategy in a saturday you're going the meet honey barrett confirmation hearings the absence of a strategy they had now obviously well past their prime senate judiciary committee ranking member and they basically decided the election was going well enough they didn't really need to oppose this supreme court nomination and a lot of the grasses and you were very upset with the senate leadership's strategy essentially acquiesce in the voting but not doing anything to suggest anything especially improper was occurring in the senate with the rush confirmation process of going to barrett and i think it was right and the center of the democratic party has a lot to answer for center of the democratic party democratic party strategies

on some of them the supreme court has already ruled, hasn‘t it? that‘s correct.tates the authority to set a time, place, and manner of how to vote and how votes are counted. so it often strikes our friends around the world that pennsylvania might have a different way of counting votes than georgia. the republican sought to shape the election prior to the vote so they raised lawsuits in pennsylvania, north carolina, and the democrats won their position in both, already, by the supreme court not over meaning and overturning the lower state supreme court‘s favourable rulings. 0n the other hand, the us supreme court issued rulings on wisconsin that were favourable to president trump prior to the election. now president trump is failing new appeals on pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, and georgia and possibly nevada. we have some pictures coming in here of live counting in georgia. in some of these days it was republican—controlled legislatures that decreed that ballots should not be counted until election day orjust before, wasn‘t it, what are the chances of some of

court republicans sued trying to take it to the supreme court the supreme court before the election said that they did not have time to make a decision on the case but they left open the possibility that they could do so after the election so now the trump campaign saying that they are moving to advance that cause now i should point out that the number of ballots that this could impact is relatively small but given that this is shaping up to be such a close race here in pennsylvania clearly the campaign is fighting for every ballot and we know that the mail in ballots which are the. latest to be counted are expected to skew heavily for vice president joe biden and so they are attempting to stop that from going for it another legal action being taken by the trump administration that we're just hearing about is this a get more access for republican vote ballot excuse me to get more access for poll watchers republican poll watchers as the ballot counting is going on it's happening at the convention center across the street from me here in philadelphia and at other locations across the

two visits to the united states supreme court.nd what we hear is people -- people declaring who aren't even involved in these cases haven't even talked to anybody on the ground it's over. it's over. well it may be over. it may not be over. what about the integrity of the election process? let me explain. in part what's going on in this country, in in democrattings and surrogates hundreds leading up to this election what do they do earlier and earlier voting, why? why i'll get to that in ab second mail-in ballots, why? ballot harvesting, why? no signatures, no care of signatures no postal mark dates extend vote counting. none of this is about good government none of this is about the integrity of the election. they're enshrining institutionalizing fraud. they're destroying the security measures that exist. the reason they want earlier and early voter and more mail-in votes ask because when you show up to vote the chances of fraud are minimal. there's election judge there's registrations you have to show your address and your name.

court agrees that that's and of course a bill law to the united states supreme court come in and say something different nobody really quite shocking particularly if the justice just appointed to the court by president trump a macone bar and we're told bolton donald trump's by her and again and overturn the rulings of the kids are going to supreme court look of course there were many steps ahead of ourselves i believe when it counted revoke the council by a supreme court would have the 1st crack at that issue as a sign i don't see this supreme court in our state simply having this election to donald trump you know he has appointed 3 of those justices on the court a respond to things very much indeed responded to and from simple minnesota well thank you very much. now donald trump's presidential win 4 years ago was partly down to a key group of voters white suburban women but as he bids for another term in office it is unclear whether he has what it takes to. have what it takes to secure their votes this time around so in jordan has this report. it's the 1st rule of running for office

supreme court and we want to. voting just so you're prepared for any effort the republicans make in any court and yet the states to advance the absurd theory that the president is was last night. you're watching are to international coverage of the 2020 u.s. presidential election my name's donald quarter and i'll be joining you for the program it's certainly a nail biter so let's jump right in the ink hasn't yet dried on the ballots in the 2020 u.s. election but the city of new york has already seen its 1st arrests during post vote protests. with battles over the tally revving up in several states hundreds of people marched through the streets of new york and chicago demanding that all votes be counted these are some pictures from those protests local police have stepped up patrols as the situation in new york remains tense. now the fate of the u.s. presidency now rests in the hands of half a dozen states still counting votes right now results they're hanging in the balance and could still go either way making bot