Governor McAuliffe has vetoed five pieces of legislation involving gun safety in the Commonwealth of Virginia, many of which would have affected victims of domestic violence. Now if you’re a judge or attorney, you can carry just about anywhere you like. If you’re a domestic violence victim, however, you have to spend 45 days as a sitting duck during the waiting period. According to the governor, the lives of judges and attorneys are far more important than yours — even if it’s being threatened.
Tim and Scott discuss the healthcare bill while watching it disintegrate in real time, an alleged rape with political overtones, and the hearings on Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the Supreme Court.
Before the Gorsuch nomination hearings concluded, several Democrats announced they would both oppose the nomination, and try to filibuster the judge’s nomination to keep a Senate vote from occurring.
How many ways can you ask a man how he will rule on Roe v. Wade? The Democrats decided to set a new record.
With the morning session of Gorsuch’s hearing day two now complete, there were a few running themes: a cry-in for Merrick Garland’s stillborn nomination; a demand for commitments and opinions on a neverending series of questions about current or landmark cases; a refusal to issue same by the nominee, and finally the question that Gorsuch refused to comment on.
Alphonse Maddin likely started his job with TransAm Trucking probably like we all do with new jobs – a mixture of hope, anticipation, and anxiousness. How long was it until he realized TransAm was a horrible place to work, and why didn’t Neil Gorsuch help? These are but a few of the opposition concerns to the nomination of Neil Gorsuch to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Today the gavel will fall to open the United States Senate Judiciary Committee hearings to consider whether Neil Gorsuch should become the next Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
If he’s learned anything from prior nominees, Gorsuch will use the hearings as an opportunity to speak without actually saying anything. When asked pointed questions, he will dodge and deflect, and if cornered beyond escape – simply refuse to answer on the ground that it may affect his future ability to judge. To the extent that he does so, he will likely pass through the Senate’s confirmation process.
“New” video from Ferguson, MO, Maddow and Trump, Russian agent Rand Paul, and the coming Gorsuch hearings.
Ferguson, Missouri popped back up in the news this week with a re-visitation to the 2014 shooting of Michael...