Supreme Court politics

Skullduggery

Michael Isikoff, Daniel Klaidman, Victoria Bassetti

Politics, White House, News Commentary, Government, Senate, Podcasts, President, House Of Representatives, News, Victoria Bassetti, Supreme Court, Michael Isikoff, Foreign Policy, Scandels, Yahoo News, Voting, Elections, Skullduggery, Daniel Klaidman

4 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Chief Washington correspondent for The New York Times Carl Hulse and Yahoo News' own Jon Ward join Michael Isikoff and Daniel Klaidman on "Skullduggery." After the recent news of Ruth Bader Ginsburg's most recent cancer scare, Hulse discusses what could happen if RBG couldn't fulfill her duties as Supreme Court Justice as well as the tactics used by Mitch McConnell during the Merrick Garland nomination during the Obama Administration and how its changed the landscape of how we approve judges moving forward. Then Ward joins to take a deeper dive into his groundbreaking story about the Quitman 10+2 and the case of alleged voter suppression in Georgia.

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0:00.0	The statement from the Supreme Court was
0:04.0	TURSE, and for many is chilling as they come.
0:07.0	Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had been diagnosed
0:10.0	with a malignant tumor on her pancreas.
0:13.0	The tumor was treated over the summer definitively,
0:16.0	the court said, and there is no evidence
0:18.0	that it spread elsewhere in the body.
0:20.0	But still, it was the second cancer scare
0:23.0	in just the last nine months for the 86-year-old
0:26.0	Ginsburg, and it raised what could be the most
0:28.0	momentous question of all in Washington.
0:31.0	What happens if Ginsburg, one of the liberal
0:33.0	stalwarts on the bench, is unable to serve
0:36.0	before next year's presidential election.
0:38.0	Will President Trump get to name his third
0:41.0	Supreme Court justice and potentially change the court's
0:44.0	ideological makeup for decades in the future?
0:47.0	And what a Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell do.
0:50.0	The same McConnell, who just three years ago,
0:52.0	blocked President Obama's pick for the court,
0:55.0	Garlan, from even getting a Senate vote on the
0:58.0	grounds that presidents shouldn't get to name
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