#006: Lame Ducks - And Presidents: What Will They Do Next?
Case in Point: The Legal Show on the Hottest Legal Cases in Politics and Culture
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🗓️ 14 November 2024
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Lame ducks - and presidents: what will they do next? Description: On this week’s episode, we sit down with judicial expert and Senate veteran Tom Jipping to talk post-election plans for a Congress and President in their waning days of service.
What will congressional Democrats attempt to pass? What does the Constitution permit? And what about those last-minute judicial nominations from President Biden? Can new judges be appointed before President-elect Trump takes the oath of office at the end of January? We’ve got those answers and more on Case in Point!
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| 0:00.0 | Right is still right, even if you stand by yourself. |
| 0:04.8 | Mr. Chief Justice, may it place the court. |
| 0:08.5 | It's Thursday. Welcome to another edition of Case and Point, the legal show for regular people. |
| 0:14.7 | I'm your host, Sarah Partial Perry, a senior legal fellow here at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:21.1 | But as you may have recognized by now, I'm not your typical boring lawyer. |
| 0:26.0 | No offense to all the lawyers who might be watching this show and with whom I work. |
| 0:30.3 | But let me tell you, this is the show for you. |
| 0:32.8 | If you want to understand why the courts, why the law, why cases, the Supreme Court, and what's happening in |
| 0:39.1 | Congress all matter to you. We simplify it, we break it down, we help you understand exactly |
| 0:45.3 | why it's important and why it matters. Right now, on this Thursday, November 14th, we are |
| 0:52.5 | looking at Republican control of the White House, the Senate, |
| 0:55.9 | and with only about 10 races yet to be called, Republican control of the House of Representatives |
| 1:01.0 | as well. What is likely to happen in these next 10 weeks or so in what's called a lame duck |
| 1:07.9 | session? That is before the 119th Congress is sworn in on January 3rd. |
| 1:14.7 | We're now still looking at Democratic control of the Senate and Republican control of the House, |
| 1:20.8 | at least for a few more weeks. So until those new legislators take the oath of office, |
| 1:26.1 | what happens then? What can Congress accomplish? What is likely to be accomplished? What's going to happen with judges and justices? Is any of the Supreme Court justices going to retire? And if so, who might it be? Will there be any effect on Trump's cabinet secretary picks? Will any of them get any hearings before they are sworn in during Senate confirmation hearings after January 21st? |
| 1:52.9 | No one knows at this point except for my very good friend, Tom Jipping, who is also a senior legal fellow here at the Heritage Foundation, who spent |
| 2:02.2 | 15 years on the Senate Judiciary Committee and understands the operation of the federal judiciary |
| 2:08.0 | and of Congress better than just about anyone I've met. |
| 2:11.4 | So we're going to break down what is likely to happen in these next 10 weeks or so right around |
| 2:16.7 | the holidays so that you can sit with |
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