Today is law school day. This is a law school seminar. You're the students. I'm the

professor and I'm going to use hypotheticals, what law students call

hypos. Two hypos. Number one. hypotheticals, what law students call hypos.

Two hypos.

Number one, what if the president nominates

a deeply, deeply religious person to the court?

And some of the senators believe

that her religious views might influence her judicial views.

How is it proper to ask questions about religion in the confirmation process? A very difficult and delicate question.

Hypothetical to, what if a justice instead of dying goes into a coma?

What if Justice Ginsburg had become comatose and couldn't serve

on the Supreme Court and remained in a coma through the entire period of the

election and beyond when the new president, if there is a new president, is inaugurated.

What happens then?

Those are the two hypotheticals we'll be discussing this morning on the Dersh

today on the Dersh show I'm going to play law professor. We're going to talk about two hypothetical situations,

both of which may actually occur. Number one, what if the president nominates somebody who is religious and has a

religion that may impact their decisions on the Supreme Court? Very delicate, very difficult issue. The second

hypothetical is what would happen if a justice rather than dying as tragically

Ruth Bader Ginsburg did, went into a coma for a long period of time, was not

able to resign and was unable to fulfill her duties as a justice but didn't commit an impeachable offense.

In law school we call these hypos, hypotheticals, and I'm going to play law professor today and go over both of those issues.

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