Molly Reynolds and Margaret Taylor Talk Congress
The Lawfare Podcast
The Lawfare Institute
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 October 2020
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
Congress is capable of moving a Supreme Court justice at record speed, yet it can't get coronavirus relief passed. It has struggled to keep the government open, and it has pending business that it has to accomplish now or during the lame duck session. Margaret Taylor and Molly Reynolds, both of Lawfare and the Brookings Institution, joined Benjamin Wittes for a Lawfare Live event to discuss the health of this first branch of government and its functioning during the combined crises of the coronavirus and an election in the midst of extreme partisan polarization. They talked about how oversight has worked (and how it hasn't), the relationship between Congress and the courts, whether McConnell can get the Supreme Court nomination through and what might be able to stop him.
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| 0:25.6 | no bull and the aftermath. |
| 0:32.6 | These people are individuals, they decide what they're going to do. |
| 0:37.1 | They can be credible people who issue credible reports, they can be non-credible people |
| 0:41.8 | who issue non-credible reports. |
| 0:43.7 | And that's his decision they make. |
| 0:45.9 | I'm Benjamin Widis and this is the LawFair podcast October 12, 2020. |
| 0:52.9 | Congress is dysfunctional except that it is capable of moving a Supreme Court justice |
| 1:00.3 | at record speed. |
| 1:02.3 | It can't, however, get coronavirus relief done. |
| 1:06.7 | It has struggled to keep the government open and it has pending business that it's got |
| 1:13.6 | to get done either now or during a lame duck session, joining us to discuss the health |
| 1:20.5 | of the first branch of government. |
| 1:23.0 | It's functioning during the combined crises of coronavirus and a election, shall we say, |
| 1:33.2 | in the midst of extreme partisan polarization, our LawFair is great congressional gurus, |
| 1:40.2 | Margaret Taylor and Molly Reynolds, both of the Brookings institution and LawFair, both |
| 1:48.8 | excellent people whom I don't get to see in person anymore, but are here in the jungle |
| 1:53.9 | studio before a live audience who will ask questions later in the show. |
| 2:01.3 | We're going to talk about all kinds of things. |
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