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Sunday, December 25, 2016

“Law and Romeo and Juliet: Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito served as chief judge in the Shakespeare Theatre Company’s wrongful death mock trial of Romeo and Juliet in Washington, DC.” C-SPAN has posted the video online at this link.

Posted at 8:20 PM by Howard Bashman



Trump’s SCOTUS finalists according to Jan Crawford — Pryor, Hardiman, Colloton, Sykes, and Larsen: Today’s broadcast of the CBS News program “Face the Nation” included a year-end CBS News correspondents roundtable.

Jan Crawford had the following to say when asked about the finalists on President-elect Donald J. Trump’s list of potential U.S. Supreme Court nominees:

They’re — they’re narrowing their focus on a handful, like I said, of appellate court judges. Bill Pryor from the Atlanta based Federal Appeals Court. Thomas Hardiman, a judge on the Philadelphia based Appeals Court. Steve Colloton, from out in Iowa upon the U.S. Court of Appeals, the Eighth Circuit. A judge, Diane Sykes, on the Seventh Circuit. And Joan Larsen, on the Michigan Supreme Court. But, again, all highly qualified. You — you can’t argue with their credentials.

You can access the complete transcript of today’s broadcast at this link.

Posted at 8:12 PM by Howard Bashman