Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. To serve as United States secretary of labor. Let me say before i begin my pening statement that we welcome secretary chao. Good to see you and we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so well well it wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement nd i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself more than 30 years ago to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. So we welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays t
Upcoming cases and the impact the president has had on the Supreme Court and lower courts. Due to technical difficulties, we are joining the discussion in progress. This is an hour and 20 minutes. This is one hour and 20 minutes. Two questions, one is my observation and he echoed it that this was a federal right in terms of the court split in ways that conservative justices were joining the liberal justices in the majority of the cases. You agree that this term was a quiet interlude for my comp . And then maybe talk about what might come. And please talk about your area of expertise to the gerrymandering case. And does it portend other future decisions that we should be aware of . Like everybody else i want to say it like nikki rooney, im happy to be in the show. [laughter] right that the term is characterized in part by the cases that court took and partly by the cases the court postponed or did not take. To hide too cases tdap the beginning of the term and one set of them were on the
With that expectation that those justices were enjoying so that they agreed and then to talk about that area of expertise. And the other decisions. So i just want to say were just happy to be on the show. [laughter] the term is characterized in many cases of two very high ticket cases right from the midterm and the case is whether the scope of title vii if that covers based on sexual identification or gender identity they took those cases last september and held off until april that was the question and had up in front of it in light of the cake shop which i found was interesting because it shed no light on the question. So you wonder what they are expecting a lower court to doe their but that case was left hanging forr quite a long period of time may be thinking that case would shed some light on abbott at the end of the day i didnt. So the gerrymander case i think it shows in a powerful way the departure of Justice Kennedy meant. And last year the Supreme Court had the question of ge
Good morning. Good morning. The committee will come to order. Today were considering the nomination of Eugene Scalia. Let me say before i begin my Opening Statement that we welcome the secretary, good to see you. And we welcome mr. Scalias family. Well give him a chance to introduce all of them a little later. Theres so many of them and i wont the scalias are a productive family, apparently, so we wont come off any of your allotted time for your statement and i would say to the family members that the confirmation hearings arent necessarily a family exercise. I was before this committee myself to be nominated for education secretary and was grilled pretty heavily, i thought, with my family sitting right behind me. I was accustomed to it, but they werent. But they got over it before very long. We welcome you here and were glad youre here. Yesterday i received a letter from senator murray asking me to delays todays hearings. I think the Committee Members know, i do my best to do what sen
Eastern on cspan and cspan. Org and if you are on the go, listen to our live coverage using the free cspan radio app. Attorneys and legal experts talk about the Supreme Courts recent term, preview upcoming cases and the impact the president had on the system. Due to a technical issue, we are joining the panel in progress. To questions. Observationhat my aat i think echoed it, was light term in terms of expectations and had the court split in ways that conservative justice were joining the liberal justices in cases. See you agree this was kind of a quiet for what might come. Case. Rrymandering future portend other decisions that we should be aware of . Like everybody else, i want to say like mickey rooney, im just happy to be in the show. I think canon is right. The term is characterized in part by the cases the court took in the cases they didnt take or postponed taking. Two very high ticket cases were teed up right at the beginning of the term and i think one set of them were actually