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We the people, that we agreed to in this document. your rights get taken away when judges are allowed to have a living constitution. shannon: what do you say of the critics of originalism saying the constitution couldnt have foreseen all that we are dealing with now. >> baloney. its one of the greatest documents in all of human history and it deserves our respect. if you want to change it. there is a process called the amendment process its actually there in the constitution. you can do it. it h...

And then i am of her justice scalia coming to speak when i was a student at law school, and he talked about it in the constitution, and it had a profound effect on me. speak of the concept sounds simple: interpreting laws according to the original intent of those who rode them. >> regionalism says those are the rights you enjoy today,d they can never be taken away, and if you want to add to them, we, the people, add to them. >> shannon: what do you say to critics who say things change over time,...

Amendment process in the senate. he is pushing hard. who controls the senate then? 54 senate democrats. theyre in the majority. now they dont get 60 votes for anything. they would have needed 60 votes. but the point is it is not just because well republicans are in control now and they wont do anything. democrats had opportunities and they had a president pushing hard and they couldnt get it done. i think it is more just -- to her point, some of this is about the way in which the makeup of the s...

Good friend, his heart is good. the initial response where he says we can improve upon in legislation, i think you get many republicans, republicans like myself that are willing to have that conversation. what im talking about -- >> hes talking about the ranchers, the elements of that billsh that -- through an amendment process if that happened, could you be on board with hr-8 then? >> so if we improve that bill to respect the law-asiding citizen, thats a conversation we could have. what i saw i...

I think if youre law enforcement and you have some evidence that they are, you owe it to the campaigns to contact them and they tell that. that didnt happen in the presidents case in 2016. thats a mistake, you know. if the fbi or anybody thinks a foreign country is trying to penetrate a campaign, i think the campaign deserves a call from them to say, hey, weve picked this up. something may be happening here. we want you to be extra alert. >> isnt that what the amendment process is for? this is w...

The story about republicans floating an idea of green cards for those 700,000 daca recipients. that may be that is something -- a big deal, that would make this all kind of come to a conclusion. what are you hearing on that front? is any of that real? >> in terms of big deals, the state of the union is not it. its not part of the big deal. so lets put that to the side. but this idea of green cards or some sort of path to status or citizenship for daca recipients -- that something that is a nonst...

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For starters, the original constitution did not have the bill right ofs. the first ten amendments. so there was a lot of discussion at the ratifying conventions about having a bill right ofs. and that was quickly done in the first congress in new york in 1789 by the james hmadison, taking the lead on that. so, too, they did not think it was perfect. they have an amendment process that specified in article 5 of the constitution. and that amendment process was intended to be used. weve seen it use...

You. i have always had a little bit of a problem with that line because were infallible because were final. no, both parts of that are wrong in some sense because i never want to think of the court i never want to think of the court as infallible and never want to think of it necessarily in the way youre describing it either. because the people always have the ability to correct through the amendment process. now the amendment process is hard and hasnt been used as much in recent decades but, of...

I have always had a little bit of a problem with that line. were infallible because were final. no. both parts of that are wrong in some sense. i never want to think of the court as infallible. i never want to think of it necessarily in the way youre describing either. the people always have an ability to correct through the amendment process. the amendment process is hard. hasnt been used as much in recent decades. of course, at the beginning of the country, the amendments were critical. dread ...