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Theyre appealing to the very people who destroyed the voting rights act in the first place. jit they right? theyre appealing to people who do not believe that the constitution requires them to look at the discriminatory effect of laws, to figure out if the law is racially biased. so the lawsuit is, should work, but that would assume neutral ash to arbiter which we dont have anymore, we know. >> the concern i have, and i spoke with officials from the naacp and folks from lccw. the question i have...

Now, to suggest that if you do not, its like of batterer. if you do not comply we will hurt you. i think that the underlying argument about what this is all about. >> i do want to bring david bagley and on that point because i think its a crucial point. its not supposed to be this body that is political in the way that you wanted to be. >> right, but i think that we can see from whats happening in our politics today that the fact that supreme court justices have lifetime tenure means that these ...

Now, to suggest that if you do not, its like of batterer. if you do not comply we will hurt you. i think that the underlying argument about what this is all about. >> i do want to bring david bagley and on that point because i think its a crucial point. its not supposed to be this body that is political in the way that you wanted to be. >> right, but i think that we can see from whats happening in our politics today that the fact that supreme court justices have lifetime tenure means that these ...

During his testimony defending against sexual assault allegations, there are questions about whether he would be able to be above politics, an impartial arbiter as he insisted in the op-ed that he wrote. we recently heard from supreme court justice alaielena kagan a the importance of impartiality. lets listen. >> part of the courts legitimacy depends on people not seeing the court in the way that people see the rest of the governing stri structures of th country. in other words, people thinking ...

Opportunity to kind of bring the band back together. right? who knows what will happen to jeff sessions after the midterms. i think all bets are off there. but in the meantime, this is an easy one for the president. >> josh, hes expecting payback. i presume the white house expects that kavanaugh that you now justice kavanaugh will rule their way and be in lock step or else. >> i think on the court its going to be very interesting if you see it go from a court that swings back and forth with a lo...

Testimony. we have, now, someone going to the supreme court, if the republicans vote the way we all expect them to do today, who is now going to bring a far right perspective thats going to hurt women, its going to hurt working people, its going to be bad for the environment. we need to have a neutral, fair arbiter in the supreme court as much as we can. that means we need to have supreme court justices that are somewhere around the middle. that will be able to look at thingings in a dispassiona...

Thing is a problem for the supreme court. he knew he had to do a cleanup job to convince folks, no, im not hike that. i will be an impartial arbiter of the law. but ive had my other issues with the way kavanaugh and the republicans have behaved with this entire incident. but his behavior during that hearing, in and of itself, was disqualifying. you cannot be that much of a partisan and bring that to the supreme court and expect people to think the integrity of the court has been maintained. you ...

Before this court in the coming weeks and months that are political third rail issues very divisive, and this process will not be forgotten then, assuming brett kavanaugh is on the court. >> assuming that brett kavanaugh is confirmed, that will be one of the lingering questioning as we move forward. if he votes in each case in a way that is consistent with what conservative republicans would want him to do, does that raise questions about whether hes really showing judicial independence, that wi...

Saying, this temperate, this is a problem for the supreme court. he knew he had to do a cleanup job to try to convince folks that, no, im really not like that. i will be an impartial arbiter of the law. but ive had my other issues with the way kavanaugh and the republicans have behaved with this entire incident. but his behavior during that hearing, in and of itself, was disqualifying. you cannot be that much of a partisan and bring that to the supreme court and expect people to think the integr...

Supreme court without my vote. it is my hope, it is truly my hope that judge kavanaugh will share that same hope in rebuilding, maintaining a level of public confidence, that he will strive for that ideal every day. its my hope that he will be that neutral arbiter, the umpire that only calls the balls and the strikes. that he will be that force for stability. i believe that judge kavanaugh is a good man. hes a good man. hes clearly a learned judge. but in my conscious, because