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Far more to the left than someone who would need 60 votes to clear the senate. i can appoint someone who needs 50 votes because then vice president biden would break the tie. it expands the pool of what kind of radical liberals he could appoint. >> the d.c. circuit of appeals, the most powerful court in the land and would most likely be reviewing challenges to obama care or other presidential actions. thats the first court of order on which hes going to fill vacancies, is it not, john? >> but th...

Far more to the left than someone who would need 60 votes to clear the senate. i can appoint someone who needs 50 votes because then vice president biden would break the tie. it expands the pool of what kind of radical liberals he could appoint. >> the d.c. circuit of appeals, the most powerful court in the land and would most likely be reviewing challenges to obama care or other presidential actions. thats the first court of order on which hes going to fill vacancies, is it not, john? >> but th...

Why not let them have an up or down vote? >> i want you to know that i also did the same thing when there was a president bush, because i eliminated the twelfth seat that was on the court and bush wanted to fill that vacancy, and the reason i did that then and the reason we arent filling these vacancies now is because this is the most underworked circuit of the 12 circuits we have in this country. their caseload on average is only half what it is -- or their caseload is only half of what it is t...

Circuits where theyre more needed by caseload and then president obama can have the privilege of appointing judges there. so we are not denying him the right to appoint judges. its just where he appoints them. by the way, this isnt a new crusade for me, because when i was in the senate in the 1990s, and chairman of the court subcommittee, i did a lot of studies on workloads of the various circuits and have made changes based upon those studies. >> senator chuck grassley, republican of iowa, than...

>> one of the justices now has been on the short list, but if there is a democratic president, theyre going to find a democratic nominee to the court, steve, as a republican president will. it is a big country. they happen to go to the appellate court is almost besides the point. i so agree with perry. the point is we have inconsistencies, all the appellate courts throughout the country are set by the senate, not messing around with the other circuits, they are focusing on this one. with what se...

>> i think both of these will be appealed clearly. what were seeing in the fifth circuit, the ruling about texas is in conflict with a whole bunch of other judges who looked at this, you know, question about whether physicians had to have admitting privileges within a couple of miles. everyone else pretty much strikes it down. so now you have the fifth circuit saying i think theyre going to win at trial. thats how good this argument s is. it doesnt burden women, it kind of incidentally burdens w...

Is not so much for ted cruz specifically but for the sort of tea party constituency that has made him a hero, because it serves to underscore this perception that theyre motivated primarily by personal antipathy to president obama and there is a fringe that believes in birtherism and conservative thinkers like ross have been saying they have to create distance from that fringe if they want to start talking to the middle of the electorate more. >> on the other hand, if youre a politician, you can...

So its very important. its balanced right now evenly between judges who reported by republican presidents and democratic presidents, so adding even one new nominee to the presidents is going to tip the balance. four of the u.s. supreme court justices served on this court. its very important. >> democrats rightly point out there are a lot of empty seats so why shouldnt they be filled? >> there are three vacancies. the president has tapped three current lawyers, one currently a judge in a lower co...

Passion and commitment for education. we need to have an education revolution and the real core here is to deal with precollegiate schooling because for too long minorities in urban areas are shortchanged. >> you improve the economic process before these applicants become applicants and therefore improve their resumes when they try to get into schools. i want to ask you this -- >> we need to go into grade schools and meddiddle schools because public schools are quitting on those kids. >> thats g...

Where in most of his devices, he created the circuitry. and it was not through a timer like many bombers use. he actually took the time to create the mechanism to create the circuits. and that made it really difficult for investigators. >> he built his own switches for the bombs from hickory. and when he bought batteries, he would peel off the covers of the batteries so we wouldnt be able to go back and trace where those batteries might have been purchased. >> there was no evidence that would le...