you say judges should not play politics, should not push ideology, but they do have different philosophies. you write some judges emphasize text and history, some emphasize purposes and consequences. but justice breyer, isn t that a bit of a cop-out? because don t the judges, the textualists almost always tilt conservative and don t the consequences justices you ve been accused of being that generally lean i don t know. it s so easy to say. there is a recent case involving gay rights, rights in the workplace, not sexual discrimination, that was made up of a group of people, the majority there who they included people who emphasize
you say judges should not play politics, should not push ideology, but they do have different philosophies. you write some judges emphasize text and history, some emphasize purposes and consequences. but justice breyer, isn t that a bit of a cop-out? because don t the judges, the textualists almost always tilt conservative and don t the consequences justices you ve been accused of being that generally lean i don t know. it s so easy to say. there is a recent case involving gay rights, rights in the workplace, not sexual discrimination, that was made up of a group of people, the majority there who they included people who emphasize
reason to doubt what had been submitted long ago because of submissions from the house intelligence committee and letters sent to the fisa court, isn t this too late here, don t the judges bear some responsibly? i think that s a legitimate question. i m not so sure the way things are set up that it would be a good idea for the court directly to respond to every sort of issue that congress might raise because in part that the larger problem for us to discuss another day but having article three judges perform what is an article to function to authorize the wiretaps and wages congressional oversight playing, does it have oversight of the judges in the court function or just the executive function. it is a mess and one thing i