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All thats possible is infuriating to the majority of the american people. this is extremely granular. this is a group of people who will so far has not been able to deliver what the american public really needs and is asking for on a whole host of issues. and it just shows what the power of the filibuster looks like in the united states senate. im getting calls from friends who live abroad. from friends who are from outside the united states, and they just dont understand how it can be that when...

Yet, they dont do it. the democrats dont do it. >> instead, guns are being sold at gun shows that are called literally cop callers and look out of a space movie. >> yeah. that made all the difference in uvalde. over memorial day weekend, 51 people shot in chicago over the long weekend. nine of them were killed. lets turn back now to the federal jury investigation that found homer hillary clinton attorney michel sussmann not guilty. it was pat of the origin of the trump-russia investigation. ...

Important majority opinions during his 32 years on the court, but he has spoken out against roe v. wade. now if this draft opinion becomes law, his view will be vindicated. in gun rights, when thomas joined the court in 1991, the court had never held that there was an individual right to bear arms under the second amendment. he started writing dissenting opinions in the late 90s, saying there is an individual right to bear arms. and in 2008, justice scalias famous opinion for the court in the he...

One r two things. senator coons suggested that in three cases, nickerson, nguyen and fife, you actually imposed sentences within the guidelines or at the same level of the prosecution but in nickerson, you didnt have any discretion. that was an 11 c 1 c case and nguyen wasnt a child porn case and neither was fife. just one other quick thing to clarify. as to this comments about the probation office, the probation office doesnt issue national guidelines, right? i mean, the probation office doesnt...

Interpretation to assess what it is that the parties, the parties who wrote the text intended. as a result, because my methodology involves these various pieces and because of the way in which i do things, im reluctant to establish or to adopt a particular label because the idea of how you interpret is just one part of the entirety of a judges responsibility. as i mentioned, you know, im looking at the facts in a case. and my experience as a trial judge helps me to assess the facts from all of t...

To be overturned. thats why you heard some of the senators referencing cases like dread scott which was overturned because it held black people can be owned by white people. clearly bad law. thats the sort of argument that republicans will offer if roe versus wade is in fact overturned so the issue becomes an issue of whether additional case, for instance cases that entitle american women to obtain contraception. >> joyce, i hate to cut you off, but we are going back to the confirmation hearings...

Frame for interpreting the constitution is now very clearly looking back through history. so we see that even in the heller case where the justices, even the justices in dissent, were all analyzing the issues in the second amendment through a historical lens. what was meant at the time of the founding that is now in which constitutional founding the done. >> do you identify with that position? >> thats how the text is interpreted of the constitution. i am a strong believer in precedents and stai...

Of assessing, in each case, a number of factors that are set forward by congress. all against the backdrop of heinous criminal behavior. but the guidelines are longer mandatory. congress has not corrected, as you would say, the supreme courts determination about that. justice scalias decision that the guidelines are not mandatory, congress has not said that, and congress has given judges factors to consider. this, in my view, was an unusual case that had a number of factors that the defendant wa...

Pornography, 8-year-olds, 10-year-olds, gobs of hours of time here that he has, and you say to him, what, that -- you say that, well, you know, it was just a collection. i mean, he was just viewing it. and it was, you know, essentially they were his peers. you say to him that hes not a pedophile. i dont know how you know that. i dont know why thats relevant to the guidelines but maybe it is. you say hes not a pedophile. you say that you are very sorry for him and what he suffered and then you gi...

Blackburn, so we should finish in the 9:00 to 10:00 hour this evening, god willing. so at this point, i recognize senator hawley. >> thank you, mr. chairman. judge, nice to see you again. thank you again for being here. congratulations again on your nomination. i want to start where senator blumenthal left off. i want to talk with you about some of these cases i mentioned them yesterday, so i know you know which ones i want to talk about. these seven cases, child pornography cases in which you w...