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Involves that kind of interpretation to assess what it is that the parties -- the parties that wrote the text intended. as a result, because my methodology involves these various pieces because of the way 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, im looking at the facts in a case. my experience as a trial judge helps me to assess the facts from all of the...

>> i believe that was described in the case you are talking about. >> i think that is right too. yeah. so when the affordable care act mandated that every health insurance policy contain coverage for contraception or chemically induced abortions, they objected and said this violated their conscious and free expression of religious rights under the constitution, correct? >> i believe so, yes. >> after the obama administration, during the trump administration, the trump administration expanded the...

Do this sort of thing again. that is what congress has required of judges and thats what i did in every case. >> how you always under the recommendation of a prosecutor -- to be honest with you, judge, 32-year-old man sending an image of his own 10-year-old daughter, you substantially reduced below not only the guidelines but the recommendation. all i can say is that your view of how to deter child pornography is not my view. i think youre doing it wrong and every judge that does what you are do...

Ininterpreter frame for interpreting the constitution is now 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. so that is now the way in which constitutional interpretation is done. >> do you identify with that position? >> i identify with the position in so far as thats how the text is interprete...

I know from personal experience the importance of having a good representative, an advocate, a counsel because in that case, he had been denied it when he originally wendt to trial. only after years in state and federal court was the truth vindicated. so i want you to talk a little bit about why it is important for defendants represented by zealots, those that tell the truth to the court, put on the evidence -- a defendant accused of a crime. >> thank you, senator. the idea is one that is rooted...

Complete her answer. speak out as a result the commission determined in the guidelines that it was a substantial aggravating factor if the facts of the case demonstrated that somebody had been distributing hundreds of images. what that meant was over the long -- maybe it was a long period of time, they had collected one photo at a time. they had potentially mailed one at a time and that showed terrible conduct. im not saying as a baseline its terrible but what we are doing is different dumb like...

Place everybody at the same level. the point of judging and the guidelines is to look at what has happened in a case, compared defendants to each other in terms of what they have done, and give proportional penalties -- >> mr. chairman, she has said, mr. chairman, she does not use sentencing enhancement in the area of someone using a computer -- >> can i explain why, sir? >> im going to give the witness is an opportunity to respond to you, senator. >> finally. >> the guidelines true created for ...

Because of the limited nature of the judicial role and the fact that the policies have been adopted by the branch of government that has that authority under the constitution. >> so i guess im surprised after nine years on the bench that -- youre super smart. nobody disputes that. having worked for justice breyer and knowing the philosophical arguments that he and justice kagan had, it seems surprising that you wouldnt be able to speculate -- not speculate but reflect on the nature of those disa...

0 first of two long and intense days of questioning from members of the senate judiciary committee began this morning with democrats using their questions to allow jackson to issue a rebuttal to republican accusations that she has been soft on crime and republicans pressing her on her record as a judge and public defender and bringing up a whole host of conservative hobby horses. things like critical race theory. jackson has tried to stay above the fray in her responses. early on in the hearing,...

Getting -- listen to this, 85% of the vote. 85%. that doesnt happen very often. a major party candidate getting 10, 12, 14% of the vote in mcauliffes case, it tells you the republican base was completely activated and democrats, especially in many black areas, and also i have to say the youth vote, here in my backyard, they didnt turn out. so when you have that combination, this kind of result is inevitable. >> it strikes me that parties often tend to overlearn the positive lessons from election...