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Leaders to play a role in this process. i didnt have a problem on the decision of jerusalem, i had a problem with the way it was done. >> the episode in jerusalem raised doubts about kushners impartiality. >> when kushner weeks later went back to do negotiations on the middle east peace plan, the palestinians has said hes already made up his mind and they basically refused to meet with him. >> since then the trump administration has cut off aid to palestinian groups and shutdown the palestinian ...

He should be able to take this seat and should be confirmed. however, i pushed back and said, dont you think hell be resentful? i really think hell go to the court with a grudge against democrats. thats not what we do in american justice. impartiality is supposed to be very important in this land, and i just think hes going to be resentful. but what im hearing overwhelmingly is they believe this will be short lived and that hell shake it off within a few weeks and months, even, and then sort of ...

With domestic assault victims. and the experiences that have been shared over and over in my time as attorney general and coming to the senate as people described their experience and for me it doesnt appear hes somebody who should be given a lifetime to the most important court in the world. >> even if you dont believe or believe dr. ford the other issue is one of temperament, the other is an issue of impartiality and blind justice and that adds to the case being made that a no vote is the appr...

Issue is one of temperament, the other is an issue of impartiality and blind justice. and i think that adds to the case being made that a no vote is the appropriate vote. >> joining me now is democratic congresswoman sue delaney of washington. i know you were at a rally yesterday. is what heidi heitkamp said yesterday, is that a message democrats want to hear? forget shes in a red state and fighting for her job, right? >> i think heidi heitkamp saw what happened in the senate hearings and really...

Judicial temperament required of any supreme court nominee. so you have the aba, the largest legal nonpartisan organization, who decided yesterday to reopen their evaluation into kavanaughs fitness for the supreme court. you have a retired supreme court justice, john paul stevens, who initially supported kavanaughs confirmation, now saying he doesnt belong on the high court. and then you have signatures of more than 2,400 law professors who oppose his confirmation. so someone who demonstrated at...

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 ...

And even when one side of this chamber is absolutely dead set on defeating his nomination from the very get go before he was even named. even -- even in these situations, the standard is that a judge must act at all-times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the independence, integrity and impartiality of the judiciary and shall avoid improprietary and the appearance of impropriety. and after the hearing that we all watched last week, last thursday, it became clear to me

Judge applying for this position. the cannons make clear its not just actual bias but its the appearance of impartiality that a judge might have. that was a performance that was unmasked. and what i worried about was that it was actually president trumps idea of what a judge should be. >> right. >> as opposed to what a judge should be. and in the wall street journal, that was already extraordinary that he felt the need to write an op-ed. and the op-ed was so fundamentally disingenuous. he said t...

Worst thing that could happen, a sexual assault allegation, even in the face of an overly and overt overtly political process, even when one side of this chamber is absolutely did he do set on defeating his nomination, from the very get-go, before he was even named. even in these situations, the standard is that a judge must act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the integrity and impartiality of the judiciary and shall avoid the impropriety

Upping the ante with the nuclear option and making it a simple majority for scotus, i think that was huge in terms of decay within the process. and then you had the bork factor which is where now it is recognized by both sides that you get your side a pass. that there are now these farces about impartiality and independence that they cant talk about anything, they cant tell you where they are until they get on the bench and then they have these freakishly consistent penchants such that if you ar...