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Crow about as we head into the stretch of the midterm elections. back to you. >> and you can bet were going to hear the president talk about that on the campaign trail the next several weeks. joe johns from the white house, thank you. two sitting justices of the supreme court emphasize how important it is to keep the countrys legitimacy and impartiality. >> part of the courts legitimacy depends on people not seeing the court in the way that people see the rest of the governing structures of th...

With the process. and you have the bourk factor. you get your side a pass. that there are these farces about impartiality and independence they cant talk about anything. they cant tell you where they are until they get on the bench. and they have the freakishly consistent. if you are a move away from your certain direction, one every nine decisions you are a swing. how do they fix it? >> you have to start with the whole process. in the selection. in this instance we of course watched the white h...

Being put on the court when hes so unfit for that role. he fails every high standard in-terms of impartiality, fairness, trust worthiness, and also temperament. and temperament counts the most when youre under pressure. and i think its quite clear he held his temperament when he was talking to fox news. he wasnt screaming. he was screaming to democrat members of that judiciary committee, put on a performance and a performance most unbecoming of a judge. but i have great hope that the american pe...

Justice stevens said yesterday, because its the first time a retired supreme court justice ever publicly opposed the nomination of a new supreme court justice. here is some of what senator murkowski had to say. >> i have a very high bar for any nominee to the supreme court of the united states. the code of judicial conduct rule 1.2, this is one that many, many people in this body know, but it states that, quote, a judge act at all times in a manner that promotes public confidence in the independ...

Midterms will be less than a presidential. so that base energize voters you need. and the protests that we were just watching, the democrats trying to keep this alive. i say keep it up. the professional protesting class fires up republicans. >> professional protesting class. >> thats a disingenuous term to use against people that are peacefully protesting. it is not this sort of chaotic protest that republicans want the base to believe. these are men and women basically pushing back on a sense f...

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 that thursdays performance was because he was emotional and acting...

Hey mike. >> good afternoon. the vote was successful but very historic and also serious moment. vice president mike pence was presiding and he got an earful from protesters as he left the capitol after the vote on his way to the motorcade. after the vote was done, senate majority leader mcconnell predicted senators will ultimately be able to turn the page. >> senators are angry, your side and on the democratic side, sir. >> these things always blow over, and i think even though there may have be...

Legitimacy, and he is not going to be comfortable going on the court as somebody who is seen as disgraced or a punch line, and if you are somebody who wants to be a supreme court justice, and if you are somebody who is going to be a colleague of his on the supreme court, you have to be concerned about that. >> you can imagine that chief justice john roberts who is about the integrity of the supreme court, who loathes bringing before the court cases that undermines integrity, he looks out at this...

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 impropriety and the appearance of impropriety. and after the hearing that we all watched last week, last thursday, it became clear to me, or was becoming clearer that that appearance of impropriety has become unavoidable. and ive been deliberating, agonizing about what is fair? is this too unfair a burden...

Judge kavanaugh, but we are united as professors of law and scholars of judicial institutions in believing he did not display the impartiality and judicial temperament requisite to sit on the highest court of our land. madam president, i ask unanimous consent to enter a full copy of the letter in the record. >> without objection. >> thank you. finally, i want to mention the serious and credible allegations raised by dr. christine blasey ford and deborah ramirez, the two women who came forward to...