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Are going to vote for us, because, without that you will lose a lot of the things we have won over the last two years. >> consequences of any of us sitting on the sidelines are more dire. >> i dont like what nike did. i dont think its appropriate recently we failed our intended impartiality. >> wizard of oz pulling all the levers. >> we have very inaccurate book, thats too bad. i dont blame you entirely. >> the failing "new york times" has an anonymous he will toler, i couldnt believe it? anonym...

I would like to put this in the obje report. >> without objection, it will be put in the record . we heard about your record of impartiality. you have done more than talk about your independence and impartiality. you have demonstrated judicial values of the bench. by my account, you ruled against executive branch agencies 23 times between may 2006, january 2009. of course, president bush was nominated -- who nominated you to the bench was ahead of the executive branch. you had no problems ruling...

Required to respond to a subpoena? >> as a matter of the canons of judicial independence, i cant give you an answer ton that hypothetical question. >> judge kavanaugh spent much of his day trying to reassure the senators of his judicial independence and his impartiality and then at the very end of the day, california senator kamala harris who was californias attorney general previously asked a very pointed legal and crypted question about whether or not kavanaugh had ever had a conversation with...

You follow the decision by the court subject to the rules of stare decisis. thats part of stability, predictability and part of impartiality, part of public confidence and the rule of law that its not just going to move pillar to post and the wall is stable and foundational. again, its not brown versus board shows its not absolute. thats a good thing. but it is critically important to the impartiality and stability and predictability of the law. >> the fact that harlan should have been the guidi...

Thats to ensure that there is predictabili predictability, stability that the players can rely on that and that its overall fairness. due process is not a word used often in a refereeing contest but it is. notice about what the rules are ahead of time so everyone has confidence in the fairness of the game and that the umpiring, which is critical for the outcome of many games is done in a fair and impartial way. so facilitates im -- impartiality. the analogy is very strong, frankly. thats why i w...

Be put in the record, yeah. judge kavanaugh, we have heard a lot yesterday about your record of independence and impartiality. you have done more than talk about your independence and impartiality, you have demonstrated judicial values of the bench. by my account, you ruled against executive branch agencies many times between 2006, january 2009. of course, president bush was nominated -- who nominated you to the bench was ahead of the executive branch. you had no problems really against the pres...

Impartiality is our guiding principle. let me explain why. we believe many people use twitter as a digital public square. they gather from all around the world to see whats happening, and have a conversation about what they see. twitter cannot rightly serve as a public square if its constructed around the personal opinions of its makers. >> so, clint, i want to get your take on this, on the idea of why jeff sessions is involved in this. one can be skeptical about it. to rogers point, social medi...

Professors was a brilliant professor named fred gettus. he used to say, when you have a difficult line to draw in the law under some difficult legal standard, you draw the line at seven. and i asked, what is seven? and he said, thats exactly the question. the determination surrounding recusal -- >> really good there. >> -- has to do with whether or not the jurist would have his or her impartiality compromised under the totality of his circumstances. whether the appearance, the potential, or the ...

They are one of the reasons we have the system of precedent so that people can rely on the decisions. precedent also reinforces the impartiality and independence of the judiciary. the people need to know in this country that the judges are independent and that were not making decisions based on policy views. part of that is to understand were following a system of precedent, of what has been done before. the court every time someone gets on, it is not just bouncing around to what do i think is b...

Or how can i apply this first amendment precedent to this fact pattern that comes before me. so precedent is the foundation of our system, it is part of the stability. it is ensuring predictability and it is foundational to the constitution is article 3 and federalist 78 make clear. >> youll be asked by other members what precedent you like and dont like, but you know it is inappropriate for a nominee to answer those questions. and this refers to justice ginsburg, she said a judge sworn to decid...