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Protection group, where you gutted that agency. and in the 2011 sky case, you dissented from a decision upholding the affordable care act, which has been repeated over and over again, and you said under the constitution, the president may decline to enforce a statute that regulates private individuals when the president deems the statute unconstitutional. even if a court has held or would hold the constitution. your words. of course, the theory was the basis for president bushs december 30th 200...

Have argued we should ignore that simple declarative sentence which you spoke and how conclude your words mean something far different. you are committed textualist, judge kavanaugh. if youre going to hold others accountable for their words, you should be held accountable for your own word. after my personal experience, i start these hearings with a question about your credibility as a witness. i know from my history with you the things you said need to be carefully verified. that brings us to a...

One of these issues bears special mention as we mourn the passing of john mccain. in 2004, 2005, i joined john mccain when he led the effort to pass an amendment affirming that torture and cruel and inhuman and degrading treatment would be illegal in america. as a survivor of unspeakable torture, john mccain spoke with powerful moral authority about american values during the time of war. you were in the bush white house when that mccain amendment passed. the bush administration did everything i...

Protect our individual liberties. to that end, the framers created three coequally branches as you know, the legislature to enact laws, the executive to enforce them and the judicial branch to settle disputes about the meaning of those laws and the constitution. of course, the legislature could change the laws but only an amendment can change the constitution. for this reason alexander hamilton wrote in the federalist papers -- [ shouting ] >> mr. chairman, can i pause there until the room is cl...

Mr. rodriguez and i presume you, were as aware that two white house counsel, the counsel of the vice president, the dni and the dcia and the hipse ranking member had expressed reservation about the destruction of tapes. did you know that at the time you drafted that cable? >> i dont think i knew the entire list and i knew there were some objects and that is why we were going back to the director of the central intelligence agency. >> was it a matter of coincidence that this was the same week, th...

House counsels, the counsel to the vice president, the dcie and hipsy ranking member had expressed reservation about the destruction of the kaips. did you know that at the time you drafted the table? >> i didnt know the entire list but i knew there were some objections and why we were going back to the director of the central intelligence agency. >> was it a matter of coincidence that this decision was moved to destroy the tapes the same week the 11th amendment was being considered and the mccai...

Was aware that two white house counsels, the counsel of the vice president, the dni, the dcia and ranking member had expressed observation about the destruction of the tape. did you know that at the time of the destruction of the tape? >> i dont believe i knew the entire list, but i knew there were some objections. thats why we went back to the director of the cia. >> was it a matter of coincidence that this decision was made to destroy the tapes in the same week that two major stories appeared ...

United states. seems to me it makes more sense to put a priority on them coming in as a priority. >> on the subject of torture, president trump says hell defer decisions to the defense secretary retired general james mattis. congress, though, has the final say. its the law. the law says torture is illegal. do you believe the president respects congressional authority on this specific matter? >> you know, i do. i think he made a statement that there are three cases muhammad one of them who was wa...

Mccain amendment and the resolution on the other side says. it says change the momentum on the ground. >> but mccain lost the election in 08. hes not the president. >> it was kerry this morning reacting to reaction to the mccain/graham amendment that was added to the senate resolution who was saying this is going to be unbelievably small. >> unbelievably small. >> thats for the purpose of stopping the hemorrhaging of democrats that was on the verge of occurring. they thought the senate resolutio...