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Methodology to be as succinct a definition of what would lead a judge to come up with fair and objective results. i thank you for that. as a lower court judge, you were generally bound by the supreme courts and the d.c. circuits precedents. the supreme court can overturn its own precedents. thats why i found your analysis instructive. you had a precedent that had already confronted the issues you faced. however, it was another district court decision, and you were not bound by it. you nonetheles...

That i was a trial judge and my methodology has developed in that context. i dont know how many other justices, other than justice sotomayor, have that same perspective, but it informs me with respect to what i understand to be my proper judicial role. >> what aspect of your record as a judge do you believe have been the most important for the good of the country? >> well, i think that all of my record is important, to some degree, because i think it clearly demonstrates that im an independent j...

Rule for congress, and there is our role for judges who are applying the law. she very carefully laid out the separation of powers, concerns, and talked about the fact that many of the sentencing issues that they were asking her about were things that has -- congress has the ability to clear up. as a judge, shes there to faithfully apply the law, which she did. and we saw that -- and shes right in the median of judges in terms of the sentences that are applied for child pornography. and for all ...

Youre obviously as i have said incredibly smart and incredibly likable and on the stage for a lot of americans to look up to. im at the rah-here, here side of that debate as what is a supreme court justices job. thats why a lot of us are trying to tease out the philosophical distinction, which is more than just a methodology. i want to thank you for that answer. you have also brought up the fourth amendment a number of terms in our conversation. i would like to talk more about the constitution a...

Topic that was brought up that was much of a surprise. just a manner and the means in which that is done. i think clearly she was prepared. she had gone back over her record, she has seen that, she continually described a methodology and quite frankly that method ology is very consistent with most supreme court justices, i think. you look back at the testimony of justice roberts, he didnt say that he had a philosophy, he said he didnt. he calls balls and strikes. thats what judge jackson does, a...

On my authority as a judge, and so my methodology actually helps me to do that in every case. >> so you wouldnt say that youre an activist judge? >> i would not say that. >> okay. >> so well have 20 minutes more later on, but heres what i would say. that every group that wants to pack the group, that believes this court is a bunch of right wing nuts that are going to destroy america, that consider the constitution trash all wanted you picked, and this is all i can say is the fact that so many of...

The support of judge griffith, his coming here yesterday and testifying on my behalf was so gratifying. i have tried in every respect to follow my methodology that enables me to rule impartially in every case and to understand the limits of my own judicial authority and thereby reach decisions without fear or favor. my record demonstrates that i am not proceeding from any sort of preconceived notion about how a case comes out. im not ruling consistent with any sort of ideology. im doing what imp...

That you are articulating. i am not aware of impediments to those but again, you know, this is the kind of thing that may be litigated and i would have to look, as i do consistent with my methodology, at any arguments that are raised about the constitutionality or lawfulness of those actions. >> remember in about all of these suits that involve the courts and making interpretations of false claims act, most of them are brought by whistleblowers and some would not even know about it without whist...

Will. opening statements yesterday, two days of questions and answers from the senators. what are we learning about her judicial philosophy and what she will be like as she serves on the court? >> well, i think she is trying to suggest, sandra, that she has more of a methodology i would say than a philosophy. she doesnt want to be pinned down as having a -- coming from a particular school of constitutional interpretation. so she is a couple of times now described this method that she goes to whi...

Us to understand who -- past nominees have told about the mold of particular justices that they thought they followed in. if you have to tell the american people who youre closest to, who is that justice? who are those justices? >> thank you for the question, senator. i must admit that i dont really have a justice that i have mold i myself after or that i would. what i have is a record. i have 570 plus cases in which i have im employed the methodology that i described and that shows people how i...