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I do not decide cases on the personal preferences. im not a pro plaintiff or a pro defendant judge. im not a pro prosecution or pro defense judge. im a pro law judge. >> martha: a show of independence supreme court justice brett kavanaugh to side with the four living justice on the round. opting not to hear a case that called for the defunding of the planned parenthood in some state medicaid proms in louisiana -- programs in louisiana. chief john roberts voted against hearing the case but the co...

Personal or policy preferences. i am not a pro plaintiff or pro defendant judge. im not a pro prosecution or pro defense judge. i am a pro-law judge. so my question is can he really say that and can we believe it after he said that the left was taking revenge on what happened with the clintons and it was all animosity toward president trump? >> he also said what goes around comes around. sew said a lot of things that i think were very concerning. the thing thats particularly concerning about thi...

For his family, for the senate, its been emotional for the country. it has been -- its demonstrated the cultural shift. its hit with this social change that were seeing that many would argue has come way too late and isnt complete. all of this -- all these forces i think are together in a crucible that make none of this normal and i dont think you can take any one incident and say, gosh, this is odd. maybe we shouldnt do it this way. >> i just want to get to some of what he said in his op-ed, ki...

September 11th? because the law compelled it. justice kennedy showed us in the texas versus johnson case. we dont make decisions based on who people are or their policy preferences or the moment. we base decisions on the law. justice kennedys example of independence is something that i have tried to follow. and it means you are not a pro -- as i said yesterday, not a pro plaintiff, pro defense, pro prosecution or pro defense judge. im a pro law judge. that is part of being an independent judge i...

Parkland school shooting victim who says brett kavanaugh brushed him off when he introduced himself the white house says the judge escorted by security didnt know who he was, kavanaughs opponents plan to pepper him about gun rights and abortion rights rulings and where he stands on investigating a sitting president. democrats furious the white house has not released more documents about kavanaughs work under former president george w. bush. >> what are we trying to hide? why are we rushing? >> r...

96-3. >> reporter: judge kavanaugh attempted to bat down the claims of pure politics saying he will adhere solely to law. >> i do not decide cases based on personal or policy preferences. i am not a pro plaintiff or pro defendant judge. i am not a pro prosecution or pro defense judge, i am a pro law judge. >> reporter: kavanaugh said working with his fellow justices would be paramount. >> the supreme court must never, never be viewed as a partisan institution. the justices on the supreme court d...

Texas versus johnson, one of his greatest opinions, judges do not make decisions to reach a preferred result. judges make decisions because the law and the constitution as we see them compel the results. over the past 12 years, ive ruled sometimes for the prosecution and sometimes for criminal defendants. sometimes for workers, and sometimes for businesses. sometimes for environmentalists, and sometimes for coal miners. in each case, ive followed the law. i do not decide cases based on personal ...

>> yeah. i took notes on all of the jurors, the prospective jurors throughout the selection process and tried to make notes for myself about which jurors i thought would be pro prosecution and pro defense. b-37 i put down as a pro-defense juror -- prospective juror and taking notes on her, shes lived in the area 18 years, had her lawyer is a lawyer, work in the space industry. she has a daughter and has worked in her current occupation for 16 years. what i got out of that interview she did yeste...

Think mr. cummings is suddenly so -- is it because they think there is some there there. >> this is typical washington behavior. they want to make candle go away. rather than welcoming robust debate about what the real issue is. >> lets get to the bottom of it of what happened to holly paz? holly who? we dont get to know. they just like disappear. okay problem -- anyway, all right. boy the wafs, did you know that the person running the irs cincinnati office is only 12? she looks very young in he...

Folks like us. mark fuhrman is going to join us live now to talk about the importance of this process is he a former l.a.p.d. homicide detective. these cases are often won or lost at the stage we are watching right now where they pick the jury, mark. >> >> absolutely, megyn. and i think unfortunately this is the whole case. its not a direct evidence case. its kind of a super circumstantial case. there is really no eyewitnesses. there is no forensic evidence. there is the statements of george zim...