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Progressive jurists. to a lot of people that sounded downright conservative. >> i think if a democrat werent looking at her sex and her race, the first black woman appointed to be a supreme court and actually listens to the answers she was given, they might be surprised to hear a democratic nominee saying when i get a constitutional question, the first thing i look at is the text in the second thing i look at is the original public meaning in the 18 century of the words. she said the constitutio...

More progressive jurists on the bench while theres a biden in the white house. however, youre not going to see them run out and say as much publicly, not usually. they are going to get surrogates to get out there and say things, like mondaire jones saying we are going -- we know how it plays out if we dont get something done now and a republican gets in office. theres another group thats pushing this, not just democrats and progressive. there are some advocacy groups really concerned about issue...

Lawyers in that body that sat through constitutional law on the republican side were with me. we sat in the back of the room grimacing saying its separation of power thchlt is frightening. again, this is important to say, for a constitutional lawyer to try to blur the lines, separation of power. i go back. i was disturbed. i know progressive jurists who were disturbed when the president used the state of the union address to call out supreme court members on the front row. this is a president th...