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Passed by coming of united states, leave their own opinion out of it, in case of justice jackson, i wrote the first step act, i know it didnt have retro activity in it she read it to have retro activity in it and gave someone a lighter sentence because of it, things of that nature, she sentenced people at the lowest level in the cases which child pornography. we had good reasons for not wanting her on the supreme court. and we need to be proud of her accomplishments, there is no doubt about her ...

Commissions votes were either unanimous -- for example, they reduced the 100-1 disparity and you joined every one of your colleagues to make that change retroactive. the vote in favor of retro activity is unanimous. and youve got to great lengths to explain how the law affects people. we can be confident that the court, its role and its decisions will be more understandable to the american public. in your time on the bench you take the time to explain your decisions and the consequences. when yo...

Congressional attempts to inact criminal justice reform and at times advocated for strict er mandatory minimum sentences. doj published a report, the case for more incarceration and declared the problem with our criminal justice system was that we were incarcerated too few criminals. more recently, in 2015, you signed a letter opposing the accept tensing reform and corrections act of 2015. this letter states quite clearly your opposition to sentencing reform, particularly the lessening of mandat...

Roll back taxes once they exist. so is this a strategy do you believe? >> absolutely. i think the president believes he has much better leverage in january by us going over the cliff as you say correctly, there is nothing the president needs to do. there is nothing he has to sign. as a matter of law the law changes in january and taxes go up. president doesnt have to do anything. he can sit back and as taxes go up on everybody including that 1% that he has been after, nothing has been done on sp...

Washington if you leak information about the the court as a law clerk, youre going to suffer some serious being ostracized in the the legal community. as far as the other personnel on the court, thats hard to say, but good for them. >> harris: but its happened before. >> well, thats true. there was a situation, 30 years ago, when a top anchor on the news went on the air, i think dan obrien and announce add decision before the court, and thats amazing that was 30 years ago. thats the last time. >...