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Candidates, nominees from president republican president s have learned a lot about how to deal with the hearings. When you heard kavanaugh say as he did, talking about the parties to the case that theyre Flesh And Blood Human Beings and we need to have empathy for them and real world consequences of the court are very important. As a political matter, great stuff. A legal matter, its nonsense. Were youre an Appellate Judge and an issue comes before you, the issue is not the parties. Youre to re...

You cited the scalia dissent in the case of the consumer financial protection bureau where you gutted that agency. and in the 2011-7 sky case you dissented from a decision of the affordable care act and 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 statute constitutional. your words. of course, the ...

Involving the financial protection bureau where you gutted that agency. in the 2011 sky case you dissented from a decision upholding the affordable care act. you said, under the constitution, the president may decline to enforce a statute that regulated private individuals when the president deems the statute unconstitutional. even if a court has held or would hold the statute constitutional. your words. of course, the unitary executive theory was the basis for president bushs december 30th, 200...

In terms of an exercise of prosecutorial discretion. >> if a court has held a statute constitutional, do you believe that a president should have to enforce it? >> so for example, lets talk about the marijuana laws. those are constitutional, but a u.s. attorney, or the attorney general, could say, were not going to devote our resources to low-level marijuana offenses. those are perfectly constitutional. >> let me try one other example. the texas case on pre-existing conditions. the administratio...

That really is a question for the house and the senate. >> let me move on. this is about actual opinions and really along the same lines that i know senator coons will talk to you about. but in the seven sky v. holder case, i quote, this is you, "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 statute constitutional. so you told me when we had...

In terms of an exercise -- >> so you -- if a court has held a statute constitutional, do you believe a president should have to enforce it? >> so for example, lets talk about for example the marijuana laws. those are constitutional. but a u.s. attorney or the attorney general could say were not going to devote our resources to low-level marijuana offenses. those are constitutional -- >> let me try one other example with you. the texas case on pre-existing conditions. the administration has taken...

Low-level marijuana offenses go in terms of an exercise of prosecutorial discretion. >> but if a court has held a statute constitutional, do you believe that a president should have to enforce it? >> so, for example, lets talk about, for example, the marijuana laws. those are constitutional, but a u.s. attorney or the attorney general could say were not going to devote our resources to low-level marijuana offenses. those are perfectly constitutional. >> let me try another example for you, the te...

Impeachable offense and that really is a question for the house and the senate. >> let me move on. this is about actual opinions and really along the same lines that i know senator coons is going to talk to you about the special counsel statute and were very concerned about that. but in the 7 sky v. holder case, i quote, this is you, under the constitution the president may decline to enforce a statute that regulates private individuals when the president deems a statute unconstitutional, even i...

Statute constitutional. this statement by you flies in the face. it gives license to this president, donald john trump, or any president who chooses to ignore the constitution, to assert authority far beyond that envisioned by our founding fathers. there are many people who are watching carefully. im going to make a suggestion to you today, and it wont be popular on either side of the aisle. if you believe that your public record is one that you can stand behind and defend, i hope that at the en...

Thats never happened in america, the supreme court has prevented that from happening. the court also found it no evidence of terror emanating from those in seven countries and thats a problem on a couple of levels. this is the most defensive part of their decision and their reasoning. they say theres no evidence of any terrorism from these seven nations, they are wrong completely. all they had to do was spend 5 minutes googling it. at some time ago, the judiciary committee issued a list of 60 in...