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Constitution including the right to privacy, rights to contraception, intimacy, abortion, marriage, the freedom to worship as we choose, the ability to participate in our democracy as full citizens and the promise of equal protection. thats because the cases that come before the court arent just academic or he is tear rick or theoretical, they involve real people and have real and lasting consequences. with the stakes that high i deeply regret the process thats gotten us to this point, the exces...

Dad was doing? >> wisdom in minnesota. congratulations, judge, on your nomination. actually, congratulations and condo condolences. this process has to stink. im glad your daughters could get out of the room. im glad they still get the free day from school. good news, bad news. the bad news first. judge, since your nomination in july, youve been accused of hating women, hating children, hating clean air, wanting dirty water. youve been declared a quote/unquote existential threat to our nation. a...

We are better than proceeding with a nominee without engaging in a full and a transparent process. this committee is failing the american people by proceeding in this way and i fully support the motions made by my colleagues earlier in this hearing and regret that we proceeded without observing the rules of this committee. that said, judge kavanaugh, i have reviewed the parts of your record that ive been able to access and what ive been able to see from available speeches, writings and decisions...

Point. the supreme court becomes our substitute political battleground. its only nine people. you can know them. you can demonize them. you can try to make them messiahs. ultimately, because people cant navigate their way through the bureaucracy, they turn to the supreme court looking for politics. knowing that our elected officials no longer care enough to do the hard work of reasoning through the places where we differ and deciding to shroud our power at times, it means that we look for nine j...

Thats been rendered impossible. the majority has blocked access to millions of pages of documents from your service in a critical role in the white house. for the first time since watergate the nonpartisan national archives has been cut out of the process for reviewing and producing your records. senate republicans have worked to keep committee confidential nearly 200,000 pages of documents so that the public cant view them and we cant question based on them. and your former deputies in charge o...

Means the people are cut out of the process. theres nobody in nebraska, theres nobody in minnesota or delaware who elected the deputy assistant administrator of plant quarantine at the usda. and yet, if the deputy assistant administrator of plant quarantine does something to make nebraskans lives really difficult, which happens to farmers and ranchers in nebraska, who do they protest to? where do they go? how do they navigate the complexity and the thicket of all the lobbyists in this town? they...

Of wac. us this a fourth and final point. the solution is not to try to find judges who will be policymakers. the solution is not to try to turn the supreme court into proper constitutional order with a balance of powers. we need schoolhouse rock back, we need a congress that writes laws and then stands before the people and suffers the consequences and getting to back to our own mt. vernon, if thats what the electors decide. we need an executive branch that has a humble view of its job as enfor...

1990s assumed, as did the justice department, that they have substantive due process rights to a certain level of humane attention here. and then they basically say you guys work it out. and the problem is back in 1997 when this decree was entered which now has the force of law, the problem was one level. now its like, its geometrically a bigger issue than it was before, and we dont have the infrastructure we need to address it. >> laura: its absurd. andy, im going to ask judge mckay z also but ...

Have substantive due process rights to a certain level of humane attention here. and then they basically say you guys work it out. and the problem is, back in 1997 when this decree was entered, which now has the force of law, the problem was one level. now its like, its geometrically a bigger issue than it was before, and we dont have the infrastructure we need to address it. >> laura: its absurd. andy, im going to ask judge mukasey also but i want your take on it. its very important. what is ha...

Track misdemeanor immigration court rules out with confusion, tension." the court has been designed to streamline cases but it appears to be creating logjams instead. is this what we have to resort to? congress flails at solving the border crisis. joining us now, immigration attorney saman nasseri. good to have you on. here is the problem i think most people see that are outside the political world. they are watching this unfold. when we had thousands of people which we do every month crossing o...