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Substantive legal issues, really, right on the line of how you would decide a case. but if we are precluded from asking how decisions would be -- what decision would be made on grounds of judicial independence and the precedent on that, i do think it is fair for us to ask whether the supreme court would take the case. congress has the authority to direct the supreme court on cases which must be heard black burning case, feingold, many, many others, so that the courts discretion is limited there,...

Republicans laying out how theyre going to go forward with this questioning on a number of different fronts. >> i think theyre likely to try to take that basic fact, take the fact of her resume and make the argument that shes an elitist, out of touch, that she doesnt know sort of how the common man might feel, being on the receiving end of this thing. in effect the opposite effect the obama made with soto myior, that she was deeply in touch with the average voter, the average american. i dont ex...

Supreme court than any others. his most famous case, brown versus the board of evidence case. if that is an activist mind at work we should be grateful as a nation. he argued based on the discrimination in this society and changed america for the better. i know my good friend judge abner mick. his political views are well known. but my colleagues will finds universal aclaim for his record as a thoughtful fair jufnlgt thr judge. there will be questions raised as well about modesty and humility in...

Do that, i said she has the burden of proving that through some other means. bret: what is your biggest concern? >> that she wouldnt be able to set aside those political views. this is a hard thing to do. we have been involved in politics for a long time as has she, asking to us judge a hot-button case with political ramifications totally absent any conversation our political ideology, it would be impossible for to us do that. i think it will be hard for her to do that. i think its an honest que...

When senator biden was considering the nomination of chief justice roberts, he said that he was qualified but would vote against him because as then senator obama said, quote, overarching political philosophy, close quote. well, the presidents make their selections based on ideology. i think thats a blunt fact of life. and the difference that i had considered in earlier -- by earlier days in the senate, i thought id come to the conclusion that senators have the same standing to make a determinat...

Its also has to do and here we just heard this a moment ago from lindsey graham who is a judge in terms of the military himself and has that military background, about how she feels on other issues dealing with the military in american life. at harvard when she said after the courts said harvard was no longer subject to a ban because of military taking money from the military, she said, you know what? she didnt want recruiters on campus but she would allow them as a backup position to come throu...

Interesting spend unlimited amounts of money in elections. justice paul stevens wrote in the dissent. essentially five justices were unhappy with the limited nature of the case before us so they changed the case to give themselves the opportunity to change the law. if that isnt judicious activism, what is? it was espoused and sponsored by men who stood before us under oath and swore they would never engage in judicious activism. that is the reality. there is something that occurred today that ha...

Activism. if the left is uncomfortable with elena kagan they wont be comfortable with anyone who could be confirmed in this political environment. diane wood had a lot in her background and writings that would have caused problem not only among republicans but among moderate democrats. they avoided that by picking elena kagan. bret: lets listen to the democrat from illinois, senator dick durbin. >> their opposition some judicious activism. i have two words for them. citizens united. earlier this...

Philosophy is, and sort of setting the foundation for perhaps greater probing on that subject than weve seen in the past. youve got the nominee herself saying she thinks thats appropriate, that the supreme court nominees need to be more forthcoming during the process essentially and now youre hearing the senators say in essence they agree, in particular in her case because she has said so little and written so little and she has zero judicial opinions for anyone to glean her judicial philosophy ...

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