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have interpreted this, how the laws are written, and the past. and they have to they take an oath to follow the existing law and to honor what s gone on in the past. and to honor the statutes. while they have a particular philosophy, a particular value system, they still have to act within the bounds of the law. it is a check and balance syste system. ebony: speaking of history, not the most desirable history between the president and a chief justice roberts. we all remember president trump, then citizen trumpet being very critical of justice roberts and his support of the obamacare mandate. at the same time, to your point of the statutes really being the guiding forces here, it was roberts who did support president trump s travel ban just at the end of last term. can you speak a little bit about how justice is, though they may be appointed by democrats or republicans, they can still look to the statutes, can look to the
ideological and partisan things but it s weighed against the conflict with justice roberts, to keep the court s rather pure around this issue and the fact that our courts are supposed to be looking at the constitution and keeping their personal beliefs and ideologies out of it. what to make of this type of conflict, ladies? you want to look at a conflict, i think chief justice roberts has created a conflict within his own self, i would argue that because he s waited into this fight and gauged politically with president trump, he may have to recuse himself in the future if the russian collision investigation were to go all the way to the supreme court, if there is an obstruction of justice case. ebony: why would he need to recuse himself? justice roberts cited in favor of president trump s travel ban at the end of last turn. if you look at the democrats main critique, that he was too
way we only ever stop these people. i want to play a little bit, then you can react here. these are two current justices that were speaking on friday, justices that some on our panel know quite well. let s play sotomayor and kagan. this is a divine team, people thinking of the court as not politically divided, as not an extension of politic. we have to rise above partisanship in our personal relationships. we were talking about justice stevens on the lead up to the vote yesterday when we were covering that news story. your thought here, karen? they re saying that partisanship is there. they are missing now the theoretical independent vote is what they re alluding to since we do have a retired justice at the moment. the issues that we have discussed at stake, pregnancy, senators in abortion, rights and religion, trump s travel ban,
president trump s travel ban, floating the idea that they should actively manipulate search results that include the words mexico, hispanic, latino, islam, and muslim. quote, i know this would require a full-on sprint to make this happen, but i think this is the kind of imperative information we need. now google product manager chimeded in in response saying, we are absolutely in, mackenzie. anything we need. excellent initiative. google says this type of brainstorming at the company is encouraged. but even though the ceo is now taking a tough stance on the issue, just this evening google telling me they aren t taking action against any of the employees exposed because they say no changes were actually made on the platform. mike. now, to be clear, this is not