To the stories that you have told, including the story of veronicas family. Very moving. If i were a justice, the commitment i would make to you and to all people affected by follows is that i would the law as you enacted it, and i have no agenda. I would not be coming in with any agenda. I would do equal justice under the law for all, and not try to force or disrupt in any way the quality choices that you and your colleagues have adopted. Sen. Hirono so are you saying that the impact of the Affordable Care act on the millions of people who rely upon it, that you would deem to be policy considerations that we should address . Sen. Hirono senator, i think that you choose the law and you have structured the Affordable Care act. You set the policies. And i think when a court has to interpret those statutes or decide how it applies in a Certain Circumstance, the court looks to traditional legal materials, looks to the briefs, listens to the real world impacts on the litigants before the co
Confirmation hearings. This portion included hearings from senators kamala harris, john kennedy and marsha blackburn. I apologize. Senator harris, is she available . Harris. There you are. We see you. Can you Say Something . Can you hear me, senator . Sen harris yes i can. Great. The floor is yours. Sen harris thank you. I want to extend greetings to judge barrett. I look forward to our conversation this evening. Judge barrett thank you, senator. Sen harris before i begin, i want to take a moment to talk directly to the American People. About where we are and how we got here. We are in the middle of a deadly pandemic that has hit our country harder than any other country in the world. More than 215,000 of our fellow americans have died. Millions more, including the president , republican members of this committee, and more than 100 frontline workers here at the capitol complex have been infected. This pandemic has led to a crash, causingic millions of workers to lose their jobs without
The committee will now resume. And well now proceed under the fiveminute rule with questions and ill begin by recognize mr. Collins. I thank the chair. Weve got to go to the floor and take up the 9 11 bill. I appreciate that. Mr. East olympian, do you think theres any possibility that this group of attorneys and nonattorneys on this Judiciary Committee have any or their staffs have any problem understanding the constitutional role of congress in oversight of the administration on any administration . I dont know the background of every member but i think the usual member ought to know the answer to that. And that would come from just if nothing else, life growing up and taking government classes growing up, correct . One of the things i want to be interested in and theres a lot of things that people will talk about today and well get into a lot of Different Things. One of the problems ive had here, we talk about constitutional process and our internal processes and going on. One of the
Time. We welcome everybody to todays hearing and lessons from the Mueller Report 3. I will now recognize myself for an Opening Statement. The title of todays hearing is lessons from the Mueller Report part 3, constitutional processes for addressing president ial misconduct. As many of you may already know, the subtitle is taken directly from volume 2 of the Mueller Report where he describes why he did not reach a prosecutorial judgment regarding trumps conduct. There the special counsel explained as an attorney operating within the department of justice, is he bound by Department Policy including an office of Legal Counsel opinion that asserts that a president is immune from prosecution while in office. The special council recognized that a federal criminal accusation against a sitting president would place burdens undue burden or burdens on president s capacity to governor. The report acknowledged such an accusation cog spgs disrupt constitutional processes for addressing president ia
You can also post your thoughts on facebook and twitter. We are cspanwj. We look forward to your postings and tweets. You are not, if registered as a democrat but vote regularly as a democrat, that is the line to use or you. Same for republicans. We will get to your comments in a moment. Part of our conversation reflected in a poll in sundays Washington Post. Just messed up. We told you about the lead on that. Conductedthis poll, nine months into trumps tumultuous presidency reveals a starkly pessimistic view of u. S. Politics, widespread distrust of political leaders, and their ability to compromise and an erosion of pride in the way democracy works. We will focus on your thoughts on your Political Party and whether that represents your views. Wall street journal had an article about the democratic side of things to their headline democrats struggle with their own tea party moment. Janet hope writing that six democrats are challenging an incumbent publican in next years midterm electi