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Another big donald trump nomination is edward welland, president of the ethics and policy center. he is former clerk to justice scalia and contributor to bench memos blog where he has been writing extensively about the nominees and to the records. let's discuss. you worked with judge scalia very closely, is neil gorsuch another scalia? >> no one can be a full replacement for justice scalia, but neil gorsuch is an outstanding judge, like justice scalia, he's it dedicated ritualist and textual list credit like scalia, he has a brilliant legal mind. it like justice scalia come he writes forcefull...

Us today is, in fact, a view that you have expressed about judging? >> well, i don't think i've written anything about judging in that way. but i think that you can look to my life, that you can look to the way i interact with people. i mean, my deanship was a good example. but the way i have acted as solicitor general, as well. the kind of consideration that i've given to different arguments. the kind of fairness that i've shown in making decisions. i think that those would all be, you know, appropriate things to look to, to try to get some understanding of this aspect of me. >> okay. let me ...

Gave. first, most importantly, are the question of circuit conflicts that the court -- he is a very important responsibility of the court's to make sure that our law is uniform, and to resolve any conflicts that appear among the circuit courts. second, is the court should be available almost all the time, where a judicial decision invalidates a congressional statute that congress is entitled to that kind of respect to have the supreme court hear the case before a congressional statute is invalidated. third, you know, for some set of extremely important national interests. extremely important f...