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We all do. all of his law clerks are loyal to him. not because he gave us a job once but we know him to be a really, really good and decent man. harris: matt, before i let you go, i want to ask you this, why is it important this particular person get this job? you knew justice scalia, and you knew and know judge gorsuch. why is it important for judge gorsuch? justice scalia was a real lion of the law. after his death, justice kagan said he taught us how to do the law and changed way people feel about the law. judge gorsuch is a trustworthy inheritor of his legacy. he approaches the law with the same kind of dispassion, the same attention to the legislature and making sure that a judge doesn t make law but interpret it, and that is a really important contribution that justice scalia had to the ....
Working with him closely how he would approach it, which is to first look to the law that is the immigration laws, find out what authority those laws say the president has and look to the constitution, what authority the constitution gives the president, and he will consider the arguments of the government and the people challenging the executive order, and come to a decision without consulting his personal views, which is really the hallmark of his jurisprudence. harris: all right, i want to get to the man himself, because you know, it s been talked about we could see in the next 30 so days or more, senate tackle the issue of his confirmation. talk to me a little bit about who he is professionally because you worked so closely with him. sure, judge gorsuch is a really, really careful and fair minded judge, i was his law clerk for a year, seems like a long time ago now. you would spend a year working with him to help him decide cases and write opinions, and i ....
They are showing up and confronting lawmakers across the nation. they have repeatedly said the law is a costly disaster with rising healthcare costs. democrats say the effort will threaten healthcare availability brian joins us now with more. is this the case of people fighting before they know what s in it? what we are seeing from the reports is people are saying what are you going to replace it with. they want more details about what that replacement will be. if you look at this, this is congressman tom who is a republican. he is being escorted out of his own townhall meeting saturday in roseville. this is his own district of protesters who shout at him and follow them out out of the event. they were voicing their disapproval. the some 200 people were allowed inside the town hall pressing ....
Know he was a sort of judge who cared a lot about being fair to the parties in the case. he would want to make sure the opinion dealt very clearly with the arguments they had made to make sure they felt like they had a fair hearing. but he s never going to tell you whether he thinks this party or the other side is a better or worse or whether the law, he s being asked to interpret is a good idea or bad idea. he is a judge who wants to read the law and get it right. harris: how concerned are you that this could get well, some of the confirmation hearings have gone the nasty at times and chippy. how concerned are but that? have you called him, matt, mainstream. talk to me? sure. the confirmation fights i think we all know have gone the nasty over the years, it s been that way for a long time now. i hope it doesn t go that way for judge gorsuch. he s a really, when i say he s a mainstream judge, it s important for everyone to remember. ....
Democrats do you think they have changed their opinion on the president? i think they are beginning to change. i think there is something even more fundamental than that we are talking about the economy here. the vote for obama was not a vote for obama. it was a vote against bush. that s what elected obama. the president doesn t make law. that s done by the congress. the president doesn t set a budget, that s supposedly done by the congress, although we have been operating for almost three years without a budget because the senate can t pass one as a cons sequence, it s not whether the president has it, it s what we do in congress that s going to make a difference. leadership factor here as ronald reagan demonstrated. the stronger you are as a leader, the more you can can a july congress con joel congress to do the right thing. the word pojule that mist ....