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Involves that kind of interpretation to assess what it is that the parties -- the parties that wrote the text intended. as a result, because my methodology involves these various pieces because of the way i do things, i'm reluctant to establish or to adopt a particular label because the idea of how you interpret is just one part of the entirety of a judge's responsibility. as i mentioned, i'm looking at the facts in a case. my experience as a trial judge helps me to assess the facts from all of the different perspectives of the parties because i'm able to do that, i think, having heard from pa...

>> i believe that was described in the case you are talking about. >> i think that is right too. yeah. so when the affordable care act mandated that every health insurance policy contain coverage for contraception or chemically induced abortions, they objected and said this violated their conscious and free expression of religious rights under the constitution, correct? >> i believe so, yes. >> after the obama administration, during the trump administration, the trump administration expanded the regulations do not allow not only churches, but also religious organizations like little sisters of...

Do this sort of thing again. that is what congress has required of judges and that's what i did in every case. >> how you always under the recommendation of a prosecutor -- to be honest with you, judge, 32-year-old man sending an image of his own 10-year-old daughter, you substantially reduced below not only the guidelines but the recommendation. all i can say is that your view of how to deter child pornography is not my view. i think you're doing it wrong and every judge that does what you are doing is making it easy for these people to be exploited. right now looking at a kid in the compromi...

Ininterpreter frame for interpreting the constitution is now clearly looking back through history. so we see that even in the heller case where the justices, even the justices in dissent, were all analyzing the issues in the second amendment through a historical lens. what was meant at the time of the founding. so that is now the way in which constitutional interpretation is done. >> do you identify with that position? >> i identify with the position in so far as that's how the text is interpreted of the constitution. that i am a strong believer, as i said, in precedent, starre decisis and the...

I know from personal experience the importance of having a good representative, an advocate, a counsel because in that case, he had been denied it when he originally wendt to trial. only after years in state and federal court was the truth vindicated. so i want you to talk a little bit about why it is important for defendants represented by zealots, those that tell the truth to the court, put on the evidence -- a defendant accused of a crime. >> thank you, senator. the idea is one that is rooted in our constitution. the framers were concerned about