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Violated the law by seizing steel mills. this is a time of war where lots of americans were killed. and the supreme court is under pressure to defer to the president's war effort. and in a 6-3, but what is interesting to me justice clark, we don't usually talk about justice clark in that decision. why is he important? he was appointed by president truman to the supreme court. what a moment of judicial independence there to rule in that case. you think about justice jackson who had been working for president roosevelt and he dissents and says letting racism like this is like letting a loaded we...

Who is homdon -- [ yelling ]. [ yelling ] [ yelling ]. >> so in the homdon case, it is one ever bof bin laden's associ. you will never have a nominee -- 34r cha mr. chairman, should i proceed? >> this is coming out of my time, but that is okay. let these people have free

Ruling against a president who appointed you and against the executive branch in any case before you. you partly talked about independence, but apply it specifically to ruling against a president or executive branch generally. >> thank you. you're correct, no one is above on the law in our constitutional system. federalist 69 hamilton makes clear all the ways that the executive branch is designed by the framers of the constitution was different from the monarchy. under our system of government, the executive branch is subject to the law, subject to the court system, and that is an important pa...

Matters and that they should vote on it, that they should focus singularly on that issue and for democrats it just hasn't been the case. with this nomination, because it's so pivotal, the democratic groups, the sort of liberals, have been pushing their democratic-elected officials on this committee and then more broadly to be tougher, to do things that republicans have done before and we're going see that play out in the questioning of all democrats, particularly those who are thinking about 2020. >> judge kavanaugh now walking in. they're getting ready to sit down and chairman chuck grassley ...

Probably other examples, you don't need to go into detail, but you have -- >> [ yelling ]. >> -- president bush a pointed you. are there other cases that -- there has been other cases presumably that you've ruled against the administration of the person that appointed you. >> absolutely, mr. chairman. there were a slew of cases on everything from freedom of information act to some of the administrative law cases. the homdon is the one that comes to mind most because of the importance of that case yet i ruled that it was unlawful. >> now, did anyone ask you to make any promises or assurances ab...