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Anderson Cooper 360

binding on the states. but, as joan noted, it's not clear exactly which issues they're going to weigh in on. the other big question is, what role does the state have to enforce that section? there are some other cases, other questions they could potentially weigh in on, like did he engage in an insurrection. i expect they might try to stay away from that, try to be narrow, focus on the constitutional issues. whatever they say, they're the final word on interpreting the constitution. >> joan, you've been covering the supreme court for years. given the personalities, the politics involved, do you have a sense of what's going on behind the scenes of this decision? >> they came to the bench today for the first time in the new year and the first time since these cases had arrived. i was there in the courtroom. they handled, for some early minutes, a lot of routine visits, admissions to the bar at the supreme court. that's when they left the bench, took off those black robes and all sat around a conference table in a small room off the chambers of chief justice john

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Anderson Cooper 360

away from that and try to be narrow. focus on the constitutional issues. whatever they say, they are the final word on interpreting the constitution. >> joan, you have been covering the supreme court for years. do you have a sense of what is going on behind the scenes of this decision? >> well you know, they came to the bench today for the first time in the new year and the first time since these cases had arrived and i was there in the courtroom. they handled for some early minutes. a lot of routine business. that is when they left the bench. took off the black robes and all sat around a conference table in a small room off the chambers of chief justice john roberts. and that is where they had to decide what were they going to do there. this is the first time they were meeting in person as all these filings had come in this week. and then, anderson, i have to say, it took several hours for them to announce what they were doing and i just wonder how much they struggled with whether they were going to already kind of narrow some of the issues or if they just

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Americas Newsroom

in my world that's fair and balanced, andy. >> yeah. i think that's exactly right, bill. you know, if you look at the reasons why a lot of these cases get turned away, they are not political. for example, we had a case involving one of the challenges to a biden policy, the immigration policy, where the court decided not to interrupt or not to interrupt a stay that had been put on it but it will hear the case this year. the more important point i want to make is that it was a 5-4 decision and the four were the four female justices on the court who as we know have very different philosophical ways of interpreting the constitution and come at things from different political perspectives but they had procedural reasons and other objections and that made the four of them vote together.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20181121:22:13:00

judge. but as i said, he seems to think he's the imperial one and can do whatever he wants to do. i think he's going to find out something quite different as the days go by. >> and how important is that? how rare is it to have the chief justice of the supreme court speak out in this direct rebuke of the president? typically, you know, the court system will weigh in on a president's actions in a court decision. and you'll read about it in a court decision. this was a statement issued by the chief justice outside of any kind of court decision. >> well, that's certainly true. but also you gave a brief clip of an earlier speech that the chief justice said. and he's been quite clear over the last year, two years, maybe even before that, that the judge -- the judges and the courts are independent. they have a task under the constitution, and that at least he, as the chief judge in the united states intends that that task of interpreting the constitution and the laws

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20170321:19:43:00

humility. let's shift to another topic. a topic that has been raised some in this hearing, which is there are some democrats senators on this committee who have raised a challenge to the notion of originalism and indeed have painted originalism as some quaint and outdated mode of interpreting the constitution, have suggested that their view ofhe constitution is it is a living breathing changing document flexible enough to become -- to ok date whatever policy outcome the particular judge might desire. the alternative is that a judge is obliged to follow the constitution, the text of the constitution, as informed by the

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