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Change the ukrainian constitution. that's not a very good preced t precedent. but compared to all the alternative, which i think would have been, and we saw bits after pieces of what might have been just a couple of days ago, a real civil war, it's the best we have to work with. and of course, not surprisingly to me, having worked with russia for the last several years, the day after, there's ambiguity about how the russians interpret it and how the forces on the ground interpret it. it won't happen quickly if it happens at all. the test now is really vladimir putin is sincere about making thi...

Wrongly decided? >> i absolutely said, when i stepped up to the podium as an advocate, i thought that the u.s. government should prevail in that case and the statute should be upheld. i wanted to make a clear distinction between my views as an advocate and any i might have as a judge. i do think citizens united is settled law going forward. no question it's precedent and entitled to all of the weight that the precedent usually gets and i want to make clear as with any of my cases as an advocate, citizens united or any other case i argued, i'm approaching the cases as an advocate from a perspec...

Precedent are eroded or if the factual circumstances that were critical to why the precedent -- to the original decision, if those change. but unless one can sort of point to one of those reasons for reversing a precedent, the operating presumption of our legal system is that a judge respects precedent, and i think that's an enormously important principle of the legal system, that one defers to prior justices or prior judges who have decided something and that it's not enough, even if you think something is wrong to say, oh, well that decision was wrong, they got it wrong. the whole idea of pr...

Arguments right here in this committee that this is it a terrible case that upset 70 years of precedent, and i've heard all of these arguments and they're just inaccurate and that's what we're establishing here. when president obama criticized the citizens united decision in the state of the union address with the supreme court justices sitting there, he said it would allow foreign corporations to fund american elections. others have said the same thing. do you agree that this case involved an american nonprofit organization, not a foreign corporation, that this case involved independent polit...

As the court said in citizens united, no other case held that congress prohibited independent contributions based on the identity of the speaker. austin was the aberration, the exception, the break in the court's consistent pattern of precedence. and mr. chairman, i'm going to need about 30 seconds more to finish. >> 30 seconds more. >> many folks have attacked the decision saying it is a prime example of quote conservative judicial activism unquote because it ignored precedent by overruling austin. by overruling that one preced t precedent, wasn't the court reaffirming a larger group of proef...