Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20180906:21:24:00
Or a supreme court justice. what would be your line? >> look, i don't know. we have, in the past, had people who have been appointed by the sitting incumbent president, who have then heard cases involving an action taken by that president. not necessarily a criminal action, but -- >> justice kagan, right? justice kagan recuses herself quite a bit on cases that she worked on as solicitor general. >> right. and did not recuse herself from nfib versus sivilius, regarding obamacare. recusal is a case-specific, fact-specific determination and it has to be made by the jurist at the moment the decisi...