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Candidates, nominees from president republican president s have learned a lot about how to deal with the hearings. When you heard kavanaugh say as he did, talking about the parties to the case that theyre Flesh And Blood Human Beings and we need to have empathy for them and real world consequences of the court are very important. As a political matter, great stuff. A legal matter, its nonsense. Were youre an Appellate Judge and an issue comes before you, the issue is not the parties. Youre to resolve the legal issues. Its a purely legal matter. The parties may happen to be the case that they p...

You cited the scalia dissent in the case of the consumer financial protection bureau where you gutted that agency. and in the 2011-7 sky case you dissented from a decision of the affordable care act and repeated over and over again and you said, under the constitution the president may decline to enforce a statute that regulates private individuals when the president deems the statute unconstitutional. even if a court has held or would hold the statute constitutional. your words. of course, the unitary executive theory was the basis of president bush's december 30th, 2005, signing statement cl...

Involving the financial protection bureau where you gutted that agency. in the 2011 sky case you dissented from a decision upholding the affordable care act. you said, under the constitution, the president may decline to enforce a statute that regulated private individuals when the president deems the statute unconstitutional. even if a court has held or would hold the statute constitutional. your words. of course, the unitary executive theory was the basis for president bush's december 30th, 2005 signing statement claiming the authority to override the mccain torture amendment. yesterday i as...

In terms of an exercise of prosecutorial discretion. >> if a court has held a statute constitutional, do you believe that a president should have to enforce it? >> so for example, let's talk about the marijuana laws. those are constitutional, but a u.s. attorney, or the attorney general, could say, we're not going to devote our resources to low-level marijuana offenses. those are perfectly constitutional. >> let me try one other example. the texas case on pre-existing conditions. the administration has taken the position that is unconstitutional, that part of the affordable care act down in th...

That really is a question for the house and the senate. >> let me move on. this is about actual opinions and really along the same lines that i know senator coons will talk to you about. but in the seven sky v. holder case, i quote, this is you, "under the constitution, the president may decline to enforce a statute that regulates private individuals when the president deems the statute unconstitutional even if a court has held or would hold the statute constitutional. so you told me when we had the comment in my office that you attempted to clarify your views two years later in the aiken coun...