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Congress has decided what it is that a judge has to do in this and any other case when they sentence. and that statute, that statute doesn't say look only at the guidelines and stop, the statute doesn't say impose the highest possible penalty for this sickening and egregious crime. the statute says calculate the guidelines, but also look at various aspects of this offense and impose a sentence that is, quote, sufficient but not greater than necessary to promote the purposes of punishment. and in every case, when i am dealing with something like this, it is important to me to make sure that the...

Bush were war criminals and that is how it is actually filed. a name of defendant, bush and why did you call them war criminals? you should know first of all how those petitions were used as a formula. it seems like they were trying to land on a lot of big booms or whatever you want to say. >> jesse: big booms. >> jessica: and it wasn't working. she has been very steady and i understand electrifying answering everybody's questions. >> dana: child pornography, she had several days to prepare an answer and she had one at the beginning. this is her answering a question from senator durbin. >> the...

Doesn't say look only at the guidelines and stop. here the statute doesn't say impose the highest possible penalty for this sickening and egregious crime. the statute says, "calculate the guidelines but also look at various aspects of this defense and impose a sentence that is sufficient but not greater than necessary." >> judge jeanine: that is exactly the point. she is looking at these cases has not meeting even the minimum sentencing. she is indicating that congress didn't tell me that i couldn't go below it so i will go below it. that is not recognizing the danger, the harm, the sickening ...

Here it is. in the united states versus clyde, trump appointed judge sara pitly, the senator's choice for the eastern district of missouri, sentenced an individual to 60 months, well below the 135 to 168-month sentence recommended by the guidelines. she appears to have run into the same issue or same challenge that you have described here. so, going forward, in terms of this issue, it seems that we, at least, share the burden, by your interpretation, as to define this statute in modern terms and in terms of technology as it exists today. is that the way you see it? >> senator, congress is task...

And then the third step is the interpretation and application of the law to the facts in the case. and this is where i'm really observing the constraints on my judicial authority. there are many constraints in our system, importantly, because judges have limited authority, and so i am, first of all, looking at my jurisdiction, threshold matter in every federal case is to make sure that you even have the power to hear the case. in evaluating jurisdiction, you're looking at all sorts of things, the text of a jurisdictional provision, for example, precedent related to it. if i can get to the meri...