issue as the 2000 with the hanging chads. it s all about, chris, they can say something through the ballot and the machine didn t read it. that s where it become critical. we are in a democratic strong hold in broward county. people who follow politics know that. the thing is if you get real close and you get to the hand recount, you might find a bunch more democratic votes. the democrats i spoke to and lawyers working on this, they re not super bullish. they think they re getting closer. they don t think necessarily they re about to turn this around this week. is there pending there s been a lot of litigation back and forth. my understand sergio garcia when you sort of put all that aside, there is nothing it is essentially proceeding right now as the law mandates it proceed. i mean, that s such a great point because there is so much noise and drama, not just from people agitating the way it was in 2000 when roger stone was organizing grassroots protests. now we have a presiden
said about your dissnent, would abandon the context of the controlling statute and would lead to an absurd result. the majority included one republican and one democratic appointed judge. judge kavanaugh, you claim over and over again to be a contextualist. to be care fli weighing every word of a statute. so why did you go out of your way to interpret the word employee in a way that benefited this horrible business and disadvantaged these exploited workers. why didn t you stick to the plain language of the controlling statute and the binding supreme court precedent? because the supreme court precedent compelled me to reach the result that i reached. and here s why, senator. let me explain. the supreme court had a case in 1985 called the shirtan decision. and the shirtan decision considered the interaction of the national labor relations law act and the immigration laws. and what the supreme court did
would abandon the text of the controlling statute and lead to an absurd result. the majority included one republican and one democratic appointed judge. judge kavanaugh, you claim over and over again to be a textualist, to be carefully weighing every word of the statute. why did you go out of your way to redefine employee and disadvantaged these exploited workers? why didn t you stick to the plain language of the controlling statute and the binding supreme court precedent? because the supreme court precedent compelled me to reach the result that i reached. here s why, senator. let me explain. the supreme court had a case in 1984 called the sheratan decision. and the sheratan decision considered the interaction of the national labor relations law act and the immigration laws. and what the supreme court did
that they ve done well in, remaking the courts, no question about it. and on the agency side, rule making. if you want a conservative imprint to last for years, not decades, they failed on the legislative side. on the side of personnel, doing pretty well. ten years from now, 15, 20, a lot of stories. we ll say trump appointed judge. this is a legacy that matters. mary? news broke last night that senator rand paul was assaulted in his yard in kentucky. the alleged assailant is a neighbor. motivation unclear. but worth pointing out this is the second violent attack on paul himself this year. the earlier one, the congressional baseball shooting assassination that left steve scalise injured. so a quick shoutout to those who keep the democratic process safe. as we have a big election day on tuesday, everybody stay safe out there. mary kathryn, thanks. more on the raw anger being directed at donna brazile, much of it from people who called her a friend for years. she is a one time je
this is my i ve been through six hearings. i listened to senator specter when he was chairman of this committee tell the chief justice, well, you have described super precedent. we talked about precedent. and what s happened is, every republican appointed judge has gone back and is a no vote. so how does one look at you and we ve talked about precedent, for the life of me, i really don t know when you re there, what you re going to do with it. and as you say, this isn t text. this is real life. and young women take everything for granted today. and all of that could be struck out with one decision. senator, all i can do is i