people that have sat on the supreme court. justice breyer said that a structural alteration of the supreme court motivated by perception of political influence can only feed the perception of political influence that s my parenthetical further eroding that trust. justice ginsburg also cited court packing as being quote, unquote, a bad idea. court packing is creating new seats for political purposes for a president to appoint more judges. do you agree with justice breyer and justice ginsburg that court packing is a bad idea? before you respond i would like to say that you say this should be left to congress as a policy issue. i reiterate sitting supreme court justices have spoken on that matter so i don t think it would be inappropriate for to you do if other people sitting
impartial. i don t think that anyone can look at my record and say that it is pointing in one direction or another, that it is supporting one viewpoint or another. i am doing the work and have done the work for the past 10 years that judges do to rule impartially and to stay within the boundaries of our proper judicial role. let s go to immigration. congress gave the attorney general quote, unquote, sole and unreviewable discretion to decide whether expedited removal would apply to quote an alien who has not been paroled or admitted to the united states. you decided a case called make
i assume a growing number of opportunities to use international law. in 2018 op-ed justice breyer said that, quote, the best way to preserve american values may well be to take account of what happens abroad, end of quote. under what circumstances is it appropriate to consider international law when interpreting our constitution? thank you, senator. i have nothing but the highest esteem and respect for my former boss, who i ve spent the better part of the past couple decades calling my justice, having clerked for him. but i do think that the use of international law is very limited in our scheme and in
supposed to do. 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 children s perspective and the children s voices are represented in my
misleading the public but taking the court out of context. she repeated testimony from someone else and he says it is her quote. hawley praised her experience and said he looks forward to questioning her today. also important to note many questions about her time as a public defender and for her to get on the bench this time where she was now at the court of appeals three republicans, murcowski, collins and graham all voted in favor. we ll see what they do this time. trace: david spunt live at the justice department. dana: two fox news contributors. andy mccarthy and constitutional law attorney jonathan turley. we have gone through this a few times together. one of the things i was thinking about is how different some of these hearings are when it is a democratic nominee versus a republican nominee. you posted a column in usa today saying ketanji brown