Senator mcconnell thank you for joining us today. For eight years we had an administration that had a particular approach to judges that could best be described as the empathy standard. President obama said on a number of occasions that he wanted judges who had empathy for parties. Well the problem with that, if youre not the party for whom the judge has empathy, youre in for a pretty rough ride this administration, the trump administration, has taken the approach, the rather quaint approach, that the job of a judge is to try to interpret the law as its written. Justice scalia used to say if youre not uncomfortable occasionally with the outcome you reach, youre not a very good judge. Justice gorsuch said, judges dont wear red they dont wear blue, they wear black. And so we are this week going to circuit subjects. Chairman grassley has done an extraordinary job of processing these judges and getting them out on the Senate Calendar and therefore available for us to move forward. And that
Religious liberty advocates. Democrats questioned whether her personal views would override her legal judgment. This is the five minutes. 35 minutes. Senator mcconnell thank you for joining us today. For eight years we had an administration that had a particular approach to judges that could best be described as the empathy standard. President obama said on a number of occasions that he wanted judges who had empathy for parties. Well the problem with that, if youre not the party for whom the judge has empathy, youre in for a pretty rough ride this administration, the trump administration, has taken the approach, the rather quaint approach, that the job of a judge is to try to interpret the law as its written. Justice scalia used to say if youre not uncomfortable occasionally with the outcome you reach, youre not a very good judge. Justice gorsuch said, judges dont wear red they dont wear blue, they wear black. And so we are this week going to confirm circuit subjects. Chairman grassley
President obama said on a number of occasions that he wanted judges that had empathy for parties. Well, the problem with that, if youre not the party for whom the judge has empathy, youre in for a pretty rough ride. This administration, the trump administration, has taken the approach, the rather quaint approach that the judge of a judge is try to interpret the law as its written. Justice scalia used to say if youre not uncomfortable occasionally with the outcome youve reached, youre not a very good judge. Justice gorsuch said, judges dont wear red, dont wear blue, they wear black. We are this week going to confirm four circuit junction. Chairman grassley has done an extraordinary job of processing the judges and getting them out and available for us to move forward and thats what we intent to do beginning this week. We often hear our democratic friends talking about the war on women, three or four judges that will be before the senate this week are women. We are going to lead off with
You need that. With the unso he liz its th Everybody Knows that. Youre going to need nine justices up there. I think its going to be very important. Because what theyre doing is a hoax. I think this will end up in the Supreme Court. And i think its very important that we have nine justices. And i think the systems going to go very quickly. Its better if you go before the election because i think this this scam that the democrats are pulling, its a scam, this scam will be before the United States Supreme Court. And i think having a 44 situation is not a good situation. This scam is the american election. The president is making it clear that his Supreme Court pick, a lifetime appointment, is not about policy but like most Everything Else with President Trump, its about his own interests and his reelection. The country and the American People be damned. Stacking the courts in order to ensure youre own political survival is what happens in authoritarian regimes. So is vilifying and is you
Meeting with judge barrett because i simply refuse to treat this process, a sham, illegitimate process as fair. One of the things i want to ask her is will she recuse herself. Because of any election issues that come before us. If she does not recuse herself, i fear the cuourt will be delegitimized. There is fanning the flames of division in a country thats already divided. We can slow it down, perhaps hours, maybe days at the most but we cant stop the outcome. While its easy to see this as just another Election Year squirmish, the stakes are monumental. They include a womans right to choose, who we are as a country when it comes to how we deal with immigration, democracy itself and as joe biden made clear earlier today, the health care of millions of americans caught in the middle of a pandemic. It doesnt matter what American People want. President trump sees a chance to fulfill his mission, steal away the vital protections of the aca from countless families that have come to rely on