[cameras shuttering] [indistinct chatter] [gavel banging] good morning, everyone. Welcome back. Judge, thank you. A good day yesterday. Your family did great. You look good. Today is to door our first round of 30 minute questioning. Each senator will have 30 minutes to interact with judge merrick and then we will follow up with a second round of 20 minutes. Today, not get it done but we should get through the first 30 minutes and then come back wednesday and finish up and then we will go about our business. I will make sure i stay within 30 minutes and if i can shorten it, i will. Let us get to it. You can start the clock. You can relax a bit, judge, and take your mask off. Yesterday, we had a lot of discussion about Affordable Health care. What i am going to try to do briefly this morning is demonstrate the difference between politics and judging. All of my colleagues on the other side had very emotional obamacare, charts of people with preexisting conditions. I went to give you my si
About a law enacted by the peoples representatives, that has gone through the process, a constitutional ratification, it must go through the lawfully prescribed process before it is changed. Presentmentive or in the context of statute, and its not up to judges to shortcircuit that i updating the law. That is your job. Laws are clearly written in a context and the circumstances to which those laws apply would change. Does the Fourth Amendment have nothing to say about cell phones . Unreasonable search and caesar was not written at a time when they imagine mobile technological devices that addicted our kids. Does the Fourth Amendment have nothing to say about cell phones . The constitution, one of the reasons its the longest lasting constitutions in the world is that its written at a level of generality specific enough to tech to protect rights but general enough to be lacking. When you are talking about the constable banging at your door in 1791 as a search or seizure, we can apply it t
,riginalist textualist originalist judges. This is not for packing. Say thebin let me just Affordable Care act is part of this. To makea group i want you aware of. This is the williams family. They have four sons, mac, joey, tommy, and mikey. , 27, diagnosed with type one diabetes leaves 13. The other three boys of Cystic Fibrosis. Away after passed this picture was taken. This was the last photo ever taken of their full family. Here is what they wrote. People with Cystic Fibrosis access daily medication, to highquality specialist care. That means people with preexisting conditions like Cystic Fibrosis cannot be discriminated against. Acas protections include insist on a ban on annual and lifetime caps. They need adequate, Affordable Health care to live longer, healthier lives. On the republican side, theres obvious controversy as to whether we are right or wrong. You can imagine. The list goes on. Thank you. Curious what it comes down to pure and you have been unequivocal of being cri