it s a bumper sticker. she was breaking the senate rules. and said i don t care about the rules. this is old. i don t care about the rules. that is the approach the president has. why would he in his mind not get something done that that s in hi agenda when he has the power to do it. there s 60 emergencies carried out just like this. because och senate rules. none like this. i m telling you this is his perspective and why you can t extrapolate this into the republican party now has a problem with the president. that s absurd. they want the wall and to do whatever it takes. he got elected to cut through washington s old rules and get things done. quick take on that. how you get it done doesn t matter as long as you do the right thing. the constitution matters. the separation of powers matters. did it matter with daca? in the case of this you re
absolutely we were confident that we were right on the constitution, right on the law. we still are. sandra: we ve chatted about this with you along the way. you ve been leading this charge. 20 states involved. what do we need to know, our viewers need to know about what you are hearing from the states at this point on this? well, one is it s a pretty large coalition. there are lots of states interested in having the opportunity to set their own policies on healthcare. i think it is largely because obamacare has failed. it has been expensive. limited choices for doctors and i think we re getting worse healthcare than we otherwise would if we had more competition. bill: there are some who would say give it up, time has passed, and obamacare is settled law. to them you say what? i say the constitution matters and if we have something in place i don t care if it was set up a year ago or three years ago, our job we swear to uphold the constitution to make sure our form of governmen
originalism, as i see it, to my mind, means in essence constitutional texturalism meaning the original public meaning of the constitutional text. it s very careful when you talk about originalism that people are hearing different things sometimes. justice kagan again at her confirmation hearing said we re all originalists now. by that she meant the precise text of the constitution matters and by that, the original public meaning, first informed by history. it s a conception that people used to have of originalism, which is original intent, in order, what did the people, some people subjectively. subjectively intend the text to mean. that has fallen out of the analysis. for example, let s take the 14th
has means constitutional textualism, public meaning of the constitutional text. originalism, it is careful when you talk about originalism to understand that means are hearing different things sometimes, so justice kagan again, at her confirmation hearing said we re all originalists now, which was her comment, by that she meant the precise text of the constitution matters and by that the original public meaning, of course, informed by history and tradition and precedent that matters, as well. different conception people have of originalism, original intent, in other words, what did the people, some people subjectively intend the text to mean and that has fallen out of the analysis because for example, let s take the 14th amendment, equal
from originalism? to my mind, originalism means constitutional textualism, meaning the original public meaning of the constitutional text. now, originalism, it s very careful when you talk about originalism to understand that people are hearing different things sometimes. so justice kagan again at her confirmation hearing said we are all originalists now, which was her comment. by that she meant the precise text of the constitution matters. by that, the original public meaning. of course, informed by history, tradition and precedent those matter as well. there is a different conception that some people used to have of originalism, was it original intent? in other words, what did the people, some people subjectively? yes, and that has fallen out of the analysis because, for example, let s just take the